I write about karma because it has become a familiar, casual phrase—everyone in Vietnam talks about it, everyone believes they are living in a way that “doesn’t accumulate karma too much.” Yet most people misunderstand it right from the root. … Continue reading KARMA, OH KARMA…!
There are six channels of contact in lived experience: Images enter the eyes Sounds enter the ears Smells enter the nose Flavors enter the mouth Touch—heat, cold, pressure, pain—enters the body Thoughts, memories, images, and emotions enter inwardly SourceCopyright & … Continue reading NATURE OF THINGS – CHAPTER 2 -6 CHANNELS OF CONTACT
Foreword THE NATURE OF THINGS I wrote the NATURE OF THINGS series from a very simple intention: to connect academic understanding with everyday life as it is actually unfolding. I do not believe that insights into reality should lie still on bookshelves, displayed like rare collectibles. They need to appear directly in lived life, in a form that is concise and alive, so that anyone can reach them and see for themselves. This text does only one thing: it helps readers look straight at how life or the mind is operating within their own experience, moment by moment, before what … Continue reading NATURE OF THINGS – CHAPTER 1 – Human Beings and the 5 Aggregates (Pancha-khandha)
There is something I have observed very clearly in the current landscape of spiritual practice and study. The longer I walk this path, the more I see that this is not just a personal matter of a few teachers, but … Continue reading The Illusion of Knowledge and the Door to Realization
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