by Infinite Smile | Oct 22, 2009 | Blog
Gotta’ love when the earthquake of Awakening rattles and rolls everything we’ve ever known to be true… Question(s): As I sit, all that comes within my attention, or where I choose to turn my attention, exists because I’ve turned my attention on...
by Infinite Smile | Oct 13, 2009 | Blog
I got an email recently that was pretty cool. In it the anonymous writer rather pointedly suggested that I was wrong to suggest that Alan Chapman’s self-professed “full” enlightenment, documented over at his site, Open Enlightenment, was at best an...
by Infinite Smile | Aug 12, 2009 | Blog
I have a lot of respect for Adyashanti and his approach to teaching. He’s genuine, honest, and has the capacity to creatively turn up the heat on his students. Here’s an excerpt from an interview that Tami Simon did: I no longer believe the next thought...
by Infinite Smile | Jun 30, 2009 | Blog
Ross Robertson of EnlightenNext has a nice piece on an interesting pioneer: Jun Po Roshidharma heir of Rinzai Zen Master Eido Shimano Roshi, founder of a lay Buddhist order called Hollow Bones, and originator of a modern form of Rinzai known as Mondo Zencame to...
by Infinite Smile | May 13, 2009 | Blog
In my experience it is a mistake to equate one’s spiritual path with the pursuit of happiness, as it were. Climbing the mountain of spirit is about becoming increasingly conscious rather than resting in eternal bliss. Mark Vernon writes about this topic in...