(ECHOES OF LOST KNOWLEDGE) Bodhidharma: "Awakening" means seeing through illusions (cleansing the heart/mind of the Three Poisons) | First Zen Patriarch from India
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Showing posts with label observer. Show all posts
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Mind changes when we try to observe it
- Mindfulness as sati (noticing, observing, bare awareness)
- Satipatthana: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (body, feelings, mind, mind-objects)
- Satipatthana Sutta: Discourse on the Fourfold Setting Up of Mindfulness
- "Mindfulness" defined (Ven. Analayo)
- Establishing Mindfulness Sutra (podcast)
Dhp. 1. Mind precedes all mental states. [Mind is the forerunner of all conditions.] Mind is their chief; they are all mind-made (wrought). If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts, suffering follows one like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-made. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows one like one's never-departing shadow.
3. "That person abused me, struck me, overpowered me, robbed me!" Those who harbor such thoughts will not still their hatred.... More
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Alan Watts: Get out of the mind once a day
- Alan Watts every week on Buddhist Radio Los Angeles (Something's Happening honoring Roy of Hollywood Tuckman), Sundays at 8:00 am (PT) and Thursdays at midnight with Speech Impediment Buzz and Nurse Diane. FREE worldwide live online (kpfk.org) and in the archives for the following 90 days
- AlanWatts.org via Simply Art- Inspire (YouTube); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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