I was just talking with my friend Lydia about meditation, the “point” of meditation, and related a couple metaphors I’ve found useful in my thinking, and thought, hey, they’d make a decent post. My understanding of these is very much incomplete, and is a process, and these are just metaphors I’ve come up with on [...]
Archive for January, 2010
No-Self, Karma, and Reincarnation
Posted in Uncategorized on January 9, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A Bigger Container
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2010 | 11 Comments »
I’ve recently had the opportunity to sit with some challenging emotions, and I’m reminded of back when I was first learning about Buddhism, and I heard a teacher say that the state of “wounded pride,” when we feel unfairly victimized, is very beneficial to sit with. At the time, it seemed insane to me, masochistic. Vulnerability [...]
