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A Response to "Enlightenment?"
These questions, with my responses following, were recently posed on the Tricycle blog: How do we know what enlightenment is precisely if no one we know has reached it? Who is qualified to serve as judge to gauge whether someone is, in fact, enlightened when clearly those left to label someone as such are most [...]
What is Love?
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness – love. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj I heard that quote [...]
My Immunity to Change
I’ve noticed lately that I really haven’t had much to write about it. Part of it I think is because I’ve been quite busy with other projects, but I think the bigger reason is that many of my fundamental assumptions about the way reality works have come into question. I’ve found that it’s kind of [...]
Heavy Hitting Dharma Discussions
I had the great fortune, earlier this month, of spending a long weekend in Alabama visiting with one of my favorite dharma teachers, Daniel Ingram. He invited several dharma buddies to come out and have a weekend of hanging, talking, practicing, and hiking around the woods of northern Alabama. I made some new friends, and [...]
The Semiotics of Enlightenment
The American philosopher and semiotician (one who studies “signs”) Charles Sanders Peirce proposed a helpful model for understanding the way that signs operate. In this case, we’re looking at the signs related to human communication, and more specifically the language related to the communication and interpretation of “enlightenment.” Peirce used a triadic model to explain [...]
Digital Serfs & Cyborg Buddhas
Digital Serfs and Cyborg Buddhas from Jeriaska on Vimeo. Check out this great talk with Professor James Hughes and Professor Mike LaTorra. Both James and Mike have been guests on Buddhist Geeks, and they are also both Transhumanists. Their talk is an interesting mixture of Buddhist and Transhumanist idea, particularly aimed at exploring the future [...]
The Importance of Stream-Entry
“I teach a dharma which is good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end.” – The Buddha I’ve written about the stages of insight leading up to the important spiritual event, which in the Theravada school of Buddhism is called stream-entry. In Zen it might be called kensho and in [...]
