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Perception Are Not-Self
Perceptions Are Not-Self: Unpacking the Buddha’s Second Discourse — Episode 3
The Buddha’s second discourse, traditionally known as the Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta or “The Discourse on the Characteristic of Not-Self,” is often summarized with a...
Sariputta’s Fifth Investigation: Seeing Through Perception
The Awareness of Perception
Among the many surprises contained in the Aunupada Sutta, perhaps the greatest is that Sariputta’s awakening did not occur through a single overwhelming insight. Instead, the Buddha describes a series of metho...
The All
The Dance of a Deeper Explanation: That’s Everything
What if everything you have ever experienced could be reduced to a surprisingly short list?
Not your possessions. Not your accomplishments. Not your beliefs. Not even your memories....
Chapter 4. Specific Authority
When Faith Gets Personal
From Scripture to the Living Teacher
Most discussions of faith begin with belief.
But what if faith is not primarily about belief at all?
What if faith is the activity of assigning authority in response to...
Deconstructing the “I Am” Self
Deconstructing the “I Am” Self
Most of us spend our lives assuming that the phrase “I am” points to something real, permanent, and self-evident. After all, who could be more familiar than ourselves?
Yet Zen has a way of turning the obvi...
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I would guess that many of us often ask ourselves: What should I be doing at this exact moment? The many buddhas and Zen masters have shown that there is an answer. It comes from walking the path that I call Zen Optimism.
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