What Meditation Isn’t
By Ven. Henepola Gunaratana, from “Mindfulness In Plain English” Meditation is a word. You have heard this word before, or you would never have picked up this book. The thinking process operates by association, and all sorts of ideas are associated with the word ‘meditation’. Some of them are probably accurate and others are hogwash. Some of them pertain more properly to other systems of meditation and have nothing to do with Vipassana practice. Before we proceed, it behooves us to blast some of the residue out of our own neuronal circuits so that new information can...
read moreAll These Forms
All these forms—appearance-emptiness Like a rainbow with its shining glow In the reaches of appearance-emptiness Just let go and go where no mind goes Every sound is sound and emptiness Like the sound of an echo’s roll In the reaches of sound and emptiness Just let go and go where no mind goes Every feeling is bliss and emptiness Way beyond what words can show In the reaches of bliss and emptiness Just let go and go where no mind goes All awareness—awareness-emptiness Way beyond what thoughts can know In the reaches of awareness emptiness Let awareness go—oh, where no mind...
read moreThe Eight Cases of Basic Goodness Not To Be Shunned
A Vajra Song of Götsangpa Namo Ratna Guru I bow to the lord who grants the bliss that is utterly supreme Which takes away the suffering of illness For every being that’s everywhere throughout the reaches of space By administering the medicine of the three kayas In the pure space of the sky that’s the sky of essential mind itself The clouds of negative actions thickly gather But the mighty force of the powerful wind of the wisdom prana Doesn’t blow them away, but clears them up like this The illness and its painfulness have neither base nor root Relax into it, fresh and...
read moreMeditation – Pitfalls On The Path
By Prabhath P. The path to self-realization has many traps and pitfalls, often paved with exotic paranormal experiences. And only those who can keep their focus reach beyond Meditation is an adventure of the consciousness. And, like any other adventure, it can be a tricky journey. Countless spiritual aspirants have fallen into traps on the way. Some of them manage to come out while others fail. The Paranormal Trap The strange but fascinating emergence of Paranormal perceptions during the meditative process has proved to be one of the most seductive of all the traps. Hordes of New Agers...
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