There's a quote in Tracts of the Sun about entertainment. On page 135, the book quotes Ngak'chang Rinpoche: The problem with 'entertainment' is that it's seen as a leisure pastime—and consequently needs no work. Real entertainment—of whatever kind—requires serious
Something I've been thinking off and on about is: How can we view mathematics as yet another combination charnel ground and pure land? In theory, mathematics is supposed to be "pure," "rational," unsullied by the fact that it is human minds that invent it,
Me while meditating: Remain uninvolved. Also me while meditating: Hey, how do the six realms and the five skandhas fit together? This is really important. I should figure this out right now. Wait, I was supposed to be remaining uninvolved. Hey, and how do the five elements figure in? Right,
The last two days I was looking for a story I remembered reading about a student and a lama talking. Yesterday I looked for it again, skimming over Tracts of the Sun. I also checked Already Free briefly, but there is no index and it's ~300 pages if
Yesterday and today I've been searching for a story I remember reading. It was in some meditation context, maybe a website or a podcast or a book. It was about a student or translator talking to a lama. Somehow they got talking about something like self-compassion. The lama