Entries by vidji

Ajaan Kao : After death is there just voidness ? nothingness ?

“Especially important is the idea which some people have that after
death there is just voidness, nothingness. This view is fundamentally
wrong.

The heart of the Lord Buddha and those of all the Arahants who have got rid of the kilesas which
would otherwise lead them into birth and death, have hot been
annihilated … Read the rest >

Bhaghavad Gita : He who sees Me everywhere and sees all in Me, to him I do not get lost, nor does he get lost to Me.

“Motionless like the light of a lamp in a windless place is the controlled consciousness (free from its restless action, shut in from its outward motion) of the Yogin who practises union with the Self.
That in which the mind becomes silent and still by the practice of Yoga: that in which the Self … Read the rest >

Meditation is to change the mind’s capacity : Ayya Khema

When we sit down to meditate, we are trying to transcend our everyday
consciousness, the consciousness used to transact ordinary business,
the one used in the world’s marketplace as we go shopping, bring up our
children, work in an office or in our business, clean the house, check
our bank statements, and all the … Read the rest >

Maurice Nicoll : what we call the present moment is not now

No reveries, no conversations, no tracing out of the meaning of phantasies, contain this now, which belongs to a higher order of consciousness. The time-man in us does not know now.
He is always preparing something in the future, or busy with what
happened in the past. He is always wondering what to do, … Read the rest >