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- ANDY PUDDICOMBE
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Feb 23, 20215 min read
Fundamentals! (Rinse--Repeat!)
It may seem odd to portray spiritual practice as a sports metaphor, but the word "practice" is precisely synonymous in both pursuits....
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Feb 23, 20214 min read
Spirituality and Religiosity
Spirituality is innate in human beings. It is often buried, covered over with ego, identity, or lost in a disturbed mind. Ignorance, lack...
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Feb 23, 202111 min read
Four-Dimensional Practice
Warning! Herein are thoughts that, for some readers, might be too esoteric and inadequately formed. I hope writing will bring some of the...
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Feb 23, 20218 min read
True? Necessary? Kind?
This post is about the actualization of spiritual practice in the immediate moment—the fleeting, digital micro-instant most all of us...
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Feb 23, 202114 min read
At A Loss (Finding Your Original Face Part II)
As I've written before, spiritual practice's significance is understanding the principles that underlie the practice and doing it....
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Feb 23, 202114 min read
Principles
For a long time, my favorite television series was the original NCIS. The featured actor was Mark Harmon as Special Agent Leroy Jethro...
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Feb 23, 20218 min read
You Are Your (Own) Spiritual Teacher
A tautology says the same thing twice in different words, like the title of this piece. You Are Your (Own) Spiritual Teacher. In writing,...
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Feb 23, 20216 min read
Distance Learning
Twice in as many months, I had been reminded of the Buddhist teacher who sparked within me something significant. Both reminders came in...
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Feb 23, 20214 min read
Meditate! For What?
Recently, I read an assertion that stuck firmly in my mind. I have forgotten its source. I apologize for not being able to cite its...
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Feb 23, 20216 min read
To Meditate IS To Awaken
I don't profess to be a guru, a Lama, a Rinpoche, a Roshi, or any other titled spiritual master. I have an almost 50-year spiritual...
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Feb 23, 20214 min read
Finding Your Original Face (Part I)
“What is your original face?” is a classic query in Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhist lore—so often that “original face” has become a Zen...
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Feb 23, 20211 min read
Acceptance--Spiritual Alchemy
Definition of alchemy \ ˈal-kə-mē \ 1 : a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the...
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Feb 23, 20211 min read
What Does "To Meditate" Mean To You?
Previously, I asserted the "simple simplicity" of the Buddha's Eight-fold Path to the Middle Way. A meditative/contemplative habit is the...
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Feb 23, 20211 min read
The Middle Way: Simple simplicity!
Buddhist lore says that the historical Buddha awakens and his first teachings are essentially a diagnosis of human suffering and its...
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