“Something Perfect in Itself”

On a website devoted to discussions of the early Buddhist texts, I found a passage and a comment:

Bāhuna, the Realized One has escaped from ten things, so that he lives unattached, liberated, his mind free of limits. What ten? Form … feeling … perception … choices … consciousness … rebirth ...  read more

“A Way with Words”

My friend Linda Toren has a radio show on station KQBM out of West Point, California, called “A Way With Words”. Here’s the way she introduced her show for Wednesday, May 13th:

Welcome to “A Way with Words”, a program dedicated to poetry, prose, literature, nonfiction, lyrics and the celebration of thoughts ...  read more

Debate, from “The Dao Bums”

ST:  Do you have a fear of death when your mind is still?

MF:  My mind does not “still” per se. I arrive at a rhythm:

1) Relax the activity of the body, in inhalation and exhalation;

2) Find a feeling of ease and calm the senses connected with balance, in inhalation and exhalation;

3) Appreciate and detach ...  read more