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.
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Poem: Voice of Madness – complete
The taste of the sea, the smell of clean
the remembrance of all knowing
held in the palm
of the god’s hand
a drop of liquid glory
known as water
Poem: Voices of Madness – III – the gods
Yama spits out the bones of every corpse he’s ever ground
between his molars of destiny
his subliminal indifference
Haikus #91-94 Mind and Colour
hot color cold colour
bright color dim colour:
colours are the speech of the gods!
Haikus #95-103 Grasping
one breath
after another
existential grasping!
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.
Haikus: #79-90 Contemplations
one lone bird warbling
one whole life story
in fragile moment of song
Haikus #73-78 White Noise
white noise of silence
eternal soundscape
inner and outer
are not two!
Haikus #66-72 Awareness
chairs and tables
watching our every move…
primordially patient
Lyme Liturgy Extras #2: Nine Rasas / Emotions
Through the portal of any such particular we plunge into an ocean of experiential infinity…
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
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