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This is very wise advice. Have you ever heard of Ken McLeod, the Buddhist teacher? Your essay reminds me of him.

by Estragon 15y ago

mechanical_fish 15y ago
Every time I visit HN I become a little bit more interested in Buddhism.
- j45 15y ago
  I read the Tao Te Ching, check it out. An Open Heart by the Dalai Lama is a great general read, as well. Both are not overtly, or covertly spiritual but definitely provide anyone food with thought.
j45 15y ago
Hi, I haven't heard of Ken McLeod, but I'll look him up. I like reading. I'm not a Buddhist per say, I did go through my Dalai Lama phase and saw him speak in person.. but we should be able to learn from every great teaching. Universal truths exist in all great writings, spiritual, or not, and it's up to us to subdue our ego to learn to take the good from everything with our so called open-mindedness. Doubt really is the enemy. I should have added one thing: My problems aren't unique, nor are my thoughts unique. No one's are. Very little thought or problems are unique or though about for the first time. Man has been trying to figure their shit out for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Their journeys exist in books. IF with our our ego we feel we have to locate and connect all the dots ourselves, so be it. But, not everyones doing this at the same time, or on the same page, or see the same picture from connecting their dots. Too often we feel we don't have a single soul to talk to, and my words are more to reach anyone feeling that. It's not right. All of this begins with an always growing and improving relationship with ourselves, fuelled by curiosity. Are there Ken McLeod essays I should check out first? Feel free to email :)
- Estragon 15y ago
  The emphasis on peace and on understanding and connecting to problems through experience rather than logic and doubt is what reminded me of him. He hasn't written much about these things, they come up more in his talks for long-time students. They're in A Trackless Path somewhere, for instance: http://www.unfetteredmind.org/category/retreats/a-trackless-path http://www.unfetteredmind.org/category/retreats/a-trackless-... but that's approximately 25 hours of audio, and I can't pin it down more precisely that. (But the whole thing is good, and a concrete approach to the desiderata you outlined.) Of his essays, probably the most conceptually interesting is his series on karma as an evolutionary process. http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-genesis-conditions/0 http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-genesis-conditions/0 http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-growth/0 http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-growth/0 http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-two-approaches/0 http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-two-approaches/0

This is very wise advice. Have you ever heard of Ken McLeod, the Buddhist teacher? Your essay reminds me of him.

mechanical_fish 15y ago

Every time I visit HN I become a little bit more interested in Buddhism.

j45 15y ago
I read the Tao Te Ching, check it out. An Open Heart by the Dalai Lama is a great general read, as well. Both are not overtly, or covertly spiritual but definitely provide anyone food with thought.

j45 15y ago

Hi, I haven't heard of Ken McLeod, but I'll look him up. I like reading. I'm not a Buddhist per say, I did go through my Dalai Lama phase and saw him speak in person.. but we should be able to learn from every great teaching. Universal truths exist in all great writings, spiritual, or not, and it's up to us to subdue our ego to learn to take the good from everything with our so called open-mindedness. Doubt really is the enemy. I should have added one thing: My problems aren't unique, nor are my thoughts unique. No one's are. Very little thought or problems are unique or though about for the first time. Man has been trying to figure their shit out for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Their journeys exist in books. IF with our our ego we feel we have to locate and connect all the dots ourselves, so be it. But, not everyones doing this at the same time, or on the same page, or see the same picture from connecting their dots. Too often we feel we don't have a single soul to talk to, and my words are more to reach anyone feeling that. It's not right. All of this begins with an always growing and improving relationship with ourselves, fuelled by curiosity. Are there Ken McLeod essays I should check out first? Feel free to email :)

Estragon 15y ago
The emphasis on peace and on understanding and connecting to problems through experience rather than logic and doubt is what reminded me of him. He hasn't written much about these things, they come up more in his talks for long-time students. They're in A Trackless Path somewhere, for instance: http://www.unfetteredmind.org/category/retreats/a-trackless-path http://www.unfetteredmind.org/category/retreats/a-trackless-... but that's approximately 25 hours of audio, and I can't pin it down more precisely that. (But the whole thing is good, and a concrete approach to the desiderata you outlined.) Of his essays, probably the most conceptually interesting is his series on karma as an evolutionary process. http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-genesis-conditions/0 http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-genesis-conditions/0 http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-growth/0 http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-growth/0 http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-two-approaches/0 http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-two-approaches/0