Posted in buddhism, self-reference on Mar 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
I checked my Technorati profile and discovered there–lo and behold–that someone had self-selected to be a fan. Alan has his own blog and it gets updated with about the same frequency as Explorations does. His blog http://milindasquestions.com has one more authority point than I do. I consider his blog to be akin to a sister […]
Posted in buddhism, cognitive psychology, experiential learning, psychology on Apr 25th, 2007 No Comments »
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Human beings have a tendency to ‘live in their heads’. This phrase covers several facts. First, men have a tendency to overtheorize. Some things are ruined by too much thinking on them, things which are essentially matters of experience. What is more, almost anything can be source of immediate experience, and so almost anything is […]
Posted in buddhism, transformative learning on Apr 5th, 2007 No Comments »
The students in the monastery were in total awe of the elder monk, not because he was strict, but because nothing ever seemed to upset or ruffle him. So they found him a bit unearthly and even frightening. One day they decided to put him to a test. A bunch of them very quietly hid […]
Posted in buddhism, tools for living on Mar 13th, 2007 No Comments »
The Mahayana Ideal
By constant use the idea of an “I†attaches itself to foreign drops of seed and blood, although the thing exists not. then why should I not conceive my fellow’s body as my own self? That my body is foreign to me is not hard to see. I will think of myself as […]
Posted in buddhism, humor, resources, transformative learning on Sep 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
A monk asked Kegon, “How does an enlightened one return to the ordinary world?” Kegon replied, “A broken mirror never reflects again; fallen flowers never go back to the old branches.”
Zen joke from: Lighter Side of Zen Buddhism:
Q: What did one Zen practitioner give to another for his/her birthday?
A: Nothing.
Q: What did the birthday boy/girl […]
Posted in a-ha!, buddhism, humor, stories on Mar 1st, 2005 No Comments »
The Dalai Lama was being interviewed and was asked about his devotion to the concepts of non-violence and compassion and respect for all forms of life, however big or small. The interviewer asked what he would do if a mosquito landed on his arm, intent on biting him. The Dalai Lama lightly brushed one hand […]
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