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- Sun Dec 24, 2017 1:44 am
- Forum: Family Life and Relationships
- Topic: past life soul mate
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8910
Re: past life soul mate
and How to disregard my feelings from her if i dont want a relationship? (Romanticism is strong) In my experience, if you have feelings for her, its gonna hurt no matter what you do, so you might as well go for it and have some fun and maybe some happiness as well. Keeping in mind the precepts as b...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:57 am
- Forum: Family Life and Relationships
- Topic: past life soul mate
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8910
Re: past life soul mate
and How to disregard my feelings from her if i dont want a relationship? (Romanticism is strong) In my experience, if you have feelings for her, its gonna hurt no matter what you do, so you might as well go for it and have some fun and maybe some happiness as well. Keeping in mind the precepts as b...
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:32 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: All dhammas are personal, not public
- Replies: 225
- Views: 33121
Re: All dhammas are personal, not public
The oak tree arises from the same causal nexus as the tornado, whether or not it takes the tornado personally is moot. Notions like personal, public (and i am actually unclear on what you meant by that and dont really care to know) and impersonal imo just interfere with the practice of the path, tho...
- Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:17 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8774
Re: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
I emailed my teacher that gave me the "abide with mind" practice. His take on it was that it could have been a number of things and that "whether it was important or unimportant, is secondary to your sincere continuation of the practice you're currently doing." I gotta say i jus...
- Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:07 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8774
Re: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
I emailed my teacher that gave me the "abide with mind" practice. His take on it was that it could have been a number of things and that "whether it was important or unimportant, is secondary to your sincere continuation of the practice you're currently doing." I gotta say i just...
- Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:14 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8774
Re: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
If you don't mind sharing, what Chan method do you practice? After doing a huatou (who is this?) for a while my last instructions were to "abide with mind" Awesome, I love huatou, but I don't have a teacher, so I can't say I really practice it (but I do in a way :embarassed: 8-) ) From wh...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:59 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8774
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:58 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8774
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:49 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8774
Re: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
I think some (whether this accurately reflects the insight tradition or not, I won't comment) consider this blanking out to be true cessation, which occurs at the moment of stream entry, or attainment of higher paths, and is tantamount to the experience of Nibbana, i.e. all conditioned phenomena st...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8774
Re: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
I don't think it has to do with the Buddhist "consciousness". Just about awareness. One must redefine consciousness. I was using the word in its most mundane sense ie: con·scious·ness ˈkän(t)SHəsnəs/ noun noun: consciousness the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings. "...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:21 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8774
Re: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
Hello: The truth is that "blanking outs" are used to describe a very different number of experiences (you can have "blanking outs" because of drowsiness,lack of attention, some of the higher jhanas, attaining the cessation of perception and feeling, etc.) You should first hear t...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 8:43 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8774
Momentary blanking out of consciousness
I experienced a moment of blanking out of consciousness and seem to remember reading about this as a side effect of insight meditation (which i do not practice, i do a chan method). It was disconcerting, like being completly gone for a split second while wide awake and then blinking back into existe...
- Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:21 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Stephen Batchelor's “After Buddhism.” Yale University Press, 2015
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7443
Re: Stephen Batchelor's “After Buddhism.” Yale University Press, 2015
I invite you to test batchelors materialist philosophy, which he calls a kind of buddhism, against this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Dharma_Seals
- Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:15 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Stephen Batchelor's “After Buddhism.” Yale University Press, 2015
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7443
Re: Stephen Batchelor's “After Buddhism.” Yale University Press, 2015
Batchelors "Buddhism" has seemed to me to be an admixture of mostly materialism and sour grapes. Which is what many of us came to Buddhism seeking to remedy. Rather than seeking a way to see beyond the cage that his culture and education have built for him, he is trying to convince the re...
- Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:30 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Stephen Batchelor's “After Buddhism.” Yale University Press, 2015
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7443
Re: Stephen Batchelor's “After Buddhism.” Yale University Press, 2015
Batchelors "Buddhism" has seemed to me to be an admixture of mostly materialism and sour grapes. Which is what many of us came to Buddhism seeking to remedy. Rather than seeking a way to see beyond the cage that his culture and education have built for him, he is trying to convince the res...