January 2010
14 posts
Five Niyamas
“It’s all karma.” When looking at world events, as well as experiences closer to home, does that line ever sound a bit trite or too simplistic an explanation to be meaningful? You might want to hear what the Buddha said about it. According to Buddhism, there are five relatively independent orders or processes (niyama) which operate in the physical and mental realms, among...
The Main Verses of the Six Bardos
Now when the bardo of birth is dawning upon me, I will abandon laziness for which life has no time, enter the undistracted path of study, reflection and meditation, making projections and mind the path, and realize the three kayas; now that I have once attained a human body, there is no time on the path for the mind to wander.
Now when the bardo of dreams is dawning upon me, I will abandon the...
