We are almost finished so hang on. You’ve done a wonderful job keeping up with all of this though I suspect it might be a bit overwhelming. I think that is an appropriate experience. Being overwhelmed is not always a bad thing or something to be avoided. At this point or perhaps sooner I suspect you may have even experienced a sense of loss, or confusion due to the complexity and quality of information. That…
The sixth item in the teaching on Cessation is very fascinating to me because it takes a real experience, pain, illness, disease, dis-ease and looks at it from thirty-seven steps, or angles and Chih-I specifically states that this can be done “while you are at your pillow [suffering from disease]. Understand that suffering is not suffering, and you will enter the pure and cool pond [of awakening]. It would be difficult or even impossible to…
Stepping away a little from Chih-I I’m going to share with you a little insight I have gained only in the past two days. I returned from a trip to Alabama to visit an important museum and memorial dedicated to the cruelty and injustice that has been inflicted on Africans and blacks in our country. I won’t go into the details as that is material for a different writing. As I have shared…
4. Deconstructing Dharmas In this section and in some previous sections I have used the term dis-ease and in those cases I am speaking about mostly the ramifications of illness that causes us to be not at ease in our present condition. Because there is separate classification of illness for mental illness and physical illness I use dis-ease to speak about the upset in our mental state caused by illnesses of either body or mind. …
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