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Dana

I was a very small child when my curiosity about self started. I found my inner voice fascinating, how I could visualize scenes in my mind, all the while looking out into the world, seeing outside and inside almost simultaneously. Read the rest of this entry »

While I was driving home the other day, I saw a bumper sticker on the car in front of me that said, “My God is the RIGHT God!”

Holy righteousness, Batman, can this be true? Well then, my imaginary friend is smarter than yours! Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most useful skills you can get out of meditation is the ability to see and experience objectively how you label patterns of thinking. Soon you realize you have a lot of incorrect labeling in your speech for your views, and you notice it in others. You also start to catch lazy thinking, especially regarding what we know versus what we accept, versus what we believe. Read the rest of this entry »

Cannon

One of the teachings in Buddhism that used to leave me scratching my head was that labels are concepts that limit us. What?

As I got deeper into my studies and mindfulness practice, understanding began to emerge through continuous interaction with my dog Cannon. He was really not the one who I expected would clarify this matter for me, but he has. Read the rest of this entry »

Me as Arlyn Pleides

Lately in my practice, I have been mindful of the many roles I play in life, and how conceptual they are. I see where I have identified through them, and how this has lead to my own suffering, how easy it is to take them as solid and real. Read the rest of this entry »

From the Dhammapada:

When a person lives heedlessly,
his craving grows like a creeping vine.
He runs now here
	& now  there,
as if looking for fruit:
	a monkey in the forest. Read the rest of this entry »

When the Buddha spoke of not-self, he literally meant that we create what appears to be self but really is not self at all. We do this selfing in a variety of ways, and then we create identity for ourselves and call it me. Read the rest of this entry »

2008 was full of surprises! Many of those events or situations were not exactly welcome or wished for and some were. And in all of that was a lot of learning and growth, and thankfully I made some interesting discoveries: Read the rest of this entry »

One of the things I’ve been focusing on in the last year is examining and breaking down the beliefs I held. A belief is simply an idea that we are clinging to with fervor. Just because you believe something doesn’t mean it’s true. We often believe things that we later discover are untrue, but even worse we often hold to beliefs even when the truth is staring us down! Read the rest of this entry »