(Continued from Part I.) Step 4: Assembling a meditative toolset to enable eventual mastery. Susan’s practice had changed her life. And then, quite unexpectedly, her practice faced its first real test that almost totally derailed it. It came from a...
(Context: A journey to nirvana.) Susan was a resident trainee, living and training with others full time, receiving teachings of the Dharma, living in a strict monastic routine, and meditating 5 to 15 hours per day depending on the schedule. Susan’s journey...
(Useful reference: A hero’s story.) To break through to the Dharma means to arrive at stream-entry. The most important question is: how do we, normal people in the modern world, arrive at stream-entry? The standard answer, which is also the correct...
Helena was the most talented warrior of her generation. She made a solemn vow to retrieve a mythical stone of immense power called the Storm Maker from a faraway island. The Storm Maker is said to endow its owner with the power to make rain, and that would...
Friends, By now, you have learned all the Buddha’s core teachings (from Topic #1 to Topic #10). More importantly, you have learned how to put those teachings into practice (specifically, from Topic #6 to Topic #9). And perhaps even more important than...
