Friday, June 17, 2011
When phenomena are unknown
that is to say - when Avija is running -
Dukkha is manifest,
then just investigate it.
When it becomes identified,
then just apply clear comprehension.
When it becomes clear
then just apply bare attention.
When it becomes objectified,
then simply name or label it
just enough to focus for knowing,
just enough for recognition and
recollection.
Ultimately, this is applied to the knowing itself.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Perception, jumping to conclusions
The Perception aggregate, in a blind compulsion, jumps to a conclusion with respect to a Self subject and a perceived object. If this is seen clearly enough, what else is there to do?
With sufficient clarity, the perception aggregate merely pidgeon holes objects so as to avoid having to continuously "reinvent the wheel."
If it can make these subjective conclusions and blind compulsions themselves, an object of perecption, so as to pidgeon hole them to memory, what other "layers of the onion" can there be left?
Assertive Denial
Assertive Denial
Assertions about space-time, that intrinsically deny the true nature of things just as they are. Proliferating assertions are a state of denial.
Proliferation energy in the heart
Proliferation energy in the heart.
Proliferation noise in the heart.
A Kilesa is active.
The Light that Comes from the Firefly in the Night
Extracted from:
Venerable Acariya Maha Boowa ~Nanasampanno
Wat Pa Baan Taad
June 22, 1979
Translated: Achaan Sudchaad
Where the Work of a Bhikkhu Comes to an End
"...The heart is deluded in the five Khandhas. It takes the creations of the five Khandhas as the objects of it's pleasure and sorrow for Culpas and Culpas, while Vi~n~naana flicks on and off, on and off. When it acknowledges the things that come into contact and those things disappear, Vi~n~naana also disappears. It is similar to a lightening flash, or the light that comes from the firefly in the night..."
Know Yourself, Know Your Parents
Self knowledge is wisdom. Parental knowledge is gratitude.
Our parents gave us everything they could, everything we had. They couldn't give enough to give us the best possible chance in life. Had they been wealthier they would have given us even more. Parents know the importance of generosity.
However, our perception of our parents is very often of the two people who always stopped us from doing what we wanted to do just when we wanted to do it. Children must be the most ungrateful people in any social community.
Any practitioner, having got to know something of himself through mindfulness and wisdom, is well rewarded by developing some understanding of his very own parents. Their final gift to us.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Assumption Drivers
All thought formations are assumption driven. Clarify this proliferation of assumptions and watch the thought formations loose their power, their drivers: watch them flow out from within the heart.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Peripheral Vision
Peripheral Vision
Looking into the heart with the main focus of attention, peripheral vision then does the rest.
It sees that everything else isn't itself and the heart isn't itself either.
The heart just keeps chugging along doing it's job steadily. It can't afford to skylark around with different identities getting into different scenarios. It has a job to do, everything else depends on it's faultless and constant performance.
Let the knowing take this for an identity and become free from the demands of all other phenomena. Let it become the raft or last stepping stone before crossing over to the further shore.
When the knowing can let go of this there is nothing else to do.
Monday, May 29, 2006
It is always there
Let the heart be a guide and refuge. Each time one rediscovers this it, is as though for the first time.
Yet, it is always there.
Only within the heart does one have the releasing knowledge that none of this is the self, "mine" or "I". Anywhere else gives rise to burdensome identification.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Motivations Loosing their Power
Just observe the motivations untill they become perceptions and thus pidgeon holed, loosing their power.
Feedback Loops
The Knowing of the unreal can be compared to a negative feedback loop. Just as this knowing reveals the causes of compounded phenomena to show that they are evanecent, so the negative feedback loop constantly cancels itself out to produce a steady state, analogous to the ground of knowing.
Whereas the Knowing of the real can be compared to a positive feedback loop. Just as the knowing of the knowing is a bright, steady, robust phenomenon; the positive feedback loop can be seen as an analogy with its successive reinforcement or amplification of a phenomenon.
This is a rather tacky analogy, but it does point out the stark differences between the Real and the Unreal that the deluded mind constantly denies, and the knowing mind can't mistake. Such is the power of either careless atachment or the pure Citta.
Delusion II
Delusion
Seeing the unreal as significant.
Seeing the real as insignificant.
Wisdom
Seeing the real as significant.
Seeing the unreal as insignificant.
That's all one needs to know.
Anticipation
When looking at cause and effect in the out-flows, include assumptions.
Present Moment Knowing
The Citta jumps to a conlusion at the moment of perception. From this a whole mass of proliferating assumptions arise. But if mindfulness is present then the assumptions also become a perception, pidgeon holed as a conclusion, thus breaking the cycle of conditionality and the Citta remains in it's mode of present moment Knowing.
The Source
Like an onion, skins peel off with each successive layer of perception, untill it reaches the centre, where it finds the source. This is not itself, but the result of the previous moment.
The World
Whatever takes the practitioner away from the parikamma.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Doubt
When ever there is doubt, the practitioner must ask, "who is it that doubts?" When this source is uncovered what is there left to doubt?
Knowing what he knows and knowing what he doesn't know: finding his way back home.
Symbolic Logic
Dhamma concepts must be clearly understood at the intellectual level before they can be intuited symbolically. Only then can they be operated on with symbolic logic: that is to say Cause and Effect, Dependent Origination, Here and Now, Conditionality, etc.
Being Dhamma, this won't include Space-Time systems unless the practitioner wishes to look at Dhukka, thus becoming mindfully careful with this sticky Kamma.
Kilesas
When the Citta is doing something that it is unaware of.
