Transition

Clear Lake duskWhen I sit, I start out having to relax and calm down, to let go of my mind, and hopefully to find my impermanence and some equanimity toward a little bit of pain around the edges.   If I do drop into where I am now, I experience movement in the location of self-awareness, but I can double-down on “free to ...  read more

Like an Eagle Sleeping in its Nest

In Dzogchen (a Tibetan school of Buddhism), the ground or base is the primordial state. … Knowledge of this ground is called rigpa.

(Wikipedia, “Ground [Dzogchen]”)

“Dao Bums” member Bindi said:

Dzogchen texts… describe how rigpa is connected to the energy body. Dzogchen tantras explain ...  read more

Dual, Non-Dual–Comments on “The Dao Bums”

Konocti deep sunsetA friend of mine wrote to say that the things I said in brief in my last post could have used expansion, that I was in fact too brief.

That post was a comment I made on the forum site “The Dao Bums”, on a thread entitled “Differences between dualism and non-dualism”.  What exactly is represented by “dualism” and “non-dualism” ...  read more