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]
Tag: meditation
The Spiritual Bypass Operation
Is this the perfect cure for the ills of attachment: the pain-killer of detachment?
Insight is available
from the first moment of meditation we have a chance to question our assumptions - or to follow them blindly into the confusion they generate
What the life of the Buddha tells us about our own path to freedom
Siddhartha, the Buddha-to-be, had a particular and extreme upbringing. What can we learn from comparing his life with our own?
Arising and Ceasing
"Whatever is subject to arising is subject to ceasing" - how is this a revelation of the Deathless?
Change is as Good as a Rest
The reason every thing we know is doomed to suffer change?
Progressive Stages of Experiencing Emptiness
What is, and what is not, enlightenment? Don't get off at the wrong stop!
Thinking, Looking, Wondering
My Midas touch: everything I see turns to thought
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.
Pieces of Five 