Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
prosaic and practical as this process sounds, it is actually in keeping with time-honored spiritual traditions. Jesus, after all, taught that it’s pointless to look to otherworldly realms for revelation, because “the kingdom of God is within you.” The Buddha expressed enlightenment not as a mystical firestorm but as the disassembling of the conditi
... See moreRolf Potts • Vagabonding
I was just explaining to my friend this is how the 8 consciousnesses create a feedback loop that forms reality. The 5 senses feed raw nonconceptual and equanimious sense data to the 6th consciousness, the chitta, which conceptualize what it's being fed. "That's a dog, that's a chair, that's red" etc.
This is fed into the 7th consciousness, the ma... See more
by relinquishing our need and desire to control, explain, and believe the way that our minds talk to us about what was and what is, we find a capacity to open to a new state of consciousness.
Adyashanti • Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
The only way to help manas stop grasping at the notions of self and not-self is for us to practice deep looking into the impermanent and interdependent nature of reality.