Are there any who do evil while truly believing that they do evil? Don’t those who know their actions are wrong still believe that the rule does not apply to them or to the context of their actions, that a greater good is served by their transgression?
I cannot think of a single instance where I […]
… to those who will on May 17. 2004 finally gain what you should have had all along: the right to marry the one you love. It’s always a bittersweet moment when such victories appear, because we never should have needed to fight battles over civil rights. You should have been accepted from the start. […]
There are as many paths to Enlightenment
as there are Buddhas.
There can be no more, no less.
The Buddha that can be grasped
is not the Buddha.
I abide in this physical mind-body,
in this physical world,
now.
Without this, I am nothing.
Even so, I am nothing.
Experience is my Dharma-teacher; interpretation is my Dharma-deceiver.
It is meaningless to cultivate the mind without cultivating […]
At the Dzogchen sitting last night, Lama John (Makransky) talked about feelings. Specifically, he discussed the original ‘feeling tones’ - pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral - that arise in response to stimulus. According to Buddhist psychology, our mind reacts to these basic tones by associating the more complex emotions with the experience. For example, when we […]
When I was younger, I had several recurring nightmares, the most common of which was quite odd in content, but which always scared the shit out of me:
… It was in the living room of my childhood home, prior to moving to C. where I spent most of my youth, but after my sister was […]