25May/18
Teaching Series on the Shurangama Sutra
A preview of the upcoming audio/video teaching series on the Shurangama Sutra.
Tag Archives: enlightenment
23May/18
50 Meditation States You Must Let Go (Part V: Consciousness)
When obscured by the Five Aggregates, the sky of the essence of nirvana is like that of a darkened horizon on a foggy night. When the first three aggregates terminate, it is daybreak but light is not yet dawn. Once the volition aggregate ceases, only one aggregate remains submerged. The enlightenment of daylight is on the rise. With the six senses quieted, that which listens and that which is heard are no more, sense data and sense faculties merge into one luminous radiance.
06May/18
50 Meditation States You Must Let Go (Part IV: Volition)
The primary objectives for sharing these strange and fascinating possible meditation states are twofold. One, so that more people know about the experiences in deepening practice. Two, so that more people know not to be led astray by their experiences as their practice deepens.
23Apr/18
50 Meditation States You Must Let Go (Part III: Thought)
When your feeling aggregate disintegrates, your mind is freed from its container, like a bird freed from a cage.
When you are working on thought aggregate, it is as if you talking in your sleep; while you aren’t fully cognizant, your thoughts have become words verbalized so that others hear them.
20Apr/18
50 Meditation States You Must Let Go (Part II: Feeling)
To reach enlightenment, your meditation practice will, and must, lead you down a path where you wrestle with physicality, feeling, thought, volition, and consciousness. Only when you have become increasingly unattached to each of these aggregates do you reach the ultimate source of courage, compassion, and wisdom.
02Mar/18
50 Meditation States You Must Let Go (Part I: Form)
Along your path of practice, you will encounter some interesting physical, mental, and spiritual phenomena. In meditation, you may feel parts of your body shake uncontrollably, you may sense heat circulate through or grow in parts of you, you may have visions, you may hear voices, you may be one with the world. Know that even more meditation experiences await you as you deepen your regular practice. You must also remember that these states of being are transitory signs pointing to an intensive and advancing practice, not ultimate enlightenment. Hence for each experience the same refrain about being relentless with continued awareness, avoiding the derailing belief that you are now awakened, a sage.
Here is List I of 10 states associated with the form aggregate among the 50 for the 5 aggregates.
02Feb/18
5 Reasons that Listening and Compassion Foster One Another
When you reach a psychological, social, spiritual impasse or bottleneck, you’re usually short of time and likely want to push forward or give up completely. That’s precisely the moment to take a little time to listen to the sound of silence, to the internal voice or higher power. Setting aside the problems for a little while allows you to hear possible creative solutions.
22Jan/18
25 Meditation Practices Leading to Enlightenment
Once upon a time, the wisest soul around lovingly gathered his top students. All beings who became enlightened through 25 practices circled around the Buddha one balmy evening. The Buddha Shakyamuni knew that his students have valuable lessons to share with those of the present and future, so he asked each: “Tell me how you entered meditative absorption and actualized your potentiality for wisdom and compassion.”
Emptiness in Full Bloom
See pdf of Powerpoint outline on Emptiness in Full Bloom.