the cultivation of calm abiding on the fifth ground and special
insight on the sixth.

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André A. Pais

André A. Pais Says Chandrakirti. Does it mean that one only accomplishes calm abiding on the 5th ground and realizes emptiness on the 6th?? Can one be a 4th bhumi bodhisattva without both?

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Soh Wei Yu

Soh Wei Yu No. The first ground Bodhisattva realizes emptiness, the fifth and sixth bhumi Bodhisattva perfects the dhyana and prajna paramita. Perfection of that paramita does not mean one has not cultivated it in the earlier stages, it means complete perfection.
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Michael Hernandez
Michael Hernandez The Ten Paramitas are so perfect, I cannot even relate to them.
I can but worship their ideal from afar.
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Soh Wei Yu
Soh Wei Yu Most people practice the paramitas to certain extent.. do you donate to the poor? Do you give the needy? That is the paramita of giving. But once you actualize the insight of anatta and emptiness the structure of giver-giving-gift is liberated.. giving becomes complete selfless, objectless, unconditional and spontaneous. That is the perfection of giving
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Michael Hernandez
Michael Hernandez Soh Wei Yu,
To an extent. But I still lock my doors and windows and cannot tolerate having homeless people, insects and rodents in the house.
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Michael Hernandez
Michael Hernandez I still get angry and yell at other drivers using foul language.
I have lustful thoughts and look at pornography.
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Michael Hernandez
Michael Hernandez All I can do I take Refuge in the Amida Buddha.
Perhaps for a short time I can act perfect...😆..but then some lust or anger thought moment blows it away.
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Soh Wei Yu
Soh Wei Yu Anyone short of Buddha or Buddhahood is imperfect. Just try our best.

What I can tell you though is that I am completely incapable of harming another sentient being, or killing animals. I used to be a hot tempered person, and I used to kill insects. N
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Michael Hernandez
Michael Hernandez Most, if not all of everything I do and feel is just dramatic story.
There is a story behind the story too.
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Soh Wei Yu
Soh Wei Yu There is a marvellous world of colors, sounds, and unconditional love beyond the stories :)
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10. The one who sees that cause and effect operate infallibly For all the phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa, And for whom any objects of conceptual focus have subsided, Has set out upon the path delighting all the buddhas.

11. The knowledge that appearances arise unfailingly in dependence, And the knowledge that they are empty and beyond all assertions— As long as these two appear to you as separate, There can be no realization of the Buddha’s wisdom.

13. When you know that appearances dispel the extreme of existence, While the extreme of nothingness is eliminated by emptiness, And you also come to know how emptiness arises as cause and effect, Then you will be immune to any view entailing clinging to extremes.

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Soh Wei Yu
Soh Wei Yu Interesting video but this is skewing to the Actual Freedom sort of experience and mistaking PCE as ultimate. Skewing towards non conceptuality. However I like his description of body as construct,

“if you just feel the body, notice whatever you’re fe
eling you’re not feeling the body but a cloud of various sensations from feet to abdomen to chest to face to hands, aphormous sensations certain parts of which u cant feel at all, so you got a cloud of sensations which are actual, but that’s not the body. the body is a specific imaginary construct you have.

You don’t even know it’s you. You think this body is yours, you’re in control of the body, you think you were born in this body and it’s responsible for everything you see out there, that its perceiving the table, the cat, dog, wall, etc. all that is concept and imagination.”
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Joel Agee
Joel Agee Haven't seen more than the first five minutes or so of the video so far, but your comments led me to search for "PCE", and that took me to this very interesting and to me inspiring article by Daniel M Ingraham: http://integrateddaniel.info/my-experiments-in-actualism/.
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Soh Wei Yu Joel Agee I think it should be a natural state for you too.

Lately the intensity here seems to be intensifying even further and whole body mind universe is a sphere of boundless light as manifestation, the textures and details of the moment
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Joel Agee
Joel Agee Thank you for John Tan's comments. They dovetail with some things Daniel Ingraham says in his article. He is departing from the Actualist exclusive focus on non-conceptual experience. "Take a real honest approach to noticing feelings in the body, right here, and notice how they arise (causality), what thoughts go along with them, and what the stories in those thoughts are. Try to gently, honestly, humanly and kindly tease apart the stories and assumptions of those feelings, and notice when they change and what they change into as time progresses."
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Soh Wei Yu
Soh Wei Yu Was jogging just now and this boundless light (empty-clarity as the whole infinite field of manifestation) just keeps intensifying and intensifying into complete stunning brilliance, and had this out of body feel -- which is not a dissociated state (i can no longer experience subject/object dualistic state nor dissociation, nondual is always experienced here) but like a dispersing into the infinite field, and yet this is not mere mind-body drop as mind-body drop is already my ever-present state for many years.
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