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“The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing though a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future. Mindfulness helps us freeze the...
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Dependent origination is not a mere theory but a teaching that should be directly known by personal experience, a point clearly made by today's text, which comes from The Kaḷāra Khattiya. This sutta instructs the disciple to understand each factor by way of the four-truth pattern: one should understand the factor itself, its...
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“It’s not by gathering causes that an unconditioned result will be reached; it’s not by looking for freedom that freedom will be found.”—Charles Genoud, Gesture of Awareness
“It’s not by gathering causes that an unconditioned result will be reached; it’s not by looking...
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This week’s theme for The Teachings of the Buddha is “Shining the Light of Wisdom.”—editor's note.
The texts cited in the last chapter treated meditation as a discipline of mental training aimed at a twofold task: stilling the mind and generating insight. The still mind, calm and...
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