We don't choose what thoughts to have, yet we claim whatever thought comes as mine? Crazy! Not mine? Crazier!
Are my thoughts really mine?
Tag: meditation
Breaking Through the Thought Barrier
Every time you meditate, you miss this chance for liberating insight!
I can’t meditate on my breath
Can't let your breath be natural? Get caught up in 'doing it'? Celebrate! You're on the verge of a great insight... [CLICK ON TITLE ABOVE]
The experience of seeing
How much thinking do we add to our seeing?
Direct experience of sounds
What's that sound? It's a sound!
The brilliance of the Buddha’s discovery
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!
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Deathless
what is born and what dies is not anything I need identify with...
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What is Buddha Nature?
You are not the self you think you are, but you are not nothing. Discover what you are... [read on]
The Watcher, or Witness
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
Is this the perfect cure for the ills of attachment: the pain-killer of detachment?
Pieces of Five 