Mindful Contemplation
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Yoda & Luke: A Love Story
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A Frank Prayer
Oh thou endless Great Way, broad and flowing in profound tranquility, Where hatred happens, let there now be love; Where weakness occurs, fortitude; Where doubt arises, faithfulness; Where despair crushes, hopefulness; Where darkness encroaches, enlightenment; Where sadness lingers, joyfulness. Encompassing… Continue reading
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Kindfulness
Weekly dharma talk with Ajahn Brahm. This weeks topic is KINDFULNESS, the bringing together of Compassionate Mindfulness. Related articles Advice While Awake (keithwaynebrown.com) THIS is, this IS, THIS IS (keithwaynebrown.com) When We Let Go of Fear, All that Remains is… Continue reading
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Advice while Awake
When the occasion requires, speak mindfully. Be timely, not untimely. Be decisive, not confused. Be gentle, not harsh. Be generous, not miserly. Be compassionate, not cruel. Oh beloved friend, mindful of internal & external feelings, comprehend how few occasions ever… Continue reading
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A wonderful question which by the asking can open you up to improvisation both by and within the Encompassing. Namaste. Related articles Time to Improvise (keithwaynebrown.com) No Room for Improvements (keithwaynebrown.com) Bhikkhu Goldstein (keithwaynebrown.com) Meaning of Namaste (andreadurham.wordpress.com) Mindful Presence: Embodying… Continue reading
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Walking Meditation 20130309
“Everybody knows how useful it is to be useful; nobody knows how useful it is to be useless.” –Zhuangzi Contemplating how seeking after the future makes all things but mere tools on the way to success in a later-on nowhere… Continue reading
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Bhikkhu Goldstein
Much respect for Joseph Goldstein. I have been listening to his dharma talks for over a month now, and they are quite helpful. Not only have the talks added to my knowledge of Buddhism, they have also enlightened my understanding… Continue reading
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A nice run through of the precepts on the way to no-thinking. Namaste. Related articles Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing (keithwaynebrown.com) AI, or Awakened Intelligence (keithwaynebrown.com) Meaning of Namaste (andreadurham.wordpress.com) The Path to the Fearless (evolutionsangha.wordpress.com) Continue reading
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AI, or Awakened Intelligence
unfueled – uncompromised – undefined – unconditioned – unbounded : mindful #liberation : #nirvana — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) March 1, 2013 Let me make this over the top claim: “Artificial Intelligence” is actually what we do on a regular… Continue reading
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Originally posted on Teacher as Transformer: As I rested today, I missed the opportunity to be out there exploring. T. S. Eliot eloquently spoke of this. I seek for and find when I explore the cyclical journey we call life.… Continue reading
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Cultivating Non-Intellection
Q: If I follow this Way, and refrain from intellectual prooesscs and conceptual thinking, shall I be cenain of attaining the goal? A: Such non-intellection ts following the Way! Why this talk of attaining and not attaining? The matter is thus–by thinking of something… Continue reading
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Seeking what the Wise Seek
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” — Friedrich Nietzsche “Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among… Continue reading
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Honest Acknowledgment
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately… Continue reading
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Meditational Painting | Writing Finger
A really nice elucidation of painting as meditation. As the author states, he is “writing about painting as meditation, not meditation before painting…” I very much recommend a couple of reads. No human culture lacks adornment. It can be as simple… Continue reading
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Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing
I am sure that if you look through my site, you would find me to be some kind of Buddhist social critic. I post all kinds of Buddhist sayings as well as lots of material on the Society of Control… Continue reading
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On the Way to No-Thinking
When in the seen will only be what is seen. And in the heard only what is heard When in the senses, only what is sensed And in the known, only what is known You will not be influenced by… Continue reading
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An Indistinct Sky: No-Thinking
“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.” Siddhartha Gautama, the Awakened Related articles Struggle Falling Away: Love (keithwaynebrown.com) Awake for Deathless Wisdom (keithwaynebrown.com)… Continue reading
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Struggle Falling Away: Love
“Here it is–right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.” Huangbo, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po “Meditation is very simple. It means to surrender the mind, the body, and the world, from moment to moment, to the… Continue reading












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