Monday, April 26, 2021
Via Lion's Roar // How to Read Buddhist Teachings
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| How to Read Buddhist Teachings | ||
| No matter where you begin, says Judy Lief, or whether you are an independent practitioner or affiliated with a particular tradition, all you have to do is to dive in. | ||
Some
people love to practice and hate to study, and other people love to
study and hate to practice. Which type of person are you? If studying
comes easy for you, it is possible to confuse intellectual understanding
with real understanding. If studying is more difficult for you and
practice is easier, it is possible to hide out in a vague understanding
of meditative experience and fail to challenge yourself intellectually
or to develop a sophisticated understanding of the dharma.
So before you launch into further study, study yourself. |
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Via Daily Dharma: Act with Enlightenment
For
me the enlightened state is the realization of the oneness of life. And
the proof is in the pudding: Are you functioning that way? Are you
helping others?
—Interview with Bernie Glassman by James Shaheen, “Working in the Cracks”
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