interested in cross-cultural parallels in contemplative practice
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https://utexas.academia.edu/DavidCollins
[header is the rock garden at Ryōan-ji; avatar is an enso]
The numbers of followers for this account increased this week. I'll re-post an essay I have online which reflects on the present-day "mindfulness" movement.
In that piece, about half-way through, I mention the experience of practicing the jhānas ... and ...
thesideview.co/journal/deco...
from writing I'm doing on Plotinus, regarding some of the ways he portrays and gestures towards contemplative experience that's more immediate than thoughts and words (and is, hence, effectively "selfless," given how our concept of self is a generated thing)
from writing I'm doing on Plotinus, regarding some of the ways he portrays and gestures towards contemplative experience that's more immediate than thoughts and words (and is, hence, effectively "selfless," given how our concept of self is a generated thing)
Here “body” and “suchness” are terms for “honesty”—an honesty more immediate, wonderful, and matter-of-fact than words.
Here “body” and “suchness” are terms for “honesty”—an honesty more immediate, wonderful, and matter-of-fact than words.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP...
"Oh no — you must get energy from this work!"
That perspective has been a help.
I don't follow a lot of football — but Drake May (true) is my brother's wife's daughter's ex-boyfriend's brother ...
So it's a family thing. 🙂
I don't follow a lot of football — but Drake May (true) is my brother's wife's daughter's ex-boyfriend's brother ...
So it's a family thing. 🙂
before it being about whether it was right or wrong,
before there was a judgement or an evaluation.
The sense of tonight’s meditation was about what was going on.
before it being about whether it was right or wrong,
before there was a judgement or an evaluation.
The sense of tonight’s meditation was about what was going on.
first draft of some writing I'm doing tonight on unific, non-dual experiencing as it's portrayed by Plotinus
first draft of some writing I'm doing tonight on unific, non-dual experiencing as it's portrayed by Plotinus
(1) emptiness
(2) absence of (truly existing) attributes
(3) absence of expectancy"
Yönten Gyamtso
Treasury of Precious Qualities
And the more I do it, the more basic I find it to be. Like tonight, where the sense was simply—
what is happening is what does the meditation.
And the more I do it, the more basic I find it to be. Like tonight, where the sense was simply—
what is happening is what does the meditation.
"All life...is activity {energeia}...a movement {kinesis} which is not random...the activity of life is an artistic activity {technike}, like the way in which one who is dancing {orchoumenos} is moved"
*orchoumenos* is related to "orchestra," lit. "dance place"
"All life...is activity {energeia}...a movement {kinesis} which is not random...the activity of life is an artistic activity {technike}, like the way in which one who is dancing {orchoumenos} is moved"
*orchoumenos* is related to "orchestra," lit. "dance place"
Zen teacher Mazu said, “What is the meaning of this moment?”
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(in Andrew Ferguson, *Zen's Chinese Heritage*)
— Aldous Huxley
Zen teacher Mazu said, “What is the meaning of this moment?”
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(in Andrew Ferguson, *Zen's Chinese Heritage*)