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Buddha Nature

Awakening Interview: Prof. Giulio Cesare Giacobbe

How To Become A Buddha In 5 Weeks
Today, I spoke to Prof. Giulio Cesare Giacobbe, who is author of How to Become a Buddha in 5 Weeks: The Simple Way to Self-Realization.  In this interview, Prof. Giacobbe talks about the Buddha, how the Buddha’s teachings have been hidden in mysticism, that the Buddha was a [...]

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Openess & Insight

“If we imagine that our mind is like the blue sky,
and that across it pass thoughts as clouds,
we can get a feel for that part of it which is other than our thoughts.
The sky is always present;
it contains the clouds and yet is not contained by them.
So with our awareness.
It is present and encompasses all [...]

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Heaven On Earth

To Renounce or Not Renounce

That was the question posed to the great Ramana Maharshi…
Ramana Maharshi – The life of action need not be Renounced
Question : The yogis say that one must renounce this world and go off into secluded jungles if one wishes to find the truth.
Ramana Maharshi: The life of action need not [...]

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The Heart Sutra Prajnaparamita

The Heart Sutra

Prajnaparamita The Heart Sutra
Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, meditating deeply on Perfection of Wisdom, saw clearly that the five aspects of human existence are empty*, and so released himself from suffering.  Answering the monk Sariputra, he said this:
Body is nothing more than emptiness,
emptiness is nothing more than body.
The body is exactly empty,
and emptiness [...]

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Pissed Off With The Buddha

Being Pissed Off With The Buddha
One day Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him. “You have no right teaching others,” he shouted. “You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake.”
Buddha was not upset by these insults. Instead [...]

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Zen Stories

The Two Words A Zen Story
There once was a monastery that was very strict. Following a vow of silence, no one was allowed to speak at all. But there was one exception to this rule. Every ten years, the monks were permitted to speak just two words.
After spending his first ten years at the monastery, [...]

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The Present Moment

Unlocking the Magnificence of the Present Moment

“Life can be found
only in the present moment.
The past is gone,
the future is not yet here,
and if we do not go back
to ourselves
in the present moment,
we cannot
be in touch
with life.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

Do you want to know a secret? One that can turn your life into something magical? Something that [...]

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Loving Kindness

The Discourse on Loving Kindness by Buddha

This is what should be done by one who is skilled in goodness and who knows the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright,
Straightforward and gentle in speech,
Humble and not conceited,
Contented and easily satisfied,
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful,
Not proud [...]

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Wisdom & Philosophy

Diving Deep Into Wisdom & Philosophy

“Philosophy, the very word, means love for wisdom, and they have nothing to do with wisdom at all.Wisdom happens only through meditation; it never happens by collecting information. It happens by going through a transformation.
 
Wisdom is the flowering of your consciousness, the opening of the one-thousand-petaled lotus of your [...]

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Zen Stories – Concentration

Zen Stories

Concentration
After winning several archery contests, the young and rather boastful champion challenged a Zen master who was renowned for his skill as an archer. The young man demonstrated remarkable technical proficiency when he hit a distant bull’s eye on his first try, and then split that arrow with his second shot. “There,” he said [...]

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