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Practice Notes: Same & Different

February 26, 2023 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

Turner Yellow Fever

Change is a strange thing. While worldly phenomena—including human bodies and minds—seem to be in perpetual motion—transforming, modulating, modifying, adjusting, etc. pretty much all the time—change turns out to be rather slippery to actually find. The reason for this slipperiness is that to say that a particular object has “undergone change” requires that it partake, simultaneously, of …

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Practice Notes: Recurring Dream, Simplicity, Celebration

February 23, 2023 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

Guan Yin moon and lotuses

Dream Several times over the past several months I’ve had this recurring dream …. I’m an actor—and have agreed to play a particular role in a theatrical play. But on opening night, for one of a variety of reasons, I’m unable to fulfill this commitment. In some iterations of the dream, I’ve learned my lines, but then—in a moment of stage-fright—forget them. In other iterations, I simply …

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Practice Notes: Objectivity & Subjectivity

January 12, 2023 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

cup to doughnut topology

I recently shared a couple of love poems written by A.R. Ammons. But this poet is best known for poems which reference scientific laws and theories of various sorts. For instance: Substantial Planes It doesn't matter to me if poems mean nothing: there's no floor to the universe and yet one walks the floor. ~ A.R. Ammons Science & Poetry What I appreciate …

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Only By Courtesy: Sankara’s Definition of Real

December 16, 2022 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

Federer Nadal shaking hands

As of late, I’ve been enjoying a pair of books, toggling back-and-forth between them in a way that feels quite interesting and enriching. One of them—Insight into Emptiness by Khensur Jampa Tegchok—harkens from the Buddhist Madhamakaya tradition. The other—The Seven Great Untenables by John Grimes—expresses the view of Advaita Vedanta. So, I read a bit from one, then a bit from the other—as …

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Revisiting The Tenets Of Valid Cognition: When Is Knowledge Reliable?

November 25, 2022 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

Rodin's The Thinker

Seems like once a year or so that I feel drawn to reviewing – and hopefully in some manner clarifying – the tenets of valid cognition. And so it is that I embark once again on this journey … What Is Valid Cognition? The phrase “valid cognition” (Sanskrit: pramāṇa) is one that appears largely in Buddhist philosophy – though there are similar explorations within Yoga and Vedanta. The aspects of …

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Practice Notes: Distinction and Separation

November 15, 2022 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

golden stiletto

There are so many interesting things to explore! And I’ve explored quite a few, thus far in my life—following the thread of my enthusiasm, what piques my interest, lights my fire. But in comparison to all possible things to explore—all the phenomena past, present, and future, in this universe and all others—clearly the explorations accomplished via this one body-mind are miniscule: an estimate …

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