The fruit falls suddenly, but the ripening takes time

Two monks were travelling together and came across a beautiful young woman standing by the side of a puddle.

Eradicating delusive beliefs involves two key steps.

At the evening discourse on a silent meditation retreat, I was introduced to the story of Swimology. A young professor was aboard a ship with an old sailor.

Is happiness the ability to fulfill desires without any obstruction? Is a good life one that is free from impediments? Should we seek to actualize every whim?

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us."

Marshall McLuhan

“People say what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive…so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive”.

My Buddhism and Psychotherapy course was coming to an end, and the Professor left us with one final piece of advice.

Is history a human construct? A conceptual imposition of key notions onto bare reality? Are time and history even separable ideas?

The path of following Dhamma is a full time job. Every moment, you are either moving towards, or away from liberation.

The only access we have to the external world is through our nervous system.

The lived experience of an Arahant is of a fundamentally different nature.

“But it is a general principle that ‘you can’t go home again,’ you can’t really regress, the adult cannot become a child”

The chance to be part of this happens briefly. The invitation is not to show how inventive and imaginative you are…

“My old landlady got rich a couple years ago. Used to be poorer than me.”