All posts by TCN

19Aug/18

Key Components that Delude but to be Transformed into Inroads to the Source: the Shurangama Sutra V

Do the essential physical senses we so depend on really help us advance spiritually? Yes and no. See how we can transform the fundamental core composites to us and the world us. This is the fifth lesson to the 2018 Teaching Series on the Buddhist text that teaches listening as a form of meditation and a most powerful mantra for those interested in enlightenment for themselves and others.
21Jul/18

2 Types of Erroneous Vision: the Shurangama Sutra IV

You ever see rainbow halo? You ever see rainbow and wonder if people on the other side of the arc see it? What might these questions have to do with ultimate enlightenment, the divine Source? Hear an explanation here. 2018 Teaching Series on the Buddhist text that teaches listening as a form of meditation and a most powerful mantra for those interested in enlightenment for themselves and others. This fourth lesson focuses on two erroneous types of vision that, if understood and through practice, can be transformed into insight.
23May/18

50 Meditation States You Must Let Go (Part V: Consciousness)

When obscured by the Five Aggregates, the sky of the essence of nirvana is like that of a darkened horizon on a foggy night. When the first three aggregates terminate, it is daybreak but light is not yet dawn. Once the volition aggregate ceases, only one aggregate remains submerged. The enlightenment of daylight is on the rise. With the six senses quieted, that which listens and that which is heard are no more, sense data and sense faculties merge into one luminous radiance.
20Apr/18

50 Meditation States You Must Let Go (Part II: Feeling)

To reach enlightenment, your meditation practice will, and must, lead you down a path where you wrestle with physicality, feeling, thought, volition, and consciousness. Only when you have become increasingly unattached to each of these aggregates do you reach the ultimate source of courage, compassion, and wisdom.