OK, so it really isn’t work for me to practice or study the dhamma. But having taken what I called a day off yesterday, this seemed like the appropriate title for today. So how was it, taking a day off,…
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Tag: sangha
The daily battle
Yes, from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to sleep, there is a battle raging. Consciousness and mindfulness wrestle with each other for dominance. Long standing patterns and habits of attachment and self are ever present.…
The Sangha
Having studied Buddhism for over ten years, I was blessed to have finally found Bhante Sujatha of the Blue Lotus Buddhist Temple. (or perhaps he found me) I felt I had been on the right path for a long time,…
The goal is Atammayata
The word Atammayata literally means, “the state of not being made up by, or made up from, that (thing or condition).” “The genuine collapse of illusion, no separateness of subject and object.” As I was reading this morning, I was…
Buddhism versus Christianity
I was reading an article this morning by someone who had tried Buddhism and found it to simply be the flip side of Christianity. The way he sees it, Christians believe in achieving Heaven once they die and Buddhist think…