TU MK X APPRSL CCL OVER X FIRST QTR KRSNA LINE
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LOSW X ACCEPTING DETERIORATION MANY TIMES UNCOMFORTABLE
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SO CALLED FREE CHOICE NOT FREE WILL
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WITCON OBSERVES PDU CORRIDOR
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GOD SINGULARITY RUNS THROUGH YOU
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WITCON OBSERVES THOUGHT - AWARENESS CONSCIOUSNESS
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CONSC CAN BE KNOWN BASED ON AWARENESS
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CONSC ALLOWS AWARENESS TO BE THERE
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AWARENESS ALLOWS THOUGHT TO BE
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CDS
First Takeaway: The Christian experience of the nondual is best conveyed in the term ‘contemplation.’
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The challenge here is that the metrics used to mark spiritual progress are fundamentally different (the Eastern maps featuring levels of consciousness, the Western degrees of affective union), and it has taken quite a bit of scrambling on all sides to discover what the closest point of equivalency might be. Is ‘nondual’ simply the Eastern term for extended mystical experience? The functional equivalent of ‘unitive’ on the old roadmap? The suspension of polarized thinking? The suspension of all thinking? All of the above? None of the above? Answers still tend to be all over the map.
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BIBHISAN HOUSE WAS NOT BURNT BY HANUMAN AS HAD RAM NAM IN IT
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LAGAAN TO LAGAM
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October is the switch point to warmer sweaters and blankets. The pause between summer and winter. A time when we expect and welcome changing colors and routines all around us.
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JOYOUS EXPLORATION AS OWN CURIOSITY
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3 CRORE INDE ARE NRI
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With the immediate goal of getting Christians en masse back onto the meditation mats, modern reconstructions have tended to spin contemplation as the emptying of all content in favor of a pure resting in God somewhat akin to Eastern states of sunnyata. But this is a significant oversimplification. In the original tradition (i.e., the patristic fathers of the early Christian centuries, contemplation was far from content-free; it was simply that the content was not generated or processed through the normal channels of the ‘faculties’ (reason, emotion, memory, will). Instead, they reflect some higher bandwidth of perceptivity entirely beyond the reaches of the usual functioning of the mind. Contemplation as originally understood invoked a higher, luminous knowledge, a “knowledge impregnated by love,” in the famous 6th-century description of St. Gregory the Great.
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CWG RAM CWG BDHA
"We each have our own sufferings that no one else can feel. And the work to put an end to suffering is often something that no one else can even see. As we’re focused on our own issues, things can get very narrow. On the one hand, it’s good that the sufferings that weigh down the mind are things that come from within, because otherwise we’d have to depend on help from somebody else outside to put an end to them. It’s good that we can put an end to them ourselves. But there’s the other hand: times when the practice can seem very narrow as we’re face-to-face with our own sufferings, face-to-face with our own stupidity, basically. As Ajaan Suwat used to like to say, “Ignorance is basically stupidity.” Fighting off our defilements, some of which we really like, is difficult work. But it’s important that we keep our work in perspective, so that the heart and mind don’t become narrow.
So reflect on that passage in the chant we recited just now: “Cultivate a limitless heart.” A limitless heart is expansive and doesn’t see things just from a narrow perspective. It has to take a wider perspective. In other words, our individual issues are not the only issues in the world. The people around us have issues, too. And we have to have some compassion for them. At the same time, they can be very irritating people. For that we need a heart limitless not just in its compassion, but also in its endurance."
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Cultivate a Limitless Heart" (Meditations8)
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MEDITATN - UP THETA, DMN QUIETENS
as theta oscillations go up, DMN activation goes down. This is why periods of intense meditation can produce feelings of oneness, ego dissolution, peace, and connection to everything — the mechanism in your brain that processes your sense of self is on pause.
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