The hardest thing in the world is trusting that intention precedes effort. Living at the level of intention is the immortal version of life-and-death.
The moral coward lets fear stop him from doing what he knows to be right. The karmic coward lives in chronic denial of cause and effect.
Do not let yourself be tyrannized by idiots.
Cave of demons (Zen): Stable Causal or awakened vantage point, high degree of persistent subtle dullness. The vantage point has occurred and been stabilised. Because it is stable, the cultivation of freshness/simplicity has been dropped, as it no longer seems essential. As a result of dropping the cultivation of the natural state, the dullness reappears […]
No one can steal this pre-attentional diamond.
Standalone pith instruction: right view is totally scale invariant.
Let satori be defined as the full experience of gratitude for having been.
View: volitionally adopted attentional template for sensory processing.
“Great doubt, great faith and great determination” is Zen’s pith instructions for opening up the trikaya. Great = refined; completely experienced. So: refined doubt, refined faith and refined determination. Or: completely experienced doubt, completely experienced faith and completely experienced determination. Doubt reduces to suffering, faith reduces to knowing and determination reduces to intention. The greater […]
The Phenomenology of Spirit is just an extended series of pointing out instructions.
BEATING THE POISONED DRUM 