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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, [...]
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The Beauty of Living
There is a great beauty in this world, untouched by the mind; the beauty of living. It lingers, barely a moment away and is always just beyond the reach of thought.
We try to see it, but eyes fail.
We try to hear it, but deafness roars.
We try to take it, but hands are broken.
We try and [...]
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Simple
All of us writing on this subject (on enlightenment and what-not), have probably described, or at least tried to describe, this thing that has no business being described. We can all clearly see that the description will never capture the truth.
And yet, we go on…
Perhaps it is cruel of us to say anything. To provide [...]
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This book is a calender of very short meditative explorations; one per day for an entire year. Some are statements, some are questions, and others just simple [...]
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 Am I?
There is no mind.
There is no consciousness.
There is no thing to call my own.
There is no path.
There is no destination.
There is no where I can go.
There is no God, no Devil, no Heaven, no Hell.
There is no Life, no Death,
No Earth, no Moon,
No Yesterday, no Tomorrow.
There is not even What Is.
No Moment,
No NOW.
There is only [...]
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Emptiness, Beside Itself
A conversation with another, is a conversation with oneself.
How to describe something,
That cannot be described…
Maybe there is a way to point to it?
That is the only thing,
- The Pointing -
But afterward,
It is out of our hands.
We cannot really influence the listener,
To be free with the words.
Most will make something out of it,
Another thing to have [...]
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The Ghost
There is a ghost that whispers in your mind. It says:
"You've had a real taste of liberation, the ultimate emptiness. So now, what is the point of life? What is the point of doing anything anymore?"
This ghost will never do you a good turn. It can only lie, telling you what it thinks is on the other side, based on an erroneous interpretation of a moment long gone.
It tells you what you want to hear.
Leave this ghost behind and press on. The light is almost visible at the end of the tunnel.
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What is Enlightenment?