https://youtu.be/XKu_JgTktzs. (Meditate on my talk) There are three ways of meditating or knowing in my experience. First, there is concentration, or focusing the mind on a single object, like breath or mantra. It’s my understanding that this is the first stage of meditation where one must still the monkey mind’s…

https://youtu.be/hJ0MLbZSHbg. (My talk will crash your towers.) When Buddha proclaims in his essential teaching, the Four Noble Truths that was the thread that held the quilt of his teaching together, that Life is Suffering….Most would say: Hey…I’m not suffering…Oh, I’ve had some upsets, but generally, life is OK, a mix…

ZEN IS ABSURD https://youtu.be/oacWEMZg8Uc (My talk is absurd) Life is desire, and to aspire to annihilate desire is absurd. Can you all see that?. Zen Buddism is looking directly at the truth, which means not through sutra, sculptures, science, or any other cultural filter. One looks directly at one’s own…

WAVE OR PARTICLE? In Quantum the photon is both wave and particle, and it’s your perception that determines which the photon is. This is a metaphorical way of thinking about our life: are we a noun or a verb? A thing is a location in time, while a wave has…

https://youtu.be/aP92B55kaU0 (My talk is hot, hot…) If we can understand Trump, we can understand America. If we can understand Armerica, we can understand ourselves. America and Trump are different, but they cannot be separated. America and you are different, but they cannot be separated. …

THE WOUND OF THE ONE The One is Two, yet this is impossible. The One is One… The One is two ones. Impossible, yet there it is. The one One is the whole or totality, the other One is the simple one. The whole is the One and every object…

To be devoured or not to be devoured https://youtu.be/PYqZc7rsVMY (My talk is a bigger boat) In my HS class of 1968, I was teaching young baby boomers as they made their first Yelp of life, spanked into awakening by the shocks of the decade. We don’t appreciate it, and few…

https://youtu.be/99U7na4KSgQ (You will laugh at my video) We are looking to see why we laugh at L&H even though we have seen the same movie over and over. What is embedded in this comedy, or, for that matter, any show that we laugh at no matter how many times we…

THE VOW TO END ALL VOWS The first Bodhisattva Vow is: All sentient beings I vow to liberate. This, of course, is ironic teaching, Catch 22 teaching where yes is no and now is yes…. The vow is a shift from third person noun thinking to first person I AM…