What's that sound? It's a sound!
Direct experience of sounds
Tag: thinking
Refuge from the wolf
Buddhism -- give up beliefs! Go beyond beliefs and assumptions, seek what is dependable.
Shyness, a wasted opportunity
We never have the experience of others seeing us...
The two-part remedy for shyness is:
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
Blame-free world 2: guilt, punishment, regret
Guilt tells you what you are, regret is a message to act upon
If we don’t live in a blame-free world – whose fault is that?
Blame, guilt - or regret?
Blame: a story told by ego to polish its virtue.
Dictionary 3
FRIEND - someone who nurtures your ego, i.e. an enemy.
ENEMY - someone who threatens your ego, a true friend.
THINKING...
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.
