Pure and Bright | September 13, 2014 If you [only] keep away from samsara and dwell in real permanence, your eternal Light will appear, thereby causing your organs, sense data, consciousness and [mad] mind to vanish simultaneously. The objects of your thinking process are [polluting] dust and the feelings that arise from your consciousness are […]
Archives for September 28, 2014
Mindful Consumption Can Change the So-Called Real World – tricycle Judith Lief
Min The So-Called Real World | September 12, 2014 The so-called real world is a perpetual cycle of suffering and discontent called samsara, in which base emotions such as hatred, envy, grasping, and ignorance reign. In our own time the materialistic outlook is completely dominant and almost impossible to resist. Only by removing our blindfolds […]
The Four Messengers – tricycle, Batchelor
The four messengers The Origin of Philosophy | September 11, 2014 The origin of philosophy is wonder. ItÂ’s a sense of being astonished, a sense of waking up to the fact that youÂ’re here rather than not here. And I would take that also to be what the Buddha was awakened to on seeing a […]
Advice to the Wayfarer
Having just gotten back from nineteen days in Norway and Spain, this is wonderful advice. We spent 19 days abroad on a gastronomic eating trip directed by my daughter Jessica. She just got her masters in Innovative Tourism and Gastronomy and really knows her stuff. Begin a pilgrimage with a mind free of entanglements and […]
Life Flows Between the Banks of Pain and Pleasure
In these words of wisdom from Nisargadatta Maharaj, we learn that life flows between the banks of pain and pleasure. We almost always prefer pleasure and almost always want to avoid pain. He was a great spiritual teacher and guru in the Advaita Vedanta school, which is a tradition based on non-duality. He passed away […]
