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It might be that you need to spend a lot of time on urges or emotions before going freestyle. Im 64 years old and I have never been a greedy or an envious person. Dante's definition of pride was "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor". And yet life goes on! I was ignoring it or resisting it, but now if I can just experience it without doing anything, it isn't a problem. (, There are many different non-knowing events which seem to outside of time that aren't cessations, including dips into formless realms. The general domain of 4th tends to make the body go flat for a while, followed by a rapid recalibration, followed by much more groundedness/stability/resilience. Thoughts are linked moments of the sensations of thinking. Meditation isn't a silver bullet, it doesn't magically get you what you want. Straining or forcing ourselves to make progress happen. Real-time emptiness of all experiences are seen, and eventually the emptiness of spiritual ambition is also seen. Make your practice your own. You are completely free to use one or the other or both. They're free. And the heart of equanimity is "letting". What this often does is teach us how to tone down, even further, the intensity of the observer, the judger, the assesser, the predicter, the anticipater, etc. And also because the whole point of meditation is to have a bunch of problems and then investigate the nature of those problems. Similar to mind: show me your Mind. - The last thing that seemed to change was a willingness to just kind of dwell on the mindstream --- that flow of semi-verbal sounds in the head, that bubbling of proto-emotional urges, that vague sense of somatic being the subtle flow of things became an object of meditation. So for example, during your tranquilizer dart sit, if you spent that sit doing mindfulness of breathing, but then noted all the sensations, emotions, and thoughts which made up the overall sense of being tranquilized. So really, when do we reach the end of practice and insight? Some people get skull crushing aches, some people feel love in their heart, some people will feel fear in their gut, some people will feel very sexual, some people will feel panic in their throat, some people will feel bliss in their third eye and probably all of these will be felt at some time or another. Actually, this stuff is exactly what needs to happen. And in many cases, this is where the real clues about what you are overlooking or confused about will become apparent. Then the truth of the complexes are understood, that they are reactive "shortcuts" which sometimes work but mostly just mess up life. Meditation can sometimes lead to depresssion, depersonalization, mania, etc. Our mind gets a little cleaner, we are a little more sane, we see our reactive patterns a little more clearly. Envy can be directly related to the Ten Commandments, specifically, "Neither shall you covet anything that belongs to your neighbour"a statement that may also be related to greed. The non-dual insight doesn't go away. Rather, describe how you know you have gone through previous stages in the past and how you move up and down through stages during a single sit. The next is to understand the lifetime of materials. Sometimes it's the psychological insights into clinging that are so engaging. But most people don't report such clear maps, most people report a total fractal mess and yet progression happens just as it should. Focusing on the feeling of "ending" associated with the out breath can also help. It really is endless. Sorry in advance that this can't be put on a platter and simply served to you. You need get "meta" and understand both objective experience and how the subjective experience is created. So my best advice is very short, very simple meditation sits: 30 minutes of the real practice of seeing thoughts as thoughts and emotions and emotions. According to the most widely accepted views, only pride weighs down the soul more than envy among the capital sins. It can be good to sit without a timer/clock. Author Ichabod Spencer states that "spiritual pride is the worst kind of pride, if not worst snare of the devil. Mature EQ is about allowing all experiences to arise as the experience itself, even things like doubt, certainty, confusion, clarity, daydreams, super-attentive mind, wandering mind, no-thought mind, etc. If you aren't aware of the present moment, then the moment you notice it your are aware of the present moment again! It's only when we solidify and complicate them that nirvana becomes samsara -- in samsara we go round and round with our human dramas. We've seen this time and time again in Christianity and pretty much every other religion under the sun including Buddhism. Notice how life is so much better when we're interested in the present moment and not full of plans and obsessions and doubts. It's always fine to experiment with different methods -- but always keep your independence and personal power. Can I let myself be infused by this experience? Any fixed state goal always falls apart, but there are indeed people who are very effective at navigating the ups and downs of life. There is no benefit of just retraumatizing ourselves by going too quickly into this difficult stuff. What more can you say? What sorts of things in our experience make Reobservation known as Reobservation? Sometimes we feel bad when we feel pleasure, because where ashamed of feeling pleasure. It's fucked up. Although we can mess this up, too. This is also a practice that is for post stream entry. Several years later, working with a teacher after a particularly difficult 15 day retreat, I re-established practice in a way that was very consistent and dedicated, day-to-day, and got very good advice on what how my "self" was still holding onto various mental frameworks. The highest level is Ken McLeod's "directly experience the moment, be in the moment without worrying about survival, control, or trying to be somebody". or "more!" When mind is understoodit's an insight, not a state. Meditation is great for looking at the mind and see all the ways we make things worse for ourselves. If you can do this with consistency, it will feel like psychological "knots" and emotional "confusions" will start bubbling up and will untangle by themselves. This might sound like an intellectual exercise, but it is more about simply being aware of what is occuring, not thinking about it, not planning for the future, not getting hung up on the past. Hope you keep consistent daily practice going. What shows up, needs to shows up. But if I see and understand stupidity as it expresses itself in my daily life - how I behave towards my servant, how I regard my neighbour, the poor man, the rich man, the clerk then, that very awareness brings about a breaking up of stupidity Watch yourself talking to your servant, observe the tremendous respect with which you treat a governor, and how little respect you show to the man who has nothing to give you. Equanimity is awareness and acceptance of whatever arises. This kind of controlling is the exact opposite of being in the present moment with mindfulness and equanimity. Seen in this way, acdia indicates a rejection of familial love. You don't care what happens, you just note what happens. In reference to the cognized, only the cognized. It is ridiculous in retrospect. Still as difficult and challenging as ever, but I was able to orient myself and better understand where to look for subtle ill-will and fantasy. Our mind creates awareness like our skin creates the moisture that is always leaking out of our pores. He changes good things into evil, he lays his traps. (, The fractal nature of a ana is simply the progression of understanding: first there is the basic effort to see the ana, then there is the powering-up of investigation and a fast growth in understanding, then there is the collapse of what we are capable of and a need to develop new ways of thinking about the ana, then there is the mature stage where the simplistic view of the ana is replaced with much more nuanced and wise. Acedia takes form as an alienation of the sentient self first from the world and then from itself. Equanimity with exactly what is appearing right NOW. The person that would make the quickest progress would be someone who never knew the maps and simply noticed what was actually occurring as it occurred. Are you resisting your own creativity? But without this kind of information, it's easy to think we're doing something wrong and it needs "forcing to fix it". Gregory the Great asserted that, "from tristitia, there arise malice, rancour, cowardice, [and] despair". I'm working with the right teacher, I'm doing the right methods, I seem to be making the same progress. The mind goes where it goes and awareness is already there. One of the main problems with using the maps is people look for and try to find the sensations/emotions/thoughts that match the stage that they think is next. The pros of a more open non-continuous framework is there is an opportunity for broad awareness to develop, the cons are that it's easier to get lost in vague awareness/dullness. It's looking right at nothingness and not loving, not hating, and not blinking. Sometimes people will want to "vipassana-ize" experience too much. Forums like this allow people to see more of the confusing events of people's practice. So long story short: you will get the same purifications and insights using either Mahasi technique or Goenka technique. There can be a tendency to avoid this idea and the normal living aspect of tension/discomfort/pain feelings etc. (. Awakening is possible, but it means becoming intimate with every experience that seems like a problem in our own mind. My hunch is that when people reach their developmental limit and feel the stagnation, then they are probably ready for it and will hunger for a meditation practice. Frankly, just finding a safe place/method to slowly explore all of this is the main challenge. The reason I feel compelled to say this is that I have seen maybe 6 or so people on DhO, KennethFolkOnline, AwakeNetwork, etc. Wrathful dieties are so blatently destructive to absolutely move us and motivate action. This isn't an insight into some abstract aspect of self and other, but rather how self and other is created in every single moment and how greed, aversion, and indifference show up in every single viewpoint. Wow, look at those thoughts (. But then even that was noticed as a state that "I" accessed. It loosens the self-other construct and loosens the solidity of our mental representations of the world. I think meditation helps a little, but we still need to be brave in the middle of feeling some discomfort and attempt to make changes Obviously everyone is different and how this change happens will be different for everyone. But it also seems like resisting and indulging make it worse. (. The first thing you'll need is a place to sit. -Focus on tautological aspects of identity especially: -Deep Understanding of six reams (identity based on basic motivation, in terms of 5 to 30 seconds of experience), -Understanding of basics of 5 elements (primal reactive patterns, in terms of 1-2 second of experience), -Ability to be honest about "there is still something left to figure out", -Ability to turn orientation to practice itself into a study/practice, -Ability to do "no distraction, no control, no practice"/mahamudra/dzogchen, -Very deep understanding of 5 elements (in terms of micro-seconds of experience), A compilation of shargrol's posts at dharmaoverground.org, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism. Many times it's things in everyday life that drive spiritual bypassing, some sin of commission or sin of ommission that needs correcting. The bigger the feelings, the more beneficial it is to work with therapists and meditation teachers. It's like we have been swinging our mallet all over the place but finally we actually "hit the bell" and the sound is is nibbana. In theory, it definitely should work this way, but I've also encountered enough people that seem to be perfectly able to experience sensations and yet be blind to emotions, or urges, or thoughts. [tone], According to a 2009 study by the Jesuit scholar Fr. Make it harder to drop it when the activity isn't needed anymore because it feels like a little death. In other words, it tends to be moody, subtle, vague, sloppy, uncontrolled and if you try to make it bright, obvious, distinct, precise, and under control then you'll just suffer. You notice how non-objective we are about our own wants and needs -- it feels like something that should drive our life, but actually everyone has the same kind of visceral desires and feelings of lack. Practice points out all the ways self creates itself and forms an attitude of greed, aversion, or indifference to the other. Samsara just goes round and round, one desire fueling another desire, a craving feeding a craving, on and on. This is what happens every time we touch on Equanimity. Take away all performance anxiety about meditation. The important thing is to connect with that part of yourself that seems to be wise and cultivate it. Ah next breath. The ways of adapting to the world that we inherited without thinking (values/habits) are full of contradictions and are limiting, we're becoming adults but are very confused. For me, I also found that going into the "mindstream of thoughts" was useful. There are layers and layers of identification, but a finite number. Lots of hot baths. This breath counting should be basically effortless, the body breathes, the mind counts, no effort. It all happens in about a half a second. Very clever you humans!! And yet life goes on. When there is a little ickyness noticed, then don't try to get rid of it. Emotions are sensations-urge packets. After that, the mind is doing it's embroiling thing. Abusing one's desires to have one's physical wants met via greed, gluttony, or lust abuses a faculty that humans share with animals. When you get to the point that you can actually investigate what it feels like to be dull, confused, irritated, bored, in discomfort, distracted, lacking interest, daydreaming then a whole world opens up. (. It's okay to camp in other campsites. Only the mind itself figures out what to do, it really isn't up to us. This is has a feel of psychological-spiritual refinement, finding union with the shadow, etc. The 3rd Jhana dissolution-ish aspect would probably be interpreted as "losing EQ" by the first time EQ meditator and especially the 4th Jhana normalcy aspect would be interpreted as "it's gone now". Ironically, insights don't need interpretation. Am I doing it correctly?" It is wonderfully open, luminous, clear, free, joyful, compassionate, appreciative, caring, friendly, accepting it really is good. But there is also a huge relief associated with this realization, as you can imagine when a perfectionist finally really does relax. Roberto Busa, the most common deadly sin confessed by men is lust and the most common deadly sin confessed by women is pride. Usually we have one dominant pattern and then a secondary pattern that sometimes comes into play. The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven high fantasy novels by British author C. S. Lewis.Illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published between 1950 and 1956, The Chronicles of Narnia has been adapted for radio, television, the stage, film and video games. (. In both cases, you need to be aware of what is happening, in both cases you need to drop greed, aversion, and indifference to what is occurring. On each out breath, note just one of the sensations that is present. We can hold almost every other experience as "just an experience" "not self" "sameness" "just a passing experience" --- but if we look at our actual experience, we always believe that there is truth to the experience of "being superior" or "being inadequate". But at a point the dough simply cannot be improved and your hands and eyes seem to know. EQ can once again have a path in a path feeling, with lots of near misses or cessation-like experiences that don't quite go deep enough to really do the trick. If you pick the version that seems to be most true, you can feel how your body settles. When you are saturated with High EQ you'll probably drop into a weak EQ-like state which seems kind of normal. To some extent thoughts are analyzed, but it doesn't become an intellectual exercise. I have a hunch you were starting to see how traumatized people tend to shut down and how that weakness makes them even more vulnerable to abusers. (. (Doesn't have to go away, just lose interest in it). The man has discovered Truth!" I've found that one of the easiest ways to start in these modern times, is to intentionally purchase something that was either stolen or donated. If it's walking time, I'm walking. Here there are some quick possibilities: (1) nailing down the jhanas; (2) meditation on the mindstream; (3) meditation on subtle ill-will/dukkha; (4) meditation on greed/aversion/ignorance co-arising at the point of the experience of a mind object. How can I "work" or "try" to get stream entry? This leads into very subtle investigations, really below the domain of words/ego identity and prior to fully development psychological pathologies, and teases apart a very subtle knot of suffering/identity. As the saying goes, at some point we quit being spiritual ambitious but don't quit too soon! Notice what observations from practice linger and what you might want to bring with you off cushion. In terms of what it means to have these insights in a modern world, this paper does a great job of talking about adult development. It is okay to adjust by sitting up straighter and breath with more intention if there is too little energy/dullness. And seeing things as they are is the Conformity nana. If the person has gone through the stages, spent a bunch of time in equanimity, had awareness of formations, and then experiences life very differently and feels like something essential has changed, then it has a good chance of being SE even without awareness of a cessation. Early in practice, it feels like a "state", but when we look at it closely, the characteristics of state-ness cannot be found. Letting go is essential, but it is a particular kind of letting go which is combined with awareness. But obviously all state-like experiences are limited experiences. (, My own advice is to pick a reasonable amount of practice to do a day, like an hour of sitting. Have faith, straight ahead. Thinking about it more, a basic framework could be Jungian shadow work, 6 realms work, and the 5 element work (5 elements is an even more refined framework, dealing with much more immediate flashes of un-awakeness which eventually lead to the 6 realms). Similarly the other person needed to do dedicated noting of "practice thoughts" during their sits. The Devil's assistant, horrified, exclaims, "Oh no, Master! :) But it's also okay to have faith in "buddha (awake) nature" or the "nature of mind" or "innate intelligence". What becomes clear is the clear, lucid, panoramic, easy, complete experience IS STILL A STATE. ", Probably the historical Buddha would be more inclined to do the latter an would emphasize the "dependent arising" of that state. So to summarize: try going into and dwelling in pleasurable sensations, try letting go and noticing how sensations arise and pass on their own without needing a lot of vipassana effort. No need to be clear or bright or lazer-minded. (. Your mind is smarter than the ego. For me it was "inadequate" and "superior". That's the gateway to either moving from dissolution to misery (in the progress of insight stages) or your dullness would turn into the airy, tingly, and cool body tone of the third vipassana jhana. Of course, when we identify with the mind we tend to think/feel "I AM afraid, I AM miserable, I AM disgusted, I AM desiring for deliverance, I AM freaking out.". But if you come out of trance and RELAX and simply note what happened and note what is happening in presence. By 3rd path, someone should have had 1000s of small cessations. I would advise that you do two experiments when appropriate: (1) during moments of pleasurable sensations (or, when it seems somewhat easy to do: induce pleasurable sensations by giving yourself the heart-felt permission to feel pleasure, and then roll the eyes or do whatever helps induce blissy feelings), spend some time hanging out in the blissy space of meditation. He helped me enjoy watching where the mind would go on its own. (, My favorite meditator quote about Reobservation comes from Tarin, one of the original Dharma Overground participants: The Dark Night territory - particularly late dark night - has a habit of making me unsure which methods are best to employ in practice. Fear and anger creates vivid and useful clarity about the situation. It is similar to loneliness. There can be pursuits, but they always seem to find themselves in a no-man's land -- is this right or wrong, good or bad, will it make me superior to how I am now or will it actually corrupt me and make me inferior to how I am now? This state is basically the completion of all spirituality. and also, very very very ironically, the beginning. At its core, morality is mostly dropping our tendency to resist change, dropping our superficial quests for emotional satisfaction, and dropping the need to "be somebody". Is that true, or are we somehow watching all of this occur? (. You have to let your inner fears be heard and acknowledged. (, There seems to be a bit of beginner's luck a lot of the time People can have quick experience when they start sitting, almost like a sneak preview, and then it takes a while to work back to that cutting edge. Your mind already is "insightful" enough, that's why you are getting the vibrations, now you need to relax, enjoy, and let your mind let go of its life-long tendency to grab objects and instead let it grab onto nothing/nibbana. So on one level, meditation is giving you a personally guided tour of all of the nonsense in our mind so that we can re-connect, re-interpret, re-evaluate the thoughts and feelings we have toward ourself and the world. I had one retreat where I kept going from EQ to mind-blowing A&P to EQ to A&P, but my mind was getting more and more exhausted and my entire mind and body was frazzled after two weeks. (, At a certain phase of my practice, I got very interested in ill will. It's going to be a mixture of insight, psychology, and normal life worries/obligations. You don't force or control the body in sports. That direct experience of the entire field of the moment is pretty much the highest form of noticing. The important thing is to find a good balance so that it doesn't turn into a blind fantasy or become traumatizing. The point here is that you are training the defensive/survival instinct to relax a little and allow yourself to enjoy the very simple sensations of breathing. What is this AWARENESS that is present when I take a shower? This would be cruel to say to a new meditator. It involves continuing to practice and continuing to investigate, but with less and less and less method or manipulation. Self-investigating self to figure out what self is. But practice takes on a path of it's own, interesting driven by two of the last three fetters (pride and restlessness). The general domain of 3rd is usually less body-changing and more perception-changing. Now let the breath do itself normally. (. Find some aspect of your present experience that is lacking, is difficult, is suffering, etc. Unfortunately, there are lots of ways to be confused about whether we've found it or not. Here's one write up that's online: here you want to go (towards is) no preference to what is experienced, no manipulation of experience, but a kind of intimacy with experience and a very gentle attention to when there is "expectation" and "interpretation" --- expectation is a form of ill will ("what is occuring isn't important, what matters is what comes next)", interpretation is a form of ill will ("this experience needs to be interpreted to be significant, it is meaningless as it is"). It was so wonderful. Tragically, abusers are usually abused people themselves, trying to gain power over their trauma by being an abuser, which just continues the pattern. Yet the fact that it happens seems wrong. And we would never get a glimpse of the nothing in the hand if we didn't do the easy and consistent work of trying to loosen it a tiny bit every day. You are 100% allowed to enjoy the fruits of your meditation, enjoy jhana, enjoy just sitting, enjoy watching the mind move. (2) It could be cultivating depth in jhana and making the mind pilable and sensitive for insight. The only way you will make progress is if you can learn to accept and be interested in all the vile and depressive stuff that comes up. May all beings benefit from me being on retreat. Post stream entry, the body will start re-wiring itself, almost to physically incorporate the new glimpse of emptiness/cessation. I saw the futility in the ignorance of spiritual bypassing mentality (i.e., pretending I was any different that I was.) They always go past their abilities and lose their investments, health, status, reputation. what am I fantasizing about, what do I wish was happening instead of what is happening now? One piece of advice on WUTYL: don't try to read it straight through like a book. But that means really looking at the yucky stuff in our hearts and minds. And then you need to flip the whole situation and see that this idiot at work actually helped point you towards something important, so in a way was very helpful, so you thank that person, too. When you can notice thoughts about the self or thoughts about thinking then you are right on the doorstep. (. Hopefully this makes you curious about your actual experience, rather than turning it into an intellectual thought problem. Such is the paradox of meditation! So we have to learn to >allow< the clear vividness of experience to arise. Anger and lust are controllable. What if I had compassion for the natural instinct to go into trance but looked at what is happening objectively? (. Usually the hurt has an element of overwhelming physical trauma, or a psychological a loss of innocence, in general a failure to protect the innocent. (. If you just seek liberation without compassion, is is a kind of repression/denialism:""suffering isn't real so I don't have to care about it. If we're not aware of this, then from this seed, we're psychologically reborn in another 3/4 of a second. Exhibitionist & Voyeur 04/29/21: Starting from Scratch Ep. In other words, it's a kind of trance state where kids don't have free will, but rather follow parental direction. Just like with physical exercise, you actually build muscle/mindfulness during your recovery from your workouts/meditation. Nonetheless, the meaning of acdia is far more broad, signifying indifference to everything one experiences. Some people can just jump in and start making little changes. I'm in the "cycles aren't that helpful" camp. (In other words, Stream Entry doesn't happen by more and more clarity. May I experience on retreat whatever will bring the highest benefit for myself and all beings." When noting becomes difficult -- this is very important -- note what is actually causing the difficulty. That's what you need to see. Following their urges, toddlers develop a self. Hope this gives you some ideas to explore! But that doesn't mean there isn't any meaning or value or discrimination that represents wisdom and development. The author really mischaracterized Freud, Nietzsche, and atheist critiques of religious/cultural guilt -- perhaps we need enough emotional guilt to motivate responsible action, certainly in our developmental years, but an oppressive sense of guilt is not helpful and there are more adult ways to develop further responsibility than emotional guilt. Too much control! Essay writing is integral to most courses. Eventually you'll discover what everyone has discovered: that most blind/reactive emotions are simplistic ways the body/mind tries to protect itself, but the degree to which they aren't 100% fully experienced means we have, to some degree, gone unconscious and are in an non-thinking trance. In a way, EQ is more about becoming intimate with whatever experience the mind shows. Fill your experience with the guilt-free feeling of jhana. No one spends lots of time in High EQ, but multiple visits over multiple sits seems to make falling into Stream Entry more likely. That richness of experience is the main thing to keep constant. But the trick is you let conditions determine what you do. The maps are useful like a 2D topographic map is useful for understanding 3D terrain, even though a topo map doesn't have individual trees, plants, animals, clouds, smells, etc on the map. But the last step off the mountain usually means jumping into the possibility of not getting what you sought. Of course, this is already obvious to some degree, but this is time for really refining things. So without bringing an external agenda besides my mode of practice, I go deep into the feeling of being an actual human on retreat. The worst teachers will force you to do their technique and assume any problem you have is because you are a bad student. Your mind is much smarter than "you". All the bad news and the internet's general distaste for Activision had many calling "dead game" before it even came out. You just need to note often enough that you stay present in the body and don't drift too far off into thoughts. And it's the waking up and returning that is the practice, so it's no big deal if we get lost 1,000,000,000,000,000 times because that means we have trained waking up and returning to presence 1,000,000,000,000,001 times! This can be shocking, but thoughts have always been thoughts, sensations have always been sensations. Some describe it as jagged and on the edge of sanity. 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