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Quote of the Week | The Perfection of Wisdom

November 23, 2012

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The Office of His Holiness

November 23, 2012

THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM

How things appear and how they actually exist differ greatly. A person engaging in practice of the perfection of wisdom does this kind of analysis and then examines how things appear in ordinary experience, alternating analysis and comparison with the usual mode of appearance in order to notice the discrepancy between the actual mode of subsistence of phenomena and their appearance.

In this way the inherent existence which is the object of negation will become clearer and clearer. As much as the object of negation becomes clearer, so much deeper will your understanding of emptiness become. Finally, you will ascertain a mere vacuity that is a negative of inherent existence.

EXCERPTED FROM

Kindness, Clarity, and Insight,
page 53.

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Video of the Week: You Are Not Your Body

November 23, 2012

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Video of the Week

Nov 23, 2012

You Are Not Your Body

We often define ourselves by things that are “outside” us: relationships, work, family – even our own bodies. But what would it mean to have your life dramatically altered and your body irrevocably damaged? Who would you be then? In this TEDx talk, walking paraplegic Janine Shepherd, explores the impact of loss on the human psyche and the universal quest to find meaning and fulfillment. It is only through the process of losing everything we thought we needed that we find who we truly are.

Remembering What We Have Forgotten

November 23, 2012

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November 23, 2012

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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value. The rapture that is associated with being alive is what it is all about.

– Joseph Campbell –

Remembering What We Have Forgotten

Discovering the writings of Peter Kingsley (In the Dark Places of Wisdom, Reality and now A Story Waiting to Pierce You) reminded me of what a mystery it is to be alive. One is always forgetting this, especially in this era of science’s stupendous discoveries and the astonishing advance of techonology. It’s as if we have the power to figure everything out. Does this confidence in our knowledge stand in the way of feeling something that’s even deeper and more true? Listening to Peter Kingsley is like a wake-up call. { read more }