My home was at Cold Mountain from the start, Rambling among the hills, far from trouble. Gone, and a million things leave no trace Loosed, and it flows through galaxies A fountain of light, into the very mind— Not a thing, and yet it appears before me: Now I know the pearl of the Buddha nature Know its use: a boundless perfect sphere. ~ Hanshan (trans. Gary Snyder) * …
Nonduality
Fundamentalism: Religious & Scientific
In this brief talk, Alan Wallace covers lots of interesting ground, e.g. the relationship between religious and scientific fundamentalism; and the difference between "course mind" (aka conceptual mind) and the nature of mind (aka pure awareness). He ends by offering clear step-by-step guidance in accessing rigpa (awareness of being aware). Minding Mind Please note that the language Mr. Wallace …
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Either all of it is me, or none of it is me. This is the voice of pure Awareness, describing its relationship to phenomenal appearances: the kaleidoscopic transformations of body-mind-world. First, we learn to distinguish unchanging Awareness from phenomena which come and go. We clearly perceive that “none of this is me.” Sometime later, we dissolve even this distinction, to clearly …
Wu-Wei, Whirling Dervish, Sahaja Samadhi
Oh my ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=241&v=P5_xgip67ac&feature=emb_logo …
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Practice Notes: Field & Particle
The field is the sole governing agency of the particle. ~ Albert Einstein What A Human Sees I recently came across the following definition of a particle—a riff, perhaps, on the more well-known Einstein quote—which I’m liking quite a lot: A particle is what a human being sees, when they look at a field. So far as I call tell, this definition accords with recent research in quantum field …
Practice Notes: Hasty Generalization, Parasite & The Australian Open
Parasite Recently saw Parasite—a brilliantly whacky and over-the-top satire on class relations. If you haven’t already, I’d say it’s worth checking out. The title of the film points to its primary theme and central ambiguity, expressed nicely here in one review: Who are the real parasites? The poor who attach themselves to the rich or the rich who suck the marrow of the poor? Or is the system …
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