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All we know is Awareness

as it is
May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

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

Rebirth – is your life more than this?

What have you done with your life? Was it all predetermined by your karma?
April 22, 2023 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

Should you be concerned about your next life? What made you what you are in this one?

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!

That “tree in the forest”

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October 3, 2022 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

That tree - did it fall if no-one saw it? Depends whether you're asking from a theoretical view of the world, or from direct conscious experience!

Birth, death, consciousness and form

old age fighting gravity - image by Five
September 4, 2022 ~ Five ~ 2 Comments

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

Dictionary #7

Buddhism unplugged
May 16, 2022 ~ Five ~ 1 Comment

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

Experiencing sounds

Milarepa hears
April 21, 2022 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

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

Rattle your cage!

Buddha says Openness is free from views
April 4, 2022 ~ Five ~ Leave a comment

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

Thinking thinks it thinks about things

carrot? alien? preacher?
April 3, 2022 ~ Five ~ 1 Comment

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

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