By Hugh Delehant — 1994
A Buddhist practitioner for twenty years, Phil Jackson revolutionized coaching by leading with a Zen approach to the sport that centers on awareness training, selfless teamwork, and “aggressiveness without anger.”
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Like many Westerners, I always assumed that meditation was a “spiritual” phenomenon, which I took to mean that it somehow had to do with realms beyond the physical.
Larry Yang takes an honest look at what it means to be a dharma teacher who hasn’t been, and doesn’t imagine ever being, enlightened.
As the Earth radically changes, what happens to the wisdom that it has to offer us?
There is no end to realization, kinds and types of awakening, or enlightenment and completeness.
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One of the most popular Buddhist teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area these days is not a Tibetan lama or a traditional Zen master but an unconventional, an American-born lay teacher named Adyashanti.
In our practice the most important thing is to realize that we have buddhanature. Intellectually we may know this, but it is rather difficult to accept.
Awakening is not the same for everyone—even spiritual masters manifest their wisdom differently and took various paths to get there.
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Is there something woven into the fundamental fabric of our being that urges us to seek fulfillment beyond the offerings of the external world?
Enlightenment . . . consists of waking up to new possibilities, including the possibility of an “I” that isn’t defined by your story.