Our Noetic Wisdom Imperative Our titular concern: with the quantum nonlocal collapse of hitherto objective spacetime ‘local reality’, what remains of this our beautif...
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Category: Religious Studies
Light from The County Jail Notes from Students of David Paul Boaz Dear Dr. Boaz, “Your lecture The Good News About Suicidal Ideation literally saved my life. I know now that God has given...
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An adequate cosmology will be written only when an adequate philosophy of mind has appeared. —E.A. Burtt Disquieting Quiescence: Tales From the Dark Side. For recent quantum cosmology...
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What Is Human Happiness? What is Buddhist Emptiness? Without past, present, future; empty awake mind. The Crux of the Matter. Buddhist Middle Way View teaches of the “Two Tr...
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Buddhist Basics: Being Happy Now David Paul Boaz Form and Emptiness: The Fundamental Two Truths. In Buddhist Middle Way these Two Truths are: Ultimate Truth (paramart...
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You will not find happiness until you stop seeking it. —Chuang Tzu What you seek is already present. —Jesus of Nazareth The nature of mind is Buddha from the beginning… Realizing the purity ...
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We all take refuge in something. Too often such refuge is hedonic and materialistic. The engaged Buddhist practitioner takes refuge in something far more powerful. The Buddhist three refuge sources ar...
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We all take refuge in something. Too often this refuge is hedonic and materialistic. The engaged Christian spiritual practitioner takes refuge in something far more powerful. There are three refuge so...
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The Two Truths are Dōgen’s Being-Time Dōgen Zenji, Japan’s greatest Zen master, spoke of the emerging dimension of relative time and its phenomenal contents—the spacetime dimension of ...
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On Knowing What There Is: Buddhist Emptiness The question of ontology is not whether things exist. Of course things exist! The proper ontic question is, how (not why) do things exist? “Everyt...
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The emptiness of mind is not a state of mind; it is our original mind that includes everything within itself….the nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness. —Suzuki Roshi Relat...
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Who is it that shines through the mind and abides at the heart of all beings, always liberated and fully awake? —David Paul Boaz As to paradigmatic unification of Science and Spirit, “All dharmas...
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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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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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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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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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