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The Art of Dying

A Self-to-No-Self Portrait

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    Dec 13, 2022

    My Code/My Vow

    My Path

    Never Again shall
    My Blue Water Code
    spring Deviational Leaks

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    Jul 4, 2022

    Final Teacher

    And His Name is Burgs

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    May 21, 2022

    Your Path

    Trust the Buddha

    Some while back I planned to write a detailed description of my path including all my…

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    Ulf Wolf
    May 21, 2022

    Teachers

    My Guiding Lights

    While every teacher/guru insists, yes insists, that you need a personal guru or teacher…

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    Feb 26, 2022

    Thanissaro Bhikkhu

    Seventh Teacher

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    Feb 21, 2022

    Spring

    The Hardest Season

    Spring was hard. The hardest. For this late in his life spring brought so many earlier…

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    Feb 21, 2022

    Approaching Death

    Knocking on the Door

    Approaching Death

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    Feb 20, 2022

    Anapanazazen

    India Meets Japan Meets Me

    Anapanazazen

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    Feb 20, 2022

    Zazen

    Just Sitting

    From the “thinky” Tibetan ways to the utterly non-everything Japanese way: Zazen.

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    Feb 20, 2022

    Satipatthana

    Straight Line to Nirvana

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    Feb 20, 2022

    Anapanasati

    Breathing In — Breathing Out

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    Feb 17, 2022

    Western Buddhism

    A Pragmatic Reconciling

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    Feb 17, 2022

    The Dao

    The Way

    I’m including The Dao, or Tao, as part of my path not because I’ve actually practiced it per se, but…

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    Feb 17, 2022

    Vedanta

    Tail End of the Vedas

    Vedanta, which strictly speaking is not Buddhism, but Hinduism — although…

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    Feb 16, 2022

    Yogacara

    The Influential Theory

    Yogacara

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    Feb 16, 2022

    Dzogchen Revisited

    Padmasambhava Brilliance

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    Feb 15, 2022

    Chan

    Zen’s Parent

    Buddhism did not head for Japan directly from India to there become Zen, it arrived via China, where…

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    Feb 14, 2022

    Zen

    Japanese Mahayana

    Who hasn’t heard about Zen, one way or another? And I’m sure we all have our securely…

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    Feb 14, 2022

    Dzogchen

    Another Tibetan Flavor

    As with Vajrayana, as I kept reading what B. Alan Wallace wrote about Tibetan…

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    Feb 14, 2022

    Vajrayana

    A Third Turning?

    Again, by B. Alan Wallace invitation as it were, I could not help but come across…

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    Feb 13, 2022

    Tibetan Buddhism

    A Motley Family

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    Feb 10, 2022

    Mahayana

    The Large Wagon

    When, as a child (or perhaps teenager by then) back home in Sweden, I first heard Buddhism…

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    Feb 9, 2022

    The Pali Canon

    The Buddha’s Historical Teachings

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    Feb 7, 2022

    Theravada

    The Original Buddhism

    Theravada means “The Teaching of the Elders,” or “The School of the Elders.”…

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    Feb 6, 2022

    Buddhism

    My Chosen Path

    When, in the fall of 2007, I read that the first Jhana (a state of meditative absorption as…

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