Is sacredness something real? What is holy in a person, place or object? Can we find this in the pragmatic and experiential sphere of Dharma?
Category: Pieces
Natural response to insight arising
Insight is itself a not-self not-other experience... a not-self not-other gratefulness experience is a natural response.
Arising and Ceasing
"Whatever is subject to arising is subject to ceasing" - how is this a revelation of the Deathless?
Pranidhanas, praying, visualising: what works?
Is praying a denial of karma? Results without a cause?
Progressive Stages of Experiencing Emptiness
What is, and what is not, enlightenment? Don't get off at the wrong stop!
Death: The Big Picture
What can we know about death - before doing it?
Commentary on a verse of “Death – The End?”
What is death not the end of?
Silencing thinking
Be careful about equating the ability to calm thinking with being a Buddhist master. How much freedom from thinking do we need, to reach the jewel of understanding which then makes thinking not a problem? We could spend years manipulating our mind into thought-free states unnecessarily.
Meditation to question the self
In our own lives we can easily find things we thought were true which we subsequently think not to be true. So our pursuit of the truth about self can not depend upon thinking. We need another way of knowing, one more direct than our thinking.
What is the Buddhist Path?
Traditionally the path is seen as the overcoming of ignorance, not-seeing, 'avidya', where seeing means seeing our True Nature. I propose an additional way of understanding how the path consists of overcoming avidya: what is not seen is the path itself.
Pieces of Five 