"This, but ironically" makes sense regardless of context, and it's corrosive to meaning. I don't even have to say it. Just noticing that I could say it, just thinking it to myself, suddenly I'm a little bit detached from experience. Now I&
I don't quite recognize the animal realm as described in Spacious Passion—I recognize what it's about but I'm struggling to come up with exampels from my own life—so here's an attempt to connect it to such things: 1. "This
I'm trying to follow the idea of "proving I exist" from various meditation books I've read—Spectrum of Ecstasy, Spacious Passion, Rays of the Sun, The Myth of Freedom, and the opening chapters of Seeing That Frees. The idea is that we experience attraction,
A quote from Roaring Silence at the beginning of chapter 3 — page 47 in the Kindle edition: Imagination relies on empty perception. Painting relies on empty planes. Sculpture relies on empty space. Music relies on empty time. Literature relies on empty concepts. If we are to realize the art of
There's a quote in Tracts of the Sun about entertainment. The book quotes Ngak'chang Rinpoche (NCR) as saying (page 135): Art should not be entertainment. The problem with 'entertainment' is that it is mainly for sensory dilettantes. I have never listened to a piece