One should constantly back up from thinking’s dogma and allow instead the last thought to win. Expressing itself naturally, the just-as-it-is arises. As long as we believe even the tiniest bit of experience is not dependently arisen emptiness, the sufferings of existence elaborate as seemingly real. Then the causes for death are many and those of life few. Unprepared, all too soon we drown again, and swooning from the unbearable, again we awake unaware in another senseless round. So adopt acceptances today—abandoning and realizing—by coming clean in your life with an authentic Guru. Then practice the effortless as prescribed above. This is how the deathless state is won and how the Buddha’s Dharma rolls.
8/2/25 Before my recent flight to New Delhi, I had breakfast at the Pacific Hotel in Phnom Penh, where the experience is usually relaxed and subdued. But that day was quite different. As no sooner did I sit down with my plate full of buffet favorites, then suddenly the entire room was flooded with a large Japanese group having to mix into a much smaller Anglo one. Having just come from Siem Reap, where it’s quiet and spacious, this scene suggested to me what might be creating some of the fascist tendencies in America, and much more, now that I really start to think about it. Expansionism in the face of global crowding, was one. Resource plundering of special minerals for increasingly higher consumption of war goods and higher tech lifestyles, was another. While the expulsion of foreign nationals is simply to assuage bigotry—a return to what never really was, ‘a great America’—being a dog whistle to exercise lazy, smug, and arrogant thinking, that naturally gravitates to base...
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