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Tag Archives: solitude
Why Suffer?
Abandoning punishment for all living beings, not hurting even a single one of them, one should not wish for a son, not to mention a companion! one should live alone, like the horn of a rhinoceros. After refusing to strike-out … Continue reading
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Tagged aloneness, lonliness, solitude, suffering
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The Khaggavisāṇa Sutta: A Rhinoceros Horn
Dhivan Thomas Jones has written an excellent article concerning the sutta entitled, Like the Rhinoceros, or Like Its Horn? The Problem of Khaggavisāṇa Revisited. The Pāli expression khaggavisāṇakappo may either mean ‘like the rhinoceros’ or ‘like the horn of the … Continue reading
Nada and Silence in John of the Cross
We have extensively covered the rich apothatic spirituality of John of the Cross in a prior series. Our focus now is on the significance of this Nadayana and its twin sister, Silence. John’s negative path is a cradle of nothingness … Continue reading
Muccalinda
Muccalinda Sutta (Trans: Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu) I have heard that on one occasion, the Blessed One was staying at Uruvelā on the bank of the Nerañjarā River at the root of the Muccalinda tree, newly awakened. And on that occasion he sat … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessed One, Buddhadharma, darkness, Muccalinda, Naga King, solitude
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Contemplative Sojourn
Greetings from the blogger here at Unborn Mind Zen It’s that annual-junction wherein my time apart from active blogging begins. Since my last contemplative sojourn a lot of new material has been blogged: the Diamond, Heart, Platform, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Five Dhyani Buddhas, Five Wisdom Tath, meditation, solitude, Spirituality, Surangama Sutras, Unborn Mind Zen
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The Aloneness of the Long-Distance Mystic
From time to time one reads the half-hearted and veiled recalcitrant attacks on mystics by those who are still trapped within their pseudo-intellectualism. They claim that mystics are somehow alien to scientific methodologies, like some form of isolated dharma-freaks. … Continue reading
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Tagged aloneness, Authentic Mystic, loneliness, samsara, Sisirkumar Ghose, solitude
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Melancholia
Writing about Colin Wilson’s, The Outsider, recently reinforced for me a main pericope within its pages—that this “Outsider” is someone who sees “too deep and too much” into the nature of reality and as a result suffers from a lingering … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, contemplation, John Milton, meditation, Melancholia, Monasticism, solitude
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Solitude
As the dying embers of 2011 fade away into the rising horizon of January and the increasing frigid temperatures experienced in northern climes, it is a good opportunity to turn-about from all the crazed excessiveness of the holiday turmoil and … Continue reading
Purgation
The infusion of the Dark Light can be excruciating since all former modes of the perceptional apparatus are abandoned and one is left staring into the great abyss of their own abject poverty (sunyata), compared to the translucent majesty of … Continue reading