Birth, death, consciousness and form

What birth tells us about death --how both inform our meditation and Awakening ...and give context for miscarriage and dementia.

Grief – a good hurt?

What is good about feeling the pain of grief? It tells us who we really are.

Guilt - proof of who we really are... if we didn't feel guilt for what we did, we'd be the terrible person guilt makes us worry that we are.

Check your understanding of basic Buddhism, with these deft definitions... e.g. RETREAT - advance...

Does sound travel from an object to the self which hears it? Is that our experience - or our theory? Does it matter?

I am sitting here. Is that statement true? Your answer will be useless, unless...

Is it a "thing" only because we think it is? Is thing-ness a thought? Then what is reality?

Insight is meditation doing itself! Can this be true?

If it's only a thought that there is an "I", are we nothing but a causal process?

Buddhism -- give up beliefs! Go beyond beliefs and assumptions, seek what is dependable.