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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…

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...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world…
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we…
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware…
This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the…
Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in…
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we…
The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body…
Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of…
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition…
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private…

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How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath… — Stephen Batchelor
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