Acharya Sujatin (temple host)

Dharmavidya writes:

A DIFFERENT PARADIGM

In Western philosophy we have been much concerned with ideas of free will and determinism, guilt and responsibility. rights and laws, and these debates have taken place against the background of religions dominated by the idea of an all-powerful god who made laws and punished transgressors. In the East,…[Read more]

Dharmavidya:

Anapanasati is a central teaching of Buddhism but it is commonly misunderstood. Literally the term means “breathe-in-breathe-out-mindfulness”. It is commonly taken to refer to a meditation exercise in which the attention is focussed upon the breathe, mindfulness being taken to mean attention. Though extremely widespread, this is a m…[Read more]

Dharmavidya writes:

THE IN BETWEEN

The word bardo refers to the state between lives. It is a gap or transition period. More generally, we experience many such periods, not merely after actual death but also after every ending before a new beginning has taken form. Mahayana Buddhism envisages a period of up to seven weeks between lives in which…[Read more]

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Dharmavidya writes:

I am. I am what I am. A walnut tree grows walnuts. It does not grow tulips. The tulip plant is no less than the walnut tree. The walnut tree is no less than the tulip. Yet the tulip grows no nuts. I am living my life. You are living your life. That’s all. I read, I write, I learn, I travel, I speak, I love, I relax. The b…[Read more]

Probably the last thing I’ll be able to make for her :'( 

Dharmavidya writes:

I have been reading Ron Purser’s new book, McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality, published by Repeater, London, an imprint of Watkins Media and distributed in the USA by Random House, New York.

Mindfulness, in its modern guise, has been over sold and now comes the recoil. There are three m…[Read more]

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Dharmavidya writes:

Buddhism is a mystical religion.It is noumenal. It does not fit within the common paradigm, but soars far beyond.

Those who turn their hearts and attention to what is beyond this world are called mystics. Buddha was one. This is why he is called a muni. This is why he is called Buddha. Buddha is one who has awakened to what…[Read more]