When Students Speak…

The Infinite Smile Sangha has been known for bucking tradition rather significantly. Nothing against tradition, it’s just the way the organization has evolved. But there are some aspects of tradition that still find their way into our work. The Shuso Ceremony is...

Dalai Lama: Being Smart Does Not Make You Happy

Michael Paulson and James F. Smith of the The Boston Globe report on the Dalai Lama’s visit to Cambridge: After the Dalai Lama slipped off his shoes, crammed his crossed legs into a too-narrow chair, and unceremoniously blew his nose, the world’s most...

Redux: In Mind

I wrote about this in Chapter 4 of AiTL. Here’s another look. Past and future veil God from our sight. Burn both of them with fire. —Rumi What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. —Ludwig Von Wittgenstein The only...

Free of Time

Buddhaspace offers us a great quote from Master Xu Yun in today’s post: Step outside of time just once, and all the years you spent in ignorance and suffering recede into vagueness. They’re only something you seem to remember. Your old small self is gone and all...

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