Form practice is the essence of traditional Chinese gongfu training. The old masters had survived numerous battles (and other challenges), and cleverly formulated a method
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Conscious Awareness and Empty Space
Within modern (material) science, empty space is defined as the measurable distance between two objects. This is correct and an undeniable fact. Of course, for
The Evolutionary Purpose of Transcendental Experience
It is interesting to note that quite often ‘peak’ psychological and physical experiences that do not conform to the parameters of ‘normal’, or ‘everyday’ mundane
The Evolution of the Physical Brain Structure and its Mind Functionality
The scientific consensus appears to be that humanity, through the objective study of the brain, has gathered in the last one hundred years, a tremendous
Thomas Lynn Bradford (1873-1921) Explorer of Consciousness
At physical death, the life processes become dormant and non-functional – they do not travel as a disembodied entity to some other plane simply because these life process are the product of biological function and not spiritual transmigration. As and when Cryogenics solves the riddle of existence, the theistic religious view will be finally proven wrong.
Buddhism: Pali Bhavana and Chinese Ch’an
Chinese transliterations and translations are useful as the early Chinese scholars had to understand the Indian Pali and Sanskrit terms before they could be rendered effectively into the Chinese language. Obviously, some of the early transliteration of Indian Buddhist terms are purely ‘phonetic’ in nature and in themselves do not convey much meaning as ideograms. This represents an initial process of a slow, careful and gradual building-up of knowledge in China about a thoroughly ‘foreign’ Indian philosophy that had to develop an ‘interface’ with existing Chinese culture.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 