Random Dharma

www.fastcoexist.com/3036887/out-of-this-...traveling-into-space

more space-enlightenment anecdotals, this time with DN like symptoms

fun times!

Add to that: "You cannot be a negative person and expect to live a positive life."

Pranic Lift, Shakti Excess

really random dharma-- one lucky dude's encounter

Kate Gowen wrote: really random dharma-- one lucky dude's encounter

Perhaps Sogan Rinpoche ?

Just watched it with my wife, it was great. Thanks Kate!

that song has been in my head all morning...

from a short novel I just read:

"... there were places... I have never been, [but] there was nowhere there that I was lost, because Path was drawn on my feet."

-- Engine Summer, by John Crowley

From David Chapman's twitter feed:

A method only shows you the sort of thing that method shows. Reality is unboundedly weird; dis-covery un-covers new forms of weirdness.


Edit, actually the string of tweets is interesting:

It's true most critical theory papers are blather. But also true most science is mindless p-hacking, little better than chance to be right.
What matters is not hard vs soft science, or analytic vs Continental philosophy. It's whether you care enough to figure out what's going on.
Cargo cult research is how everyone starts. Imitation is the only way, because so much knowledge is tacit; teachers can't spell it out.
Sometimes you can get beyond empty ritual by understanding principles and functions ( approachingaro.org/principles-and-functions …)...
... but often key principles of a field, and the functions of its methods, are ineffable or simply unknown.
Professional mathematicians cannot tell you what mathematics is; math professors who can say anything about how to do it are rare.
There is no substitute for making contact with reality, and ultimately no method for it. In fact, all methods separate you from it.
A method only shows you the sort of thing that method shows. Reality is unboundedly weird; dis-covery un-covers new forms of weirdness.

Indeed it do!

Thought Ona'd like this

cosmologicsmagazine.com/alyssa-metzger-mystical-vegetarian/

Free Kindle Book : The Zen Experience, by Thomas Hoover

(From the Amazon Description)
(New American Library,1980) “The best history of Zen ever written.” Library Journal

Beginning with Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism it shows Zen as it was created by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries. Gradual and sudden enlightenment, shock enlightenment, the koan, the migration of Zen to Japan.

With anecdote and memorable quotation, this long-needed work restores Zen to its living, human form. The truth of Zen has always resided in individual experience rather than in theoretical writings. To give the modern reader access to understanding of this truth, THE ZEN EXPERIENCE illumines Zen as it was created and shaped by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries.

Beginning with the twin roots of Zen in Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism, we follow it through its initial flowering in China under the First Patriarch Bodhidharma; its division into schools of “gradual” and “sudden” enlightenment under Shen-hsui and Shen-hui; the ushering in of its golden age by Hui-neng; the development of “shock” enlightenment by Ma-tsu; its poetic greatness in the person of Han-shan; the perfection of the use of the koan by Ta-hui; the migration of Zen to Japan and its extraordinary growth there under a succession of towering Japanese spiritual leaders.

Rich in historical background, vivid in revealing anecdote and memorable quotation, this long-needed work succeeds admirably in taking Zen from the library shelves and restoring its living, human form.

Imagine if it was just happening all by itself

From a book by Lester Levenson, the creator of the Sedona method:

"Real, divine love...is a constant, persistent acceptance of all beings in the universe, fully, wholly, totally, - as the other beings are, and loving them because they are the way they are. Divine love is wanting and allowing the other one to be the way the other one wants to be. Divine love is seeing and accepting everyone equally..."

I'm feeling this more and more with my girlfriend. Next, the whole universe.

Gary Weber and Rich Doyle are hosting a free webinar series (donations requested to cover technical costs) called Awakening Beyond Thought: An Online Interactive Journey Out of the "Blah, Blah, Blah" of Everyday Life and into the Simple Strength of Stillness (phew!). I participated in the last episode and it was very informative and enjoyable. Gary and Rich answer participants' questions and dialogue about a particular topic if they are moved to. You can sign up here if interested.