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Jim Smith Practice Log #4
Jim Smith Practice Log #4 | Jim Smith | 24/06/24 3:40 |
RE: Jim Smith Practice Log #4 | Jim Smith | 23/06/24 16:51 |
Jim Smith, modificado hace 6 días at 24/06/24 3:40
Created 17 días ago at 12/06/24 22:57
Jim Smith Practice Log #4
Mensajes: 1763 Fecha de incorporación: 17/01/15 Mensajes recientes
My views on meditation and mindfulness are explained here:
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/p/meditation.html
Links I think are helpful:
Links I'm often looking up put here so I can find them easily...
MCTB2 Links
100% capture
https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-vi-my-spiritual-quest/70-around-the-world-and-finding-home/the-second-mbmc-retreat/
never destabilized
https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-vi-my-spiritual-quest/70-around-the-world-and-finding-home/vimuttimagga-the-path-of-freedom/
You know, some people are arahants only on retreat.
https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-vi-my-spiritual-quest/70-around-the-world-and-finding-home/wobble-and-fall/
https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-v-awakening/37-models-of-the-stages-of-awakening/the-theravada-four-path-model/
Daniel:
Utter centerlessness: no watcher, no sense of a watcher, no subtle watcher, no possibility of a watcher.
https://www.dharmaoverground.org/discussion/-/message_boards/message/2715189#_com_liferay_message_boards_web_portlet_MBPortlet_message_2718243
Previous practice logs:
#3 is here
https://www.dharmaoverground.org/discussion/-/message_boards/message/25556111
# 2, is here:
https://www.dharmaoverground.org/discussion/-/message_boards/message/23406442
# 1 is here:
https://www.dharmaoverground.org/discussion/-/message_boards/message/22843214#_com_liferay_message_boards_web_portlet_MBPortlet_message_8496517
https://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/p/meditation.html
Links I think are helpful:
- Shinzen Young Enlightenment Interview: https://www.lionsroar.com/on-enlightenment-an-interview-with-shinzen-young/
- Jack Kornfield, "Enlightenments": https://inquiringmind.com/article/2701_w_kornfield-enlightenments/
- The Stream Entry of Ajahn Chah - By Ajahn Nyanamoli Thero: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/70hh-The-Stream-Entry-of-Ajahn-Chah-1.pdf
- One Tool Among Many The Place of Vipassana in Buddhist Practice by Thanissaro Bhikkhu https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/onetool.html
- A reconsideration of the meaning of "Stream-Entry" considering the data points of both pragmatic Dharma and traditional Buddhism: https://www.reddit.com/r/streamentry/comments/igored/insight_buddhism_a_reconsideration_of_the_meaning/
- The Eight Principles:
https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/RecognizingTheDhamma/Section0004.html
“As for the qualities of which you may know, ‘These qualities lead:
to dispassion, not to passion;
to being unfettered, not to being fettered;
to shedding, not to accumulating;
to modesty, not to self-aggrandizement;
to contentment, not to discontent;
to seclusion, not to entanglement;
to aroused persistence, not to laziness;
to being unburdensome, not to being burdensome’:
You may categorically hold, ‘This is the Dhamma, this is the Vinaya, this is the Teacher’s instruction.’”
Links I'm often looking up put here so I can find them easily...
MCTB2 Links
100% capture
https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-vi-my-spiritual-quest/70-around-the-world-and-finding-home/the-second-mbmc-retreat/
never destabilized
https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-vi-my-spiritual-quest/70-around-the-world-and-finding-home/vimuttimagga-the-path-of-freedom/
You know, some people are arahants only on retreat.
https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-vi-my-spiritual-quest/70-around-the-world-and-finding-home/wobble-and-fall/
https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-v-awakening/37-models-of-the-stages-of-awakening/the-theravada-four-path-model/
Daniel:
Utter centerlessness: no watcher, no sense of a watcher, no subtle watcher, no possibility of a watcher.
https://www.dharmaoverground.org/discussion/-/message_boards/message/2715189#_com_liferay_message_boards_web_portlet_MBPortlet_message_2718243
Previous practice logs:
#3 is here
https://www.dharmaoverground.org/discussion/-/message_boards/message/25556111
# 2, is here:
https://www.dharmaoverground.org/discussion/-/message_boards/message/23406442
# 1 is here:
https://www.dharmaoverground.org/discussion/-/message_boards/message/22843214#_com_liferay_message_boards_web_portlet_MBPortlet_message_8496517
Jim Smith, modificado hace 7 días at 23/06/24 16:51
Created 7 días ago at 23/06/24 16:51
RE: Jim Smith Practice Log #4
Mensajes: 1763 Fecha de incorporación: 17/01/15 Mensajes recientes
I have been meditating a little bit differently lately.
There is a feeling of non-attachment I notice with metta or jhana's. I have been isolating that and just meditating on that feeling with just a tad of the elevated mood that comes from metta or jhana's. It facilitates disengaging the ego.
I've also been thinking of a phrase "Being no one, having nothing" I read in The Magic of Awareness. It's a good compliment to the above, when done with an upbeat mood. I think it's not something you understand through reason, it's something that works into the unconscious mind when you are in a meditative state, (ie it doesn't work through the default network). The meaning is something you feel, if you know from experience that ego clinging is the cause of suffering you can understand/feel that being no one and having nothing would end suffering.
There is a feeling of non-attachment I notice with metta or jhana's. I have been isolating that and just meditating on that feeling with just a tad of the elevated mood that comes from metta or jhana's. It facilitates disengaging the ego.
I've also been thinking of a phrase "Being no one, having nothing" I read in The Magic of Awareness. It's a good compliment to the above, when done with an upbeat mood. I think it's not something you understand through reason, it's something that works into the unconscious mind when you are in a meditative state, (ie it doesn't work through the default network). The meaning is something you feel, if you know from experience that ego clinging is the cause of suffering you can understand/feel that being no one and having nothing would end suffering.