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Vince - who has written 832 posts on Numinous Nonsense.
Vince Horn lives as a modern monk. He spends part of his year in silence, meditating, introspecting, and developing spiritually. The rest of the time he spends engaged in the world, where he produces and hosts the popular show, Buddhist Geeks, works in the production department of the spiritual publishing company Sounds True, and writes for various publications—including on his personal blog Numinous Nonsense—and enjoys living in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Emily. Read his full bio here.
Moving Toward Wholeness
I just posted a new article on the Buddhist Geeks site this morning, entitled The Path of Wholeness. I wrote the article as a way to explore a shift that has happened in my orientation, over the last couple of years, wherein I’ve moved away from a view of spirituality dominated by transcendence, toward [...]
Continue reading...What Needs No Verification?
Friday, February 26, 2010
Awakening needs no verification or validation from the outside. It stands on its own. Anytime we are looking for someone else to verify what we know, what we’re looking for is verification of experience. Experience can be verified and validated, though not always easily, because there are patterns to experience. [...]
Continue reading...The Supply and Demand of Awakening
Monday, February 15, 2010
“Being what you cannot not be is being what is.” – Karl Renz
Something I’ve come to understand deeply is that awakening is no-thing. It is not a state that one achieves, a place one can go, or a position one can take. It’s not even a perspective, as it is prior to the [...]
Advaita and Mature Expressions of Enlightenment
Sunday, November 1, 2009
When you know it is stupid to become something, this is enlightenment. – H.W.L Poonja
I posted this quote from H.W.L Poonja, or “Papaji” as his students called him, on my twitter feed yesterday. The quote elicited an interesting comment from a dharma buddy, about whether this is a mature expression of enlightenment when compared [...]
The Way of Tea
Monday, October 12, 2009
If you’ve been following my lifestream lately, you’ll see that I’ve become pretty obsessed with tea. A good friend of mine, earlier this year, invited me over to try “real tea.” At the time, I asked how real tea was different from the loose leaf tea I’d have at a coffeeshop or the [...]
Continue reading...Buddhist Geeks: Micropatronage Drive
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Last week I officially launched the first Micropatronage Drive for Buddhist Geeks. A micropatron is someone who supports Buddhist Geeks financially, in a small way, but with enough micropatrons we can really garner the financial support we need to take Buddhist Geeks to another level. The other level we’re planning has to do [...]
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