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Discussing Advaita Vedanta, Zen, Science & Modern Civilization with ChatGPT
“While an AI language model like myself doesn’t have a true self or ego, it can be used to demonstrate how the mind creates a sense of self through language and thought. By recognizing the limitations of the mind and … Continue reading
Your True Self is Pure Consciousness
“You see yourself in the world, while I see the world in myself. You cling to the idea that you were born into a world of pain and sorrow; I know that the world is a child of love… The … Continue reading
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How We Learn to Compartmentalize
“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality..” ~Thich … Continue reading
Spiritual Bypassing & the Psychology of Awakening
“Spiritual seekers who suffer from a deflated sense of self, take spiritual teachings about selflessness to mean that they should keep a lid on themselves and not let themselves shine.. As typically happens in many spiritual communities, [they] use spiritual practice … Continue reading
How Mindfulness Quiets the Mind
“Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free. You’ll transform everything. And you’ll be at peace wherever you are.” ~Bodhidharma “In making yourself quiet, you have to be quiet on all fronts — quiet in your … Continue reading
Transcending the Illusion of Separateness
“The fanciful idea of a self is a contraction, a limitation of wholeness, real being. When this notion dies we find our natural expansion, stillness, globality without periphery or centre, outside or inside. Without the notion of an individual there … Continue reading
Tao of the Jewish Buddha
“Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Forget this and attaining Enlightenment will be the least of your problems.” Let your mind be as a floating cloud. Let your stillness be as the wooded glen. And sit up straight. … Continue reading
Verses on Faith in Mind – Seng-ts’an
“The Great Way is not difficult for those not attached to preferences. When neither like nor dislike arises, all is clear and undisguised. If you wish to know the truth, then hold to no opinions for or against anything. To … Continue reading
One Truth ☮ Many Songs
“All major mystical traditions have recognized that there is a paradox at the heart of the journey of return to Origin. Put simply, this is that we are already what we seek, and that what we are looking for on … Continue reading
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Buddhist Anarchism – Gary Snyder, 1961
“Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion. Wisdom without … Continue reading
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Tagged new paradigm, society, spirituality, zen
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Creative by Nature 