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In my previous post I transcribed Session 13: Track 1 – The Pathless Land of The Science of Enlightenment series. In that talk, Shinzen Young, uses a metaphor of a “three-layered cake” to describe the journey from the surface of consciousness to the Source of consciousness. In this post I’ve transcribed the next two tracks (Read More)
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Anyone who has taken a serious study and practice of meditation inevitably encounters a lot of paradoxes along the way, especially when it comes to the concept of enlightenment. Different schools of spirituality put different emphasis on how to view enlightenment. Some schools (e.g. nondual traditions, like Mahayana, Advait (Read More)
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Six years already? Yes, I’ve been blogging my heart out for six years now. Seems like a lifetime in cyberspace.
Last year I had 2,703 posts, so I only added 39 posts this year. That’s an average of 3.25 posts, per month! In previous years that was my average, per day! So I definitely slowed down [...]. (Read More)
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I just finished delivering my Toastmasters Speech #1: The Ice Breaker. I’ve received a lot of positive feedback from my fellow club members. They enjoyed the flow of the story, the topic, the humor, and the overall presentation. I was also voted as best speaker for the day. Sweet. This gives me confidence to carry [...]. (Read More)
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(This blog post is my humble contribution to Blog Action Day 2009 – Climate Change.)
Over the years I’ve done my share of passionate blogging on the topic of Climate Change (Global Warming) in particular, and the Environment in general. I don’t have anything new to add from what I’ve expressed before. (Read More)
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I’m not a politically-oriented person. I try to avoid politics as much as I can. But I’m fired up when it comes to health care debate.However, this whole health care reform debacle is frustrating the hell out of me. Republicans have no interest in reforming health care, except to block any progress towards universal coverag (Read More)
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Har-Prakash Khalsa, an online buddy and a fellow student of Shinzen Young, finally decided to blog his heart out. Nice! Welcome to the blogosphere, bro. *Fist bump* His very first blog post is his awesome interview with Shinzen on the subject of enlightenment. Here’s an excerpt.Har-Prakash Khalsa – Given that, in your own (Read More)
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If you think you know what meditation is, think again. Here’s Charles Tart’s lecture on the science of meditation. Go and watch the 9-part video and do away with whatever limited views you may have on the nature of meditation. (Read More)
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How big is your body? It’s big as the whole universe or small like the nucleus of an atom, and everything in between. ~Shinzen Young
Many of you who are regular readers of this blog (and those who follow my tweets) know by now that I’m a big fan of Shinzen Young. I just love his [...]. (Read More)
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I posted a comment on my geeky Buddhist friend’s guest post on One City: Secularizing Buddhism–Making it Accessible or Stripping the Roots?The comment was long enough that I think it warrants a blog post. So here it is.Vince,i share your concerns in not throwing the Buddhist baby with the secular bathwater i appreciate [. (Read More)
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Last week I attended a two-day weekend retreat led by Sharon Salzberg at Nalanda West via Seattle Insight Meditation Society (SIMS). The theme for the weekend was “fierce compassion”. It was my first time to attend a two-day retreat. It was also my first time to sit with one of the pioneers who popularized vipassana [...]. (Read More)
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