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Ways of Knowing
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This is a wiki for the Kira Ways of Knowing Workshop. We have weekly meetings at Kira Cafe in the virtual world Second Life on Thursday at 2:00 pm SLT. Although, you can drop in at any time :) Please, see the events calendar.
Notice: The Workshop with Stim Morane finished on Jan. 7th 2010. Informal discussions have been taking place weekly from Jan. 17th 2010.
Latest Additions
- Recent discussions: 05.19.2011 - Nisargadatta II [Notion of Self]
- Homework: From Zen
- "After a few years of strenuous retreating, I ordained as a Buddhist monk and went on a pilgrimage to Bombay in January 1980, to visit the renowned sage Nisargadatta Maharaj. I had known of him years earlier through his book I Am That. After a few days of bantering back and forth about my attachment to being a monk, he said, “You are like a man holding a flashlight, trying to run beyond its beam. The view you are holding…is undermining your intent.” Rodney Smith
http://www.tricycle.com/dharma-talk/undivided-mind
Q: how much does what we know already (or clinging to what we know already, i.e. having fixed views) - undermine our ability to be open to new learning? On the other hand, we don't have to examine the teachings of every new faddist new age spiritual teacher who comes along do we?
- Weekly homework discussion group!
NEW TIME: TBC at Buyeo - Ways of Knowing now has a forum for wiki members at http://waysofknowing.kira.org/forum/index.php
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