Tag: Buddhism

• October 23, 2024

  Error Messages Vs. Clean Messages

  Question: If all arising are consciousness arising, is there a difference between the “error messages” and the “clean messages”?  That’s a really good question. Ultimately speaking: No, there is no difference. Yet provisionally speaking: Yes, there appears to be a difference. What’s An Error Message?  An error message indicates that I (aham) have inadvertently mixed myself (aham)…
• May 8, 2024

  What Is The Cause Of All Suffering?

  Question: Is dukkha, or suffering, occurring because of the arising of I-thoughts? No, not because of the arising of I-thoughts but rather because of the identification with the content of I-thoughts. Let’s go back a step and ask, “What makes suffering possible?” The short answer is: “I-thoughts, provided that I identify with the content of…
• April 17, 2013

  Discerning ‘when it’s time’

  No one can tell you ‘when it’s time,’ but you must become discerning. Pick up clues. Amass them. Clues are not grains of sand. Discern when they amount to something and when to nothing. Then–go to!–change yourself or change course. Make haste lest you slink into retreat. You think I am telling you ‘when it’s…
• August 10, 2012

  Review of Benedict’s Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of St. Benedict

  The following is a book review written for Philosophical Practice 7.2 (2012). Enjoy. Book Review Benedict’s Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict, edited by Patrick Henry, new translation of the Rule by Patrick Berry. New York: Riverhead Books (2001). ISBN 1573221902, 223 pages. REVIEWED BY ANDREW TAGGART PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTITIONER, NEW YORK, NY Not much…