Category: Buddhism
Emptiness
“No Time…No Space…No Mind…No We. Where are ALL these things, including also God, when we are silent? Not there. Only … More
Quit
“Life is not a battle worth fighting. Quit.” The word is a deliberate stumbling block. What is to be given up is not the body or the life, but the fighter — the ego whose founding myth is that life is a war to be won. Camus answered the question of life’s worth with revolt; Advaita takes the path he never considered: neither suicide nor defiance, but the dissolution of the one who asks. Quit the way a fist quits clenching. The battle is optional because the soldier is fictional. What remains is life itself — neither fought nor fled.
A Few Sayings
“Buddha misread the origins of suffering. The cause of suffering is God’s desire to appear as this creation.” “This is … More
“If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him.”
Ninth-century Chinese Buddhist monk Linji Yixuan famously told his disciples, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” … More
Claude on the Different Forms of Love
Claude, So, how does desire and need for sex tie in with love? Where desire and need are admixed with … More
Maya
As I like to define, Maya is the false understanding that happiness lies outside, and what is on the outside … More
Conversations on Love & Spirituality with Oumaa (https://oumaa.com)
Conversations with Oumaa (https://Oumaa.com) I said: Is “love” always transactional? That is, do we “love” only when some need of … More
Practicing Gita in Kurukshetra
Understand that “the cause of suffering is desire”. This understanding will quieten the mind 24/7, which is what meditation is … More
“The cause of suffering is desire”: Buddha’s Second Noble Truth
“At last, at long last, I have understood Buddha’s Second Noble Truth that ‘The cause of suffering is desire’.”–DSR Buddha’s … More