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Last Evidence of Time “How long do you meditate in each session?” is a FAQ. “I meditate only 5 minutes but actual time always passes more than half an hour.” is always my response. I recite “Buddho” while focus with inhale and exhale. This is the practice of mind generated from watching the movement of the body. “Bud” with inhale. “Dho” with exhale. “Buddho” with inhale. “Buddho” with exhale. “Buddho, Buddho, Buddho” with one cycle of inhale-exhale. Buddho, Buddho, Buddho,…… This is the practice of mind to separate mind away from the body. Then the body disappears. I do not know whether I am breathing and I do not care. I only know that I am reciting “Buddho”. I do not know how long it takes in reciting a word of “Buddho”. I have no time frame of reference with a word of “Buddho”. Buddho, Buddho, Buddho,….. Then reciting disappears, the last evidence of time. |
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Formless Weapon Why human being, who could build tools, do not have tools in his mind? We can build tools to accommodate our daily life. So we should be able to build tools within our mind to assist in developing our mind. It will be our formless weapon to fight with our formless enemy. If you can not visualize a picture clearly then let enlarge the picture with your imagined microscope. If your body is not comfortable then let go to meditate in another imagined body surrounded with full protectors. If you are disturbing with noise then let tune up volume of your reciting. If you are angry then let collect red color of angry and then vaporize red color into pure white light. |
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Back and Forth Meditator should try to meditate back and forth many many times from lower meditative state to deeper meditative state until he is skillful. Until he can meditate faster, longer, and can meditate in any circumstances. His mind will be activated and moved as he wishes. Use power of mind dig into the middle of the middle of your defilement. Find your causes of suffering and then use your mind power end that causes. Of cause if your mind is stronger, you will win. Do not just meditate quietly and peacefully and let your enemy inside hide. |
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Reduction Formula 5 Aggregates : rupa, vedana, sanna, sankara, and vinnana are not only separated 5 components of “I” but also processing steps from “I” to “not I and not mine”. 5 Aggregates can be divided into 2 components: rupa and nama (vedana, sanna, sankara, and vinnana). We should try to meditate until we find (feel and see) that rupa (the body) is not the same as the mind. Then meditating progresses step by step as follows: Rupa to vedana: Vedana (feeling) can be caused both from external that is sensory organs of the body and from internal that is sanna and sankara. When the body is disappeared then most of vedana will be disappeared. Vedana to sanna: Sanna (memory) is collections of past experiences that can cause vedana. Memory is our strong internal enemy that always pulls our perception away from the truth. We have 2 choices: 1.samatha to watch it as it is or 2.vipassana to neutralize it. Sanna to sankara: Sankara (thought) is our own internal automatic machine that forms the thought (mental formation process). If there is no sanna as input for sankara then sankara will free of all bindings. Sankara to vinnana: Vinnana (consciousness) will know the truth and nothing but the truth when sankara is free of all bindings. We will know that 5 aggregates is not “I”. (Special note : E = MCC is simply a form of nama-energy (E) and rupa-matter (MCC). We should be able to create more pure energy than nuclear energy when rupa is neutralized beyond its nature (water, earth, fire, wind, and space). Make matter beyond anti-matter. It should forget what it was.) |
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Eat that Practice “Look at what you have been eaten so you will not get fat” is an advice from my American host family. He is a Christian who taught me mindfulness. While we are eating, no matter we are vegetarians or not, we should try to see Dhamma from food we are going to eat. What we eat will come out the same no matter that food is cheap or expensive. Food we eat is the cause of suffering. We can not live without food. Food makes from dirty materials in soil but we say it is clean. Food and us are not different from basic element (water, earth, fire, wind, and space). Some material in this food may be from our previous decay bodies or other’s. Food amount we have been eaten is huge like a mountain from many of our previous lifetimes. Do not feel bad when you eat. Do not feel good when you eat. Just feel neutral and realize this fact. |
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