Tag: The Awakened State
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What Does Enlightenment Actually Mean? A Four-Minute Overview
Over the past month I have been posting a four-part video series drawn from The Awakened State: What Buddhist Enlightenment Actually Means: the maps and the territory, the nature of what we are, the body that knows, and the practice of awakening. Those were the parts. This is the whole: a four-and-a-half-minute overview of the…
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Sudden OR Gradual? The Tiantai Answer | The Awakened State (Part IV) #Shorts
The last of the four parts drawn from *The Awakened State: What Buddhist Enlightenment Actually Means*. You have read the maps. This is where you begin to walk. Practice has two wings. Stillness moves the wood: it clears the space. Insight uproots the tree: it severs the root. Neither wing alone finishes the work. Then…
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Enlightenment Is Embodied | The Awakened State (Part III) #Shorts
Part three of the four-part series drawn from *The Awakened State: What Buddhist Enlightenment Actually Means*. This one is about the body. There is an old habit of treating awakening as an escape from the body: leave the flesh behind, and something purer is waiting on the other side. The Lotus tradition does not read…
