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Hardcore Dharma is Good Enough, Smart Enough and People Seem to Like It.
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Julia May Jonas
Did you know that: Online Dating may make people feel overwhelmed by too many options? and Exercise provides stress relief?andKids like their dad’s aroundandStudents benefit from tutoring?and Soda is bad for you?andSo it smoking?andToo much porn? Did you know that? Of course you did.
HeyJhana HoJhana
By
Julia May Jonas
My experience of meditation lately feels like this: 1. Stabilize on breath. Having been doing lots of work on concentration lately, I feel like I’m getting to the point where instead of trying to pin down my attention on the breath, it’s more like I spend a little bit of time trying to find what door…
Hardcore Dharma does not exist.
By
Julia May Jonas
Before the Buddha became all Bodhi, he did Shamatha and sustained Samadhi. But much like Einstein took Newtonian physics one step further or the Beatles improved on Elvis, the Buddha saw that something good could be made better. The problem with the Jhanas, or Samadhi, or the concentration realms as ultimate practice, thought pre-Buddha Buddha,…
Hardcore Dharma Makes Metaphors
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Julia May Jonas
Here’s a story. My mother is a retired church organist and choir director. Growing up, my participation in religious life was fairly required. When I was about ten or eleven, the church had a charismatic youth minister, a wiry, fierce, Princeton-seminary-educated former actress in her early thirties named Kim. She attracted a large and devoted “youth…
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