Oftentimes we think of our consciousness as continuous. Gautama the Buddha said that in fact, consciousness only takes place as the result of contact between a sense organ and sense object, and has no real continuity. I would say that Gautama’s explanation probably had a lot to due with his experience of proprioception (consciousness generated ...
From the Start
The other day I wrote about how Alzheimer patients die when they forget how to breathe, and how my experience seems to lead me to remember how to breathe as I never have before.
Speaking with friends, I thought of something I had read: a mother’s recollection of her daughter’s birth, and of the eerie silence that continued for a full ...
The Circle of the Way
Continuous practice is the circle of the way. This being so, continuous practice is unstained, not forced by you or others. The power of continuous practice confirms you as well as others. It means your practice affects the entire earth and the entire sky in the ten directions. Although not noticed by others or by yourself, it is so.
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