“You don’t have to do anything”
Doingness is overrated !
Spirituality
The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment
Request: A book by Philip Kapleau which serves as an introduction to Zen practice for many Westeners. I was surprised by the fact that it hasn't been calibrated yet.
T/F: the spiritual ego is a source of mental illness
Request: I've seen several sources claiming that both depression and addictions have a significant element of focus toward "inner regulation". To what extent though?
appearance is not essence
How is it we can manipulate our appearance?
dreams that happen the next day
Request: I have been having dreams, it could be about anything or something, someone, and I happen to see that or it happens the very next day when I wake up. Can you explain this phenomenon or is it coincidence?
Good Karma, by Thubten Chodron
How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering.
being unable to function in the world
Request: Doc often talked about this regarding his own experience after Enlightenment.
spiritual work in the awareness point of observation
In this article, I'll address resistance in the awareness point of observation. About half way through, I'll recommend a spiritual practice.
blocking God
Under-200 positionalities service the ego by blocking God, but where is the main pull, the locus?
statement: God doesn’t care about your unintegrous thoughts
Request: a disappointment to the spiritual ego and a relief to your true self? Haha.
samadhi
"highest state of mental concentration that people can achieve while still bound to the body and which unites them with the highest reality... undisturbed by desire, anger, or any other ego-generated thought or emotion. It is a state of joyful calm, or even of rapture and beatitude" -- britannica.
T/F: prayers are put in escrow for when the subject is receptive
Priority request: Wondering if I can pray for people who are completely shut down or closed off from God and those prayers will take effect in a moment that they are more receptive if I ask Higher Power to put them in escrow so to speak. I want to pray wisely and effectively.
statement: every condition for love invites grief
The non-attachment of unconditional love is the only way to side-step grief.
supplication is egoless
In the high consciousness of this posture, we see the nature of supplication; we see the ego is not doing it.
kenshō
"seeing one's (true) nature", that is, the Buddha-nature or nature of mind. Kenshō is an initial insight or awakening, not full Buddhahood... The term kenshō is often used interchangeably with satori -- wikipedia.