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The pointing inwards principle

look within for truth
January 20, 2021 ~ Five ~ 2 Comments

Do actions speak louder than thoughts? Which is the way to unlimited power?

Creativity, the self, and Awakening

December 28, 2020 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

Creative expression - a self-absorbed waste of time? Our presence in the world – illusory self, or skilful means to Awakening?

What chance probability?

November 5, 2020 ~ Five ~ 1 Comment

What's the use of probabilities? Things either happen - or they don't.

The brilliance of the Buddha’s discovery

Buddhist wisdom - Four Noble Truths
August 28, 2020 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

Don't take Buddha's Four Noble Truths for granted -- they are a breakthrough still unrecognised in western culture. And don't call "dukkha" suffering! [read on]

Deathless

July 20, 2020 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

what is born and what dies is not anything I need identify with... [read more]

What is Buddha Nature?

July 13, 2020 ~ Five ~ 1 Comment

You are not the self you think you are, but you are not nothing. Discover what you are... [read on]

Discovering Buddhism within you

June 15, 2020 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

Who are you really? What's that got to do with Buddhism? Check this!

Shyness, a wasted opportunity

Pieces of Five on shyness
May 29, 2020 ~ Five ~ 1 Comment

We never have the experience of others seeing us... The two-part remedy for shyness is:

The Watcher, or Witness

April 9, 2020 ~ Five ~ 2 Comments

In Buddhist meditation the process of becoming your own Watcher may be discouraged as being a dead-end, a mistake to avoid. I take a different view... [read on]

The Spiritual Bypass Operation

March 29, 2020 ~ Five ~ 1 Comment

Is this the perfect cure for the ills of attachment: the pain-killer of detachment?

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