《2024靜坐大綱》

2024.01.06► [Q&A] 解脫道中的信望愛

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2024.01.13► [Q&A] 导引：内在探寻／導引：內在探尋

• Locating the feeling of me in the body

• Are you that sensation or are you the awareness of that sensation?

• Where is this awareness situated?

• Being yourself/being aware: does it require exertion?

• If you detect exertion, is it not an instance of attention, as opposed to awareness

• Marveling at awareness as it is the most wondrous "non-thing"; gazing at God; loss in God

• It is intention, thought, attention that are lost in God; you are not lost

• The sense of self that is devoid of/ vs that comprises of intention, thought, attention...

• The I thought, intention, attention... borrows the light, cannot exist on their own, other than being supported by awareness

• Awareness itself is unsupported; not a thing 

• the so-called mind are only thoughts, put together by concerns and love and treated as if possessing real meanings; thoughts are only animated when infused with intention

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2024.01.20► [Q&A] 寂止默然

• The Buddha's own preference; the true indication of attainments

• Inner speech, narratives, multitudes of mental defilements

• Constructive vs indeterminate nondiscrimination; Inner quietude as a sign of surrendering intentions

• Superficial connections vs partaking in peace/recognizing sentience

• Right Speech, and the Superior Speech

• How and where are you expending energies

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2024.01.27► [Q&A] 有关灭尽定／有關滅盡定

• The nirodha

• The model: layers of sankharas and the undefinable core (as opposed to the commentarial reductionism); shedding off the sankharas means sustained seclusion from them; seclusion from eager participation in them; your eager participation perpetuates them

• The role of equanimity; the possible subtle sankharas relating to equanimity

• The cessation of feeling & perception

• The former means non-dependence and non-feeding (using the Form Realm as example)

• The latter means non-discrimination and non-participation (using the Formless Realm as example)

• The nirodha in the "three dependences" is same as this nirodha

• The post-nirodha transformation: permanently altered relationship with and regarding to sankharas; the experiencing of the Deathless; technically, both should happen; such a transformation is non-reversible, and remains regardless the episodic contents

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2024.02.03► [Q&A] 识缘名色 名色缘六入／識緣名色 名色緣六入

• Name and form; new interpretation

• how it relates to consciousness and six senses

• Dhammapada 24: "Gone to the beyond of becoming,

you let go of in front,

let go of behind,

let go of between.

With a heart everywhere let-go,

'you' don't come again to birth

& aging." 

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2024.02.17► [Q&A] 解脫道中的培植福本

• For those who are earnest...

• More important than rules and regulation is embodied mindset

• Embodied abundance; aristocratic elegance; equality and sincerity to all

• Embodied security; connected to the source; fundamental to all experiences, which are not suppressed, is peace

• Embodied happiness; giving not because of self-denial, but because it is joyful

• Your life will change for the better without scheming or striving

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2024.02.24► [Q&A] 五蓋 和 心念住

• The hindrances (i.e. hindrances to jhanas) are not just impediments to attentional focus, but are described as "causes of blindness, causes of ignorance, destructive to wisdom, not conducive to Nibbana." (SN 46:40)

• The commentarial notion of knocking out vs killing bandits

• Satipatthana is dynamic

• Dispassion toward mental processes; they are not here to serve you; don't trust them; they are but repetitions of restlessness, torpor, boredom, excitation...

• It's only in mental processes that the five hindrances are evident; they are the "wrinkles"; it's only in self identification that they are evident; they are the symptoms of a mind that has already been wrapped up and swept away

• Pacify the mind until the currents are not felt; if the currents are not felt, the water is not felt; emptiness of mind

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2024.03.02► [Q&A] 厌离 是 高级懒／厭離 是 高級懶

• Not complaining and not explaining, inside and outside

• Too lazy for thoughts, descriptions, conclusions, judgments...

• The "I am so and so” is but the loudest of noises, the most recurring of

impressions

• Too lazy to cohere as a person, to borrow something from past or future

• Too lazy to turn attention every which way, and too lazy to suppress it

• Only stress, its origination and disappearance; only presence, space, awareness, not-a-thing... 

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2024.03.09► [Q&A] 松进觉知中／鬆進覺知中

• When you're embodying sadness, tension, etc. in the background awareness

• The intensity of the movie and the untouchability of the screen; even smoothness is an attribute

• The undefinable, attribute-less...Doing nothing and entrusting; no struggle 

• Parasympathetic vs sympathetic; stress mode vs relaxation mode

• Primary verb at the moment: want, do, have

• The intensity of that verb; seclusion from that verb; to be

• Relaxation at the levels of muscles, attitudes, grip on thoughts

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2024.03.16► [Q&A] 超越一切见(見)

• The indeterminate; loosening grip on everything; conserving energy; letting go of doership and control

• All explanatory models break down; the example of time: beginningless or with beginning

• Will an explanation satisfy? How long will it satisfy? Can you remember this after death/trauma?

• Explanation as placating and appeasement; explanation just as a practical means of directing and guiding intention; be content with just this

• Instead of working on views, work on the intention behind questioning

• Omniscience in the Dhamma

• What doesn't need explanation? Self knowing, origination and disappearance of stress

• Stay with those what is self-evident, and don't be swayed by contents of thoughts; do you become dogmatic, insistent, quarrelsome?  

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2024.03.23► [Q&A] 渡化苦厄

• Mental defilement IS the learned response to certain feelings; all three feelings make the body/mind fidget, in the form of craving, aversion, boredom……

• Hardship is nothing other than resistance to feelings; let go of resistance, feel feelings fully, no expectations, accept even the feelings of resistance, let go of even the striving to let go

• Forsaking reactions

• Ghosts and demons

• Daqi, non-cowering, no self pity, not playing the victim…… 

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2024.03.30► [Q&A] 内在的宁静 是道／內在的寧靜 是道

• Natural peace; which is present when one is awake or asleep; which is not in the least bit disturbed

• The path is only there when there's not one with, or when there's a tendency toward rebellion against, peace

• Quiet the mind; different methods; not by ways of forceful fabrication; the example of recollecting the sages' minds

• Convincing consciousness of its own source and nature

• Simulation; artificial

• Ways to correct the artificiality: what separate intentions are there? What controlling desires are there? What remaining pushing away is there? How did you lose it? Did you really lose it? I am peace 

2024.04.06► [Q&A] 内在的净居天／內在的淨居天

• The psycho-behavioral archetypes of Buddhist heavens

• 淨居天一切時不住於輪迴側

• Meaningless differentiation between figurative and literal places

• Don't just leave behind sensuality for dogma; what is the reason...

• What destroys peace...

• Letting go of guilt; Think of sensuality in terms of: clarity and peace compromised

• What compromises peace: eagerness, impatience, hunger, fever……

• What compromises clarity: ignorance about sensuality (limitations; doesn't lend itself to hoarding; endless rivalry and worry...) 

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2024.04.13► [Q&A] 心安静下来後／心安靜下來後

• Quieting down via non-formal-meditative techniques

• What to do with equanimity?

• 1. deepen and familiarize it

• 2. examine if there's sankhara, in support of it, in identifying it

• 3. examine craving

• 4. knowing the nature of mind, via the liberation gates

• Some of these might be redundant or unnecessary

• All leading to letting go 

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2024.04.20► [Q&A] 没有捉执(執)的意识(識) 是觉(覺)知

• AN10.81, the Buddha abides in unrestricted awareness, having been released from the aggregates; this means that unrestricted awareness is not consciousness

• Consciousness as that which maps reality; consciousness with attributes, landing, reflected surface...consciousness as that which is intoxicated by its reflected image

• As a traveler, as a story, as a hoarder, as a sensory experiencer……

• Be dispassionate about memory, inclination, doership, ownership, character...

• The cohering of a glob of foam; where is mind when its structures are not believed in?Where is mind when there's no activity to hold together the structure?

• The border of a personality is held together by continual striving; when there's surrender, there's unrestricted awareness; the pattern of a river

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2024.04.27► [Q&A] 身念住引導

• Not the usual idea of  body, but as bundle of neuroticism; mental defilements as strugle

• One angle to "pacifying activities": make them fewer

• Another angle: regard them with indifference

• Looking for ways to conserve energy; looking for ways that you can content the body

• See mental defilements as bodily agitation and inner tightening  

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2024.05.04► [Q&A] 十六胜行最初二阶／十六勝行最初二階

• MN10 turner assessment, to Patisambhidamagga's contact point

• Task focused, not point or location focused

• Parimukha:正念現前(菩提流支);住對面念(玄奘);正念而住(義淨)

• Situational awareness vs attentional fixity; Citta-ekagga

• The so-called optimal environment, or conducive environment; But in the end, learn to be at ease even at one's failure to be at ease; learn to let go even at one's struggle at letting go

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2024.05.11► [Q&A] 涅盘临界／涅槃臨界

• AN9.36; discerning the verge of nibbana

• What is nibbana and stream entry; regarding/selfing

• Cessation; neither existence or non-existence; not having come from or going to somewhere 

• Imperturbable peace

• What is more compelling? The call of sankharas, or the refuge in peace? Initially, the contrast and lopsidedness are not complete, but there will be signs that they are beginning to lean

• The way they lean: the locus of one's security; the waning sankharic forces; the increasing pervading of peace; complete disillusionment about what selfing does; the destruction of pride; the destruction of insistence on harmfulness; readiness for humility and faith 

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2024.05.25► [Q&A] 身念住的关键(關鍵)在身行 而非身体(體)

• Body as a lump of mass vs body as bundles of neurotic tendencies and reactions; the former is but a forerunner to enhanced sensitivity for the latter

• Don't focus so much on the border, but on the borderless impulses; the manner in which you seize, pick up, rush forward, cower, aggress...

• Even in physical stillness, one should focus on sankharas: those yet to arise, or the subtle ones, or the state of absence of them

• In your dreams, your body is not the literal body, but the neurotic tendencies you take with you; the body you're reborn with is but an emblem/representation of karmic tendencies

• The euphoric and charismatic phenomena; not to be duplicated in themselves; rather, it's the pacification of craving/sankhara that leads to wellbeing; focus on the latter

• The satipatthana topic is always a key whose focus leads to liberation; in this case, the sankharas that is behind intentions

• Pacification of bodily sankharas: relax them; not reveling in them; not embedding your sense of self; not rushing in with passion; indifference; disinterested in fabrications

• Sankharas made to seem illusory 

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2024.06.01► [Q&A] 慈悲喜舍(捨) 到 解脱道 的 自然过(過)渡

• The bramaviharas could be summarized as a friendly and accepting attitudes

• The affected/fabricated vs the natural friendliness and acceptance

• Other experiences that can be separated into these two: worldly happiness; intimacy...

• Fake it until you make it

• The use of a chant like huanxijieshou or youshan or jiena

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2024.06.08► [Q&A] 究竟的栖心之所／究竟的棲心之所

• What is a perch? It's really another way of saying selfing and meditative object; Examples of a sensual/form/formless perch; satipatthana as a perch

• Whatever the meditative technique, it is to be polished so that it merges with awareness and becomes identical with it

• Before they are identical, consciousness would always try to render awareness an intentional object and objectify it; the use of the liberation gates; when objectified, it is a formless, rather than a liberative state

• You can choose a technique that is closer to this ultimate goal

• What is immediate, right here, requiring no effort, all encompassing, immovable

• The so-called consciousness is the insistence that there's someone separate from awareness 

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2024.06.15► [Q&A] 寻觅念头了不可得／尋覓念頭了不可得

• The thought of when you're a hungry ghost incompatible with the thought of when you're something else

• Thoughts have a tendency to invite subjectivity; your imperturbability is a sign of dispassion and freedom from conceit

• Where do they arise? Where do they disappear? Time-wise, do they abide at all? Do they persist from one moment to the next? Space-wise, do they move from one location to another location? Even the notion of impermanence doesn't seem to apply—where this edge of beginning, or ending?

• The most compelling and the most illusory

• Where is the thinker other than this subjectivity feeling in thoughts? 

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2024.06.22► [Q&A] 於五蕴无有捉执／於五蘊無有捉執

• Not applying intention to body and mind; not seizing on body and mind

• Whatever needs be done still will be done

• Is there imagination? Are there hopes and fears? Is there tight holding? Defensive gesture? Holding attention captive, or being allowed to appear in awareness? Are there thoughts of me and mine?

• There's no stirring up in the body; there's no fascination with regards to mental contents

• Transparent and unobstructed throughout

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2024.06.29► [Q&A] 善巧调控与捐弃调控／善巧調控與捐棄調控

• The path of fabricating skillfulness and the path of surrender converge eventually

• Innate control vs neurotic control; innate control vs reckless abandon; the breathing system work on its own

• Relaxed wakefulness and groundedness; they give rise to felicitous actions

• The perception of activities happening spontaneously and on their own

• The end of fabricating skillfulness is arrival at effortlessness; the practice of surrender is arrival at innate control 

2024.07.06► [Q&A] 自然宽坦的觉知／自然寬坦的覺知

• It's just about quieting down; and probably what helps the most with quieting down is relaxing; when you're relaxed, you understand that awareness is not something you can find, but be

• In quieting down, you'll understand sensual craving always about what's next; while jhanas is not rejecting any pleasure, on what's available here; you'll see the nature of conceit always fixating on where you are, can do, attain...

• Posturing; physical and mental; the obstructions and affectations; concentration a sort of posturing, involving suppression and exertion; any posturing, even skillful ones, creates karma and rebirth

• rebirth means inheritable memory; so called attainment is just a thought, part of that inheritable memory of what the person has become; meditation about releasing and not creating memories

• Resting; but not resting with dreams and unexposed impulses; when rested, mental defilements will be seen as unnatural energies

• It's not concentrative awareness or confrontative noting; it's more about receiving and relaxing; you don't even need particular focusing; Borrowing light from natural awareness; alertness means exposing impulses and habits

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2024.07.13► [Q&A] 合适(適)於解脱的心理环(環)境

• Why the different receptivity for the Dhamma? Rendering one's psychological environment compatible

• Narcissists taking tears to be mockery; paranoids taking tears to be ploys

• The two misunderstandings about the ancient Buddhist gatha: moralism; infinite diversification of one's resources

• Sila is not about legality but about removing disturbances; threefold training serves the same purpose

• What is skillful is that which is less burdensome and more conducive to inner peace; examples of different kinds of happiness and crying; kindness over machinations; effortless kindness over ideological altruism

• Being easy to support is not about self mortification, but about ease; don't dwell on what is not helpful, but train in compassionate equanimity

• The guilt of having harmed others vs the difficulty created by others

• Never domineer, always respectful; genuine humility not feigned; let difficulties strengthen, and don't let enjoyments intoxicate

• If you continue to entangle in the trivial, then there would be great resistance to liberation

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2024.07.20► [Q&A] 你的修行 是 积(積)累记忆(記憶) 或 化解记忆？

• Fear of forgetfulness

• Does forgetfulness lead to primitive defilements or shedding of load?

• Seeing unconscious as collective, impersonal; the forces capable of forming sentient beings; inner and outer beings

• The unequal weighting of three times

• Whose storage is superior, if the storage is unfathomable? The temporary personality and the silliness of taking pride/shame over it

• collection of neurotic patterns/contractions

• Like deconditioning any habit, equanimous awareness and relinquishment deprive memory of its ability to impart influence

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2024.07.27► [Q&A] 禅那的定义／禪那的定義

• The state of dispassion, sustained dispassion, willingness to subscribe to dispassion, willingness and capacity to further develop dispassion, gladness/pleasure/ekagga/peace from dispassion...

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2024.08.03► [Q&A] 动作中的觉知／動作中的覺知

• Use heart, not so much brain

• The "just this" attitude

• The galvanizing energy

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2024.08.10► [Q&A] 我见为何又叫身见／我見為何又叫身見

• 有身

• Scattered moon reflection; the moving body vs the moving images; the protagonist's perspective Part of that personality view is that awareness emanates from this body and is contained therein

• Leaning on those patterns; cohering them; corner occupancy as opposed to holistic awareness; neuroticism and constriction

• Not aiming to rid of sense of being or reflectivity; but not buying into those beliefs 

• Awareness and not self

• Whatever is struggling is not self...striving...thought...not peaceful...is not self

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2024.08.17► [Q&A] 无色界的简单说明／無色界的簡單說明

• Seclusion from the ever changing and the exerted...exerting to build an identity in the ever changing

• With regards to the unchanging, there still might be exertion, which itself is changing

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2024.08.24► [Q&A] 交托 信靠／交託 信靠

• The natural state and the necessary evil of antidotes

• Theist analogy: entrusting oneself; turning over the burden; turning over the past; thy will be done, surrendering one's will; surrendering one's individuality; trusting that one is completely pervaded by the divine; be done with desire; there's nothing that is not the divine/awareness

• You own everything, I own nothing; you are everything, I am nothing; you are eternal life, I am dying; every thing is done via thy will, I am powerless; God provides, and I will not lack

• Fully admitting one's limitations and wretchedness

• Not taking refuge in idolatry

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2024.08.31► [Q&A] 无(無)所依止的全然平安

• Non-dependency and personality view; the sensation of taking a position, squinting one's eyes...vs the sensation of rest, openness, unobstructedness

• With destruction of personality view, it is easy to disidentify with thoughts and other aggregates

• The scary prospect of having nothing to depend upon; on deathbed...

• So why non-dependency leads to fearlessness?

• Basic space: not requiring you to do or become; its nature is quiescent and non- obstructed

• The tactile sensation of dependency, concern, weighing...

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2024.09.07► [Q&A] 超越我见的步骤／超越我見的步驟

• The supramundane qinghua: integrity and simplicity (so that mechanisms are bypassed); recognition of suffering (the problem with neuroticism)

• From not believing in thoughts to not believing in personality view

• Personality, a belief; otherwise, only sensations, perceptions, and thoughts; this belief has to be sustained by neuroticism

• Examine how the sensations, perceptions, or thoughts might be supporting the belief

• You're only susceptible to thoughts and personality belief when you're neurotic

• Taking sensations as they are; this is also the basis for subverting all perceptions, which "self" is one kind

• "I'm not this," on the other hand, is sustained by relaxation, surrender, settling into effortlessness; it may start as a belief, but will end in "as is"

• View, perception, citta

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2024.09.14► [Q&A] 超越我执的关键─放松／超越我執的關鍵─放鬆

• Personality view cannot be destroyed by just philosophical study; robust equanimity renders the mind resistant to being tempted into convictions, neuroticism, tightness...--basis for personality view

• Scriptural accounts of equanimity from first, second...jhanas; Various methods to arrive at equanimity: seclusion, surrender, discernment, skillful vitakka, signlessness...it amounts to relaxation; even the so called I am awareness method leads to this

• My understanding of meditation evolved from doing concentration to relaxation; the real meaning of dingshenghui; leading to relaxation of n of clinging, cohering, seizing...; being ekagga?

• When relaxed, nirodha or being dead at intentionality does not lead to fear

• Equanimity: the relative invulnerability to being swayed by sensations, images, thoughts...

• It's not no-thought in itself that's the goal; it's the ability to not being swayed and entranced by thoughts; similarly, with the other experiences...

• Directed meditation at personality view: what sensations, images, thoughts are responsible for this conviction about personality? See that as mental representation

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2024.09.21► [Q&A] 不追加施力

• Fabrication: fuel added to thoughts; pattern tracing; holding on tight; regret and anticipation...

• Instead of categorical suppression, think of it in terms: frugality, mental fatigue, allowing greater peace, rest with greater efficiency or less reluctance

• Don't even waste exertion on stopping exertions; how quickly can you drop, happily, willingly, easily?

• What has already arisen, is already arisen; that which has not, don't add fuel

• Gradual pacification of sankharas; don't get stuck in the formulaic understanding of the jhanic factors

• Different from heedlessness: there is discernment, there's deconditioning, there's alertness regarding habits

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2024.09.28► [Q&A] 我是觉(覺)知 中 的我

• It is said that "all dharmas are not self"; but this is is only a a poi pointer; nibbana is beyond self and not self; nibbana is beyond 1. selfing and 2. distancing, as in not self

• The following exploration of I helps one becoming rooted and familiarize with awareness

• The I in "I am awareness": closeness─it cannot be of any distance; intimate─it never leaves in any situation; it is the first to appear when there's seeking; it still is when there's no seeking or recognition of it; it is "peaceful" in contrast to constructive activities; it is self knowing and cannot be known by what is not self; when a phenomenon arises, which of the two is closer?

• The point is also to point out what's not self; When you treat a changing object as close, intimate...suffering ensues

• We oftentimes critique philosophizing, why? The effects of: rootedness; serenity; self-abiding; contentment and the dropping of craving is when we're intimate with self, and not alienated from it

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2024.10.05► [Q&A] 注意力放置的重心

• Five poisons and intention

• Not needing to close in on any thought, perception, feeling in the open space of awareness

• Tendency to close in on what appears; adding circumscription and reifying objects of attachment

• Remaining in relaxation and stay anchored in the "not-needing-to fixate"

• All phenomena are as if unproduced; what seems to have manifested has the same texture as awareness;

• awareness unaffected (only conditioning is affected)

• The turning of attention; the illusion that one is behind that attention

• Noticing the awareness in which that attention is turned, and that awareness is unmoving

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2024.10.12► [Q&A] 受念住中的 心行休息

• Mental sankharas in the feeling based satipatthana

• How much exertion

• How does it conduce to peace

• The very nature of the enjoyer/eater

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2024.10.19► [Q&A] 禅那：在你身边的平安／禪那：在你身邊的平安

• Being in jhana day and night; the ludicracy of stupor jhana; chalking it up to mappo!

• Less of a technical skill than a lifestyle; easy to enter but profound to deepen

• Jhana is among the most important Buddhist teachings

• Easy triggers such as recollection and teaching the Dhamma? It's really about the mindset; triggers are easy

• The most important lesson: accessibility, intimacy, naturalness of jhana

• Jhana is the ideal renunciant lifestyle

• What about householder's lifestyle? Reframing stress; frequent abiding; baby steps; the most important ingredient is satisfying peace, and not episodes of special experiences

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2024.10.26► [Q&A] 没有阶梯 的 古老禅那／沒有階梯 的 古老禪那

• Editing and compiling in scriptural evolution; commentarial sanctification of systems

• Don't believe in the formality of the hierarchies of jhanas

• Practice satipatthana accompanied by... the five jhanic factors (AN8.63)

• Yes, there's some usefulness about that hierarchical scheme: tending toward effortless and purified way of practicing satipatthana...

• but that usefulness is limited: don't let being a stickler to the formality prevent you from being free-flowing and dynamic

• It's about a harmonious life rather than attainment of a technical skill

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2024.11.02► [Q&A] 睡觉里的觉知／睡覺裡的覺知

• Why control thoughts and choices, when you can just control arousal? successive layers of arousal states: sleep, dream, wake

• Reductionism, from the supposed discontinued awareness; Awareness and consciousness are two things

• Consciousness processes info, referencing its frame, recurring thoughts and concerns...in waking hours, even sensory data keep referring back to a continuous narrative; the experience of taking a short time to remember where one is higher arousal states tend to actively form associations and therefore there are more distinct memories about them; Awareness knows contentless bliss in sleep; there's no explicit, but implicit, memory of it

• One's consciousness and the I narrative largely cease in sleep, yet we do not hesitate, and in fact happily surrender, to sleep

• The fragility of the I narrative and the content of the world; increase one's recognition of the contentless bliss even in the waking hours: something not to be afraid of, to rest in...

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2024.11.09► [Q&A] 捐弃资讯收集／捐棄資訊收集

• Realizing who you are is not a matter of obtaining information, but a matter of shedding: e.g. doership and ownership

• At sensory contact, we expect to seize hold of an experience that is meaningful and substantive

• Doership: remove the transactional mentality of having to be at the helm, and do something, in order to get something; ownership: remove the neurotic control, the lust to gain control and produce desired outcomes

• Information is always about the not-self; also, who is the acquirer of the information? Who grows with and accumulates knowledge? Just thoughts communicating with thoughts, and you're not the thoughts

• Info transmission always involves degradation

• Thoughts are never content, only temporarily appeased via info

• Handful of leaves to guide the current thought, so neurotic habits are uprooted; beyond that, don't fear dementia

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2024.11.16► [Q&A] 不动心解脱门修学次第／不動心解脫門修學次第

•Relax and remove artifice

•No one is manufacturing thoughts

•Examine if there's any effort or support needed for this awareness

•Not wanting to change; different from abandon

•Enjoy peace

•Do not stray from this recognition and this enjoyment

•How much effort is needed for being [yourself]?

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2024.11.23► [Q&A] 时间相(寿者相)的挣扎／時間相(壽者相)的掙扎

•jivanimitta

•Past and future are obviously constructs; abiding in this perception pacifies some sankharas What about the present? If the present is treated as a moment in time, then much sankharas are still associated...

•Notice the sankharas: the struggle to be in a moment; the subtle anticipation and stress of being in a moment

•Notice the "waiting until" before I enjoy, attain, arrive...

•Selfing requires relating to time

•Simply being, contented right here

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2024.12.14► [Q&A] 安住觉知 的 起始窍门／安住覺知 的 起始竅門

•1. Maintaining an inner core of relaxation, at least; Or, maintaining an inner core of ease, contentment...

•from here, notice all that is not relaxed; the analogy of a dream taking place in a still landscape; from the depth of rest, notice passions and busy-ness; extrovert tendencies diminished, without exerting force to introvert; all things are played out, and one is firm in understanding that there's no doers

•Less identification with the projected and extroverted aspect; this might mean an initial identification with the peaceful, unmoving aspect, but eventually even this identification dissolves

•2. Integrate; nothing excluded; no need to worry if anything is excluded; initial experience of the whole body; being-ness is not segregated or consisting of parts; the activities of liking and disliking are pacified; personhood is the special regarding of a particular, a corner, an attribute, a content; this special regarding is dissolved into a non-exclusive acceptance of what is

•Integrate; what is regarded as self and as the environment; self and other is just this whole being

•Even the effort to integrate is noticed and dropped

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2024.12.21► [Q&A] 诸根寂静／諸根寂靜

• Awareness and antennas

• The quieting of the six senses; what new thing can they bring that can make this more complete

• I enjoy cessation and don't crave stimulation

• The senses are set up to reach satiety and fatigue; they are here to prod and not to gratify

• Being open to sensory experiences, but see if there's any moving away from the center; this is not a localizable center, but a mere sense of intimacy and closeness and non-contrivance

• Any sense of loneliness or privation or suppression?

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2024.12.28► [Q&A] 身念住 中的 身体(體)

(無大綱)