Homage to Manjushri!
I bow down to the all-powerful Buddha
Whose mind is free of attachment,
Who in his compassion and wisdom
Has taught the inexpressible.
In truth there is no birth –
Then surely no cessation or liberation;
The Buddha is like the sky
And all beings have that nature.
Neither samsara nor nirvana exist,
But all is a complex continuum
With an intrinsic face [...]
There is no way to ask the question that a nondual sophist
cannot twist into anything s/he wants. As Harsha reminded us,
even Mr Clinton has enough nondual lingo to say, “It depends
what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”
This is not the department of straight answers. That’s down the
hall. You will have to take these answers for whatever [...]
The Science and Nonduality Conference
October 21-25, 2009
San Rafael, California
http://nonduality.net/
This is going to be the first ever conference dedicated to nonduality. This
is a great opportunity to experience, learn, encounter, and meet. Meeting
face to face is how lifetime bonds are made, forged, and kept up.
Register for early admission
Five days of an exciting [...]
Awakening to the truth of perfect Unity, means to awaken from the
dream of a personal self and personal others to the realization that
there is no other. Many spiritual seekers have had glimpses of the
absolute unity of all existence, but few are capable of or willing to
live up to the many challenging implications inherent in that [...]
From: Everyday Zen
by Charlotte Joko Beck
When we find our life unpleasant or unfulfilling, we try to escape the unpleasantness by various subtle escape mechanisms. In such attempts we are dealing with our lives as if there’s me and then there’s life outside me. As long as we approach our lives in this way we will [...]
The Snow Man
by Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In [...]
