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- Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in…
- Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.
- Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.
- The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to conform to the…
- Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which it…
- Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back…
- How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer…
- The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person…
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