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  • Mind does not know mind

    Mind does not know mind; having a mind, one does not see mind. Producing thought is confusion; no thoughts is nirvana. The Buddhas attain liberation by way of mind; the mind, without defilement, is called pure: immaculate in all states of being, it does not take on form. Those who understand this attain the great…

  • Critical Thinking

  • Stephan Pendes two on books on Buddhism

    Yesterday evening I went to Center for Visdom og Medfølelse ( Center for Wisdom and Compassion ) in the central of Copenhagen to attend the weekly after work mindfulness meeting from 19.00 – 21.00. Essentially it is just a bunch of people from every direction in life sitting quietly together. Just being is a wonderful…

  • There are moments

    when I look up and see the wind move the leaves in the tree tops with soft and happy sensations I close my eyes and smile this sense of life inside of me too.

  • Water drizzling down a mountain side

    Water drizzling down the mountain wall glittering in the sun mist rising to the top birds and green everywhere life is seen drifting in the clouds standing like a giant reaching to center of the earth stretching up towards the heavens unmoved yet alive standing here how am I different? .

  • A journey towards liberation

    Vipassana Documentary from India Personally I took a 10 day intensive Vipassana meditation course in Nepeal just after New Year 2012. 10-11 hours of meditation every day, keeping the buddhist precepts of a strictly vegetarian diet, refraining from sexual activity and keeping to silence and non communication. As many of the prisoners in the movie…

  • Smiling keeps me always young

    Tranquillity of mind makes me live long, Smiling keeps me always young. I am air, I am light, And I am water, With the breeze I dirft, Far and Wide. Reference: Prenatal Energy Mobilizing Qigong: China Taoist Ancient Qigong by Cheng Yan Feng ISBN 9787535907561

  • The Intercourse of Water and Fire

    Whenever you leak vital spirit, being stirred and interacting with beings, that is all fire. Whenever you gather back spirits consciousness and quiet it down to steep in the center, that is all water. When the senses run outward, that is fire; when the senses turn around  inward, that is water. The one yin […

  • Children’s Vipassana in Nepal

  • Zhuang Zi’s eight kinds of methods for health cultivation

    Zhuang Zi is one of the prominent philosophers in the era of the Warring States. He has done much study about man’s spirit, integrity, nature-cultivation, heart-cultivation and advocated the nature-cultivation of unselfishness, few desires, quietness and transcendence. Unselfishness. In the opinion of Zhuang Zi, selfishness is the origin of all evils and diseases. One is…

  • The Tao is near and yet people seek it far away

    Those whose vital spirit is scattered outwardly and whose intellectual ruminations ramble inwardly cannot govern their bodies. When what the spirit employs is distant, then what it loses is nearby. So know the world without going out the door, know the weather without looking out the window; the further out it goes, the less knowledge…

  • The Three Precepts

    1. Simplifying involvements 2. Not craving anything 3. Queiting the mind “If people can empty their minds and contrive nothing, it is not that they want the Way, but the Way spontaneously reverts to them”. Reference: Treatise on sitting forgetting from Taoist Meditation by Thomas Cleary p. 102

  • The wrong doings of others

    When people see others doing wrong and conceive aversion and disdain, that is like grabbing the knife from someone about to kill himself and committing suicide with it your self. It is the other who is doing wrong, not compelling you; why take on others wrongs and make them into your own sickness? Reference: Treatise…

  • Serendipity or even Inspiration

    There are things one tries everything to gain, but endless efforts end up in vain; however, sometimes you obtain something without trying look for it – serendipity, or even inspiration. Feng Menglong Reference: Wisdom of the Ancients for Today Foreign Languages Press 2007 p. 120

  • The Lost Axe

    Once upon a time there was a craftsman who lost his Axe. He thought hard, and finally suspected his neighbor of stealing it. When he saw his neighbor walking, he thought that he walked like an Axe thief. When he meet his neighbor, the others countenance was just like that of an Axe thief, and…