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The second of Atisha’s Nine Contemplations (on death) is:
Your Life Span Is Decreasing Continuously
We are profligate with our time, as if there will always be more. Psychologically, it is difficult to cope with the knowledge that every day brings us closer to the hour of our death. Sometime around middle age we start to understan...
As I read recently: “Talking about sex won’t make you pregnant, and talking about death won’t make you die.”
Despite the truth of that statement, many of us are reluctant to acknowledge that everyone and everything will die. We are lazy; we forget that every life will end in death, and so we are easily shocked every time someone dies. This is a socially acceptable r...
The Buddha’s eightfold path is a complete set of instructions for learning to cling less and as a result, suffer less, which was the Buddha’s whole teaching mission. (Summary here: https://buddhasadvice.wordpress.com/the-eightfold-path/) But the path is more of a ...
In the mental training section of the path (Right Effort, Mindfulness, and Concentration) Wise Mindfulness is the main practice for moving along the Buddha’s eightfold path.
There are four traditional foundations or frameworks for contemplation that develop mindfulness for us or anyone. They are:
Contemplation of body Contemplation of feeling tone (pleas...We’ve been thinking about different parts of the Buddha’s eightfold path and have come to the “last” third. Traditionally it’s sīla-samādhi-paññā, i.e., ethical training, mental training, and living with wisdom. But it’s not a linear path; each element strengthens all the other parts. When we look with Wise View at any situation, we are exercising wisdom and creating...