This practice is really about deeper and deeper love. That’s what my teacher Doug says. It’s true, I know, but there are so many walls up still. It’s quite difficult to plow straight into the heart. And it’s much easier to just keep it all nice and intellectual, even in the practice itself — to [...]
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Opening to vulnerability
Posted by sharanam on February 3, 2011
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/opening-to-vulnerability/
This is my charnel ground
Now when a man is truly wise, His constant task will surely be, This recollection about death, Blessed with such mighty potency.¹ from the Visudimagga “[W]hen one is actually dying it is a bit late to begin thinking seriously about death. We should familiarize ourselves with the thought long before we hope it will happen! [...]
Posted by sharanam on September 26, 2010
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/this-is-my-charnel-ground/
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