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David Paul Boaz

Category: Religious Studies

Religious Studies

To Be or Not to Be: Dōgen’s Being-Time

07/23/201310/17/2016
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-... Read More
Religious Studies

Showing Up: Reality Is a Choice

07/18/201310/17/2016
Our great human Primordial Wisdom Tradition (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Shamanism) teaches that practical, goal directed, exoteric and esoteric contemplative/‌meditati... Read More
Religious Studies

New Heresy: Planting the Seed of Freedom

07/08/201310/17/2016
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: ... Read More
Consciousness Studies • Religious Studies

The Two Truths: Our Two Ways of Being Here

04/08/201309/21/2017
Let us briefly review our primordial wisdom tradition’s notion of the Two Truths and its connection to consciousness, and to consciousness studies. For the Buddhist Madhyamikas, relative truth (samv... Read More
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