This may sound like ordinary words, but I see recently that I’m in a trap of my own making.
And so it occurs to me that I must also be in the freedom of my own making.
Entries Tagged as 'Practice'
Nothing is Wasted
August 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Strong Back Soft Front
June 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments
This morning I pondered the rightness of having a strong back, and of having a soft front. Shambhala teaches as a foundational instruction having a “good head and shoulders”, and the notion is accompanied by having an open front.
The strength of our uprightness doesn’t belong in our fronts. When we assert ourselves too harshly, our strength leaves our backbone, and comes to our face, our mouth, our heart, and manifests unbalanced, as passion or anger or fear or shouting or discourtesy.
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In Search Of Non-Existent Self
January 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Can the self be found? Is the self even necessary? A beginning practitioner in the Buddhist methods of inquiry relates his first experience of looking for the self, and watching it shy away from discovery, seeming to flee from the present moment. He notes with surprise the giant claim of ownership that we assume to be ourselves.
But what does this feel like? How do we experience this? As a practitioner of buddhist meditation, and a student of the Dharma, this is how one looks for the self – read on.
