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The Insomnia Paradox: Stop Trying to Sleep (The 100% Acceptance Zen Method)

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Photo by now-waker If you are staring at the ceiling at 3 AM, paralyzed by the thought, "Why can't I just fall asleep?," you are already losing the war against insomnia.  The intense striving to control or fix the problem—the "trying to sleep"—becomes the very fuel that ensures wakefulness.  Venerable Korean Zen Master, Beopsang Sunim , teaches that suffering is not the sleeplessness itself, but our resistance to it.  Sunim radically suggests that problems are not meant to be solved one by one; rather, "The answer is always within the problem, and knowing a single truth will solve any problem instantly."  That single truth is the wisdom realized by the Buddha: the knowledge of the Three Marks of Existence—Impermanence, Suffering, and Non-Self —and the realization of the true nature of 'I'. The Mechanism of Deluded Discrimination and Emptiness  Sunim explains that everything in life is a continuous stream of Manifestations, arising and passing ...
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Why Can't I Be Happy? The Heart Sutra's Answer to Endless Chasing

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A Journey from Philosophy to the Profound Teachings of Venerable Beopsang  It wasn't a sudden flash of light or a magic answer.  It was the gentle, profound realization that the ultimate truth, sought out of curiosity through a long journey into philosophy and the cosmos, is not a distant goal, but is instantly present, here and now .  Photo by now-waker Introduction: My Unexpected Path to the Buddha  From Western Philosophy to the Authentic Heart of Dharma  For years, my greatest passion was exploring the vastness of the cosmos and the deepest questions of philosophy.  I dove into the works of Eastern and Western thinkers—from Lao Tzu to Hegel, Deleuze, and Derrida—always searching for the fundamental truth of existence.  Though my mother was a devout Buddhist, the tradition felt distant, a subject I simply hadn't prioritized.  My first encounter was purely intellectual. Reading a book like "Intellectual Conversations for Shallow but Wide Knowled...
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