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Entry of the day ▶ YouTube · 66m · indexed 24 Apr 2020

“Recorded in the first weeks of the 2020 pandemic, the talk frames difficulty as the condition under which deep practice is forced into the open. Kornfield reads courage as a willingness to meet the unknown without certainty, and trains a Buddhist response to crisis through stories from Ajahn Chah, Suzuki Roshi, and the engaged-Buddhist lineage.”

Jack Kornfield · Jack Kornfield · 2020

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Issue 05 — non-duality.

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Spirituality—Media · The Letter Issue 05 · 8 June 2026 · Read in full →
The lead · 01 · Video · 9m

Two Dimensions of Self: The Historical Person and the Underlying You

Eckhart Tolle · 2026

Eckhart Tolle distinguishes the 'historical person', built from personal and collective conditioning, from the underlying dimension of consciousness that is not dependent on the past. He notes that constant absorption in thought is the normal state for most humans, and that substance use often functions as momentary release from the prison of the mind.

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