May
20
Time to heal.
Make being alone and in the darkness your friend.
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Greg Patenaude
Buddhist teacher, writer, lifelong learner and explorer dedicated to figuring out this thing we call life.
May
09
Freedom from views.
When we talk about the nature of the mind as an integral part of the nature of reality as we
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May
06
The primordial state.
While the Western scientific traditions consider the hard problem of consciousness to be how to explain the subjective experience of
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Apr
22
Reality doesn't exist.
The true nature of reality is beyond conception, description, or imagination.
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Apr
17
Unraveling the hard problem of consciousness.
Consider the possibility that consciousness is not an emergent property of a physical reality, but an integral part of the nature of reality itself.
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Apr
15
Inviting contemplative practice into the scientific process.
Where do we look to find good explanations for how consciousness fits into our understanding of the nature of reality?
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Mar
22
What's stopping you?
Rather than endlessly planning for the retreat of a lifetime, why not consider a lifetime of retreats?
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Mar
21
How are you showing up?
The Buddhist path is about answering a simple question through our lived experience: how are you showing up?
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Mar
11
Figure and Ground
By shifting the focus to the ground rather than the display one can encounter how they are actually non-dual.
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Mar
10
Phase change.
Phase changes are interesting. They are not necessarily intuitive when we are going through them though.
Consider a pot of
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