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Ted Biringer
One time, when Louie Wing was walking home from a play with several students, a prostitute accosted him. She said, "There is something about you that makes me think you would be an interesting client.... More »
Ted Biringer
It is never apart from your immediate awareness. Realization is nothing other then awakening to the fact that you and the unnamable void are not two. When you realize that, you awaken from the dream... 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
An Excerpt From The Commentary on Shobogenzo, Genjokoan , in The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing… The Buddha’s truth includes and transcends the many and the one, and so there is life and death, there... More »
Ted Biringer
Frank asked, "If we cease using our minds to conceptualize, how will we be able to solve everyday problems?" Louie Wing said, "Ceasing conceptualization is awakening to the pure and clear luminous nature of your... More »
Ted Biringer
When I talk to you about the unnamable void and ceasing conceptualization, you should be careful about attaching to names and getting caught up conceptualizing about them. The unnamable void is not apart from the... More »
Ted Biringer
Your own true mind contains everything in all space and time. Its operation is infinite and mysterious. It is both the function and essence of all the myriad things. When you awaken, you realize that... More »
Ted Biringer
Do you want to know a way in? Listen! Let go of all your ideas and preconceived notions about right and wrong, ordinary and holy. When thoughts arise, let them arise, observing them from the... More »
Ted Biringer
Thoughts, distractions, temptations, emotions, desires, fears, and passions, are all concomitant with being a human being, where could you ever escape them? It is while you are right in the middle of these that you... More »
Ted Biringer
Awakening to reality is awakening to your own true nature. If you try to discover reality outside your own mind, you are simply adding delusion to delusion. Delusion is like a person in a dream... More »
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