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(Edit-Edit: I have added my comments right below the video.)
This video was brought to my [...]
Some might say their beliefs, whatever they might be, determine reality. I understand what they mean, but reality has nothing to do with any of that.
Reality, as it is used here, has nothing to do with thought. We can certainly think about it, make theories, and create ideals that seem better. But in the [...]
Mayumi loved Chopin.
She mentioned it to me the first day we met. I could see that love in her face. The same beauty found in Chopin’s music was easily seen in her movements. The way she brought the tea, the way she washed the dishes, the way she sat in seiza on the tatami. The [...]
This comes from the comments on, Question and Answer (or Question and Question?) Part Two. (Plus, something new at the end.)
I would like to suggest something and I hope you do not take offense. Perhaps it is right or wrong, my mind continues to evolve and I cannot say. The moment you died, a belief [...]
i notice that my mind is like a measuring device, it HAS TO KNOW whats there, it is not content just to luxuriate in the mystery and leave it at that. It needs to break everything down, find out its constituent parts, how it works, whats behind the mystery…
The mind IS a measuring device, in [...]
I know you say there is nothing to search for, nothing to do, nowhere to go, yada-yada, but I want to do it. I have decided to go for it, and thats what I want to devote my energy to. Without telling me not to do it, or that I don’t need to, can you [...]
This message is an excerpt from Adyashanti’s website. To read the entire article, please check out his About Page.
Letter from Adyashanti
I want to share with you some recent developments since I contracted Bell’s Palsy in early November. There are various causes of Bell’s Palsy, but mine seems to have been caused by a particular virus [...]
Isn’t self inquiry just another form of seeking?
Someone might consider self-inquiry to be “seeking,” and I can see that. But the emphasis is that there is no reliance on outside authority.
With inquiry you neither accept or reject anything. It is just there. You see it for what it is, but if your thoughts are involved, [...]
This post comes from my journal dated March 5th, 2007.
We cannot really know anything about what happens at the point of death. How will we know when we are dead? We can be told by others (in fact, that is all we know), but what meaning does that have for us? The only way to [...]
It has rained for most of the day, here in Toyama. The clouds are low, and the mountain peaks are visible, stabbing toward the sky. It is finally cool here, after a long period of hellish weather.
As I was out this morning, I thought of the transformation in the human mind. It is a constant [...]