Exploration of ultimate teachings requires listening, reflection/meditation rather than sitting to wait for an experience. Emptiness does not require a specific experience or sequence of experiences. …
Read slowly. Perhaps read aloud. Listen within to any responses from the deep of your being.
Repeat the process. It is your responses that matter.
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Fundamentals of the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamaka-Karika), a 2nd Century text with 450 verses, offers a remarkable teaching. …
Western society often has an obsessional tendency to adapt every issue of life to the needs of the self.
Self-compassion. Self-help. Self-acceptance. Self-interest. Love for myself. We hear about a connected Self. A separate Self. a True Self. Self- Actualisation. A Spiritual Self. Self-Enlightenment. Self, self, self. I, I, I, My, my my. …
This is a transcription, edit, adaption, plus additional sentences, from a recorded session. I gave this guided meditation and talk during a 90-minute Zoom session on Dharma teachings hosted by Sangha Live on 5 June 2022 on the theme of Relative and Ultimate Truth. …
