In order to lead living beings to understanding I taught all the different yanas… —Shakyamuni, the Buddha (Lankavatara Sutra) Sakyamuni Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), the historical Buddha taught su...
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Author: David Paul Boaz
Brief Review of the View Exoteric/Outer, Waking State, Gross Body: Dualistic, indirect, relative-conventional truth, concept-belief; empirical subject-object knowledge (doxa, namtok, opinion, informat...
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There are many, many ways for the teaching to arise. —Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Thus it is, the ostensibly incommensurable paradigms of Science (form) and Spirit/Spirituality (emptiness/boundlessnes...
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Hi Bill, Your question is a good one. As to Dzogchen and Advaita Vedanta: it seems to me that these two great soteriologies are, broadly construed, the same in their compassionate Conduct of the Path,...
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To be or not to be. “In the moment of love, the nature of emptiness dawns nakedly” (Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche). Concerning our human conduct and its relation to happiness, Plato told, “No small matt...
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Meditators and non-meditators alike have a pronounced egoic resistance to the growth changes induced through meditation. However, once the practice begins and stabilizes under the guidance of a master...
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We are happy when we can bring others to happiness. —Guy Newland The theories of physics, if not the laws of nature, change from time to time. In micro physics and in cosmology they are relative, co...
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What does it matter what poetry is? All that matters is the eternal movement behind it. -Dylan Thomas What is this eternal movement? What is the nature or essence of mind who is aware of it? Who is it...
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Integrating Science and Spirit. In the 2nd century CE two great scholar-masters, Nagarjuna in the East and Plotinus in the West, began the Non-Dual Revolution in our Great Wisdom Tradition that is onl...
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Science and its scientists must make conscious their a priori preconscious metaphysical presuppositions, value assumptions and beliefs underlying modern scientific ideology and methodology. These “i...
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The perennial dilemma for religion, science and culture is the resolution of this duality, our relationship of the finite—our view and actions in the relative material world and the result of these ...
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Stephen Hawking’s metaphysical dread is troublesome. His new “Model-Dependent Realism” is necessarily a metaphysical ontology as to the nature of the reality that this “realism” presumes to ...
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Dōgen-Zenji, Japan’s greatest zen master, founder of the Soto School, called this unbidden, but not unwelcome relative-conventional arising of the forms of physical and mental reality “a being-...
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Our great human Primordial Wisdom Tradition (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Shamanism) teaches that practical, goal directed, exoteric and esoteric contemplative/meditati...
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Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), considered by many in the philosophy trade to be the most important American philosopher of the 20th century, authored two monumental essays—“Two Dogmas of E...
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The third great scientific revolution, the Quantum Revolution, is now complete, if not entirely historically resolved. From it is emerging post-quantum, post-Standard Model Quantum Gravity theory. The...
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We are told that in the Dzogchen tantras, unlike the gradualist “causal path” of the sutras, Buddhahood does not have a cause. We cannot attain it through our armamentarium of seeking strategies: ...
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Do you understand the two minds: the mind which includes everything, and the mind that is related to something? —Suzuki Roshi There have been three great revolutions in the knowledge dialectic of We...
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There are many, many ways for the teaching to arise. —Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Who is it, this primordial awareness being in human form? Being (Ontos, Sein, Bhava) is the alpha and omega of meaning in...
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The trouble with most poetry is that it is either objective or subjective. —Basho Has Postmodernity devoured itself? In the Postmodernism of Nietzsche, Bohr and the Quantum Theory, the Deconstructio...
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