Relationship – Two Years Later

October 6, 2009 6 comments

On this day two years ago, I wrote the post, Relationship – Part One (There is also a Part Two). At that time, judging by reader response, it was my most popular post. But not due to comments. I received over thirty emails on this two-part series, which at the time, was a reader response [...]

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The Day After

September 28, 2009 10 comments

I recently found, quite by accident, a few words I wrote on December 2nd, 2006, one day after the event of liberation, if that is the right way to say it. I have no memory of writing any of this. It is fairly disjointed, and it seems to have been written all at once, around [...]

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Does the Wind Blow?

September 14, 2009 16 comments

The wind blows, and Takuin might ask, Can you observe the wind as it is? Or what about the physical reactions of your body to the wind; how it may react to the heat or the cold of it?  Do you feel it? Does this arise naturally within you? This is not an exercise. It [...]

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What Did Takuin Do?

September 10, 2009 14 comments

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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Solidifying the Questioner

September 2, 2009 13 comments

This is from a current discussion with James taking place on the post, Quick Thoughts – Levels of Enlightenment. That post is rather old and I thought the readers would miss out on the discussion which has been interesting so far, so here it is. (Also, there were no comments on that post until James [...]

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