September 2009
1 post
Practice
Set yourself at ease, and then notice whatever takes you away from that.
August 2009
1 post
“Learn how to change how you see, not how you feel. As the Buddhist view has...”
– Mark Epstein, from “Shattering the Ridgepole,” Tricycle, Spring 1995
March 2009
1 post
Iphone entry
I wonder if iPhone entry will have me using tumblr again
February 2008
10 posts
“There is more to life than increasing it’s speed”
– Gandhi
January 2008
5 posts
The path to the cessation of suffering.
There is a path to the end of suffering - a gradual path of self-improvement, which is described more detailed in the Eightfold Path. It is the middle way between the two extremes of excessive self-indulgence (hedonism) and excessive self-mortification (asceticism); and it leads to the end of the cycle of rebirth. The latter quality discerns it from other paths which are merely “wandering on...
The cessation of suffering is attainable.
The cessation of suffering can be attained through nirodha. Nirodha means the unmaking of sensual craving and conceptual attachment. The third noble truth expresses the idea that suffering can be ended by attaining dispassion. Nirodha extinguishes all forms of clinging and attachment. This means that suffering can be overcome through human activity, simply by removing the cause of suffering....
June 2007
3 posts
The origin of suffering is attachment.
The origin of suffering is attachment to transient things and the ignorance thereof. Transient things do not only include the physical objects that surround us, but also ideas, and -in a greater sense- all objects of our perception. Ignorance is the lack of understanding of how our mind is attached to impermanent things. The reasons for suffering are desire, passion, ardour, pursue of wealth and...
Life means suffering.
To live means to suffer, because the human nature is not perfect and neither is the world we live in. During our lifetime, we inevitably have to endure physical suffering such as pain, sickness, injury, tiredness, old age, and eventually death; and we have to endure psychological suffering like sadness, fear, frustration, disappointment, and depression. Although there are different degrees of...
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi