A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
If there is no distinction between subject and object, if everything is one, then the pine tree in the courtyard is the ultimate, isn’t it? What else could be the ultimate?
How about this very moment, the people you dislike, or the sound of traffic outside your window. Are any of these outside the ultimate?
In an excerpt from The Experience of Insight where he uses Plato’s cave as a metaphor for seeking nirvana, meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein discusses the relative and ultimate nature of reality.
An excerpt from Popular Buddhism in Japan, Shin Buddhist Religion & Culture, from the 1999 issue of Tricycle, features a reflection on going beyond dualism.
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