Awakening: Turning the Mind Toward the Dharma by Joseph Goldstein
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Narrated by: Joseph Goldstein
Date: 2009-07-25
Place: Spirit Rock Meditation Center
The four mind-changing reflections: precious human birth, impermanence, karma and the defects of samsara.
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Settling Back Into The Moment: A Meditator’s Inspirational Guide
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The Experience of Insight
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Beautiful, thank you 🙏
You are amazing, making me wise.
🙏🙏🙏🌻
To think you attain anything is itself an illusion. Real awakening cannot be explained in words. Don't contemplate just keep cutting away all your delusion through being absolutely in the moment. The mind/self wants to think, wants to experience, wants to classify and name things, wants to gain and achieve things. When you understand that you were never really born, nor will you really die...then and only then, will you have a small understanding of the Buddha's, Nisagardatta, Nagarjuna, and Ikkyu awakening experiences. Nothing is attained and nothing is gained except laughter. All the best. Marco.
Thank you 🙏
You’re welcome 😊🙏
I need someone to talk to about thought content and equanimity. I’m having constant distress over watching breathing and being in my body. Is this normal? No one to talk to. Everyone says take medicine. This started when meditating. I’m losing my mind
Probably because for the first time you are noticing your disconnection from your breath and body, and the discomforts of being here and not there ( in thoughts, in busy mode of doing) and you are reckoned to meet yourself in the stillness. This is normal for most of us, especially if we have trauma stored in our bodies through repression of emotions and feelings from early childhood. Thich Banh Hanh used to say " sitting meditation is not a punishment, you are sitting, resting and enjoying your sitting", so relax your mind when things gets claustrophobic when you fixate on your breath and body sensation. The point is to let go of the fixation. Touch the space, the spaciousness by opening your eyes and taking in what's here and then go back to breath and body. Gradually, it will get easier to go inwards without overwhelming aversion. 🙌🏽🙏🏽
The mind, soul and flesh are three separate components that appear to be as One., when one's awareness/character is animating a single body made of dense physical material.
The most horrific of illusions that's played out over and over again in almost every life is having no choice but to identify as these momentary vessel's.
"God" is a recently (relatively speaking) fertilized egg from within a higher vibrational plane of existence.
All realms, awarenesses and realities stem from that singular point of conception.
There's no reason to fear, kill over or worship that which "you" are already a part of.
Don't confuse "your" self with the animal in the mirror., that's not who or what "you" are.
Lastly, medication is mostly used to treat what "professionals" have no clue about., all it is to "them" is trial-and-error and illusory profit.
I hope you can stay with meditations one breath at a time. Even a count to ten or a three minute meditation.
I've read just the intention to meditate is enough, is of benefit.
Wishing you peace in your days in and out of any meditation.
It helps to just observe your thoughts only. Do not think... feel your presence and forget everything else. You will be OK.
Be gentle, light as a butterfly. Do not concentrate so intensely on the breath; you could not forget to do it, as it is more like being breathed into than forcing yourself to breathe. Have no fear about it as you have been doing it since birth. Relax and enjoy it; it's a built-in pacifier, a refuge. All your thinking is a work-product - it's difficult to see it as abstract, made of symbolic logic and representations of reality if one is identified with one's successful career and accomplishments. Take a break from work and be on a beach or cushion or anyplace where a mental to-do list will not interfere. It can be helpful to have a mental image of a candle flame, or a phrase, sound or mantra to focus on so that the thoughts cannot hijack your mind. Be patient and kind with it all.
As Obestetrician & Surgeon, the most valuable precious act is delivering fetal head from birth canal by natural means. Up bringing a single child into healthy responsible adult is more difficult than studying medicine and specialising . Agreed with Buddy 100 percent as Amun and medical doctor. His mind was so enlightened as most other profits in all religions. Thank you and god blessings.
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instant mistrust.
@@rickysantosjr4380 I also wonder about the mistrust.
I guess we are when we are.
It's taken me several decades to discover so much that now seems shoulda been obvious.
I used to be oblivious.
I'm so very grateful!