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This & That

Self-inquiry is not a self-improvement exercise. Practices are not tools for personal perfection. Meditation is of no use as a mediator. Dharma is not about dead descriptions in old texts. Wake up!

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Breathe

Life is only as hard as the next breath. If you believe otherwise, you have found the cause of your suffering.

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On Pessimism – Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton – On Pessimism from The School of Life on Vimeo. In the constant search for happiness, philosopher Alain de Botton believes that we should all learn to be a bit more pessimistic. In...

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The religion of comfortableness

If you refuse to let your own suffering lie upon you even for an hour, and if you constantly try to prevent and forestall all possible distress way ahead of time; if you experience suffering and...

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Good & Evil

  A snippet from a discussion over at spiritualteachers.org: “Evil” is pretty much involuntary ignorance.” That has a nice ring to it, though it would also then imply that either: A. “Good” is pretty...

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The ‘Others’

A strange dream I had recently: I was looking down at a person, a man. He was severely injured, more like shredded, and thrashing about wildly on some sort of inclined restraining device. There were...

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Big Deal

A quote from Ken Wilber’s Foreword to ‘Big Mind/Big Heart’ by Genpo Roshi: “With the Big Mind Process, a genuine kensho can occur in about an hour—seriously. Once you get it, you can do it virtually...

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Free Will vs. Determinism, as Ignorance of Choiceless Awareness

  Image courtesy of ~Guiz From the Advaita to Zen Yahoo Group:   “I believe in both free will and determinism, interacting in some complex tangled way.”   Of course ‘you’ do, as these are both ways of...

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RE: Spiritual Scandals

  From a reply I made on Yahoo ‘Zen Forum’ Group: Identifying with anyone as a “spiritual leader” leads invariably to being mislead. One lesson is offered by such distasteful events as leaders abusing...

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This ‘Enlightenment’ Business

This ‘Enlightenment’ business presents as a set of false choices. This is not a matter of ‘doing’, as any doing only amounts to seeing what is done. Not a matter of ‘not doing’, as this takes care of...

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