Attachment Alert: Clinging to Religion

Blogger, Matthew Yglesias suggests: The map lumps the plains states in with the church belt, but if you look at the data more specifically you’ll see that nine of the ten churchiest states are in the south and the remaining one is Utah.

Q & A: Meditation Techniques

Question: I’ve got a nuts-and-bolts question about meditation.  There are so many varieties:  following the breath, paying attention to whatever arises,  focusing on something particular (like a prayer), Tonglen, etc.  After years of teaching and practice, which...

Q & A: When the Fire of Awakening Burns…

Gotta’ love when the earthquake of Awakening rattles and rolls everything we’ve ever known to be true… Question(s): As I sit, all that comes within my attention, or where I choose to turn my attention, exists because I’ve turned my attention on...

A little bit on kensho…

Over at digitalZENDO, there is an great piece on discussing the elusive experience of insight that Zennists call kensho: Avoiding talking about Kensho, does not make use virtuous or spiritual. Maybe it’s the contrary, it perhaps avoiding a direct conversation...

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