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by m0rl0ck
Sun Dec 24, 2017 1:44 am
Forum: Family Life and Relationships
Topic: past life soul mate
Replies: 11
Views: 8837

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...
by m0rl0ck
Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:57 am
Forum: Family Life and Relationships
Topic: past life soul mate
Replies: 11
Views: 8837

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...
by m0rl0ck
Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:32 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: All dhammas are personal, not public
Replies: 225
Views: 32816

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...
by m0rl0ck
Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:17 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
Replies: 33
Views: 8680

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...
by m0rl0ck
Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:07 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
Replies: 33
Views: 8680

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...
by m0rl0ck
Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:14 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
Replies: 33
Views: 8680

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...
by m0rl0ck
Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:59 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
Replies: 33
Views: 8680

Re: Momentary blanking out of consciousness

ToVincent wrote: Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:54 pm
m0rl0ck wrote: Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:46 pm I was using the word in its most mundane sense ie:
con·scious·ness
ˈkän(t)SHəsnəs/
O, I see!
You might find your answer at 1:00

I think it's all about frëk(t)eSHi/an.



:)
Good stuff :jumping:
by m0rl0ck
Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:58 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
Replies: 33
Views: 8680

Re: Momentary blanking out of consciousness

aflatun wrote: Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:42 pm

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"
by m0rl0ck
Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:49 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
Replies: 33
Views: 8680

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...
by m0rl0ck
Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:46 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
Replies: 33
Views: 8680

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. "...
by m0rl0ck
Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:21 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
Replies: 33
Views: 8680

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...
by m0rl0ck
Sat Dec 16, 2017 8:43 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Momentary blanking out of consciousness
Replies: 33
Views: 8680

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...
by m0rl0ck
Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:21 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Stephen Batchelor's “After Buddhism.” Yale University Press, 2015
Replies: 25
Views: 7398

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
by m0rl0ck
Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:15 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Stephen Batchelor's “After Buddhism.” Yale University Press, 2015
Replies: 25
Views: 7398

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...
by m0rl0ck
Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:30 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Stephen Batchelor's “After Buddhism.” Yale University Press, 2015
Replies: 25
Views: 7398

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...