
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

I always teach in the immediate. When I am working with someone, I don’t concern myself with where they are in the realization process or a specific trajectory. In this way, the teaching can be immediate and not “loaded” with preconceived ideas of where someone is coming from or where they are headed. Hence the exchange is intuitive, instant, and f
... See moreAngelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
What does it mean to totally trust in life, to trust our practice? Simply a willingness to let it carry us through all these stages, which it will inevitably do, if only by finally making us face our own death.
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
As a teacher of fundamental consciousness, I think that the rangtong view may be better known than the shentong because it is simply easier for many people to do the conceptual deconstructive work of disassembling a table into parts than the fine attunement work of actually experiencing the table as made of the same consciousness as their own being
... See morePh.D Judith Blackstone • The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening
What you have to be willing to do is to encounter yourself and to face your own uncertainty. But how many of us want to let go into uncertainty, into the unknown, into the uncontrollable?