“As we go along from moment to moment, day to day, life to life, awareness and our thoughts keep shaping the life we lead. Cumulatively, the effect is tremendous. We can create for ourselves a tunnel lined with rags and deprivation or an open world of wealth and genuine communication – dark worlds, bright worlds, moderate worlds – so many different worlds can be created based on karma 1 we keep creating through our thoughts and projections.” 2
Tag Archives: Buddhism 101
Article 81: Confessions of a Cultist
The cult dynamic happens when the energy mutually experienced in the group becomes the dominant referent in the personal lives of those members. At that point, conventional reality recedes into the background, possibly feeling surreal. Not only religions, but families and political groups can manifest as cults in this way.
Twin Brain Attention: a Video
Setting the reader up for understanding the next article which will use this material to explain – yet again – why the pervasive over-reliance on reductionist materialism is such a pernicious driver of modern society
Article 69 Of Brains & Location
1. For 10-15 seconds focus only on the black dot below. Put 100% of your attention on it. (Read #2 first)
2. For the next 10-15 seconds keep that attention on the black dot but also now include awareness of the space around, both inner mental awareness and outer physical space.
Article 61: On the Nature of Good and Evil
The subject for this Article arises because promoting good immediately involves either not promoting evil or encountering evil as it arises in both inner or outer mandalas.
Trikaya Ruminations #3 All experience involves primordial mind
Primordial, knowing mind is behind all and every experience so every experience is inseparable from primordial mind.
Confusion is the process whereby we believe that mental events, beings and phenomena are independent from this primordial mind even though such confusion is a part of and not apart from it.
Two Truths Ruminations #1: Experiencing the Absolute
First there is a mountain
Then there is no mountain
Then there is
Buddhism 101 #5 – The Two Truths, Relative and Absolute
Absolute truth, often described as ‘the basic nature of mind,’ is nondual. Relative truth, which is the way we usually experience mind, is dual. Dual here means a view which perceives a fundamental separation – and thus a duality – between self and other, one person and another, one place and another, one moment and another.
Trikaya Ruminations #2 The Three Levels of Spiritual Development
The Buddhist teachings involve three main Yanas, or vehicles, which correspond with the three main stages of spiritual development (true in all genuine traditions) namely:
a) working with confusion to tame and pacify it
b) working out of confusion into realization
c) working with realization to stabilize and complete it
Trikaya Ruminations #1 Of Materialists and Spiritualists
The liberation of enlightenment is simply no longer functioning in a state of existential confusion. And what is the nature of confusion again? Not seeing, and therefore not being at one with, the nature of mind.
Buddhism 101 Series #4 The Three Kayas Trinity – One and Many
These three kayas, though distinct, are inseparable; no single one happens without the other two being present so basically they are just three aspects of one overall reality.
Lyme Liturgy Series 8: Guidelines for Practice
How to practice the Learning from Lyme Liturgy.
Lyme Liturgy Series 7: The Daily Brief Form
There are two main reasons for having this Brief Daily version. First, it is the main one used most of the time once the practitioner is well-grounded in the Long Daily…
Lyme Liturgy Series 6: Main Practice Part II
Regarding all symptoms as challenges, all challenges as medicine, all medicine as teachings in
How to renounce dearly held habits of wallowing in banality, laziness and cowardice
Lyme Liturgy Series 5: Main Practice, Sending and Taking Part 1
Feeling the mother cervical soft spot of kindness, warmth and tender sadness
Touching the raw, naked heart of any feelings, moods or sensations, just as they are, right now…
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