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(Quote) Awareness + mindfulness + time. If, every day, awareness of experience is coupled with mindfulness of impermanence, then attachment diminishes. (Quote) (View Post)
I won’t speak for the rest of the Western World, but for the U.S., at a broader cultural level, I agree with him. As a society, the U.S. doesn’t value personal qualities of “imperturbability, tranqui… (View Post)
(Quote) I see it like so: Magical thinking is a dream within a dream. Realism is a dream within a dream. Nibbana is the cessation of ALL dreaming, the experience of which is bodhi, awakening. Until t… (View Post)
(Quote) There are unwholesome and wholesome roots. The unwholesome roots here are translated as passion, aversion and delusion, with the wholesome as non-passion, non-aversion and non-delusion. Actio… (View Post)
I find magical thinking useful for manipulating mental states. But you gotta know how to bluff. And just like poker, "You gotta know when to hold 'em. Know when to fold 'em. Know when to walk aw… (View Post)