Sounds strange doesn’t it, to think of love as dispassionate? Don’t most of us think that it is the passion and powerful feelings that comprise what we refer to as love? The definition of dispassionate is – free from or…
Dispassionate love
Tag: anatta
Mind the body, mind the breath
In Vipassana meditation, we are taught to focus on our breath and observe the mind. But I am beginning to see that there is so much more to this practice than first meets the eye. At the onset, we are…
Judgements and presumptions
How many times a day do you think most of us make judgements and presumptions about people, places or things? Once a day, ten times, a hundred times a day? I think perhaps we may do this thousands of times…
The understanding of no self
Thanks in no small part to a wonderful dhamma talk recently given by Bhante Sankichcha of the Great Lakes Buddhist Vihara, I finally feel as though I have an understanding of anatta (no self). Strangely, as much as I’ve studied…
Too much meditation
So many articles, books and blog posts are constantly talking about meditation. And perhaps some of you feel like this is beating the subject into the ground. Why not cut-to-the-chase and talk about the realities and answers to dealing with…