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
Tag Archives: meditation
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