The 9 Breaths: Breath 5
How can a tiny gap in the breath lead to enlightenment? How can we gain freedom from the enslavement of the Mind? Why did Buddha Gautama take 6 years to […]
Breathing as one, Mindfulness, Peace, True Nature
True Self
Mindfulness, The flow of pure love energy, True Nature
TRUE NATURE: YOUR SPARKLING GEM STONE WITHIN
True nature? I hope you are curious about this phrase. Does it mean that you are doing something that offends others but you cannot control it? That something etched into
ancestor veneration, Easy-Happy-Sexy, Indigenous wisdom, Meditation, Mindfulness, spiritual vision, The Cathars: The Church of Love, True Nature, Visible - Invisible
Innocent Voices Conveying Crucial Messages
We cannot embody opinions and knowledge. They are specks of dust, mere material floating in the sunlight, compared with our magical essence of love and light.
Mindfulness, Oneness, True Nature
Daily Reflection: climb the steps
Climb the symmetrical steps, one by one, exerting spirit not mind. Climb until you drop the word ‘climb,’ and as it clatters down in diminuendo discern that the marble geometry which lifts
Bodhi, Japanese Rituals, Meditation, Mindfulness, Oneness, Peace, True Nature
Temple Chronicle: 5th February
The objective of all Buddhist training, of any spiritual training, is to first become a better, happier person, and then to look after other sentient beings, developing unwavering respect
Bodhi, Mindfulness, Oneness, True Nature
Temple Chronicle: February 3rd
Those who follow. Those who are followed. Followers or leaders, there need be no division. What prevents us from taking the first step to being different from the conformists surrounding
True Nature
Scent of the Divine by Linden Thorp
What can we learn from sensory deprivation about accessing other ways of being? How can we avoid the domination of visual processing, the consequent ownership of everything we see, and the
The Ultimate Teachings
Article 9: Becoming the Dharmakaya
So far in this series of articles based on the final teachings of the Buddha, the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the focus has been the final instructions the Buddha gives before he
The Ultimate Teachings
Article 4: The True Self
The self. Buddhism in general teaches that we should dissolve the ego so that we can be sincerely altruistic and unconditionally loving of all beings. Accordingly, if we cease to be
The Ultimate Teachings
Article 2: Buddha Nature
In the great Nirvana teachings of the Buddha, enlightenment is clearly described. What is central to this enlightenment is one’s Buddha Nature, in other words, one’s true self. Another way