This expression of emptiness is from Thanissaru Bhihkku. Emptiness is a mode of perception, a way of looking at experience. It adds nothing to, and takes nothing away from, the raw data of physical and mental events. You look at events in the mind and the senses with no thought of whether there’s anything lying [...]
Archives for December 2011
Vulnerable Again
I feel that have changed so very much in the last few years. Meditation has helped me to come to know myself better. The vulnerability that I once felt, at times consciously and mostly unconsciously in past years, I still feel. I mistook this vulnerability for a weakness at that time and perceived it to [...]
Slipping and Creeping Away from Truth
I can see clearly these days at times when my way of relating to life creeps away from a grounding that I have managed to establish. The demands of western life can be such that living simply is not valued or even practical it seems by conventional standards. But ultimately western ways can lead us [...]
