enlightenment
enlightenment
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by Jan Engels Smith - 2007-12-04
A sculptor was once asked how he created such marvelous results from the stone he worked. He replied, "If I want to carve an elephant in stone, I simply chip away all of the stone that does not look l...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-06
The Buddha would have made a great CEO. He was all "bottom line," and the bottom line was freedom, or enlightenment. If something didn't contribute to this directly, then he didn't teach it. ...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-09
Second Noble Truth: (The origin of suffering) "It is craving which gives rise to further rebirth and, bound up with pleasure and lust, finds ever fresh delight, now here, now there ...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-11
Third Noble Truth: (This is the cessation of suffering) "And what monk, is the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering?" It is the total extinction by removing of, forsaking of, discarding...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-15
The Buddha was called the great physician. In his quintessential teaching: The Four Noble Truths, he took us under his wing, as a good doctor should, to care for his favorite patients. In his Fi...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-19
4. Right Action "Abstaining from killing beings, abstaining from taking what is not given, abstaining from sexual misconduct. This, monks, is called Right Action." Action is karma. K...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-22
Growing up in the Catholic tradition, I believe that I can understand some of the feelings that Christians, Muslims, and Jews might have about people who don't believe in a creator God! And ...
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by Elysha Elysha - 2007-12-20
The heart is the hub of life, of existence itself, it is the central point of the beyondness that is forever bursting into existence in all directions at all times.It is who "you" are - the very...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-24
7. Right Mindfulness "Here, monks, a monk dwells contemplating the body in the body, ardently, clearly, comprehending mindfully - contemplating the feeling of the feeling - the consciousne...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-01-26
Enlightenment can take a long time, perhaps as long as it takes to wear a granite mountain down to the ground by a fine veil brushing its top once every hundred years, or perhaps as long as a li...