Maranasati is the Buddhist word for mindfulness of death. To that end, Buddhists created a series of corpse meditations that involve looking at and contemplating over corpses in various states of decomposition. The effects of meditating thus are supposed to be humbling. One realizes that one’s body is the same as the dead body. We […]
There is an old Zen koan that says, “If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him.” Koans are mini mysteries meant for us to relax into and ponder the deeper meanings of. Eventually, someday, when we’re ready, the riddle will reveal its answer. This whole process is meant to wake us up to greater […]
“All we can do it point at the moon,” he liked to say, paraphrasing the old Buddha wisdom. If the moon is enlightened mind then the pointing to it represents words an enlightened one speaks to indicate it is there. Enlightened mind is the enlightened “thing” to be experienced. The words are just words and […]