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Day 10 of 30 Day Challenge

Day 10 of 30 Day Challenge

Finding Health After Illness ― Question: Do you want to get married and/or have kids? Yes, if the right person comes along for marriage but no to kids. I have never wanted them so I think I’ve always known I’d be child free. Kids just aren’t my...

Tags: Buddhism, Dreams, Love, Spirituality, Zen, Childfree

Natalya Lyubov ― 1 week 2 days ago

Existential Ambiguity Podcast: Five Clinging-Aggregates, Part 2

Existential Ambiguity Podcast: Five Clinging-Aggregates, Part 2

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― This is the 14th episode of Existential Ambiguity, covering the text posted here from Chapter 5, The Five Clinging-Aggregates. Listen to The Five Clinging-Aggregates, Part 2 here: Here is the relevant text from Wettimuny’s book: The ...

Tags: Buddhism, Ontics, Podcast, The Ambiguity Of Existence, Buddha, Emptiness

David Bergen ― 1 week 2 days ago

What is Displeasurable is Not-self, Part 17

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― The puthujjana’s nature is to misperceive impermanent things (and all things are impermanent) as permanent (nicca) and pleasurable (sukha). He is anicce niccasaññino, dukkhe ca sukhasaññino: ‘Perceiver of...

Tags: Ontics, The Ambiguity Of Existence, Buddha, Buddhism, Meditation, Ontics

David Bergen ― 1 week 2 days ago

Existential Ambiguity Podcast: Five Clinging-Aggregates, Part 1

Existential Ambiguity Podcast: Five Clinging-Aggregates, Part 1

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― This is the 14th episode of Existential Ambiguity, covering the text posted here from Chapter 5, The Five Clinging-Aggregates. Listen to The Five Clinging-Aggregates, Part 1 here: Here is the relevant text from Wettimuny’s book: Chapter 5 ...

Tags: Buddhism, Ontics, Podcast, The Ambiguity Of Existence, Buddha, Emptiness

David Bergen ― 1 week 3 days ago

What is Displeasurable is Not-self, Part 16

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― The ‘Creature’ The puthujjana, if he sees impermanence at all, does not see it as applicable to himself; therefore he does not see as fully and all-embracingly applicable. At any given time he implicitly assumes that whatever is ...

Tags: Ontics, The Ambiguity Of Existence, Buddha, Buddhism, Meditation, Ontics

David Bergen ― 1 week 3 days ago

Existential Ambiguity Podcast: Root-Structure, Part 10

Existential Ambiguity Podcast: Root-Structure, Part 10

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― This is the 13th episode of Existential Ambiguity, covering the text posted here from Chapter 4, Root-Structure of the Puthujjana’s Reflexive Experience. Listen to Root-Structure of the Puthujjana’s Reflexive Experience Part 10 here: ...

Tags: Buddhism, Ontics, Podcast, The Ambiguity Of Existence, Buddha, Emptiness

David Bergen ― 1 week 4 days ago

What is Displeasurable is Not-self, Part 15

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― In the second sense of dukkha used as a noun, it covers more than just simple felt displeasure; it refers to the five clinging-aggregates or to experience at any given time. Hence dukkhasaññā refers to the perception of dukkha...

Tags: Ontics, The Ambiguity Of Existence, Buddha, Buddhism, Meditation, Ontics

David Bergen ― 1 week 4 days ago

Kitaro Playlist

Kitaro Playlist

One Love ― Image found here ∙ There's so much anger in the world, so much hate.Sometimes it makes it hard to be a good Buddhist, or even a good human.Sometimes I just want to come out swinging and not stop until everybody's knocked out.Instead, I ...

Tags: Ambient, Kitaro, Peace, Ming, Music Videos, Buddhism

Opal Zushaquon ― 1 week 4 days ago

Review of Ñāṇavīra’s “Notes on Dhamma”

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― There are a few books and writers that are not well-known in and of themselves, yet carry influence and importance far beyond their readership. The Venerable Ñāṇavīra Thera and his Notes on Dhamma stand tall among such ...

Tags: Ñāṇavīra, Buddhism, Ontology, Authentic, Buddha

David Bergen ― 1 week 5 days ago

Attributes of a Teacher

Attributes of a Teacher

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― These are my personal requirements, besides the attributes of a teacher of the Dhamma mentioned by the Buddha in the Suttas: Honest—no mystical, religious or organizational authoritarian basis for his teaching. Convincing—he would be ...

Tags: Buddhism, Forest Meditation Monastery Journal

David Bergen ― 1 week 5 days ago

Nobody Really Knows

Nobody Really Knows

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― Nobody really knows the Buddha’s teaching. We are all like little tiny mice gnawing on a huge elephant-sized block of cheese. Our potency is so limited, the scope of our grasp so small—and the Buddha’s teaching is BIG. So...

Tags: Buddhism, Forest Meditation Monastery Journal, Buddha, Buddhist, Enlightenment, Existential

David Bergen ― 1 week 5 days ago

What is Displeasurable is Not-self, Part 14

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― Deeper View of Dukkha We can now proceed to a deeper examination of dukkha, and also examine how it is used in the Suttas. “Dukkha, dukkha it is said, friend Sāriputta. But what, indeed, friend, is dukkha?” “Friend, these...

Tags: Ontics, The Ambiguity Of Existence, Buddha, Buddhism, Meditation, Ontics

David Bergen ― 1 week 5 days ago

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