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bodhidave
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🤔 tasteful observation
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humanistic psychodynamic Buddhist deconstructionist ... and all-round sweet guy interested in cross-cultural parallels in meditation traditions and contemplative practice particular interest in Zen and the West's Via Negativa
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bodhidave
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🤔 tasteful observation
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bodhidave
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... *crickets* ...
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bodhidave
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a favorite Zen story... A pair of monks looking at a flag that was flapping in the wind were having a little debate over whether it was the flag that was flapping or it was the wind that was flapping. They asked future Zen teacher, Huineng, for his view. Huineng replied, "Your mind is flapping." 💨
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bodhidave
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and may wondering about wonders, um, never cease
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bodhidave
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rave on
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bodhidave
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that's a burn right there
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bodhidave
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2:2 And the understanding was that God shapes the earth, and that poets shape words. There are many forms of spiritual and religious expression. I find it beneficial to see much of it as poetry.
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bodhidave
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1:2 I recently had occasion to note my playfully serious view that: *If we take religious language literally, we're not taking it seriously enough.* I just learned that the first Old English poets didn't use the Latin-derived word "create," but instead the word which we now have as "shape."
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bodhidave
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😬* _____ *grimace
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bodhidave
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graffito in my college dorm: "Who am I to control my destiny?"
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bodhidave
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oh my ... i'm sure there will be clips and rebroadcasts (e.g., Sunday morning) ... but I made a few notes for a friend:
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bodhidave
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I once asked her if she'd like to tell me about the dreams that she'd had the night before. She said, "No, because I'm having one right now."
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bodhidave
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My toddler daughter: "Good grief means bad grief."
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bodhidave
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🤔 www.theonion.com/new-starbuck...
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bodhidave
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Yeah. They should exhibit some, um, independence.
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bodhidave
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Reminds me of an old SNL spot ... where Kevin Nealon plays a credit card phone operator who notices a number of wedding-related purchases on a customer's account ... so calls the customer to make sure the person that they're marrying is right for them.
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bodhidave
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🤔 there oughta be a law
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bodhidave
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I just did mow mine ... so I'm treating myself to my third coffee at the moment ... but this one's iced, so I'm not counting it. :)
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bodhidave
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2\2
... and conservative Christian and NY Times opinion writer, David French, detailing how members of his former church have now turned on him, at times viciously, after he made criticisms of Trump (18 min). www.youtube.com/watch?v=isp4...
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bodhidave
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1\2
See also Greg Sargent's piece today ... the video is horrifying... newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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bodhidave
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I live in NC. And this is all the more disturbing having just watched conservative Christian and NY Times opinion writer, David French, detail how members of his former church have now turned on him, at times viciously, after he made criticisms of Trump (18 min). www.youtube.com/watch?v=isp4...
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bodhidave
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(And there are some brain scan studies, some are on-going, on the practice of jhānas, but I'm not acquainted with the results.)
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bodhidave
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A bit different, but Old School Buddhist jhāna meditation inculcates synesthesias — e.g., focusing on the breath in a set location (for days) until you can *see it* (as like a pearl or light or jewel). I've done them. Remarkable.
I mention the experience here: thesideview.co/journal/deco...
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bodhidave
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thoughts just aren't worth what they used to be 🤔
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bodhidave
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👍 mommas' lib
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bodhidave
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bodhidave
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"Bond - welding bond."
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bodhidave
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"Wish you were here!"
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bodhidave
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2_2 Otherwise, it's as though, when we're holding to an opinion, the opinion is holding us. This is a bit of an extended association, but another way of saying the above is: "Awakening is through the body."
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1_2
In tonight's #meditation there was a sense for how the instructions "do not think good or bad," "do not judge right and wrong," and "do not get caught up in like or dislike"* — are in the service of, as it were, allowing an embrace from the way things are.
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*(like in Dōgen's *Fukanzazengi*)
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bodhidave
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really nice I was once walking thru Harvard Yard on a nice day and decided to some meditation. I sat under a tree, and settled in, touching, as it were, some part of me that's always awake. Then I laughed — I WAS DREAMING that I was in Harvard Yard meditating. I was actually in bed at home asleep.
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bodhidave
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i'm gonna have to see a doctor for my, um, constitution
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It's not an answer, but such a question remind me — I've sometimes had the no-doubt-about-it experience of meditating during dreamless sleep. Some kind of knowing, some kind of "awareness," is able to do that, but it's not my waking awareness. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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bodhidave
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2.2 The miracle, the living Truth, is already always here. It's the matter-of-fact "things as it is" Suzuki Roshi spoke of.
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1.2
Many #meditation traditions include instructions that we inculcate calm, and inner quiet, and peacefulness, and equanimity.
These days it's very much my sense that allowing and fostering such states is mainly in service to one thing — that we just not make stuff up,
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Psychologist/ long time meditator here. I have an essay on "mindfulness" here, not all of it as snarky as this line 🙂... "There’s been a marked increase in studies of mindfulness and meditation in recent years. I’m worried that many of today’s researchers may think they know what they’re doing."
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bodhidave
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"Doonesbury" for May 16, 1979
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bodhidave
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#Zen
In tonight's sitting a realization arose:
the feeling that nothing very special is going on is ... rather remarkable.
🙂 🙏
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bodhidave
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A pleasant last day of Pride Month. 🙏 ❤️ 🌈 This was the view outside my home this evening.
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bodhidave
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so, whenever you're around Jake — be like these children
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bodhidave
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I have an essay online about another of the Cloud author's writings:
thesideview.co/journal/the-...
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bodhidave
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Similarly, the anonymous 14th c. author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* (probably a Carthusian) spoke of realizing, in an experience more immediate & simple than thoughts, that the Divine is our being: "Come to rest in a naked blind feeling of your own being, and let go of the conceit that it is yours."
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bodhidave
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(It's from Ramelli, Ilaria. 2023. "Apophaticism, Mysticism, and Epoptics in Ancient and Patristic Philosophy: Some Important Examples" ... she does great academic work in this area ... and that article appears in a journal issue that I think is open access online: czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/vv...)
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bodhidave
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reading right now: This is why Dionysius [the Areopagite] ascribes eros to God “the cause of all beings, by excess of goodness, loves all beings, creates all beings, perfects all beings,... and [causes the return of] all beings.... The “ecstatic” excess of God’s love [is] the cause of all beings...
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I once got to visit Rumi's tomb in Konya. I sat to do some meditation nearby. When I opened my eyes a small circle of young Muslim fellows was seated around me. They asked, in a friendly, appreciative way, what I was doing—though it was clear they had a good idea. We had a pleasant conversation.❤️🙏
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bodhidave
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I liked his snark-with-a-message, "A History of White People in America" some years back.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0089...
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The field has a ways to go ... but at least some academics are aware of that, as suggested by this title: Dillon, John, “Prayer and Contemplation in the Neoplatonic and Sufi Traditions,” *Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity. Religious and Philosophical Interactions* (ed. E. Pachou, 2018)
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bodhidave
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Speaking of ... I just saw a notice for this book (to be published in September, I think)
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3/3 “Even his daemon, while offering him divine wisdom, only offers a 'sign' that Socrates must interpret in order to understand. In this, Socrates demonstrates how testing and examining is his human work in gracious response to such divine gifts.”
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2 a couple quotes: “the task of the daimonic is to alert us to what we are missing by giving it to us in such a way that we both have it and do not have it”
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