This morning, i began writing about “What is of ultimate importance in life?” i think it is a question which often gets asked... especially when we are set back on our haunches... when things are not going as planned, or when we are looking back at our life and taking stock...... perhaps when we are… Continue reading What is truly important in Life?
Category: The Basics!
Stress, Tension and Depression – The Bodies Trick…..
i would venture to say that virtually all our “mental and emotional stress” and “discomfort” are actually due to body stress and discomfort. In the coming years, i believe it will become more and more obvious that our human “feelings” and “emotions” are largely nothing more than “intellectualized” body feelings. So, although we… Continue reading Stress, Tension and Depression – The Bodies Trick…..
Buddhist Basics – Treeleaf Zendo – Jundo Cohen Roshi
Dukkha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsN1ICw-ZJA The Four Noble Truths https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=112&v=UCU6VycMTpk The Eightfold Path - Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4M9daTv8hY The Eightfold Path - 1 - Right View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-02f3Ztt-I The Eightfold Path - 2 - Right Apirations - Aspiring Right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGvh_Xyfwtk The Eightfold Path - 3 - Right Speech - Speaking Right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irzauWgx6_4 The Eightfold Path - 4 - Right Actions -… Continue reading Buddhist Basics – Treeleaf Zendo – Jundo Cohen Roshi
The Five Skandhas – The Sense Apex
A personal view on the Five Skandhas. The overall system or "Grand System" seems like a fibre-optics system, with all the fiber ends (representing individual awareness located like a point in space and time) shining the same image as is "sent out" by the light source. What seems like individual consciousness or awareness is simply… Continue reading The Five Skandhas – The Sense Apex
Searching for the Truth – The “How” of it
What way is the safest way to search for our personal connection with "what our deepest heart longs for"?... That seemingly lost connection to something bigger than ourselves .... it seems so strange that it is even there, yet we feel its absence so very acutely........ Shall we find it listening to our birth "DNA"… Continue reading Searching for the Truth – The “How” of it
The Fear of God, or the Path of Life
"The fear of the God or the "divinity" on the other side of the "essence chasm" (i.e. - we the pots on one side, and the potter on the other side), holds persons of MOST religions in a tug of war which they cannot escape from. Fear wins. Fear is the basis of a belief… Continue reading The Fear of God, or the Path of Life
Impermanence – k Sri Dhammananda
" the Buddha reminded us that all existing composite things are impermanence. With birth, there is death; with rise, there is dissolution; with meeting, there is separation. How can there be birth without death? How can there be emergence without dissolution? How can there be a meeting without separation? By declaring the law of impermanence… Continue reading Impermanence – k Sri Dhammananda
The Basics of “Universal Stemcell” theory
"Aware Biology" i know that we all call "the source of all things" different names, and suggest different characteristics.... but for myself, this just shows how this "intelligence", although i like to call it "awareness", is "built in" to this world of things, and pre-exists it...... ...... and because it "precedes" the actual things… Continue reading The Basics of “Universal Stemcell” theory
Levels of Reality
This set of notes states pretty much how this "diligent student" has come to see Reality ....... Karma and its effects are the reality of our DNA encoded existence, but the good news is that the DNA encoded existence we experience is NOT ultimate reality..... we CAN experience our existence from a "deeper level" which… Continue reading Levels of Reality
Life – a series of breaths
From the moment we had our ass spanked, and we started breathing, our “life” is one breath in – one breath out, a constant stream of breaths, until the day we take our last breath and expire. (Yes, that seems too short, doesn't it....?) Our “ life string” (a clear droplet of Infinity) enters this… Continue reading Life – a series of breaths
Reality is Dharma 