Category Archives: Change

Discernment along the Middle Way

By Paul | Published: January 15, 2010
My last post asking “What is Enlightenment?” drew some good comments and questions, and I respond to them here, in a rambling sort of way, beginning with a story about soap. Many years ago Robin worked for Colgate-Palmolive. She worked in the quality-control department at a plant where they made, among other things, Fresh Start [...]
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I think, therefore I doubt – sometimes

By Paul | Published: October 31, 2009
In my previous post I talked about the bit of insight I had into anatta, no-self. Two questions arose. What does it mean? which I have addressed, and how has it changed things? The answer to the second question is, I don’t know. Maybe it hasn’t or won’t change anything. Already the memory of the [...]
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Restlessness and remorse and the karma of lives past and present

By Paul | Published: September 11, 2009
Together, restlessness and remorse are the fourth of the five hindrances to meditation as well as to leading a happy life. Restlessness is a general sense of dissatisfaction with how things are. Feelings of restlessness can be very subtle or very intense. The result is a need to move, to do something. Remorse is a [...]
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Economic Crisis 1

By Paul | Published: February 8, 2009
Each of my parents was born in 1928, my mother in a small coal town in western Pennsylvania, my father on a farm in Kansas. In October of the following year, the New York Stock Exchange crashed. This was the beginning of the Great Depression. My parents were born into, and grew up within, an [...]
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