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Wasn't amusing in the least. And inappropriate. Nahfets is stefhan spelled backwards.

dimly remembered someday I'll forget myself is that good or bad?

detachment's flower manure-fed cultivation a bonsai ritual

Sometimes 'wrong' practices and what not are helpful, even necessary. If winds only blew in one direction, why would sails be made adjustable?

Time flies like an arrow. Meanwhile.... Fruit flies like a banana.

dollhouse teaparty farewell do for Pikachu sayonara, dude

To be a hermit doesn't just mean to live in the deep forest; it means that one's mind is free from dualistic constructs. ~ Padmasambhava

dreams of swimming there 'neath this starry canopy a campfire glows

The sense of 'self' is that which painfully calcifies around fluid sense experience. ~ Paramito

The episodic nature of life gives the impression of personal continuity, when in fact, the only continuity is a consciousness that is entirely impersonal yet radiant. ~ Paramito

The mountains whisper for me to wander; my soul hikes to the call. ~ Angie Weiland-Crosby

icy seas warming the French Alps devoid of snow reversive yin/yang

Bon appetit, thief may your liver turn fatty no last laughs for you

sea spray on my face gull droppings on the windscreen sand between my toes

The earliest Ghandara scrolls mentioning the Medicine Buddha were part of a larger body of Mahayana texts found. The bodhisattva ideal is central to Mahayana, and compassion is the hub of that ideal. Alluding to Hinduism, or more specifically, that the Sanatana Dharma contains teachings that cover numerous aspects of virtuous conduct, including the cultivation of compassion, is just not the same. Christianity and other religions also feature teachings on compassion, but the emphasis in each varies.

The claims are that Bhaisajyaguru scripts were first discovered around the regions of the Swat Valley, in Ghandara, at the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Maybe around the 6th century or thereabouts. Quite certain its origin isn't Hindu because the concept of compassion isn't central to that tradition.

Non Zen entity here 😄 My assumption had always been that dhyana, jhana, zen and ch'an means exactly the same, and, given the right application of methods, that different types of samadhi remain/arise, depending on which jhana is dropped/released. My other assumption is that, compared to jhannic states, which are in a sense contractive, samadhi on the other hand is supposedly expansive, and is therefore a fruit of practice (and not the path... jhannas are), although some would assert that, viewed with greater subtlety, the path IS the fruit, which isn't incorrect in the least. Open to correction always.

Kinda lost interest when it became clear Mizner attempted to sway opinion by associating (indifferentiating) two very distinct modes... that of imagination and fantasy, and that of visualisation. Or maybe he carelessly assumed a certain audience disposition to aid his cause, or lack of one. If he was meticulous and exercised his awareness in a broader sense, this debate may not even have taken wing. He also made the fundamental error of failing to address that resting in meditation is a core aspiration of all contemplative traditions. Maybe it was a convenience. Thru such an omission, whether intentional or not, he avoids having to explain what resting in meditation means to contemplatives, what's involved, and what the fruits will be. So we end having a debate between ones initiated in one or the other contemplative traditions, against ones who, like Mizner, assume that contemplation means exercising the imagination. See where it gets bothersome, and even cumbersome? He should read up on some of Plotinus' works. Plotinus regards the highest contemplation was to experience the vision of God. This is a profound statement. Probably beyond Mizner's scope.

swallowing one bite lands any fish in trouble hook, line and sinker

The general view of meditation is that the one who engages with/in meditation withdraws engagement with the very limited range offered by the six sense faculties and takes on an inner path or journey.... a flighty, limitless vista as vast as space unfolds before the meditator... Buddafields, pure lands, bejewelled heavenly realms where tutelary deities and spiritual guides await to offer blessings and to reveal spiritual maps and treasures, to offer sacred union.... an endless array of delights for the spirit that can be accessed for the purpose of inner fulfillment and progress. The opposite of this, in some instances, and for some seekers and practitioners, is to sit in blankness, like drudgily walking in circles in an acrid, arid desert desirous of arrival upon an oasis. There's always a choice. I voted yes.

I think it'd help to wiki the spelling first.

What exactly is dhammakya?

The distinguishing factor between Buddhas, up to and including Gautama, and other awakened beings, is that only when the wheel of (Buddha)Dharma has been turned is the epithet meaningful. There have been arhats and other non-returners who followed the purānamārga (path of the ancients, the same path taken by all Buddhas) who, for various reasons, did not turn the Dhamma wheel hence were not acknowledged as Buddhas. The chief criteria concerning the turning of the wheel of Dharma relates to the transmission of knowledge of awakening. So when Gautama referred to himself as Buddha, there is a direct and specific reference to the continuity of his role as Teacher and disseminator of the purānamārga.

Which is illusion One who dreams he is awake Eating cherry pie

I brim with great joy Sinking into deepest dreams Summer flowers fade