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(Quote) Say your parents gave you your name Yagr. Before being named there was no Yagr who now becomes a person. Once a year, they celebrate Yagr's birthday and so this "person" begins to a… (View Post)
(Quote) "Consciousness" doesn't die because it doesn't exist on its own ie. it is not separate from sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, thoughts. "It" is a dependently coarisen… (View Post)
(Quote) Go attend the funerals of those who are near and dear, friends and relatives, acquantances. There is a Burmese saying, “One visit to a funeral is better than ten visits to the monastery.” (Qu… (View Post)
(Quote) This is a form of samatha practice. By focussing on a pleasant or neutral object, the mind calms down and is made ready for the next step which you describe below. For one who is at ease — hi… (View Post)
(Image) The world delights in conceptual proliferation (papanca). Buddhas delight in the ending of that (nippapanca) https://tricycle.org/magazine/tangled-thought/ (View Post)