When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “Dissolving the Confusion”
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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.
Monday, February 27, 2023
Via Daily Dharma: No Thing to See
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Body and the First Jhāna
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Via Daily Dharma: How to Be Faultless
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is possible to feel that one has no faults. Why? Because after
discovering that one’s ideas and behaviors are imperfect, if one always
immediately corrects them, this is maintaining a state of faultlessness.
Master Sheng-Yen, “How to Be Faultless”
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Saturday, February 25, 2023
Via [GBF] A Talk from the Archive: Wes Nisker
A recording from the archive dating back 2 decades has just been added to the website:
DESCRIPTION:
The Buddha outlined the '3 Characteristics of Existence' as Impermanence, Unsatisfactoriness, and Non-Self (or anatta).
In this talk, Wes shares how these are foundational to the path of meditation.
Highlights include:
- The concept of “Radical Impermanence”
- The Tibetan appreciation for our precious existence as human beings.
- How non-self stems from the interdependence with everything,
- That our consciousness is the consciousness of the Universe.
- That human beings are the only creatures that can see ourselves in context.
- Mindfulness is a non-interfering awareness, a clear knowing.
- Freud's view that our personality can be viewed as a pet.
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Wes Nisker, the co-founder and editor of the international Buddhist journal Inquiring Minds, has practiced Vipassana meditation for 30 years. He is the author of "Buddha's Nature: Evolution as a Guide to Enlightenment," "Crazy Wisdom: A Romp Through the Philosophies of East and West," and "The Buddha, the Big Bang, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation."
In addition to leading a regular sitting group in Berkeley, he teaches classes in meditation and philosophy at Spirit Rock and at other locations around the country.
Learn more at https://wesnisker.com/
Via Daily Dharma: Directing Your Effort
The effort isn’t in trying to stop the mind but in paying attention in a receptive way to what’s actually happening.
Mark Van Buren, “Accept Whatever the Mind Is Doing”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States
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Friday, February 24, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Harming Living Beings
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