Posts Tagged ‘illusion’

The truth is immediately visible

Monday, June 20th, 2011

This is taken from the Anguttara Nikâya

“It is said, Master Gotama, ‘The Dhamma is directly visible.’ In what way, Master Gotama, is the Dhamma directly visible, immediate, inviting one to come and see, worthy of application, to be personally experienced by the wise?”
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Giving rise to bliss

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

I have been intending to write about right view, but other things keep popping up. In a way this post is about right view, but I think it’s maybe a bit different from focusing on delusion. Instead it’s about focusing on suffering.

Personally, when I look back over the course of my life and I look at the suffering I have caused myself and caused others, I am not proud. Indeed I am humbled by it. I think a lot of time we ignore the suffering we are causing – both to ourselves and to others. Afterall, it is uncomfortable to think about it, especially when we like to think of ourselves as good people. (more…)

Thought

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Relationship to thought has fundamentally changed. Thought is like a web that vanishes for a moment or longer. Thought and desire and body are all similar. Sometimes useful, sometimes just stuff, they emerge perhaps from the same space. What is here other than being here? (more…)