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Meditator’s Verse

Dambulla Cave, Sri Lanka, by Five Cram
February 5, 2024 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

Stillness is not-choosing, not wriggling, not correcting. Simplicity. Meditation is whatever happens. Let go of struggle, drop identifying...

Chasing Our Tails

Our visual experience of ourselves
January 10, 2024 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

Can you turn round fast enough to see yourself? Here's why it's worth trying...

Knowing what happening is

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September 18, 2023 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

There's a deeper meaning to the word "awareness" - quite revolutionary!

A word is a river, jump in!

deeper meanings to Dharma words
August 6, 2023 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

Think you know what these Dharma terms mean? Don't get stuck, stay fluid!

God and Buddha, our True Nature

on it may stay his eye
July 8, 2023 ~ Five ~ 5 Comments

"A man may look on glass, on it may stay his eye..." describes the experience of Buddhist meditation, the insights of vipashyana.

Into the Mystic!

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June 10, 2023 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

The facts of an un-fact reality. Approach with caution.

All we know is Awareness

as it is
May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 ~ Five ~ 1 Comment

Who, or what, are we? Can knowledge tell us? Do we suffer for believing it? Sort it out, Five!

The experience of our body

painting by Five
April 9, 2023 ~ Five ~ 1 Comment

Bodily sensations are a route to Awakening! Here's the map...

Cutting ourselves off from experience

Our perception, an interpretation of reality
December 31, 2022 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

Crazy how we separate the idea of knowing from what is known... we invented that distinction! We split Awareness, our universe of experience, without even realising-- the world and me as two, two who are never going to get on!

Birth & Rebirth

rebirth for a Dharma life?
December 4, 2022January 9, 2023 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

On what does your present life - and your freedom to follow Dharma - depend? Will you win this lottery twice?

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