So much attachment towards this I. What is this I? At the apparent level, yes, there is this solid body, but at the actual level, just subatomic particles, constantly changing. Arising and passing at such rapidity, like a light bulb. You take a dip in the river. Is it the same river? What same river? …
Category: Observations
S. N. Goenka: Notes – Day 2 Discourse
Perform Wholesome action Don't perform sinful action Keep on purifying your mind That is all. Dhamma – nothing to take away, nothing to add. Acting without craving and aversion. What's wholesome? Abstain from sinful, and what remains is wholesome. Universal. Every religion would say this. The difference in the explanations. In sectarianism, Dhamma is no …
S. N. Goenka: Notes – Day 1 Discourse
S. N. Goenka: Notes - Day 1 Discourse You will get the best results of your stay here, the better you work. You must work. The art of living is missing. This will teach you the art of living. Someone goes to the other bank of the river and comes back and says, it's so …
Living With Reality
How much time do I spend distracting myself from reality? The obvious distractors are television, movies, and internet, but I want to look a little bit deeper. When I see a model seductively posed in an advertisement, how many seconds does this distract me from the people and circumstances around me? After watching a nice car drive …
Our Work is Love
Our work is love. The classic statement is that to love your job is to mean you will never work a day in your life. This is not work, but play. To find love, on the one side, may sometimes feel like work, but if we love our work, it will be play. If our …
Meditation. Observation. Clear thinking.
I am writing this sitting in my friends’ place in Barcelona and I am thinking about a friend and this post will be dedicated to her. In life we do come across people - different people, with different energies, in different places, and at different times! And it so happens that with some you bond …
Breaks
Continuity of practice is the secret of success. Another word for that is consistency. Consistent practice brings success. I've read a lot, and seen in my own experience, of artists, especially writers, who say that their success comes from showing up at the desk every day to write. It is the showing up that counts. …
A Perfect Destination
This writing is taken from my previous blog, which I haven't written in since I started writing for this site. Most of these ideas stem from Alan Watts' talk entitled, "The Veil of Thoughts." It's been advertised to you. Wake up. The reason someone is asleep, in the terms of awareness …
Just How Babies See
Alan Watts talks about three views. One view is of the baby, which can't tell the difference between what is happening and what is happening to it. One is the adult view, which thinks there are certain things that need to be done that they can do, certain things that happen to them and more …
Concerning Creativity
I have an increasing concern with how we use the word creative. Creativity is not taking our repetitive conditioning and modifying it slightly to get some attention. That is what the form of it is in modern times. Most 'artists' get a big stance in the headlines out of doing something that is disturbing or …
Living Vipassana 