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.
You don’t need a special experience to become enlightened.
If you truly see that subject and object are inherently one and the same, you can also see that you don’t need a special experience to become enlightened. Whether it is an extraordinary experience or a very mundane one, they are the same, revealing the single seamless field of awareness and world that you already are.
An excerpt from this week’s video explains how ordinary life has a transcendental nature—“everything is Buddha”—and the ordinary mind is the awakened mind.
Simply sitting with things as they are right now can be our most wonderful teacher, says writer, Zen master, and Abbot of the Zen Center of Syracuse Shinge Sherry Chayat Roshi.
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