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B. Alan Wallace is My Kind of Kick Ass Dharma Teacher!

“kick ass dharma” = dharma free of dogma, cultural baggage, metaphysical hubris, institutionalized nonsense, and idiot compassion. I first heard of B. Alan Wallace years ago in an Integral Naked interview. I immediately liked him due to his intellectual sharpness and his deep knowledge in Buddhist scholarship and hardcore practice. It’s rare to see someone who has [...]

Open Practice: 90 Days of Sitting is Just a Beginning

I joined Tricycle’s 90-day meditation challenge called The Big Sit back in February. Although I’ve been already practicing formal meditation since January, I felt that it was a good idea to join a group of virtual meditation practitioners as part of my Open Practice to keep my momentum going. I’m glad I did. Today is day [...]

I interrupt the silence with a message from Shinzen Young

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog. Don’t worry, I’m still alive, kicking and (hyper)streaming Actually, I shifted my attention to micro-blogging via Twitter, Friendfeed, and Facebook (see (hyper)stream section). Also, I didn’t have a topic to write about these past few weeks that deserve a post here on my blog. [...]

Open Practice: Matrix Code Visualization

I just came out of my evening sitting meditation. My main practice is Vipassana so I don’t normally do visualization techniques, but I tried to do one anyway. Since it’s the eve of Easter, I tried visualizing the mythic image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I projected the image on my mental screen. The image [...]

Open Practice: Algorithmic Approach to Meditation

In my previous post I described how I do Vipassana practice with lucid dreaming. In this post I’ll share the details of my algorithmic approach to meditation practice. What do I mean by algorithmic? Algorithmic simply means having a characteristic of a step-by-step logical process–i.e., do this; then do this; if this is true then do [...]