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Tag Archives: samadhi
Nirvana: Early Foundations
The early formulations of Nirvana hinges upon primary ideations of what constitutes life after death. Materialists would not even consider notions of what happens to the corporeal frame after the life cycle ended. For them all life simply ceases to … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Quiescence, eternalists, nirvana, samadhi, samāpatti, Yoga
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Spontaneous Illumination
Shastra on the Importance of Entering the Path of Spontaneous Awakening 1. I reverently bow before all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from the Ten Directions, as well as all Awakened Beings who espouse the Bodhimind. In composing this humble Shastra, … Continue reading
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Tagged biguan, Bodhimind, Ch'an, Original Mind, samadhi, Unborn Mind
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Coming in March 2016: Korean Sŏn
Sŏn is the Korean pronunciation of the Sanskrit, Dhyāna. Sŏn is also comparable with samādhi although it takes on a different connotation from our usual rendering. Tsung-mi expounds that it is a comprehensive equation for both samādhi and prajña. Sŏn’s … Continue reading
Nichiren Nights and the Great Tendai Sun
From this series on the Lotus Sutra it’s not hard to imagine why mystical-movements evolved from its teachings. The Japanese Tendai-School has its roots within the Chinese Tiantai Tradition and was established by a monk named Saichō, whom like his … Continue reading
Choosing the right path out of spiritual confusion and misfortune
To a mind divided and blinded by the dissonant vibrations of doubt, fear and uncertainty it is very hard to see and choose the right path to salvation. One should never forget that ultimately it is the illuminative knowledge … Continue reading
The Destruction of Screens
The Destruction of Screens: A man who humbly enters on the path Holds a begging bowl to help all beings How can he crave for those sense data Through which he falls into five passions? He has rejected five desires … Continue reading
Fusion
iii. 3. First-range Samadhi 3.3 Total Mind Absorption Swami Venkatesananda translates this sutra as: When the field of observation and the observing intelligence merges as if their own form is abolished and the total intelligence shines as the sole substance … Continue reading
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Tagged fusion, illumination, meditation, Mircea Eliade, samadhi, Swami Venkatesananda, yogin
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Yoga’s Eight Limbs
https://www.annieb-art.co.uk/ ii. 28-29 Yoga’s Eight-Limbs are the means to transformation 2.28 When the impurities have dried-up, Right Perception dawns pointing the way to Re-union with the Unborn. The upcoming sutras focus on Patañjali’s practical means to subdue the skandhas and … Continue reading
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Tagged Asana, Dharana, Dhyana, Eight Limbs of Yoga, Niyama, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Raja Yoga, Right Posture, samadhi, transformation, Unborn, Yama
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The Settled Mind
Verily, I tell you truly, any object you have on your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost truth. —MEISTER ECKHART Book I:Samādhi Samādhi—the settled mind—is the most delicate state of awareness– Alistair Shearer … Continue reading
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Tagged fluctuations, Meister Eckhart, Mind, mind-stuff, Pluralized Outflows, samadhi, Unborn, Unbounded Consciousness, vrtti, Yoga
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Tozen: The four states of Zen bliss/samadhi by means of Tathagata Zen
A good student asked me; “If IT (the light) is a feeling, it is not the self. Then how is uniting with a feeling the right progress (practice)? ” My rather lengthy answer, which I recommend you read several … Continue reading
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Tagged Four states of Zen bliss, Mind, samadhi, Tathagata, Tathagata Zen, Tozen, Unborn Mind, Zen
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