The Sudden Silence
I stood still for a moment or two, listening, barely breathing. Finally I went to my office and sat down, my mind peaceful. I ran an internal diagnostic. What just happened?
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Author: David Jones
Teachers in the Dreamlands: Dreams as Teachers {Series}
For the last couple of years, I’ve been having teaching dreams most nights. Some frame the same lessons in different stage dressing, showing how application of principles can change. Some nights dreams may revisit past views or simply give me recess time to unwind my mind.
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11 Ways to Be a Light in the Darkness
At the end of his life, Buddha encouraged his followers to be lights unto themselves because his light was about to go out and there was still plenty of path they needed to walk.
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No Self. Yes Self. Maybe Self?
Have you ever met folks who have a visceral dislike to concepts like “I,” “Me,” or “Mine?” I certainly have. Like Buddhism itself, views such as No Self can become religious doctrine because of how we use them.
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Who is Thousand Hand Thousand Eye Guan Yin? (and why is she so relevant even now?)
The eyes on the hands means she’s open to a thousand viewpoints so she can identify—and identify with—the specific individual whose cries she hears.
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