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Buddha
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Discourse on the Absolute Truth

December 14, 2021December 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

According to Buddhist teaching, clinging to views is an empty and futile way of interfacing with the world.

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, dogmatism, Elephant, Freedom, ideology, Sutras, sutta, truth, views, WisdomLeave a comment
All About Love

The Curse

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CHRIS JANSEN - The default state of all intelligent human beings is confusion. And what if ‘living your truth’ is just flinging yourself into another delusion?

Tagged confusion, delusion, sex, short story, therapy, truth1 Comment
Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson – I Died for Beauty, But Was Scarce…

October 23, 2021October 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Emily Dickinson's allegorical reflection on the relationship between beauty and truth.

Tagged allegory, beauty, Death, kinship, Poetry, truth1 Comment
Way-Seeking Mind

My Backspaces

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CHARLENE MOSKAL As I age I find I can no longer enter certain rooms. I see backspaces inhabited by specters of a world fading into my past.

Tagged age, Awakening, choice, memory, reflection, truth, WisdomLeave a comment
Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Rich – The Corpse-Plant

August 18, 2021August 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

The corpse-plant's soft and scaly appearance and its drooping head give it a ghostly, deathly air in Adrienne Rich's poem.

Tagged Death, fungus, indian pipe, nature, plant, Poetry, sun, truth, white, winterLeave a comment
Daniel Simpson
Book Bits

Self-Realization – Brahman and the Absolute

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Daniel Simpson addresses the Atman or Brahman, the 'infinite, unchanging and formless unity from which life evolved and to which it returns.'

Tagged atman, Brahman, Hindu philosophy, Hinduism, The Upanishads, truth, Unity, yogaLeave a comment
Boshan
Book Bits, Chinese Texts

Boshan and Fostering Great Doubt

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Vanessa Able

Doubt is a key incentive of the spiritual journey, and, as per the old adage 'Great doubt, great awakening', it is foundational to the enquiry of Zen.

Tagged Chinese Zen, doubt, faith, intellect, Meditation, supression, truthLeave a comment
Shunryu Suzuki
Book Bits

Shunryu Suzuki’s Waterfall – On Separation and Death

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Vanessa Able

When a human life comes into being, a unique form comes together, like a drop of water when it is separated from the wholeness of the river as it hits a rock or falls down a waterfall.

Tagged big mind, Emptiness, essence, feeling, life-and-death, Mind, Nirvana, oneness, realization, separation, truth, Waterfall, wholeness4 Comments
Mark Twain
Book Bits

“You Can’t Pray a Lie” – Mark Twain’s Huck Finn

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn suggests that evil is not something manifested by wicked people, rather it perpetuates with the conventions that we absorb from childhood.

Tagged controversy, morality, race, religion, slavery, truth1 Comment
Joan Halifax
Book Bits

The Path That Leads Into the Mountains

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Vanessa Able

In 1993, Zen teacher Joan Halifax published a book called The Fruitful Darkness based on her anthropological engagements with Tibetan Buddhists, Mexican shamans, Native American elders and other tribal communities.

Tagged change, Darkness, energy, geography, healing, inquiry, journeys, mountains, Peaks, pilgrimage, refuge, spirit, summit, Travel, truth, Zen1 Comment

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