Beyond Technique

February 25, 2010 9 comments
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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 [...]

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The Beauty of Living

February 17, 2010 23 comments
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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 [...]

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Simple

February 7, 2010 19 comments

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. [...]

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The Return

January 11, 2010 4 comments

As those of you following me on Twitter or Facebook already know, Akiko and I are leaving for the United States today to attend to a death in the family. I’ll be there for three weeks. I’ll be able to check e-mail and comments sporadically, and I’ll probably keep to one post per week, as [...]

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To Sit With Nothing

January 4, 2010 7 comments

Takuin sat in the morning and tried to find its self. Despite all the talk of nothingness, oneness, and liberation, it wanted to see the truth. The sun descended before it finished. Takuin is alone.

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