Ideology and Wisdom 02
Meditation on “What am I searching for?”; resting in the full experience of this question; meditation: “I practice in order to be at peace with the world.” ; samsara as the chaotic process of moving...
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Fascination with tools we develop in practice; skandha map; human tendency to worship; honor and appreciation toward those who show us something valuable; discussion of Pure Lands; falling into...
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Wisdom; meditation: observing what changes when we rest and relax with a problematic experience; experiencing what is actually arising and being at peace at the same time; spiritual opening as memory,...
View ArticleRelationship and Conflict 03
Hope as a manifestation of belief vs a manifestation of faith; conflict as the experience of the resistance to change when two or more worlds interact; fear arising from conflict; interpretation vs...
View ArticleKarma Doesn’t Explain Anything
passage from article: Karma as instruction, however, is a different story... Karma as instruction means to observe our actions and appreciate how consequential each action is in reinforcing or...
View ArticleLearned Helplessness
passage from article: One of the primary characteristics of learned helplessness is that the person feels passive with respect to the system. The passivity, however, is only half the story... Can...
View ArticleYou Can’t Always Get What You Want
Where compassion is the wish that others not suffer, renunciation is the wish that I not suffer. What causes me to suffer? Wanting. Renunciation, then, means not so much giving up things, desires, or a...
View ArticleCompassion, Culture, and Belief
passage from article: Compassion is the difference between a faith that opens you to what life brings and beliefs that force you to close down to protect what you cannot or will not question.
View ArticleSutra Session 30
Religion/Spirituality as personal exploration; Practice and the importance of one's own volition; Is nirvana the last delusion; the four things that are impossible to have: control, security, ground,...
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Difference between teaching and learning, faith and belief; the three important things: impermanence/change, compassion, and faith; opening to doubt; the direction of the present. Questions from...
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