A talk by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi on enlightenment.
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What Turns the Wheel of Life
Francesca Fremantle, from her book Luminous Emptiness, discusses the wheel of life and how the Buddha decontructed it.
Shikantaza is Understanding Emptiness
What is shikantaza? Suzuki Roshi, the great Zen teacher, says that it is the experience of receiving a “letter from emptiness”
Buddha’s Original Wakefulness
“Unless we can recognize and sustain the continuity of original wakefulness, deluded experience will not end,” says Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. “It is the most important point of all.”
Emptiness and Existence
His Holiness the Dalai Lama takes us step by step through the famed logic of Madhyamika, the Middle Way that defeats all extreme views of reality.
What Is Prajna?
Photo by Triratna Photos.Wisdom, says Judy Lief, is not about answers. It’s about the power of questioning, about developing a great inquisitiveness that cuts through all solidity and self-deception.
What is This Me?
Are we interested in exploring this amazing affair of ‘myself’ from moment to moment?
Waiting. Waiting. For What?
“Meditation, then, can show us our true and genuine life, with its freedom, its abundant creativity, and its joy.”
The Buddha’s Noble First Teaching
Photo by rainchurch.Tulku Thondup on the four simple and practical statements that encompass the entire Buddhist path, the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths.
Weather We Like It or Not
“Weather,” says Barry Boyce, “has near magical power as a symbol of the changeability that is at the heart of our experience.”