Enlightened Choice
Enlightened Choice — there is no real state of enlightenment. All there is, is moment by moment choice.
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Equanimity
Equanimity — we all have issues dealing with our ‘pet’ emotions — mostly, we want them gone. Not possible. Equanimity in the face of them — possible!
Magical Thinking
Magical Thinking and Nailing Carpenters If — Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or … Read more
Nothing — Yin Yang Series
The key idea to grasp is that mental formations (judgements) are not real. What we think about a thing, and the thing itself, are different. We grasp this by letting go of our clinging to what we think, and give ourselves over to “being present with.”
Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort.
The bridesmaids of an Enlightened Life Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort. There’s this thing we could call the leap of faith, which lies directly between convention and fully living. Like many things, there’s a orderly (or not so orderly) progression. Here’s how it goes. Most people enter adulthood as fundamentalists — by that, I … Read more
Caught Tail
Self-responsibility is the ceaseless action of walking a path. The wise path, the one path, in all cases, is dropping the ego.