Dharma

is from Bhante Henepola Gunaratana’s Mindfulness in Plain English. Here is the passage as it commonly appears in English translations:

“Somewhere in this process, you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill,... See more

Death

Transformation

Lyric Poem

Quietness - fact Summary

From Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi

This short poem, from Rumi’s Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi, presents a clear Sufi teaching: renounce the ego, break free from inner confinement, and seek silence as evidence of spiritual transformation. The voice issues urgent imperatives that equate dying to the old self... See more

Quietness by Rumi

Where can you find your unborn and unconditional freedom? Notice that the moment you search for it, you are no longer free. Seeking assumes that freedom is elsewhere, that you do not already possess it. But what if your very nature is already unconditional and free? What if the nirvana you have been looking for has been in your pocket all along?

Lots of times you can’t remember to do the other practices, you may not remember, “oh, these are my values, or this is what I want to be paying attention to, or this is how I want to act,” because you get caught up in your emotional reactivity. But in my experience, almost everybody can develop a ground of awareness through awareness of the body in... See more

Sharing the Mat: The Synergy of Yoga & Buddhism | Dharma Wisdom

I am that bridge between the spiritual and the material. Between the human and the being. Between time and eternity.

And as a bridge I know that what is of most fundamental importance is my structural integrity. I don’t need to be a pretty, shiny, peaceful or pleasant bridge. I need to be a bridge that does what a bridge is supposed to do - to hold... See more

The Underbelly of Awakening

Shiv Sengupta’s Substack

Questions to ask to stay present-
Am I aware?
What am I aware of?
What is my relationship to it?

People talk about thirsting for power or thirsting for money. There is a grasping or clinging or attachment inherent in that kind of activity. So the cause of suffering is the thirsting of the mind, the driven nature or compulsivity of the mind. The second instruction is therefore to begin to abandon or let go of that compulsivity. And it’s very... See more

Four Noble Truths – Insight Meditation Center

Notes on the 2nd Noble Truth from Gil Fronsdal

A structural background for the Four Noble Truths that might be interesting to understand is that, from the point of view of the Buddha, all conditioned things arise and pass away. They are impermanent. All of our mental formations and all of our mental activity arise and pass away. At some point, it has arisen, and sooner or later, it will pass... See more

Four Noble Truths – Insight Meditation Center

Four Noble Truths

Four Noble Truths – Insight Meditation Center

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Four Noble Truths