Tuesday, May 30, 2023

40 Days in the Wilderness: Buddhist Retreat

Dhr. Seven, Kalyana Mitta based on BethUpton.com, Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhist retreats are the way of attainment for modern Americans with no time to ordain and play the role of monastic -- stressing and fussing, trying to follow endless rules and learning a foreign etiquette. One might sign up to many in search of a great and accomplished teacher.

That's no easy feat, to find a suitable teacher, to carve out the time in our busy lives, and to calm down to make the most of it instead of overdoing it and exhausting oneself, ending up only with frustration and confusion as to what was missing from one's practice.

Wisdom Quarterly made it possible to follow in my successful friend's footsteps to apply for a spot with a better teacher, a successful Western student of the Great Asian Teacher, who's not always easy to understand and has a limited number of ways of explaining things.

This Western teacher was able to find endless ways of explaining things, from the Buddha's examples to modern Western examples one could easily relate to.

So the wilderness was the desert in Southern California, springtime with everything in bloom, windy and cool most of the time, dry and flowering.

After I left Asia, I was still a nun in Europe.
The teacher was Londoner Beth Upton (formerly Sayalay Anutara, a ten precept nun in the forests of Burma).

The lesson was "simple but not easy," to balance my sense of urgency with contentment. Why would I want to reduce my urgency? My sense of urgency brings me to my mat. Ah, I learned, but it's my contentment that keeps me there.

Lesson 1: Let your sense of urgency bring you to the mat. Let your contentment keep you there.

The training was gradual. But, Beth, I'm in a hurry! I've only got a short time to make an end of all time, aka, samsara. "Nirvana is already here," I heard my Mahayana friends whispering in my head. It isn't, but it sure is good to see it that way, because then one is able to relax and exhale (let go).

Lesson 2: Sit up. Let go.

In yoga, it's called samadhi ("stillness") by sadhana ("daily practice")

Then the practice became joyful. I didn't know it was supposed to be joyful. "Love my object"? Who ever heard of such a thing. Did the Buddha say that? Show me the sutra. The "naturals" who take to meditation with the ease a fish takes to water or a bird to the sky know this without knowing. They just do it without all that mediation of thought, debate, doubt, skeptical inquiry, or arguing. Of course it's this way.

Lesson 3: Radically accept it. Love it.

I was meditating on my in-and-out breath. I had been for years. It's a drudge. It's work in exchange for liberation; I've been trying to buy my way out with the "penance" of suffering on the mat, the harder the better. This was all wrong. When I learned to love my object, I didn't need to whip and berate the mind (attention) to stay on it. Focus was easy, as if to say effortless. My mind wanted to go there as it got subtler and subtler.


Lesson 4: The meditation object must be an increasingly subtle one, leaving behind the coarser.

There's a sutra (MN 20, "The Removal of Distracting Thoughts") in which the Buddha gives the meditators pursuing the "higher mind" five pieces of advice on letting go of distractions.
  1. Give attention to something what is wholesome to remove unwholesome thoughts.
  2. Examine the danger of unwholesome thoughts (and then the mind naturally pulls away and averts them without extra effort).
  3. Forget those thoughts and don't give any attention to them.
  4. Give attention to stilling the thought-formation of those thoughts.
  5. Constrain those thoughts by force. (DON'T do this except in extreme cases, as when one is about to commit a defeat offense or engage in really bad karma).
It's the fourth piece of advice that is the key here. Who knows what a thought-formation (sankhara) is? It's not important. What's important is the simile the Buddha gives on HOW to do this:

Coarse or subtle?
Perception gets subtler and subtler
"Just as a person walking quickly might consider, 'Why am I walking quickly? What if I walk slowly? ' and one might walk slowly. Then one might consider, 'Why am I walking slowly?' What if I stand?' and one would stand. Then one might consider, 'Why am I standing? What if I sit?' and one would sit. Then one might consider, 'Why am I sitting? What if I lie down?' and one would lie down. By doing so one would SUBSTITUTE for each coarser/grosser posture a subtler one.

"So, too, when a meditator gives attention to stilling the thought-formation of those thoughts...one's mind becomes steadied internally, quieted, brought to singleness [unity, one-pointedness], and stilled [concentrated, unified, made coherent]."

Lesson 5: Go more and more subtle by leaving the coarse behind.

If we listen sooner, we'll get there sooner.
Therefore, if one is trying to forget, ignore, overcome, or not allow to arise thoughts connected with craving, aversion, or delusion, one should give attention to still the thought-formation of those thoughts" in this way. It's great advice.

Let's replace the coarse with the subtle, the efforting with the ease, breathing in with breathing out, all the while paying attention to the subtle thing before us. This is the way of progress because increasingly subtle things will come up on the Path. And that's the desirable thing to have happen, seemingly effortlessly, not by laziness but by BALANCED effort or "right ease."

Lesson 6: Stay with the pointer or, to be exact, what it's pointing at.

Harry Nilson sings, "Me and My Arrow." What's his point? His point is his pointer, his arrow. In this case, I have my experienced teacher who points the way to what she herself has not only learned but personally experienced. She's the initial pointer.

Lesson 7: Stick with it to the final goal (nirvana in this very life) which, if Mahayana is correct, will be right here.

After that, my own nose is the pointer pointing at my meditation object -- my increasingly subtle breath brought on by my increasingly subtle mind able to remain with my object as it calms and slows and becomes almost imperceptible. Then it becomes light (the threefold nimitta). I ignore it, as instructed. It will strengthen and eventually replace my object (the in-and-out breath) with something even more subtle, all while I keep my attention on exactly the same place, that area right under my nose.

Me and My Arrow
Harry Nilson's original song from the animated 1977 film The Point

LYRICS
Me and my arrow
Straighter than narrow
Wherever we go everyone knows
It's me and my arrow
Me and my arrow
Taking the high road
Wherever we go everyone knows
It's me and my arrow

And in the morning when I wake up
She may be gone
I don't know
And if we make up just to break up
I'll carry on
Oh yes I will

Me and my arrow
Do do do do do do do do
Straighter than narrow
Wherever we go everyone knows
It's me and my arrow

Me and my arrow
Me and my arrow
Me and my arrow
Me and my arrow
Me and my arrow

Me and my arrow
Do do do do do do do do
Straighter than narrow
And wherever we go everyone knows
It's me and my arrow

The great Czech monk: Ven. Dhammadipa

Ven. Dhammadipa, Buddhistdoor Global, March 16, 2016; Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Ven. Dhammadipa on the Buddhist Education Project in Sakarwadi, India
(BDG: Buddhistdoor Global) Born in the Czech Republic, for many years Venerable Dhammadipa traveled the world, ordaining in Chinese Mahayana then in Burmese Theravada at the world-renown Pa Auk Forest Monastery, where he trained with Pa Auk Sayadaw, attaining distinction in knowledge and vision.
Yogi: Ven. Dhammadipa (mahalaya-nepal.com)
He then continued his travels, giving teachings on serenity and insight meditation and Buddhist Studies. In this interview with Buddhistdoor Global, he discusses his landmark Buddhist Education Project in Sakarwadi, India, which is designed to educate the local Buddhist community (mostly composed of Dalits, formerly "Untouchables," who practice but know little about Buddhism) on bettering their poverty-stricken lives.

Be inspired by more Buddhist content at the Buddhistdoor website: buddhistdoor.net

7 Steps to Heaven (and Beyond): Ajahn Brahm

Ajahn Brahm, BWSA, Dec. 19, 2018; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Jhanas – Seven Steps to Heaven (and One Beyond) by Ajahn Brahm
(The Buddhist Society) "Relax to the max." Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera (aka Ajahn Brahm) was born Peter Betts in London, England, on August 7, 1951. He came from a working-class background then won a scholarship to study theoretical physics at Cambridge University in the late 1960s. After graduating from Cambridge he taught in high school for a year before traveling to Thailand to become a Theravada Buddhist monk and train with the world-famous Ajahn Chah Bodhinyana Mahathera.

Science: Our universe ISN'T real (video)

What is a "hologram"? Here a hologram of the Buddha restores the one the CIA blew up along with Pakistan's ISI in formerly Buddhist Bamiyan, Afghanistan as a pretext for U.S. invasion/occupation.


Oxford physicist PROVES the universe isn't real: We live in a cosmic hologram
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She has traveled to nearly 80 countries and worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions and her extensive experience and knowledge of world events, systems, and trends has led her to speak on transformational reforms in the UK, US, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Australasia.

She is a life-long researcher into the scientific and experiential understanding of the nature of reality, integrating leading edge science, research into consciousness and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic worldview.

She is the author of seven books, like the best-selling and Nautilus award-winning The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation (2017, Inner Traditions) and forthcoming The Story of Gaia: The Big Breath and the Evolutionary Journey of our Conscious Planet (Oct. 2022, Inner Traditions) and is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle.

In 2017 she co-founded WholeWorld-View to communicate the emerging paradigm of unified reality and to serve the understanding, experiencing, and embodying of unity awareness to empower conscious evolution.

In 2022 she was awarded Integral City’s Meshworker of the Year.

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The SAMADHI of Catholic St. Wilhelmina

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit (samadhi); EWTN News, May 25, 2023

What is samadhi? It is a Sanskrit term prominent in Buddhism and the philosophy behind Yoga (the ancient Vedas of the Indus Valley Civilization and modern Hinduism with its Brahmins and wandering shramans). It is key to personal spiritual purification and is present in many if not all spiritual traditions, including old-style monastic Catholicism and Eastern Christian Orthodox practices.

Definition and etymology
Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
Samadhi is part of the Eightfold Path
There are various interpretations and etymologies for this Sanskrit term, either with the root sam ("to bring together") or sama (coherent, "the same, equalized, the convergence of two distinct things").

According to Dan Lusthaus, samadhi refers to either bringing to consciousness the samskaras (tendencies, mental formations, "buried latencies"), or meditative stillness/concentration on a meditation object [14]: sam, "to bring together" + adhi, "to place on, put, to impregnate, to give, to receive" -- the bringing together of cognitive conditions," "bringing the buried latencies into full view," so "the obscure and hidden become clear objects of cognition," "the womb through which insight is born" [14].

The sama, "the same, equalized, the convergence of two distinct things based on some commonality" + adhi, "higher, better, most skillfully achieved" -- "the skillful unification of mind [subject] and object," "the mental equanimity conducive to and derived from attention perfectly focused on its object."

One-pointedness
"[S]ometimes treated as synonymous with ekacitta, 'one-focused mind,' i.e., mind (citta) completely focused on and at one (eka) with its object" [14]. [In Theravada Buddhism this is the Pali languager term ekaggata, or "one-pointedness" of mind.

"Etymologies for sam-ā-dhā include: 'sam-ā-dhā’ = 'to collect' or 'to bring together,' thus suggesting the concentration or unification of the mind," generally mistranslated [in Buddhism] as "concentration" [15]. [A much better translation is proposed by British monk in the Thai Forest Tradition Ajahn Brahm, "stillness."]

Sam-ā-dhā: "to hold together, to concentrate upon" [16]. Sam, "completely," ā, "the return towards the subject," dha, "maintaining together" = "to assemble completely," "the tension borne between two poles of existence (object and thought) is reduced to zero" [17].

Sam, "together" or "integrated," ā, "towards," dhā, "to get, to hold" = to acquire integration [coherence, integrity] or wholeness, or truth (samāpatti); sam, "together," ā, "toward," stem of dadhati, "puts, places" = a putting [all together, coherently structuring or returning to an original structure] or joining.

Particular Hindu/yoga interpretations include: sam, "perfect" or "complete," dhi, "consciousness" = "all distinctions between the person [subject] who is the subjective meditator, the act of meditation [bare awareness], and the object of meditation merge into oneness" (Stephen Sturgess) [18].

Sam
, "with," ādhi, "lord" = Union with the Lord (Stephen Sturgess) [16]. [In yoga it might be better to render it not "union with the lord or Brahma" but "Union with Brahman," the impersonal "ultimate reality" behind all illusion (maya).] 

Beginner's mind
Sama, "equanimous," dhi, "buddhi or the intellect" = equanimous intellect, non-discriminating intellect (Sadhguru) [19].

Sama, "balance," ādi, "original" = "a state that is equal to the original state, which is the state that prevailed before we came into existence," "original balance" (Kamlesh D. Patel [20]. More

Miracle? Body of Benedictine Sisters’ Foundress Wilhelmina thought to be incorrupt (except for hands)

(EWTN) May 25, 2023. When the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles, exhumed the body of their foundress earlier this month, they discovered the unexpected.

Four years after her death and burial in a simple wooden coffin, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster's body appeared remarkably well preserved. The news spread quickly on social media and now hundreds of pilgrims are flocking to the monastery in rural Missouri.

Executive Director of EWTN's ACI group Kelsey Wicks, who has been following the story from the beginning, joins to share more about who Sr. Wilhemina is. Wicks visited the monastery in rural Missouri soon after the body was exhumed. She tells us what the scene was like. Wicks discusses what has been the impact of this story on the community. This community may be well known to some viewers because of their recordings. Wicks explains more about that. She fills in on what other stories she is following.

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FBI lied about MLK Jr. and Malcolm X (video)

You're a great man, Malcolm. - I know, Marty, I know. Now trying that to the newspapers.

Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 1, 2023
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"King: A Life": New bio details FBI spying and how MLK's criticism of Malcom X was fabricated
(Democracy Now!) May 30, 2023. Democracy Now! speaks in depth with journalist Jonathan Eig about his new book, King: A Life, the first major biography of the civil rights leader in more than 35 years, which draws on unredacted FBI files, as well as the files of the personal aide to [sociopathic] Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson, to show how Johnson and others partnered in the FBI’s surveillance of King and efforts to destroy him, led by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Eig also interviewed more than 200 people, including many who knew Dr. King closely, like the singer, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte. The book has also drawn attention for its revelation that Rev. King was less critical of Malcolm X than previously thought.

Neuroscience of Awakening: Buddhist Brain

Asangoham, April 29, 2023; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

The Neuroscience of Awakening: Your Brain on Buddhism
(Asangoham) Our brains have the amazing ability to change themselves. This is called neuroplasticity.

[The brain is not the mind. Mind is near the heart]
Our brains are not fixed structures. Rather, they are dynamic systems that are constantly changing and evolving in response to the environment.

In fact, research done in the last decade has shown that the brain is much more malleable and responsive to change than previously thought.

Neuroplasticity can occur at different levels of the brain, from the level of individual neurons to the level of entire brain regions.

One of the primary features of neuroplasticity is that it is activity-dependent. This means that the changes in the brain are driven by experiences and activities.

For example, if a person engages in a particular activity repeatedly, such as learning to play a musical instrument or practicing a new language, the brain will adapt to these experiences and develop new neural connections that support these activities.

Neuroplasticity also has important implications for understanding the relationship between the mind and the brain. If the brain can change and adapt in response to experiences, this means that our minds also can change and adapt.

But what do we mean when we say “mind”? What is a mind? The mind is nothing but thoughts. There is no mind without thoughts.
  • [There is. Mind knows. Thought is the attempt to symbolize conceptualizations. According to the Abhidharma and verifiable personal experience, there were all these things before the brain. They exist independently.]
Therefore, because of the neuroplasticity of brains, we can radically change our thought patterns, or our minds. We can change our thought patterns to have happier or more beneficial minds.

But even more than this. We can also develop the capacity to slow or even stop thought completely by the activity of focusing attention on the emptiness or empty silence between thoughts.

Many religious and mystical traditions, including many schools of Buddhism, teach that it is this capacity to rest in the emptiness between thought that ultimately reveals the very nature of reality, and the reality of who we truly are.


Script: Matt Mackane. Edit: Medo. Voiceover: Andrea Giordani. Music: Epidemic Music x Original. 

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Molested by gay Catholic priests (TJDS)

J. Dore, Kurt Metzger (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
The Jesus and Mary chain led to this, a Vatican full of rich homosexual predator priests?

Monday, May 29, 2023

Path to a bliss better than SEX (Ajahn Brahm)

Ajahn via Chandana Dematapitiya, 1/1/19; text by Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
Wait, there's something better than dead flesh in a bun and fresh flesh for fun? (Carls Jr.)
In Cambodia, there's a magical lost civilization at the center of which is Angkor Wat

Meditation sucks...unless there's a focus on blissful absorptions (jhana) into subtle objects
Ajahn Brahm is a British citizen from Cambridge University who went from studying physics to studying Theravada Buddhist meditation in the Thai Forest Tradition of Thailand with world-renowned master Ajahn Chah.
Turn dung into flower fertilizer (Ajahn Brahm)
Mr. Peter Betts, now as Ajahn Brahm, became enlightened and was sent to teach in Australia as part of his training to the final attainment of arhatship (the fourth and final stage of the nobles ones or arya).

Here he explains the setting up of the foundation that will make insight meditation (vipassana) possible and fruitful.

The fruit of insight is liberation
, purification, freedom from all further rebirth and suffering. It is awakening, enlightenment, knowing-and-seeing what the historical Buddha knew and saw.

I was once Mr. Peter Betts.
In the gradual training of the Buddha, one is liberated (moksha) by going from learning conventional truth (sutras and concepts) to directly seeing and experiencing "ultimate reality" (kalapas and cittas).

When one learns to see that, the heart/mind stops clinging to suffering, The result is nirvana. Along the way come the bliss of the jhanas or "meditative absorptions."

They are The Way the ascetic Siddhartha discovered after years of fruitless penance and austerities. Pursuing these wonderful, cleansing, temporarily-purifying states of mind makes mindfulness result in direct seeing of the Truth.

(BSWA) STILLNESS starts with SILENCE, internal and external

"The goal of meditation isn't to control your thoughts; it's to stop letting them control you."

The best mylk is Wood Milk (Aubrey Plaza)


Woke Leftists meltdown after actress ROASTS them in hilarious video
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Black Catholic nun in Missouri is saint (video)


The body of an incorrupt Catholic nun has been found in Missouri after being deceased for four years
(Dr. Taylor Marshall) [She's Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster. She's Black, a Catholic, foundress of a Benedictine order in Missouri and, now, on her way to being canonized by the Church for being a saint with one miracle under her belt.]

Whoopi, be better! Be like Sister Wilhelmina!
[It's not too difficult to become a "saint" in the Catholic religion. The Buddha is a Catholic saint because once voted in and canonized -- particularly with no more Office of the Devil's Advocate at the Vatican -- one cannot be voted out. The Buddha was brought in by accident because in the Jataka Tales or Rebirth Stories, he was a particularly popular figure. So the Bodhisat (Bodhisatta or Bodhisattva, as the Buddha referred to himself prior to Buddhahood), was remembered as "Saint Josaphat."]

[And the Catholic Church came in to conquer an area, as they are wont to do even today, which they do with swords and flowers, often pick a popular figure to say, "Look, he was saintly." They thus accrue for themselves all popular figures to build their image as the great institution that will convert or kill you, unless you come willingly because, look, this person is actually a Catholic saint.]

[Pope John Paul II didn't like to go to a new country unless he was canonizing a local figure because the local population loves that. Everyone's in need of a patron saint, and no is better than a local.]
  • How can Buddhists explain this? The same way Jains, Hindus, and yogis would: samadhi (stillness, coherence, concentration) that leads to temporary moral purification. Alone it is not enough for salvation, liberation, enlightenment. Systematic practice for insight-wisdom is needed for that. But samadhi alone is enough to make one a "saint" in other religions.

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COMMENTS
buddhist_teaching@yahoo.com(@WQ-001) Is it wrong to be reminded of the Black Jewish actress Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act? Of course, Sister Wilhelmina is the opposite of her, but as one wise person once said, "All saints have a past, and all sinners have a future." So Whoopi could learn something from Saint Lancaster's example.

@Liam-ix8pv(@Liam-ix8pv) I saw her myself! It’s really amazing how well she looks! The best part is that she started that super traditional order there! It’s the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles. They are probably some of the most traditional nuns in the world in my opinion.

@monicaradey815(@monicaradey815) Rest in Holy Peace πŸ™πŸ» Sister WilhelminaπŸ™πŸ»

@JackieArmB(@JackieArmB) Thanks for reporting this, Dr. Marshall. I knew if I shared it with you, you would look into it. Fr. Pillari saw her. The fabric and coffin walls were disintegrated [corrupted], but her habit [nun's garb] was like new. He said you could feel the body intact (muscle or skin; bit binges) through her sleeve. Thank God for signs like this in these dark days.

"A Modern Shaman" (weekly podcast)

Isabella (MMS); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Is plant medicine supposed to hurt?
Each week there's a half-hour podcast called "A Modern Shaman," a heartfelt broadcast that delves into the stories that make us who we are. It gives tangible tools to live a "high vibe" life. Tune in each week and turn on to a more empowered you.

Find previous episodes on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, and more. Or simply go to shamanisabella.com. The show wants to hear the thoughts of listeners, what they would like to learn and even stories the audience wants to share.

Although the show was designed for women, many men have been listening and learning as well. Here is a direct link to all previous shows: A Modern Shaman Podcast