Non Affirming Negation

Hi AEN, Greg commented on Stian's A raw note on emptiness yesterday.  I like Stian's note and Greg's comments very much, they ar...

Indra's Net Misunderstood

Harry Rice: "The Indra's Net metaphor is often misinterpreted to suggest that each jewel in the net reflects all of the other je...

Total Exertion of Karmic Tendencies

Karmic propensity is the whole of one's experiential reality. If one feels like a changeless witness, that experience of feeling like a ...

Universals are Abstractions

Wrote in Facebook: Yes... as for collective consciousness, no Buddhist (including Tibetan Buddhism) teachings accept the notion of a colle...

Italy

The next weekend we went to the famous Perugina Chocolate Factory in Perugia. It is home of the Bacio chocolate. We were able to tour the en...

Italy

My group of friends decided that we needed to go and see Cinque Terre (5 cities). It is named Cinque Terre because people go there to hike f...

Italy

The past two weeks have been busy. The Umbra Institute set up a weekend in Napoli, Pompeii, Ischia, and Capri. These places were absolutely ...