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  • Textimony 20130223

    The Encompassing flows always with ease and already in due time. How can you detain This by clinging to unconstant things or thinking fleeting concepts? Related articles Textimon 20130216 (keithwaynebrown.com) Cultivating Non-Intellection (keithwaynebrown.com) Seeking What the Wise Seek (keithwaynebrown.com) Impermanence (earthmama02.wordpress.com) Wabi-sabi… Continue reading

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  • The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse

    A small foray into the political after a few weeks of mostly concentrating on spirituality. But not too far in as my concern is prompted by my contemplation. I want to thank my good brother Lance W. for pointing out… Continue reading

    The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse

  • 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

  • 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

  • Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A podcast lecture by Abel Gunter from the international conference ‘Nietzsche on Mind and Nature’, held at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, 11-13 September 2009, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. See… Continue reading

    Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature

  • 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

    Honest Acknowledgment

  • 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

  • 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

    Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing

  • A natural philosopher† that should be studied & comprehended in order to see the large impact he has on everyday thought as well as on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. †The term “scientist” was not invented & used widely until… 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

  • 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

  • Asking Questions Beyond Thinking

    Many who #meditate are surprised by the #etymology of #Mantra. Deepen your practice by embracing #uncertainty. goo.gl/5NhNZ — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) February 18, 2013 “All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on Rita Dekšnytė – Sporto psichologijos konsultantė, mindfulness mokytoja, ACT praktikė: It’s getting clear to me now why every research methods book talking about phenomenology suggest the method that should actually be called descriptive phenomenology. In this post… Continue reading

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  • Debt and the Indebted Person

    What is it about “you must repay your debts” that allows even the best of people to justify the worst human actions? It is very much worth your time to at least listen to the 65 minute lecture below by… Continue reading

    Debt and the Indebted Person

  • Clouds drifting colorful

    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds Related articles Cloud Quotes (arlene1956.wordpress.com) Stories from Tagore, by Rabindranath Tagore (spr07.wordpress.com) Clouds And Waves… Continue reading

  • Love is not a duty or trade

    “Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask… Continue reading