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Ted Biringer
Both sitting and walking meditation are excellent ways to step back into your own fundamental awareness and I recommend them to everyone, especially beginners. However, no particular style of meditation is right for everyone. ~The... More »
Ted Biringer
In hearing, there is no hearing. Hearing does not depend on hearing. Hearing is not born and it can never die. When sound arises, hearing does not create it. When sound diminishes, it is not... More »
Ted Biringer
Good friends, all of the great masters urged their hearers to illumine the teachings of sages and actualize the wisdom of reality through observation meditation. Having awakened to the innate function of nonthinking through the... More »
Ted Biringer
The teaching I expound has been transmitted by the sages of all time, and though I have also expressed what had not yet been expressed, it was not devised by me. Those who wish to... More »
Ted Biringer
All the myriad things are nothing but the one mind of each of you, why should you fear your own creations? Why should you chase after possessions, everything is already yours. Everything pours forth from... More »
Ted Biringer
A visiting student said, "It seems to me that your teaching is sometimes contradictory. One time you say, ‘There is nothing to seek.' Then, at other times you say, ‘Arouse your determination to cease conceptualization.'... More »
Ted Biringer
Whenever you notice that you are caught up in discrimination, step back into your own fundamental awareness. Do not waste your time comparing differing ideas and notions about this teaching and that teaching. Cease all... More »
Ted Biringer
Personally, I would like to obliterate the vast unnamable fathomless void and extinguish everything that stinks of spiritual practice. Pure and clear awareness is nothing but a booby trap, ceasing conceptualization is the blackest poison... More »
Ted Biringer
Nils asked, "Don't we have to make some kind of effort to awaken?" Louie Wing said, "Yes." Nils said, "Do you still make effort?" Louie Wing said, "Yes." Nils asked, "What kind of effort do... More »
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