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 …
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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 …
Faith
What a strange word. One definition from dictionary.com is, "a belief that is not based on proof." This made no sense to me when I was younger. Why would anyone believe in something that can't be proven? Can't we just accept that we don't know everything there is to know? Why do people need to …
The Missing Piece
I've been in many conversations about the logic of various religions. We would put each set of religious beliefs up against the scientific method and each other. Logic says that there must be one right way and many wrong ways. In the beginning I viewed Vipassana in the same discussion. I would try to explain …
Towards the Sun: The Cross and the Bodhi Tree
Only by searching for your own truth can you come to understand what the great religious leaders of the past were trying to tell us. Consider these two images: The differences are striking. Besides being depictions of humans, these two religious icons seem to represent completely different ways of interpreting reality. One seems to endorse …
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We All Believe in God
What is the one, single, ultimate truth, of which you can be absolutely sure, before anything else? It is your experience in this moment. This experience may not represent external reality completely or at all (à la The Matrix), but this experience is, without a doubt, happening, because you are experiencing it. Note that at its …
Living Vipassana 