Reading the Jiddu Krishnamurti book, “Commentaries on Living” I believe I’m starting to understand his total philosophy. He believes that to become that which is not a product of that which we have lived in / experienced / trusted / learned/taken as fact we need to die to all that we ‘know’. We need to…
Jiddu Krishnamurti ideas have influenced me from the first time I picked up one of his books in the mid-1990s. He had a unique and rather surreal childhood, especially among those in spiritual circles. Born in 1895 in a small village in Madanapalle, India, Krishnamurti’s early years were marked by hardship and tragedy. He lost…
There are several meditation retreats offered in Thailand, here are some of the more well-established retreat locations where you will likely have a good experience. If you’d like to know more about a self-guided (custom) retreat option, just let us know. Here is a list of all Thailand Meditation Retreats > Thailand Meditation Retreats Wat…
Ang Kek, from Malaysia, left a couple of comments on this site tonight and one of them struck me as profoundly important. What Is Dharma? Dharma is defined here as: 1. cosmic order or law, including the natural and moral principles that apply to all beings and things. A Dharma talk (dhamma talk) is a public…
Some information about Buddha – what he did, who he was. Plus my own experiences. [Some free-thinking on the Buddha, meditation, vipassana, Buddhism, all ‘isms’, and my own personal experiences.] I’m thinking today as I usually think… any person here is just a person. Nobody is better than anyone else for any reason, real or…
A journal entry I found from a long time ago… Thailand Meditation Journal Date: 12/18/95 I was looking outside Fern’s apt. Towards the lake and saw some guys playing basketball. As I watched them dribble I heard the dribble come a little later. This made me realize that not only is everything that we hear…
I’ve been looking a bit at the state of my mind and giving consideration to what I want to do with it. If you’ve read some of my past posts, my mind is in a strange state at the moment. It has been in a sort of flat-line for the past couple of years. I…
Today this one meditated in the morning on the spa. It was nice. The mind is quiet at this hour without having accumulated the garbage/candy that it does throughout the day. One found that a wanting for something to happen was present. One forced the body to sit without wanting. A peace was found, though…