Inquiry
In his book "One Dharma," Joseph writes about how he used holding to the questions as a means to finding freedom from the conflict in his mind about the path. He explains how we can hold the questions without seeking a response.
In the past three months, readers have asked what's coming next. After reading a series of gems, and hearing the buzz about others, here are the spring and summer arrivals that I'm eagerly awaiting.
Freedom and happiness appear when we realize that we are not -- fundamentally -- made of any of the hats that we wear.
What problems are you facing that could be approached differently simply by asking why.... and then why again... and then why again.. until you get to the core of the issue?
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The system by which we fund higher education may be horribly broken, but that in no way means the people who are a product of it should be written off. Graduates should feel empowered to effect these changes. If they don't -- if they're all too cynical and feel there's no use in trying -- then we're in big trouble.
At 4.10 p.m. Sunday afternoon, exactly 40 years ago, I witnessed soldiers shooting innocent civilians dead, an atrocity that officialdom instantly lied about -- and provoked a four-decade struggle to get the truth finally established.
To consciously choose to be without thought is the gateway to direct experience. If we are bound to our thinking process for our reference points of reality, we will ask only those questions guaranteed to keep attention on analysis, cause and effect and conceptual evaluation.
At any point, in any situation, in any story in your life, you have the capacity and the choice to actually discover what is underneath the language of thought. What is unaffected, unmoved, unbound by the telling of any story?
Afghanistan's opposition leader has called for a criminal investigation into allegations of massive vote rigging in last