Dharma Reflections

What the Diamond Sutra, the world’s oldest printed book, has to say on views….

I read this week that restoration work takes place at the British Library in London on  the world’s oldest printed book –  a much love Buddhist text called the Diamond Sutra dating back to 868 AD. (Sutra is the Sanskrit for discourse).

Many Westerners believe the Gutenberg’s Bible from around 1450 AD as the world’s oldest printed book. A copy of the Diamond Sutra printed 600 years earlier remained hidden in Buddhist monk’s cave in Dun Huang , Gansu Province, China for many centuries. …

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You may have to go through hell to enter heaven

A crisis leaves the heart-mind enduring painful impressions that can still get touched upon when having to deal with a very negative situation years later. This indicates there is still some inner vulnerability when having to face another negative in its various expressions. …

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12 Expressions of Full Awakening

There are various spiritual ideologies reducing awakening to a handful of slogans that make little sense except to gurus and their followers.  These slogans include Being in the Now, Oneness, Finding your True Self  or there is No Self, There is nothing to be done, I am That, I am Radiant Awareness, I am Consciousness. There is only Wholenes, Everything is Perfect,  You create your own realiity and more. Our gurus tell us if we had realised such claims, then we would say the same.

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Is the Western ideology of “choice” a foolish myth?

Western society believes doggedly in freedom of choice thus making it hard to question mental constructs around ‘choices.’ There is a strong view that everybody has free will producing a resistance to the possibility that situations and events occur regardless of ‘choice.’ …

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