The elevation of Liberation into a metaphysic keeps liberation at a distance.
The practitioner then perceives weeks, months or years to achieve liberation. …
Dear Readers,
I am writing a chapter on love and mindfulness.
I include four important questions in the chapter. …
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Years ago, I recall writing an article comparing the Buddha’s teachings on becoming (bhava) and Darwin’s teachings on evolution.
I wrote a paragraph or two comparing Darwin’s ‘random selection of species’ and the Buddha’s teachings on dependent arising. …
There is silence and there is Noble Silence.
We pay respect to a Noble Silence, not of words, not of constructions of the mind and profoundly knowable.
We might imagine silence consists of a single element, which remains much the same. Like everything else, silence reveals itself according to the inner-circumstances. We can experience silence in a variety of ways. …
Silence. Eight kinds of silence. 12 kinds of Noble SilenceRead More »
Silence. Eight kinds of silence. 12 kinds of Noble Silence Read More »
In his own dark period, Lord Byron, the adventurous English romantic poet, wrote Darkness about the violence of men, war and the end of the world.
Byron left England, travelled to Switzerland where he wrote the poem in 1818 with its despairing undertones about the state of humanity. He spent a nomadic and flamboyant life in continental Europe, especially in Mediterranean countries. He expressed his social/political concerns. He had a range of lovers both on the continent and in Britain. …
