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Any road to nowhere. When you cut through the extraneous and get down to the fundamental issue, knowing where we are and where we...

The dissolving ego. The last two posts ( Karma and the Wheel of Life and Death and Karma and The Wheel of Dharma ) were critical in un...

The bloom of essence. There ’ s an inherent danger in wrongly understanding the two facets of our virtual and non-virtual sides. The n...

The winds of change. At the current time, conditional uncertainty and instability are running rampant throughout the world, and this is...

Philosophy is oftentimes regarded as an artificial covering, at best-reflecting approximations. One Webster definition is “...a search ...

Seeing only clouds of delusion. Zen Master Huang Po (Huángbò Xīyùn) was one of the most important and revered teachers of all time. Am...

We are facing an unprecedented era of crisis, never seen before. Not only is there the evident crisis of fighting a global war with an u...

The Ancient Greek aphorism to “know thyself” is familiar even today. Most people throughout time and place believe they know themselves a...

Happiness or madness? Once we’ve considered thinking, let’s take a look at not thinking. And the very first issue that needs to be explore...

The fools prison There’s a really curious matter regarding our self-understanding. For the most part, our unenlightened way of thinki...

Now that the Buddhist conception of the mind has been thoroughly delineated we turn our attention to something we do continuously and deter...