No self? What does that mean? Karmic seeds? What exactly are they? I can relate to the idea of a self or ego that is constructed from the time of birth until the time of death. I can also relate to the body that we call ourselves changing dramatically from …
It is easy to see for most people how any action can have far reaching effects. EACH action, thought, and word should be chosen most carefully. As isolated as one may feel, NO ONE exists without the cause of others or is without effect on others.
The sky does not despise the clouds. The ocean doesn’t fear the waves. Fear in the mind is made of mind. With practice it behaves.
I wonder about the Chinese yin and yang. It may have more meaning than I ever thought. It may also have the meaning of emptiness. It seems that everything has an opposite. Even everything has nothing as an opposite. It seems as if an opposite is a requirement of existence. …
Emptiness means: “No obscurations” or “nothing in the way of seeing” that all phenomena are interdependent in nature. Example: If the sky is “empty” of clouds than there is nothing in the way of seeing the sun. Emptying the mind means: Letting thoughts come and go without attaching to them. …
We are in the past, present, and future all at the same time. Since there is no such thing as time, past, present, and future exist simultaneously. Consciousness (life force) exists as an ever changing constant* rather than being affected by past, present, or future. Physical existence (life/death, atoms, molecules, …
Do I control my thoughts, or do my thoughts control me? Who is I, my, or me? I’m thinking life is what lets us think, and our thoughts are formed from the inputs to this body we are in. Maybe that’s why someone once said “don’t always believe what you …