Sublime

We can improve the way our minds function and the way they perceive and process reality, in numerous skillful ways. What works is key. Specifically: it doesn't matter at all where you draw useful things from if they are effective, meaning that they provide the specific benefits sought. Innovating by extracting key useful elements from various tradi

Rinzai’s radical use of buji tells us that Zen is no “thing” whatsoever. In his talk, he tries to cut off any notion we may have of what there is to do or what there is to accomplish. He spells out all the traps that his monks are likely to fall into—his way of flushing out their “secret practices.” Today, Rinzai is famous for answering questions w

Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley (2002) credit Buddhist mindfulness practice with providing insights to help obsessive-compulsive patients.

Wisdom, meditation, and ethical training each work synergistically (rather than linearly) to support one another. Harmonious lifestyle reduces fluctuations of mind and facilitates deepening insight, while insight into the nature of reality fosters tranquility and enables a responsible, caring engagement with life. Like the three-pronged cycle of se

Koans required a humility that is really a kind of plainness in approaching life without drama and ulterior motives.

We live in a world where psychotherapy has become a yardstick by which everything else is judged—in some circles at least—but the Nyi-da Mélong is not open to such evaluation by practitioners.

The Practice of Inquiry

Tibetan teaching The Mahayana Instructions on the Seven Points of Mind Training (theg pa chenpo’ i gdams ngag blo sbyong don bdun ma bzhugs so) by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje. This work belongs to the class of teachings called lojong. We all have a mind (lo), and this mind is always undergoing training (jong).