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Like an Elephant in the Forest
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the Ox that draws the cart. Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. Continue reading
If You Meet The Buddha, Kill Him
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. You can’t get there from here, and besides there is no place to go. We are already dying, and we’ll be dead a long time. Nothing lasts! There is no way of getting all you want. You can’t have anything unless you let go of it. You only get to keep what you give away. There is no particular reason why you lost out on some things. The world is not necessarily just. Being good often does not pay off and there’s no compensation for misfortune… Continue reading
Pema Chodron: Loving-Kindness
Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and author whose teachings and writings on meditation have helped make Buddhism accessible to a broad Western audience. I have a couple of her books and admire her immensely. This last week she … Continue reading
The Fable of the Two Birds
“Like two birds of beautiful golden plumage–inseparable companions– the individual self and the immortal Atman are perched on the branches of the self-same tree. The former tastes the sweet and bitter fruits of the tree. The latter remains motionless, calmly … Continue reading
A Myth by Alan Watts
There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, … Continue reading
