There comes the strangest moment in your life,when everything you thought before breaks free--what you relied upon, as ground-rule and as ritelooks upside down from how it used to be.
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The Seven Factors of Awakening
What are the seven factors of awakening? Note that this Buddhist approach focuses on the positive rather than on the negative (the hindrances). Mindfulness. To maintain awareness of reality, in particular the teachings. Investigation of the nature of reality. (nothing is permanent, and all thoughts and feelings should be viewed as passing phenomena.) Energy also … Continue reading The Seven Factors of Awakening
6 Paramitas: Guide to Living
The Six Paramitas are an important guide to living life, as a disciple of Buddhism. Here are some graphics to help understand them simply... These six paramitas are considered essential qualities to cultivate on one’s path to enlightenment, acting as a roadmap for a meaningful and purposeful life. Practitioners develop these virtues by consciously integrating … Continue reading 6 Paramitas: Guide to Living
Insightful Quotes from Q’uo
…You are exploring who you are and why you are here…These are not questions you can finish answering within the confines of your present incarnation. The changes, the transformations, will continue. Certainly not relentlessly, moment by moment, but cyclically, so that there will be seasons of starting new seeds, seasons of fertilizing them and growing … Continue reading Insightful Quotes from Q’uo
The Story of the Buddha in Ten Minutes
This ten-minute animation of Buddha's life and how he became enlightened and how he lived after he became enlightened is enjoyable to watch. The quest to understand why human's have to endure suffering seems to drive many of us on our spiritual quest as well as a knowing that there is more to existence than … Continue reading The Story of the Buddha in Ten Minutes
Emptiness Practice in Tibetan Buddhism
Finding out that you are pure awareness, an egoless presence is a practice that is tricky but important if you are to take life less seriously. Since suffering is caused by our imagining that things are real, and worth forming intense emotions and opinions about, which is driven by ego, it is worth dissecting. Tibetan … Continue reading Emptiness Practice in Tibetan Buddhism
The Highest Level Of Human Consciousness Evolution
In the book, "God Speaks: The Theme of Creation and It's Purpose", Meher Baba lays out the seven stages of human consciousness evolution. These two quotes from the book describe the highest, or seventh stage. This stage is referred to elsewhere in a variety of spiritual writings as realization, Buddhahood, enlightenment, or nondualism, to name … Continue reading The Highest Level Of Human Consciousness Evolution
One Seeker's Story 