March 2008 Roundup

Written on April 1, 2008 by Tom Stine


I thought I would put together an end of the month roundup for your reading enjoyment. I hope to have a new video post up tomorrow, so in the meantime, if you missed any of these articles, have a look.

Reader Questions

Also, I encourage everyone to feel free to submit questions to me that you might like to see addressed in an article. I find that I get my most creative when I’m answering someone’s question. I’ve done a few already, and I hope to do more.

And finally, I want to say I am very grateful to all of you, my readers, for helping me get started with this website. I’m having a blast, and I hope to see you all again during April. I’m hoping month 3 will be as fun as the first 2 months have been.

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All of our thoughts are conditioned. We all are thinking exactly along the lines we are conditioned to think. Programmed like a computer. Anybody who thinks they are actually choosing of their own free will the line of thinking that they have is completely deluded by their thinking.

—Adyashanti


Behind most spiritual practices is the belief that you have to get someplace you’re not- a destination called realization or enlightenment. But realization isn’t someplace else; it’s the naturally occurring human state. It doesn’t belong to anybody. It’s who we all are. Spiritual practices also set up many pictures of what this state looks like. For example, when I described how much fear was present, people told me the fear meant that something must be wrong, because fear was an indication that I wasn’t in the proper state. But fear is just what it is, and it’s there too in the vastness of who we are.

—Suzanne Segal

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—Jack Kornfield

Those who awaken never rest in one place.
Like swans, they rise and leave the lake.
On the air they rise and fly an invisible course.
Their food is knowledge.
They live on emptiness.
They have seen how to break free.
Who can follow them?

—Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada

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—Anthony de Mello