Theravada bhikkhuni and scholar of early Buddhism Ven. Dhammadinna discusses her lecture on identity and epistemology based on the earliest teachings
personhood
Marma Points
I want to tell you something that is born out of the erosion of words. Here, hold the bottom of my chin. Touch my upper lip. Press the back of my earlobe. Take my right index fingerand feel that pinging impulse. Do you feel it? That is electricity. My cells are trying to tell youso that you will […]
Elegy for Nirvana
Signless and aimless,I have come to accept that I amwho I amlooking for. I am already what I havesearched for. As the master taught: Barn’s burned down- now I can see the moon. What do I see when the moonlooks at me? The memory of my muscles aching for you to see me. […]
The Face I Choose To Wear The Most Often
The face I choose to wear the most often is not a face. It is an intricate network of crossed out lines. It will not stop viewingonce you change the channel. Full of singleneurons in the brain, it sinks into the centralnervous system like an evolutionary inheritanceof compassion, the kind that can’t be consumedlike the sacraments. Soaring […]