Awareness is not something we create
Everyday Buddhist
Dharma Read: From reading the newspapers, one gets the impression that it’s too late to do anything.
In the modern Western world, we seem to have developed to a very high level this ability to see what is wrong.
Dharma Read: I’m talking about the emotions which bring pain and discomfort, those we don’t like.
It is all your personal experience.
Dharma Read: The Buddha’s teachings are vast and varied.
Yet at their core, they point to the same essential truths..
Dharma Read: The Incomprehensible Simplicity of Truth.
The Buddha’s path is one of practice and insight, leading each person to their own awakening.
Dharma Read: What is the most tormenting thing in this world?
Unaware of the Great Matter, that I call the most tormenting thing
Dharma Read: The Eightfold Path: A Way of Liberation, Not Just a Means.
This understanding reframes the Eightfold Path as both the process and the expression of liberation itself.
Dharma Read: A Dynamic Interplay Between Insight and Training.
In this way, the Buddha’s teaching avoids the extremes of eternalism and nihilism
Dharma Read: The deepest truths are those that cannot be spoken, but only lived.
A path that leads to the unfolding of compassion, wisdom, and liberation.
Dharma Read: You must just be as immovable as an incense burner before a Buddha-image.
‘The greatest determination is similar to the one of a beginner who has just started practising meditation.’
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