https://www.amazon.com/Gesture-Awareness-Radical-Approach-Movement/dp/0861715063

Thusness and I think this is a book with great clarity.

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A few excerpts from Gesture of Awareness by Charles Genoud:


When we develop true intimacy with our body, we become intimate with ourselves. We learn to be present as a whole. We open to discovery of our essence when the dichotomy of body-mind is dropped.

This is precisely the purpose of the practice of Gesture of Awareness.

In this practice we explore movement to discover the nature of awareness. We inquire even of the sensation of tension in the neck – becoming aware not of the sensation but of the consciousness of it; becoming aware not of the consciousness of it, but of the essence of the consciousness. One does not always have to practice Gesture of Awareness, though, in such a gradual way.

If the body is just a thought, the play of awareness, then ultimately an intimate knowledge of the body is an intimate knowledge of awareness...

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....Are we present
in what we do
at every instant?

Or are we doing
the not-yet-here,
that which we are wishing for

In the simplicity
of the experience,

is the doing of what we do
happening
anywhere?

The action is
not located anywhere.

In order for something
to be placed somewhere there needs
to be at least two phenomena.

When there is only one,
there is nothing with respect to
where it may be located.

Bodily sensations are not in the body -
for the sensations themselves,
the sensations are not happening anywhere.

From the left hand’s point of view,
it is not located anywhere.
It is nowhere.

Nothing to improve.

If there were only one universe
and therefore nothing outside it,

could we located the universe?
Here without any possibility
of there is devoid of signification.

Here nondualistically
is meaningless.

Now here
nowhere.

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Can the most dense place
of presence be found in the head
or heart or wherever else?

is the place with the densest sense of being
right in the experience itself?

Is the place with the densest sense of being
right in bodily sensation
when there is bodily sensation?

right in the experience itself:
in a thought
when there is a thought?

What if we bring our attention,
our awareness, to a specific place,
any specific place, any part of the body?

If we try as meditators to bring our awareness to our walking we’ll be
in the profane place in front of the temple.

When we bring our attention somewhere
we’re in the profane world.

Bringing our awareness
to any experience means we’re not
in the most dense place of existence.

We don’t need to bring our awareness anywhere -
awareness is always within the arising
of the experience itself.

We don’t need to make any separation
between bodily sensations and awareness.
Bodily sensations are already awareness.

Thought is already awareness.
We don’t need to bring
awareness to the thought.

What we’re exploring
is not the body
but the body’s awareness.

We’re just exploring
the body of awareness.

We may wonder where
the body’s awareness is,
imagining it’s in the body.

but the body’s awareness will only be
in the body if we stand outside ourselves
trying to figure out where it is.

The center gives orientation.
It’s not located anywhere.

The experience of the body’s awareness
or the thought’s awareness is not located anywhere
from the standpoint of the experience.

There is nothing outside
the experience of the body’s awareness.

Awareness is not located anywhere.
It is not situated in space.

for space would then be something known by
experience: it’s not a characteristic
of awareness itself.

In our exploration
it’s not necessary
to  direct our awareness.

Rather, let awareness
play out on its own.

Rest simply with experiences,
with bodily sensations,
thoughts.

If one tries to bring awareness
someplace then one may not
be complete.

And so now you know
where the place to be is.

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In spiritual circles, workshops, talks, and retreats
words like here and now are used like mantras,
as if they express truth.

Don’t the words here and now
depend on place, on time -
on before and after?

Don’t they express dualism?
Don’t the words here and now
express a fragmented understanding?

We may find this notion that things
don’t happen in place or time
more challenging.

An experience happens somewhere only when
we place ourselves outside the experience
as an observer, as an experiencer.

An experience happens
somewhere only with respect to
another somewhere.

When we are the experience itself,
can it be experienced
at any place?

When we bring our attention
somewhere, don’t we create a place?

When I move my attention to my arm,
mindful of sensations in my arm,
am I not making a place, a world?

isn’t this how we structure
our daily lives, our reality?

This structure of our lives,
our reality, is exactly
what we’re questioning.

We’re questioning the way we create
a world through attitude and language
and purposeful mindfulness.

When we believe in the world
in which we live,
when we believe in separation,
when we believe in duality,
in subject and object, we’re creating
our cage, our prison, our chains.

Or we may keep on creating the world,
while yet realizing the fictional
aspect of our creation.

Though they may sound harsh,
these two words – achronic and atopic -
illuminate with their precision.

No time, no place,
no when, no where.

In order to explore this,
we may have to stop following
our tendency to be an observer,

our tendency to observe
our experiences, our thoughts.

If we set ourselves up as an observer
of our thoughts we could locate them
with respect to this observer.

If we are just thoughts – if we are
the arising thoughts – where could
we locate them, and with respect to what?

can we say a thought is here, or there?
Here or there
is the thought that we are

when here arises with the simultaneous
impossibility of there -
it has no meaning.

This may be said to be true
for all experiences.

Tasting, thinking, smelling, hearing,
tactile sensation, seeing -

the simplicity of our experiences -
where do they happen?

The seeing itself, and not the object -
where does seeing happen?

Can we say it’s happening in front of us,
or behind us, or inside, or outside,
and with respect to what?

We may inquire of all our senses
in this way without building
any sense of location.

Can I just walk, just experience
bodily sensations, and not invent stories?

If there is nothing other than bodily sensations, in which space could I move?
Toward what, away from what?

In our work, we don’t need to cultivate
the attempt to be mindful
of something specific.

Just walking, just seeing,
just hearing – we don’t need to try to walk or see or hear.

maybe we’re as absent as
the characters in Blanchot’s novel:
we are nowhere.

Yet that is
to be questioned.

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In trying to find anything
real in the form that appears,
one is left with nothing,

yet this nothing
allows form to appear,
the flowers to blossom.

The dreamlike can play,
interact,
gather together and separate.

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In observing there is just simply presence.
A presence without anyone.

When the action
not subject to aim rests
in itself, where is separation?

In wholly doing something -
acting totally in oneness -
there’s no aim, no result,

no I, no actor,
only act.

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Mental images are traces -
traces, habitual patterns.

As we need to rest
on something which seems stable,
firm, we cling to traces.

On the traceless, therefore
timeless,
we project the notion of time and duration.

To find comfort and security
we make something
out of an ungraspable reality.

We grasp so quickly
conceptualize so conditionally,
that we’re never aware of the traceless.

Holding on to an experience by means of a concept,
I solidify it:
I make it into something,
a something
that can be opposed to something else.

........

We don’t need to read fiction
to be in a dream-like reality

as there is no real world
behind the dream,
behind the traces.

........

We live in an illusory world,
an illusory world that we share,

an illusion kept alive
by tacit convention.

The reality of our everyday life
depends on shared conditionality -

it is a common dream,
not a private one.

Can you move your hand
in a circular way, not holding on
to traces;
can you move your hand
and not be drawn in by the notion of a circle? Let’s explore.

Know when you are dealing with traces.

Know when you are just experiencing.

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the Buddha says:

In seeing, just seeing; in hearing, just hearing;
in tasting, just tasting; in smelling, just smelling;
in feeling, just feeling; in thinking, just thinking.

It was enough for the Brahmin,
who awakened.

But what does
just mean?

It means the elimination
of the reality of a tangible subject
and tangible object;

it leaves seeing whole.
A seeing in which the totality
of my being participates..

A seeing beyond any notion
of inside and outside.

A seeing without a seer;
a seeing without anything seen.

it leaves intimacy,
an intimacy leaving only presence,
only awareness.

How is I-less seeing,
I-less hearing
possible?

When wind blows,
do we look for a blower
apart from the blowing?

When fire burns,
do we look for burner
apart from the fire?

Can’t I see the way the wind blows
can feel the way fire burns when I lie
on the floor with my eyes closed?

Is there any rester apart from the resting?
is there any feeler separated
from feeling bodily sensations?

The sense of being at rest
on the floor
or on one’s back

creates separation,
creates duality.
Is the notion of floor,

or the notion of back, anything but
imagination, a construct based
on the sensation of hardness, of coldness?

A construct useful if we’re to clean the floor, useful
if we need to protect our back,

but it misleads
if we’re concerned with intimacy,
with full presence.

Can I rest on the floor
like the fire burns?

Can I walk
like the wind blows?....

Here's something I wrote last month after encountering a Zen master from the Kwan Um School of Zen.


(in photo: Zen Master Dae Kwan, Zen Master Dae Kwang, and translator)

The other day, I asked Emanrohe about the 'talk by Zen Master Dae Kwang'. That's strange, I don't know who Zen Master Dae Kwang is but his name pops up in mind and I just typed it out, later I re-checked, the website says its Zen Master Dae Bong's talk. So I sent a second sms and told him my error, it's actually Zen Master Dae Bong's talk.

But anyway, today it turns out Zen Master Dae Kwang was indeed giving a speech.

Halfway through, the thunder started to sound.. Someone asked a question, he said "can you hear the thunder?" *thunder claps* "that is it! that is the answer from Buddha (laughter)" And five more questions came - what is enlightened person, who can become enlightened, how to practice and become enlightened, "all dharmas return to one one returns to what?", etc.

And his answer to each question was, "did you hear the thunder?"

Then it started to rain, it got so loud that he stopped speaking and we just sat there. The rain itself becomes the dharma talk... so everyone sat there in meditation... the zen master sat very still. Just the sound of dripping rain filling the whole universe... the sound enjoying and hearing itself... that's Buddha, clear and blissful.

Then after 20 minutes he began to speak. He said you don't need to remember anything I said... the rain is the best dharma talk. So the talk ended, 15 minutes early.

It was still raining and I got a chance to chat with him a little.

I told him two years ago, I was contemplating on the Bahiya Sutta and that led to an awakening - in the seen, there is just the seen, in the heard there is just the heard, in the cognized just the cognized. When for you, Bahiya, there is in the seen just the seen, in the heard just the heard, in the cognized just the cognized, there is no you in terms of that, no you in there, no you here, and no you in-between. Just that is the end of suffering. Then I realized, oh, this entire notion of a self, a seer that is seeing the seen is entirely illusory! There is in seeing just the seen, seeing IS the seen only. No subject and object, inside or outside.

He smiled and said "Precisely! That's why I asked - did you hear the thunder?"

I said, "But I still have discursive thoughts sometimes, I feel my practice is still lacking. What do you say about it?"

He said thoughts are not a problem, it's the natural functioning of the mind - Buddha's sutras all came from his thinking. Just don't be attached to thoughts, that's all.

I asked him a few more questions... like, how long do you advise people to do meditation everyday?

He said 24 hours.

I asked, what about sitting meditation?

He said maybe 20 minutes in the morning, then the rest of the day also Just Do It.

I say in acting 100% action, no you remaining. He agreed and said no you practicing either. No inside, no outside, just do it.

I thanked him, bowed and left.

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A little background info:

Zen Master Dae Kwang is the abbot of the Kwan Um School of Zen. He is the guiding teacher of Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island, the head temple of our international School. He is also the teacher for Zen centers in Wisconsin and Delaware. Zen Master Dae Kwang travels widely, leading retreats throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. His interests include meditation practices common to Christianity and Buddhism. He was ordained a monk in 1987.

http://www.awaresilence.com/Zen_Teachings/Zen_Master_Dae_Kwang_Middleway.html

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I told Thusness later, he said that's the "total exertion" he talked about. He also said the insights I went through is quite compatible with their zen lineage and also it's "not easy to find a master with true insight, you should associate with him", but I said he's going back to America.

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From "What The Buddha Taught" by Walpola Rahula (great book, highly recommended):

"Mindfulness, or awareness, does not mean that you should think and be conscious 'I am doing this' or 'I am doing that.' No. Just the contrary. The moment you think, 'I am doing this,' you become self-conscious, and then you do not live in the action, but you live in the idea 'I am,' and consequently your work too is spoiled.

"You should forget yourself completely, and lose yourself in what you do. The moment a speaker becomes self-conscious and thinks 'I am addressing an audience,' his speech is disturbed and his trend of thought broken. But when he forgets himself in his speech, in his subject, then he is at his best, he speaks well and explains things clearly.

All great work -- artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual -- is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.

This mindfulness or awareness with regard to our activities, taught by the Buddha, is to live in the present moment, to live in the present action (this is also the Zen way which is based primarily on this teaching.) Here in this form of meditation, you haven't got to perform any particular action in order to develop mindfulness, but you have only to be mindful and aware of whatever you may do. You haven't got to spend one second of your precious time on this particular 'meditation': you have only to cultivate mindfulness and awareness always, day and night, with regard to all activities in your usual daily life. These two forms of 'meditation' discussed above are connected with our body."

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10/20/2012 9:51 AM: Thusness: What is non-meditation to u?
10/20/2012 9:51 AM: Thusness: And what is non-action?
10/20/2012 10:46 AM: AEN: Non meditation is simply experiencing experience as it appears without dualistic/inherent view which is rather similar to what jax is saying I think
10/20/2012 10:58 AM: Thusness: What do u mean by experiencing experience as it appears without dualistic/inherent view?
10/20/2012 11:00 AM: Thusness: If I ask u to take a deep breath now and then breath normal, are they non-action and non-meditation?
10/20/2012 11:01 AM: AEN: Yes
10/20/2012 11:01 AM: Thusness: Why so?
10/20/2012 11:02 AM: AEN: It is just experience in its natural state, without the sense of self or dualistic action arising
10/20/2012 11:02 AM: Thusness: Natural state refers to?
10/20/2012 11:03 AM: AEN: Appearance appearing according to conditions, unmodified and unaltered by dualistic action/sense of self
10/20/2012 11:04 AM: Thusness: That u r talking abt no-doership
10/20/2012 11:04 AM: Thusness: What if there is intention
10/20/2012 11:04 AM: Thusness: As in chanting
10/20/2012 11:05 AM: AEN: There is no problem with intention, bcos that too is an arising without self... Its like total exertion in every moment, total action without self, whether chanting, walking, sitting
10/20/2012 11:06 AM: Thusness: An arising without self meaning? As in no-doership...u hv to b clear...
10/20/2012 11:07 AM: AEN: There is total involvement of all conditions, just without agency
10/20/2012 11:07 AM: AEN: Conditions include intention
10/20/2012 11:08 AM: Thusness: Total is always void of self
10/20/2012 11:11 AM: Thusness: When there is no gap between actor and action, that is non-action
10/20/2012 11:13 AM: AEN: I see..
10/20/2012 11:13 AM: Thusness: Lot of movement in appearance but nothing truly moves
10/20/2012 11:15 AM: Thusness: When the one who will is gone (no-will), the entire movement appears to be "your willing"
10/20/2012 11:17 AM: Thusness: It is not abt no-doership and arising spontaneously but doer and deeds are refine till none in total action.
10/20/2012 11:18 AM: AEN: Yes there is no standing back watching action unfold but instead whole being is just action, no self
10/20/2012 11:18 AM: Thusness: When insight of anatta arises, the heat and cold "kill you" is the actualization non-action.
10/20/2012 11:18 AM: Thusness: Yes
10/20/2012 11:20 AM: AEN: Ic..
10/20/2012 11:21 AM: AEN: I think only zen emphasizes this very much

10/20/2012 11:21 AM: Thusness: Dogen
10/20/2012 11:21 AM: AEN: I see
10/20/2012 11:21 AM: Thusness: No...Theravada also when understood correctly
10/20/2012 11:22 AM: AEN: Ic..
10/20/2012 11:23 AM: Thusness: This total exertion is not the result of effort, but full integration of view/experience/realization
10/20/2012 11:24 AM: AEN: I was reading walpola rahula book
10/20/2012 11:24 AM: AEN: I guess he realized anatta and is very clear about this too
10/20/2012 11:24 AM: AEN: He said
10/20/2012 11:25 AM: Thusness: When we say this arising thought is just a thought, don't believe in the story...or this thought is empty...nothing to hold...that is only half understanding
10/20/2012 11:26 AM: AEN: Oic..
10/20/2012 11:26 AM: Thusness: The other half is the total exertion of this thought
10/20/2012 11:27 AM: AEN: Ic..
10/20/2012 11:27 AM: AEN: "Mindfulness, or awareness, does not mean that you should think and be conscious 'I am doing this' or 'I am doing that.' No. Just the contrary. The moment you think, 'I am doing this,' you become self-conscious, and then you do not live in the action, but you live in the idea 'I am,' and consequently your work too is spoiled.
"You should forget yourself completely, and lose yourself in what you do. The moment a speaker becomes self-conscious and thinks 'I am addressing an audience,' his speech is disturbed and his trend of thought broken. But when he forgets himself in his speech, in his subject, then he is at his best, he speaks well and explains things clearly.
All great work -- artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual -- is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.
10/20/2012 11:27 AM: Thusness: All past/present/future tendencies, ignorance, wisdom is in this one thought...
10/20/2012 11:30 AM: AEN: This mindfulness or awareness with regard to our activities, taught by the Buddha, is to live in the present moment, to live in the present action (this is also the Zen way which is based primarily on this teaching.) Here in this form of meditation, you haven't got to perform any particular action in order to develop mindfulness, but you have only to be mindful and aware of whatever you may do. You haven't got to spend one second of your precious time on this particular 'meditation': you have only to cultivate mindfulness and awareness always, day and night, with regard to all activities in your usual daily life. These two forms of 'meditation' discussed above are connected with our body."
10/20/2012 11:30 AM: Thusness: Yes...and insight of anatta opens the gate.
10/20/2012 11:32 AM: AEN: Ic..
10/20/2012 11:33 AM: AEN: Delma tells me today her total exertion has stabilized
10/20/2012 11:34 AM: AEN: "Interesting times. Nondual is becoming more and more stable. I don't understand it, but just reading your material and deeply contemplating it seems to have tremendous affect. Yesterday while driving home from work and walking to my house, there was just walking, just driving. This was is what is becoming more and more sustained.

I do follow your advice and follow the breath without counting. Then there is only breath. It's more effortless these days. So, thank you.
10/20/2012 11:34 AM: AEN: luminosity, but not awareness as a thing or entity. just the senses, experienced as independent streams. It's the walking experience which seems different and sustained. No one is walking. At first this would be experienced with a bit of effort, but it's becoming more natural and the feeling of it always having been this way is there."
10/20/2012 11:38 AM: Thusness: Quite good
10/20/2012 11:51 AM: Thusness: When the gap between actor and action is refined till none, that is non-action and that non-action is total action. Whether this total action is understood as the natural way will depend on whether the insight of anatta has arisen. Anatta is the insight that allows the practitioner to see clearly that this has always been the case.
 
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Hi James, I think after realizing anatta, the super-clarity of mindfulness becomes sort of effortless and uncontrived. Pure natural aliveness and crystal clarity in all six senses. Isn't it the case for you? So any kind of contrivance becomes counterproductive. But if you try to practice mindfulness before penetrating no-self, it is quite effortful to maintain. This is because clarity is intrinsic to mind/experience rather than being produced, only the sense of self is 'obscuring'.

Also the non-action that Thusness said is not merely 'no doer, everything just happening, just being done' but total involvement, total action, entire being is just action, so intention and effort is fully exterted to do what is being done. It is not a contrived effort like "trying to maintain a witness of what is being done", no. No contrived mindfulness is involved. I'm talking about full exertion in just doing that activity like the whole being, whole universe is fully exerting as the action, eating the apple, cleaning the stain off the toilet. Intention is fully included/involved in that moment, rather than dissociated/a kind of "let things happen on their own".

Whole body-mind is engaged in seeing, hearing, acting: "When you see forms or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind, you grasp things directly. Unlike things and their reflections in the mirror, and unlike the moon and its reflection in the water, when one side is illumined the other side is dark." - Dogen

When there is total action, that is also non action because there is no doer-deed dichotomy, whole being is just action and there is no doer or acting or even movement.


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This morning before I woke up, I dreamt of going to the new zen center Kwan Yin Chan Lin, when I woke up I was suddenly reminded about visiting KYCL (I probably would have forgotten otherwise) and realized today is a good time to visit that place as it is Saturday and they have activities on Saturday. I have never visited it before previously (the dharma talks I attended previously were held in a tent).

When I visited that place, they told me today is the first out of the 6 lessons in the meditation course. We sat in meditation for like half an hour? Then it was followed by a dharma talk... and surprise!

Zen Master Dae Kwang was the one giving the talk. (I was wrong, he didn't go back to America after all, he is staying in Singapore for some time)

That place is a cool and nice environment: simple, clean design, very zen. Incidentally I once had this thought in the past, how would I like to design the place if I ever were to build a meditation center myself? Kwan Yin Chan Lin was exactly what I had in mind - a very clean, spacious, uncluttered, simple design.

Anyway, Zen Master Dae Kwang was giving a talk about meditation and zen, he gives us tips about practice and meditation. His talk was also about clear mind - being fully present and letting go the thoughts (but not fighting them), then seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and even thinking becomes very clear. Clear mind is your buddha nature, what is already intrinsic and complete in everyone, so we are not trying to attain anything at all. As he says: in our practice and meditation, we will NOT attain anything!

It was a nice talk.

The funny thing is, the ending words in the talk was the same as it was in my dream - something about the teachings being about your direct experience and not some (intellectual) understanding. That was followed by the nun coming and commencing the vow recitation. Just the same scene as what I saw in my dream! Hahaha...

I told Thusness immediately after that, his comment was "auspicious karmic connection".
 
 
 
 
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7/9/2012 1:59 PM: John: U r always blinded by self liberation therefore u r not practicing

7/9/2012 2:01 PM: John: It is useless to say the universe is washing the plates or there is just walking or just the breath unless intention is being fully integrated into practice

7/9/2012 2:03 PM: John: U cannot talk about just chanting...unless u chant and understand how ur entire experience is still very much dual and inherent

7/9/2012 2:05 PM: John: U cannot just sing until there is full integration of the voice, music, the intention in seamless integration

7/9/2012 2:07 PM: John: U must know how to integrate ur moment to moment of experience with ur realization

7/9/2012 2:08 PM: John: Hv u chant until a state of no mind?

7/9/2012 2:09 PM: Soh Wei Yu: I don't practice chanting

7/9/2012 2:09 PM: John: It is not practice chanting

7/9/2012 2:09 PM: John: It is how the insight lead u to that

7/9/2012 2:10 PM: John: Have u sang in karaoke in a state of no mind?

7/9/2012 2:10 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Dunnu... Long time nv go :P

7/9/2012 2:10 PM: Soh Wei Yu: But just daily activities yes

7/9/2012 2:10 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Why u ask

7/9/2012 2:11 PM: John: Then sit until there is completely no mind and integrate ur intentionality into practice

7/9/2012 2:12 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Means for example the intentions, action, everything is happening as part of the environment in a seamless action?

7/9/2012 2:13 PM: John: Yes

7/9/2012 2:14 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Oic

7/9/2012 2:14 PM: John: It is like ??? (body, speech, mind)

7/9/2012 2:17 PM: John: Or directing the Yi (thought/intention) into any form of practice

7/9/2012 2:18 PM: John: Be it chakra, taichi, chanting, breathing meditation

7/9/2012 2:18 PM: John: Trace the tendencies in all these activities

7/9/2012 2:19 PM: John: Breathing meditation is the easiest

7/9/2012 2:20 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Trace the tendencies means observe the intentions?

7/9/2012 2:21 PM: John: No means for u to trace dualistic and inherent tendencies

7/9/2012 2:21 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Oic

7/9/2012 2:26 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Should I send your advise to delma too? Might be appropriate for her

7/9/2012 2:31 PM: John: No...u may practice till u understand so that u can give appropriate advice

7/9/2012 2:32 PM: John: So that u understand the importance of conditions

7/9/2012 2:32 PM: John: Between movement and at rest

7/9/2012 2:33 PM: John: U spoke of supporting conditions but r disregarding the supporting conditions

7/9/2012 2:39 PM: John: Now if u aspire to sing like ???, what must u do?

7/9/2012 2:40 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Keep training in singing?

7/9/2012 2:40 PM: John: No good...how do u integrate ur insight of no-self and ur understanding into this?

7/9/2012 2:41 PM: John: What is the difference before and after realization?

7/9/2012 2:43 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Previously there is the idea of control and agency, now it is simply intention, action, creating positive conditions for a positive outcome

7/9/2012 2:47 PM: John: No good u hv not really see the change yet

7/9/2012 2:49 PM: John: Refine ur insights and mature ur realization and see what is the diff

7/9/2012 2:53 PM: Soh Wei Yu: Oic..

7/9/2012 3:08 PM: John: U must be able to understand the way of no-self

7/9/2012 3:13 PM: Soh Wei Yu: The way is no-self is just action (including mental action/intention, speech and body) but no doer, like when walking there is just a mere happening... But that doesn't deny intention but intention is part of the mere happening in a seamless action? In fact not only intention but also the road, the environment, everything all seamlessly happening but nothing controlling anything

7/9/2012 3:13 PM: John: No...

7/9/2012 3:15 PM: John: The way of no-self is in the shortest possible time into at oneness of action

7/9/2012 3:16 PM: John: So what is the role of visualization?

7/9/2012 3:17 PM: Soh Wei Yu: To develope concentration and create a positive momentum? Like a positive imprint. Not so sure as I don't do visualization...

7/9/2012 3:18 PM: John: That is y u do not understand the way of no self enough ...u hv to mature ur experience and tell me...the way is like direct fusing

7/9/2012 3:21 PM: John: Like u hear a song, learning is transformed from I learn to like the song is learning itself ...the mind-body-environment like entering the heart of action automatically

7/9/2012 3:21 PM: John: Like visualization then u become the visualized