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Deconstructing Self
Part of what makes Thich Nhat Hanh such an effective teacher and writer is that he sticks to a handful of simple, effective and original ways of explaining the dharma. One of these is the idea of...
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A lot to unlearn
I read recently - though I don’t remember where – that folks didn’t have any sense of self in the middle ages. That sounded pretty interesting and I’d made a note to research that a bit more. Turns...
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The sum of our parts
Listened to a dharma talk today about the five aggregates with Pascal Auclair. He calls them the five rivers, a good reminder that we’re a complex process made up of many other processes with nothing...
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Ajahn Chah, A Still Forest Pool on No-Self, Emptiness, Nirvana
A random quote from Ajahn Chah’s A Still Forest Pool, available in print or online. This book is so full of compact and poetic genius, I could quote the whole thing on this blog. I literally opened it...
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Self is an idea, created by the “self”
The “you” of you is just an idea. A mental construct. An idea like any of the ideas that come and go during meditation or while waiting for the bus. Just like those ideas, it, too, can be let go. Might...
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Embodied as the Universe
I’ve been doing a practice that mixes two recent meditations I recently stumbled across. Here are the two ingredients. 1. Diane Hamilton’s talk at the Buddhist Geek’s conference about the Big Mind...
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Internally and Externally
In the Satipatthana Sutta (alternate translation with commentary), the terms “internally” and “externally” appear about two dozen times each. A typical use of these terms is as follows: In this way he...
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