This dual nature — Buddhist teachings as both a path and a reflection of awakened awareness — can profoundly transform our understanding of practice.
Everyday Buddhist
Dharma Read: Embracing Impermanence.
Buddha-nature, is not diminished by the changing external world.
Dharma Read: It is interesting also to think of what happens when we are full of energy and wellbeing.
The problem is in our excited reaction to it.
Dharma Read: One of the most liberating teachings of the Buddha.
Buddha often compared the process of awakening to uncovering a hidden treasure or cleansing a soiled garment.
Dharma Read: The path to awakening.
So large it encompasses heaven and earth.
Dharma Read: Don’t cling to appearances, and you’ll break through all barriers.
A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Dharma Read: The ego decides how it wants the future to be and when things turn out differently, it is unprepared for the new reality.
Sometimes in meditation or out walking in the land, you are aware of a quietness.
Dharma Read: It’s true, I thought to myself: the Way is not far from man.
Afterwards, however, as I began reflecting upon my everyday behaviour.
Dharma Read: This is why we call it the path.
Deep but has no ‘below’.
Dharma Read : It’s so important to develop insight through practice.
The way of mindfulness, however, is always appropriate to the time and the place, to the way things are in their good and bad aspects.
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