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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?
26. February 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
15. February 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
1. November 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 [...]
Secularizing Buddhism: Making it Accessible or Stripping the Roots?
11. August 2009
The folks at the OneCity Blog on BeliefNet were kind enough to accept an article that I’d recently finished up on the potential downsides to making Buddhism completely secular. It’s entitled, Secularizing Buddhism: Making it Accessible or Stripping the Roots?
Here’s a little snippet from the article:
The problem with not seeing how Buddhism [...]
The Buddha wasn’t a Buddha
10. July 2009
A nice fellow named Joel responded to my comment yesterday, and I decided to write another big chunk of material to try and clarify some of my current thinking around “enlightenment”. Here’s Joel’s original comment, followed by my response:
I appreciate Vince Horn’s comments regarding the need to demystify enlightenment. I’d like to [...]
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4. March 2010
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