Category: Buddhist
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Have I seen it?
I gave myself a name,I gathered all my days,Memories became my shelter,And I called that shelter me. I held on to experience,To everything I’d known,Thought kept building little housesSo it wouldn’t stand alone. [Pre-Chorus] Always moving, always seeking,Something certain, something still.But can thought ever find securityIn the stories that it builds? [Chorus] Have I seen…
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I Feel Frustrated Because I Am Dissatisfied
“I’m frustrated,” I announced. Three men looked at me. This was already becoming uncomfortable. The Buddha sat quietly. Patanjali looked as though he had been expecting this problem for approximately two thousand years. Krishnamurti looked at me with the expression of someone who was about to question the question. “I’m dissatisfied because I’m not doing…
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Perfection
On a bright Saturday morning in May, I wanted to write a short story about a cat and a duck. A quiet, odd combination indeed, but it just so happens to be an image from a jazz music video I was listening to that morning. I want to write about this scene on my screen…
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Contradiction
Have you ever wanted two completely opposite things at the same time — and both felt completely true? I want to be productive. But I also desperately want peace. I want to make money. But I honestly don’t know how yet — and sitting with that not-knowing is uncomfortable. I want to be loving, caring,…
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Koan – on name
In your mind Name a person who you hold dear. Think of all the emotions, feelings, behaviors, memories and how the person makes you feel, their face, their voice, a specific memory, how your body feels when thinking of them Now convert this name to a jumbled 16-character name. Store all the things associated with…
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Meditate on this
Meditate on the word “Blue Sky” Notice the stories that the mind spins up. Can the mind accept any other color for sky than blue? Remove the word blue from “Blue sky”. Notice what the mind comes up with for just “Sky”. Does it want to color it a specific color because we don’t know…
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The Thirst That Doesn’t Know It’s Thirsty
On Tanha — Craving — and the Spoke of the Wheel I First Saw Turning “With feeling as a condition, there is the arising of craving.” — The Buddha, Paticcasamuppada I Noticed Something It didn’t arrive with fanfare. There was no dramatic crisis, no obvious object of desire. Just a quiet, persistent pull — a…
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Tired of Your Brain’s Endless Spin Cycle? Meet Papañca!
Ever feel like your brain has a mind of its own? Like there’s a tiny, overly enthusiastic narrator in your head, constantly adding commentary, side stories, and dramatic interpretations to everything? You see a bird, and suddenly you’re thinking about migration patterns, that one documentary you watched, your grandma’s pet canary, and whether you should…
