Smile with our whole body.
Smile like a "laughing buddha" (布袋和尚).
Overcome anger and bring "lucks" to everyone's life.
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Dragan Milojević
Tan, you sound like a life coach
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The mystery of life cannot be understood,
Don't try to understand it.
Simply be selfless,
And let the whole movement apprehends.
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Irmina Wrona
Hi John, thank you for sharing. Great contemplation thought for today
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Robert Dominik Tkanka
"See friend.
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve.
But a reality to experience.
A process that cannot be understood by stopping it.
We must move with the flow of the process.
We must join it. We must float with it.
Let it go. Let it go."
a quote from the "Dune" movie (based on an earlier quote from the books)
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Robert Dominik Tkanka which book?
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John Tan
first book in the "Dune" sci-fi/fantasy series by Frank Herbert. The
author was into Buddhadharma and took vows in Zen tradition at some
point in his life.
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John Tan
Robert Dominik Tkanka ic thks.
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Geovani Geo
See the sharpness of impersonal existence.
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Don't use ur mind to reason urself out of attachments.
Use ur breath and body to let go of attachments.
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Robert Dominik Tkanka
This is somatic approach. Very powerful and transforming. There is also cognitive-behavioral methodology.
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John Tan
Robert Dominik Tkanka indeed. In fact that is key post anatta insight.
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Robert Dominik Tkanka
John Tan the habitual tendencies are powerful and there is needed skill in applying the correct remedies?
John Tan
Robert Dominik Tkanka yes there r.
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Jake Casavant
I see benefits using both reason and somatic approaches in tandem
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Jake Casavant
that is good. But once u sense the energy patterns and the way of
opening up ur body, let go of thoughts. Thoughts can be quite energy
consuming.
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Jake Casavant
That
seems right. I notice at times in meditation that thoughts are
*literally* energy consuming, or energy disrupting. At least, 'sticky'
thoughts. It's like they catch on the energy flows of the body and get
tangled up in them, disrupting them. Not following thoughts, in the
other hand, allows the energy flows to attain their natural coherence
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Jake Casavant
listen to ur body. Feel ur body and breath and sense the way of
opening. What our body currently is attuned is more "karmic" than
"natural".
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Seng Yew Meng
John Tan
Hi John, when you say sense the way of opening - are you referring to
the energetic body? Opening is sometime uncomfortable and painful even
to the physical body in my experience. Not sure if I am on the same page
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Seng Yew Meng
can be intially uncomfortable due to accustomed patterns but not
necessarily painful imo. What is important is to allow the boby to
listen instead of the mind. Let loose ur body, ur mind will also let
go. What is important is to put things into perspective and open up our
understandings of how to deal with attachments. I m not talking about
any energy body system in particular, not getting into energy practices.
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Jake Casavant
John Tan thanks
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Albert Hong
Thanks for the big wack with the stick!
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Anurag Jain
Reifying
the inherent existence of any object, including the body is the root of
attachment. Attention to breathing etc.are indirect aids pre-anatta
insight.
Anatta
insight cuts all subject (an agent who acts) object (an object to be
acted upon) duality and doership. All phenomena are empty appearances.
This is their nature and they never deviate from it. So both mind and
body are empty appearances. The labels 'mind' and 'body' are merely
conventional designations.
Having
said this, one can still be doing yoga or pranayama or sex, or not
doing any yoga or pranayama or sex post anatta insight as both are empty
appearances.
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Jonah Mark Bekerman
when
I sit shikantaza and feel breathing it is liberating but then I go
about my daily life and the mind dominates. mind resistant to felt sense
of being, breathing .
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John Tan
Jonah Mark Bekerman yes there r too much noises in the head and the whole body-mind balance is upset.
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Jonah Mark Bekerman
John Tan it is like learning to breathe as a child would if they were loved
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Pierce Salguero
Jonah Mark Bekerman That's one of the most incredible descriptions I've ever heard. Thank you for saying that.
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Jackson Peterson
John,
the problem is the sense of a self is being imputed to exist, which
can be gotten out of attachments by reason or by using breath and body
to let go of attachments. No self entity exists, which means the entity
that is attempting to become free of attachments is THE illusion. A
non-existent self can’t be liberated. There is no entity to realize
anatta if anatta is true.
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Tyler Jones
After
believing that using the body was the way for my entire path, I
recently started thinking that unconscious and subconscious vasanas
could compromise the whole project of just using the body and energy
practices, that I needed some more mind based practice to deal with the
deep unconscious belief systems that were directing the qi behind the
scenes (yi dao qi dao) in my meditation and qigong. But now I see this
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Tyler Jones
lol. Yi Dao qi dao is already quite an achievement before the "person"
doing "disappears". But yi here is "attention" rather than "reasoning";
more like "sensing" than "intellectualizing". In fact taoism paxis is
fully anatta into the natural condition.
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