Jim Smith Practice Log #4

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Jim Smith, שונה לפני 6 ימים at 03:40 24/06/24
Created 17 ימים ago at 22:57 12/06/24

Jim Smith Practice Log #4

פרסומים: 1763 תאריך הצטרפות: 17/01/15 פרסומים אחרונים
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...
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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:
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#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
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Jim Smith, שונה לפני 7 ימים at 16:51 23/06/24
Created 7 ימים ago at 16:51 23/06/24

RE: Jim Smith Practice Log #4

פרסומים: 1763 תאריך הצטרפות: 17/01/15 פרסומים אחרונים
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.

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