[Rategbee]

If we can accept this, we will be immortal, because if we do not exist, how can we grow old or die? This immortality is not eternal life. It is freedom from the “delusion of existence.” This is the immortality shown by the Buddha, which can be gained through the evolution of consciousness. When the human consciousness has evolved, to the level where this truth has been fully comprehended, the struggle for existence stops, but this can happen only in the absence of interfering blind emotions, This is why Buddhist meditation is of two types: first freeing the mind of emotions (samatha), and then developing the thinking faculty that helps in understanding (vipassana).

Ah. I'm not sure I care for what Sobeh points out as the "late-night infomrercial" feel of the website, but a casual scan of the Dhamma the Venerable is talking about seems solid and in accordance with the Buddha's teachings.


I suspect that the dramatics are intended to stoke interest or provoke.



I especially like the Venerable's emphasis on the paradigm shift from "existence" to "experience". That is something I have been talking about for years.