enlightenment

“What do I have to say about advanced meditation?   It’s a feeling.  It’s beyond the body and beyond the mind.  I would classify beginning meditation — beginning, intermediate, whatever you’d like to call it — as meditation with thought.  As long as there is thought in the mind while you’re sitting, practicing zazen, then…

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Yoga of Discrimination

“There are four major paths to self-realization.  Of the four, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.  Jnana yoga is the graduate school of self-discovery.  Ordinarily in spiritual practice, one begins by practicing bhakti, the path of love.  The path of love leads to the path of self-giving….

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Six Worlds

There is more than just this world and heaven and hell. In Buddhist cosmology, we realize there are many worlds and that these worlds really exist inside our own mind. Everything exists within our own minds. How we navigate through these worlds and what the path is that leads beyond all worlds is what the…