The difference between Awareness and Mindfulness with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Why bother? Who needs mindfulness?
(Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche) Find yourself wondering about the differences between awareness and mindfulness? In this teaching, Mingyur Rinpoche explains this question from the traditional Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist perspective by exploring the difference between object-oriented and subject-oriented forms of meditation as ways to connect with [bare] awareness.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Mindfulness is wakeful, vigilant, presence of mind in this moment as a watcher rather than as a participant. It is not being sucked in or getting entangled but merely observing, bare awareness, not evaluating, judging, resisting, preferring, averting, but just dispassionately aware, detached but fully awake to what is, whatever it is even as it is constantly changing. Rather than attempting to fix, improve, change, or involve ourselves, we just watch and see what happens as it happens. This, Wisdom Quarterly suggests, is the principal difference between mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is "bare awareness," a kind of looking on (watching) that is free of discursive thinking, drifting off, or having distractions pull us away and scatter our attention. It is undivided, keenly interested attention that does not grasp, cling, or prefer but is open to whatever is in this moment, the "eternal now." See: "Mindfulness" defined (Ven. Analayo),Establishing Mindfulness Sutra (podcast), Confronting Racism with Mindfulness, and Youth Sutra, The Buddha's Mindfulness Diet Plan]
(Jat 190) The Buddha told this story at Jetavana, the Jeta's Grove Hermitage, about a virtuous lay follower. One evening, when this faithful disciple came to the bank of the Aciravati River on his way to Jetavana to hear the Buddha, there was no boat at the landing stage.
[What is "noble" friendship (kalyāṇa-mittatā) in Buddhism? The greatest thing about a "noble" (enlightened) friend, whether a layperson as in this case or a monastic, is the opportunity to HEAR the Dhamma, the Buddha's Teachings that lead to enlightenment and nirvana. They speak of it when they speak, though often pleased just with quietude and noble silence, are just by their being fine examples of good conduct, virtuous, uplifting (although capable of misconduct and even immorality until they reach the stage of arahant even if the popular misconception is that a stream-enterer immediately becomes morally flawless and of perfect conduct, never mind what the Ratana Sutta has to say about it). The Noble Sangha(lit., "community of enlightened beings"), which includes every being attained at least to the stage of stream-entry or possibly even the two preliminary stages (saddhanusari and dhammanusari), is one of the "Three Treasures" (ti-ratana) or Jewels, the ultimate guides for beings subject to suffering (disappointment in this unending Cycle of Rebirth, which can be brought to an end (nirodha) but never ends by itself). There are by this reckoning seven such "noble ones." However, Ven. Upatissa's Path of Freedom has more details on the three types of stream-enterers (the sattakkhattu-parama facing as many as seven more rebirths, the kolaṅkolaor "passing from one noble family to another" is the stream-enterer who may be reborn fewer times and travel from teacher or school until settling down with the right one and reaching nibbana, and the eka-biji or "one-seeder" or "germinating only once more" stream-enterer, each weakening the further fetters binding one to ignorance and the Wheel of Becoming or Cycle of Rebirth, see AN9.12), which is more helpful than the standard condensed Path of Purification enumeration of just four stages of enlightenment/awakening.]
The ferrymen had pulled their boats onto the far shore and themselves gone to hear the Buddha. However, the disciple's mind was so full of delightful thoughts of the Buddha that even though he walked into the river, his feet did not sink below the surface: He walked on water, going across as if on dry land.
But when he noticed the waves as he reached the middle of the river, his ecstasy subsided and his feet began to sink. Then as soon as he again focused his mind on the qualities of the Buddha, his feet rose and he was able to continue walking joyously over the water.
When he arrived at Jetavana, he paid his respects to the Teacher and took a seat respectfully to one side.
"Good layman," the Buddha said, addressing the disciple, "I hope you had no mishap on your way."
"Venerable sir," the disciple replied, "while coming here, I was so absorbed in thoughts of the Buddha that, when I came to the river, I was able to walk on water and cross it as though it were solid."
"Friend," the Blessed One said, "you are not the only one who has been protected in this way. In olden days, virtuous laymen were shipwrecked in mid-ocean and saved themselves by remembering the virtues of the Buddha." At the man's request, the Buddha then told this story of the past.
Story of the past: Jataka
It's not a sutra, Homer, it's a jataka. - Shut up, Flanders! *Whisper* I'll be back for those eggs.
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This ship is going to sink, friend.
Long, long ago, at the time of the Buddha Kassapa [3], a lay [stream-enterer] disciple who had already entered the path [reached the first stage of enlightenment] booked passage on a ship with his friend, a rich barber.
The rich barber's wife asked the disciple to look after her husband. But a week after it left port, the ship sank in the middle of the ocean.
The two friends saved themselves by holding on to a plank of wood and were eventually cast up on the shore of a deserted island rookery.
Famished, the foolish barber raided egg nests, killed birds, slaughtered and cooked them, offering a share of his bloody meal to the Buddha's disciple.
"No thank you," the disciple answered, "I'm fine" [not wishing to encourage the foolish barber in his defilementsor unskillfulkarma]. He thought to himself, "In this desolate place, there is no help [guidance] for us here except the Three Jewels [the Buddha, Dhamma, and noble Sangha]."
As he sat meditating on the Three Jewels, a naga (reptilian, dragon, CDs) king who had been reborn on that island magically transformed himself into a beautiful ship filled with the seven precious things [4]. Its three masts were made of sapphire, the planks and anchor of gold, and the ropes of silver.
The naga king transforms into a ship to save the good man
The helmsman, who was a sea spirit, stood on the deck and yelled, "Passengers for Jambudipa [earth, subcontinent, or India] now boarding for immediate passage!"
"Yes," the virtuous lay disciple called back, "that's where we're bound!"
"Then come aboard," the sea spirit invited.
The virtuous layman climbed aboard the beautiful ship and turned to call his friend the foolish barber.
(The Simpsons) Stealing to kill and devour mother and their offspring
"You may come," the sea spirit declared "but he may not."
"Why not?" the disciple asked.
"He is no follower of the pure life," answered the sea spirit. "I brought this ship for you, but not for him."
"If that's the case," the virtuous layman announced, "then all the gifts I have given, all the virtues [restraints and exertions] I have practiced, all the powers I have developed — I give the fruit of all of them to him!"
"Thank you, Master!" cried his friend the barber.
"Very well," relented the sea spirit, "now I can take both of you aboard."
The ship carried the two men across the sea and up the Ganges River that pours into it. After depositing them safely at their home in Baranasi [the holy ancient city of Varanasi/Benares], the sea spirit used his magic power to create enormous wealth for both of them. Then, poising himself mid-air, he instructed them and their friends:
"Keep company with the wise and good. If this barber had not been in the company of this virtuous layperson, he would have perished in the middle of the ocean."
McDharma's: Can the US get Beyond Meat?
[Taking eggs from nests, killing birds to survive, the foolish barber was engaged in things that make sense to worldlings even though they are very unskillful karma capable of bringing one to ruin, storing up unwholesome deeds avoided by the wise who neither encourage nor engage in them. That is the high cost of eating eggs, bloody handed, eating babies (bird fetuses), depriving them of life. Who would eat the womb of a woman with the excuse, "No, this womb was not a baby yet because sperm hadn't impregnated it"? The same people eat eggs with blood, indicating the eggs were fertilized and ready to produce a baby chick. Similarly, people eat murdered chicken-mothers, hens who lay eggs, and their rooster partners, calling them "poultry," ignoring that they are sentient beings, conscious entities killed to keep human-ghouls fed on corpses. Going vegan/vegetarian might be a better and more compassionate, environmentally-conscious option.]
Finally, the sea spirit returned to his own abode, taking the naga king with him.
Having finished this recounting of the past, the Buddha identified the rebirth (jataka) and taught the Dhamma, after which the virtuous layperson listening to him entered the fruit of the second path [reached the second stage of enlightenment].
"On that occasion [in that past life]," the Buddha said, "that disciple attained full enlightenment (arahantship). Sariputta was the naga king, and I myself was the sea spirit." Source
(Status Coup News) Jon Farina is on the ground at Pro-Palestine, Anti-Genocide demonstrations as they occur, keeping an eye on Zionist-Jewish Israeli genocide troops and the Americans complicit in their war crimes.
(Rising) Aaron Bushnell memorialized by #FREE PALESTINE left
Look at the face, completely calm by dispassion
It's a terrible thing to set yourself on fire to get Netanyahu and his War Cabinet to notice you.
Will it move Zionist Jews to compassion or tolerance for the neighbors they have been abusing, raping, murdering, maiming, displacing, arresting, detaining, lying about, and discriminating against as they dislocate and dispossess them of their land in a "settler colonial project."
We're exterminating them. It's a final solution.
But as bad as all those things are, made worse by U.S. complicity, military funding, and diplomatic cover, ritual suicide is not the answer. Though one makes this a hell on earth for oneself in sympathy with the human beings of Gaza, the West Bank, and all of Palestine (all the Zionist-occupied land), it won't send Bibi, Genocide Joe, or their Ashkenazi and fundamentalist Christian cheerleaders there any sooner. Self-immolation is never a solution.
How to unsafely set yourself on fire
Who's worse, Genocide Joe or lying Trump? Even RFK is pro-CIA money for genocide.
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Come into the present (Thich Nhat Hanh)
Become a Buddhist monastic.
Practice meditation after ordination.
Develop "trance" (jhana, absorption).
Take up insight practices to let go.
Directly perceive ultimate body-mind.
Attain enlightenment (awakening) and nirvana (slaking all craving) by knowing-and-seeing things as they really are thereby becoming disenchanted and dispassionate, a Buddhist "saint."
Form the intention to show everyone how detached you've become: "Look, everyone, look how not attached I am to this body! And, politicians, please stop your mass killings."
It's this last one that's the problem. Will unenlightened, undetached, unabsorbed "ordinary uninstructed worldlings" see you and follow suit, ending up in a terrible rebirth for (self) murder, dying full of revulsion for the Mossad, Israel, Netanyahu, Biden, Pentagon, Shin Bet, CIA, and hypocritical genocide-defenders and apologists in the mainstream media.
Light candles, not human bodies
Instead, be safe. Protest but bring lots of water. One need not ruin oneself to rage against the machine or call the world's attention to war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and internationally-recognized genocide. Why? The slightest criticism already earns one the hateful labels "blood libel" and "antisemite," "self-hating-J," "baby beheader." Hypocrites have many kneejerk responses, reinforced by endless repetition on the TV, at their disposal.
Shungite stone Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) radiation test
(Shop LC) Watch what happens when we put Shungite crystals in front of a highly radiant object like a cellphone and Wi-Fi transmitter (router). Is it possible that a simple stone with a complex underlying matrix (nanotubes, fullerenes, quasi-spherical carbon atom arrangements, 98% carbon content) has any affect at all as measured by scientific instrumentation? Would a metallic aluminum "tin foil hat" provide more protection? A silver strand (threaded) cloth shield or Faraday cage might be better. Subscribe. Facebook,Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest.
Can shungite protect us from EMFs?
(ScottiesTech.Info) Shungite is a natural stone from Shunga, Russia, composed mainly of carbon that many people use to protect themselves from EMFs such as Wi-Fi, 5G, targeted attacks, microwave radiation, and so on. But does it really work?
Pyramid-shaped chunk of Shungite (Wiki)
It turns out that most of the information available on the internet appears to be dead wrong. First of all, getting "real" Shungite is more difficult than one would imagine. Most people are buying an amalgam with little Shungite mixed in.
Scottie does a few simple tests in this video to show that no, Shungite does not appear to absorb EMFs. However, it does reflect or partially block them -- but only when it's directly between the antenna and an organic body. [It might be good to surround ourselves with living house plants.]
There are still tons of people who swear by it. What's going on here? Should we keep using our Shungite?
How to make the perfect "tin foil hat" (protective shield) using science
(Dr. Michelle Dickinson) I've seen some tin foil hats being made recently, and it struck me that their designs aren't very effective. I thought I'd help by explaining some of the key scientific principles needed to make the perfect shield for [protection of the brain from electromagnetic radiation coming off cellphones, cell towers, Wi-Fi, and screens of all kinds that emit electromagnetic fields].
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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If you want to rap well, study, memorize (rote), and practice. Maybe one day you'll be "OK" at it. If you want to sound like a pro, the first thing to do is get into the flow. The best rappers on the stage and schoolyard into a state where everything's a rap. Learning that ability comes from exercising a part of the brain called Broca's Area.
I'ma gonna kick like my boi Chris T.
There's a strange kind of brain damage, an injury of the cerebrum called Expressive Aphasia, which makes expression and articulate speaking a problem. This hints at what area of the brain needs to be burning up on an fMRI readout.
Meditation is one way to get in a cool "Zen" state, realize absorption (jhana), then emerge with the mental register cleared into a coveted flow state perfect for any action like performance.
It's beginner's mind (shoshin) rather than a nervous monkey mind. It's a tabula rasa. Touch the Tao, tap into Source, get to the roots of human creative potential, cleverness, and mental associations. Relax. Then do it. Look at this clown (comedian Chris Turner). If he can, you can. You didn't need to grow up in South Central L.A. or the wrong parts of New York City or Chicago.
British comedian and rapper Chris Turner absolutely CRUSHES an insane off-the-dome dope freestyle rap about the Hindenburg, the Doppler Effect, Harry Potter tequila, crypto-currency, and the yuan (Chinese dollar), toenails, quantum mechanics (and sausage). Get this guy on Sway in the Morning!
How to decalcify your pineal gland and what to eat/take/do/avoid to detox and cleanse the pineal
Nicky Sutton
How can we decalcify and detoxify our pineal gland (third eye)? How can we begin to eliminate calcified deposits?
The pineal gland is the physical manifestation of our third eye. These are only suggestions. Fluoride's harmful role, and a host of other chemicals, will be examined in depth.
What is "brain sand"? What we eat, take, and do can start the cleansing process, decalcifying the pineal gland and releasing it from a stone/bone-like casing.
My body feels much lighter and free!
There are substances to avoid, not just toxic fluoride [and Prozac]. Calcium carbonate and others types of stone play a big role, as do other halides such as chlorine and bromide.
Taking natural iodine and magnesium are very likely the way forward. I explain how and why. But first, why decalcify the pineal gland? Doing so will help us to creativity and the infinite intelligent energy therein.
The whole body can be served by decalcification (deossification) to be young and supple again, free of excess concretions like gallstones and such. We are raising the mass vibration with spiritual information:
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