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Question of the Week : On Losing the Self
Please please tell me is there a way to lose the way you lost. I am desperate almost…
…I know the theoretical answers. I am not looking for answers. I am looking for peace…
…I have heard answers like no one can help get what you already have, [...]
Also posted in All Posts, The Search for Enlightenment, To The Student 9 Comments
The Wound of Forgiveness
This post is a group effort of sorts. A few other writers are posting on this same topic of Forgiveness today. Links to their sites and articles follow at the end of this post.
Junko asks:
What happens when someone hurts you? How does Takuin forgive a wound?
The way you are using the word Forgive, in order [...]
Also posted in All Posts, To The Student 18 Comments
The Landscape of the Dreamer
This post is a response to questions and statements posed to Takuin by Shinai, on the post A Question for my Peers… Thank you very much Shinai, for taking the time to add to the conversation on that post.
The comment, and my response, follow below.
I’m coming into this conversation very late. My response is [...]
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What Did Takuin Do?
In retrospect, do you think anything you did ignited or prepared the stage for the explosion?
"There was a time when I wanted to get high all the time, and so I did. There were times when I wanted to have sex all the time, and so I did. There were times I wanted to fight all the time, and so I did. And none of it went anywhere."
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Are We Not ‘All One’?
How could I or anyone NOT be All One?
It is so easy to use these phrases, and I hear it quite frequently through talks and dialogues and so on. And whenever I question these words, I consistently receive puzzled looks or responses from those present. Perhaps it is because they have read that we are All One, so they find it strange that I question it at all. But I find it strange that they do not.
Also posted in All Posts, The Search for Enlightenment, To The Student 23 Comments
A Question for My Peers…
This is a question for fellow writers of spiritual matters, but anyone is free to comment below.
I have noticed a trend - and it is nothing earth shattering - in this world of spiritual teaching:
A man or woman may come to a realization, perhaps only a realization on a superficial level, or perhaps something deeper, then...
Also posted in All Posts, Odds and Ends, Quick Thoughts 105 Comments
Are You Enlightened?
"I look back to me as a 4 year old on the balcony laying looking into the stars...I feel then what i feel now. I am then who I am now. I would say that the search for enlightenment lies within you, and rather than the silencing of the mind, I'd opt for listening. How do you approach your search? Do you consider yourself 'enlightened'?"
Also posted in All Posts, The Search for Enlightenment 23 Comments
Potential Violence
A message from a friend:
Whats the possibility of you and Akiko moving back to the USA? At least out of the way of North Korea's ballistic and long range missiles. I fear that Japan will see a lot of violence if the situation keeps escalating.
Also posted in All Posts, An End to War 5 Comments
The Grief of a Buddhist
“How does a Buddhist deal with the process of grief and loss?”
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What is Enlightenment?