Sublime

Threefold logic is an old Buddhist tradition of how to perceive messages from the phenomenal world, how to appreciate a view completely, and how to present your personal view to somebody else as well.

Section XVII. This section makes my head hurt. The Buddha contrasts the ultimate reality of personal realization with the “first causes” of other paths and thankfully moves on.

James Miller reminds us that there are at least four ways to think of Daoism: as an intellectual alternative to Confucianism for the literati, as a mystical philosophy focused on attaining unity with the Dao, as a force in…

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In my own life, Zen and psychoanalysis have been practiced in tandem now for thirty years. Each continues to challenge, inform, and enrich the perspective of the other.

Emptiness teachings and ways of looking are only a smaller subset of the larger set of tools for freedom that is the whole of the Dharma.

He simply means that whatever we see or think or feel is our own mind, which is, of course, a tautology. A=A.