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What Is The “self” ?

Nov

15

2025

Progressive Stages of Emptiness By Ven. Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche (1986) [Source : From Page 20 onwards] Animals, just like us, identify themselves with their bodies and minds and are constantly seeking physical and mental comfort as they try to avoid discomfort and assuage pain. Both animals and humans act as if they have a ...

On Seasonal Impermanence

Nov

16

2024

#TheSoundOfTheFallingLeaves 💓 There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change. Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my ...

It’s a Cessation of self !

Oct

2

2024

Oh, about a month ago, amongst the various British “BroadSheets” I “flick through” was an article in “The Times” Teenagers in the UK face ‘happiness recession’ [1] (29th August 2024) which said the following : The most recent Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) survey, for 2022, showed that on average 26 per cent of ...

A.I. and Spirituality – What’s really at stake ?

Aug

24

2024

Ah, now, I rarely have time for Social Media but as circumstance would have it, it’s a UK Bank Holiday and there’s something I would like to write about, as a sort of summary or recap of my interaction online over the last day 🙂 Jackson Peterson runs several Facebook Groups, some of which I ...

Home is where the Heart is

Aug

25

2023

While the mind is poised in the state of bare awareness, there is no directing the mind. One is not looking within for anything; one is not looking without for anything. One is simply letting the mind rest in its own natural state. The empty, clear and unimpeded nature of mind can be experienced if ...