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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Post-awakening: why a teacher is needed

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I have spoken with many people who say that their teacher is an inner one, or one whom they have only met in books.  So long as having this ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Virtue and Enlightenment

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I was speaking a few days ago with someone who has spent several decades on the Tibetan Buddhist path.  She said that morality was important...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Toni Packer's Passing: Her Contribution

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Toni Packer passed away a few days ago.  She was an important figure in Westernizing the wisdom we have received from the East.  In 1981, sh...
Friday, August 23, 2013

The Central Question of "KUMARE" -- Can an Unrealized "Guru" Lead One to Truth?

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I've been meaning to write about the film Kumare but there is so much to explore that I haven't been able to find a focus.  Today, ...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Seeing the perfection of persona through Buddha's eyes

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"This that we are honors the persona equally with the eternal."   Pamela Wilson. There are a lot of helpers in the world.  ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Is it all in your head?

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I'm reading a little book by Frank A Smitha called Your Philosophy and Mine: Choices for the Twenty-First Century. Smitha is a rationali...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

The Eternal Present and Accomplishment

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Today I read a comment about Zen.  The writer was saying that being in the present wouldn't work because, if we didn't anticipate th...