beautiful contradiction

20 July 2018

Every morning I have been reading the Dhammapada because it helps establish a productive framework for the beginning of each day. One thing I really enjoy about the edition I have is that the translation is also accompanied by a preliminary introduction of each section. I really enjoy the commentary of the translator. He often groups modern scientific psychology side by side to Buddhas observations. It has a very modern and elegant style of communicating Buddhas ideas in a very appropriate [...continue reading]

spontaneous waterfall of thoughts

25 June 2018

So this is going to be a long winded post, but I am going to start with what spurred me to write this post. In my previous post I begun with one of the the fundamental tenants of Buddhist rational regarding how it is enduring reality as a human being. The endless grasping that is involved with traditional awareness is the nature of the ego. I am going to refer to the passage I just read this morning from the Dhammapada regarding anger, which provoked my urge to write this. So what it says i [...continue reading]

buddhist urge

24 June 2018

In reading the Dhammapada I have been compelled to express these subsequent thoughts. Firstly my thoughts upon the emotional mechanics of love. Just to preface this entire post, I have already written a great majority of it, yet ironically I did not save it and accidentally closed it all without saving. So this post has already demonstrated to me an important lesson regarding attachment and our potential opportunity for how we may then handle such a misfortune. I will later reuse this fact [...continue reading]

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