Question of the Week: 3/03 - 3/09
Today I have an audio post for the question of the week.
This is my first attempt, so it is a no frills, simple recording. If there is general interest in this kind of thing, then I will continue to post audio from time to time. (I hope so, as [...]
Question of the Week: 2/18 - 2/24
I want to ask you a question. Do you think its possible to be totally steeped in the self, and at the same time, be free of suffering?
When you are walking down the street and looking at the shoppes, or at a park looking at a squirrel, or in [...]
Question of the Week: 2/11 - 2/17
This question comes from the comments on The A to Z of Being : Awareness.
If there is no self, then what is there? I know you will say , I need to know or figure it out for myself, but if you say it in words, it will help [...]
Question of the Week: 1/28 - 2/03
This week, in lieu of an actual question, I thought I would go through e-mails from the previous year and answer simple questions posed to me by all of you. Some of these questions are more on the personal side which I usually do not answer. But what [...]
What have you discovered?
I find the word, Discover, to be quite excellent. If you look at the standard definition it reads:
To make known or visible : to expose
We all understand this word in terms of knowledge. A scientist might work for years on a vaccine and eventually stumble upon it. This could be described [...]
Question of the Week: 12/31 - 1/06
Is it possible to alleviate, or end, the pain of another? Or is it something that each entity must come upon themselves?
Can one reach somewhere deep inside and bring relief from suffering? Can one be compassionate?
If the self is at the core of the movement of compassion, is compassion [...]
I am taking a short vacation from the blog. Nothing serious; just a few days.
I’ll be back on December 31st with a new question of the week: What is Compassion? It will be posted in response to the current article over at Urbanmonk.net called:
Spread [...]
What if there were no more questions?
What if tomorrow you woke as Gregor Samsa, but instead of being transformed into an insect, something entirely different occurred?
What if there were no more questions? Try as you might they will not come. All of your questions about enlightenment, all of your questions about god, and all of [...]
Question of the Week: 12/10 - 12/16
“You have said that there is nothing to search for, but isn’t all of this questioning a search as well?”
Yes and no.
As Takuin goes about his day, there are no questions asked, apart from “technical” questions, i.e., I wonder what time the next train arrives? OR Should I put [...]
Usually, during the Question of the Week, we go into fairly heavy subjects, which may have the effect of twisting the brain in knots. It is not to create any kind of enigma wrapped in a riddle nonsense, but normal means of knowledge retrieval do very little in finding out on the deepest levels.
But today, [...]