Having understood things just as they are, this next stage, Change of Lineage, which also lasts for just a moment, yet permanently changes a meditator’s mind. Such meditators join the ranks of the awakened. While the social designation of formal lineage transmission is a very useful thing to have received, the results of this stage […]
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This stage, called Path ( magga in Pali ) also lasts just a moment, and after the first completed progress of insight it marks the first moment of the newly awakened being’s awakened life. It marks a permanent shift in baseline perception and brain function. It is as if you have flipped a huge switch
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Fruition ( phala in Pali ) is the fruit of all the meditator’s hard work, the first attainment of ultimate reality, emptiness, nirvana, nibbana, ultimate potential, or whatever extrapolative and relatively inaccurate name you wish to call something utterly non – sensate. ~~` In this non – state, there is absolutely no time, no space,
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The Path of a personal Spiritual Practice includes becoming like a ‘Virtuoso‘ in meditation. The goal of deep meditation is to find an inner peace that turns just sitting and doing ‘nothing’, into an inspiring ineffable experience that is beyond mere words to describe yet is so subtle that most at first won’t notice those
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I hear a lot of people that are attempting to seek a meaning of life and connect it with a Spiritual sounding name like: Your “purpose” in life is… To grow tulips. Frolic in nature. Be an artist, or musician, or race car driver, or… As if… If you don’t fulfill your purpose in life…
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There is a sudden shift; many mental phenomena, particularly the main narrative thought stream, shift out away from the illusory sense of “the watcher”. This is an important insight, as it shows us clearly and directly in some basic way that we are not “our” mind or “our” body. Reality can seem just a bit
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and The Three Characteristics In the stage of Cause and Effect, the relationships between mental and physical phenomena become very clear and sometimes ratchet-like. There is a cause, such as intention, and then an effect, such as movement. There is a cause, such as a sensation, and there is an effect, namely a mental impression.
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Impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and no-self. It becomes more obvious that all the constituents of our experience are quickly arising and passing, somewhat jarring, and not particularly in our control or to be identified with as “me”. Further, as these sensations are all observed, including the crude mental impression that follows them (“consciousness”), it becomes clear the
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This stage – ‘A&P’ tends to be very impressive. The applied and sustained effort of attention begin to drop away, and meditation seems to take on a life of its own, and has the basic attentional phase quality of having maximum clarity at the center of attention, this stage is noted for perceiving things clearly
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ENTRANCE TO THE DARK NIGHT So begins what is called the “Knowledges of Suffering” or “The Dark Night of the Soul” (to use St. John of the Cross’ terminology) The Dark Night spans stages five through ten in this map, namely: 5. Dissolution 6. Fear 7. Misery 8. Disgust 9. Desire for Deliverance, and 10.
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Our business was doing great, but we still couldn’t afford to buy a house or a condo. Renting in Maui for another 30 years was not an option we wanted to take. Then, Bobbie Jo suggested we buy a sailboat that is comfortable to cruise and live in. By the end of January, we started looking for our new home.
After a long search, we found our dream boat in Mazatlan, Mexico. COVID-19 was not yet a concern when our boat hunt began, but masks were starting to appear at airports by the time we flew to Mazatlan. Originally, we had planned to get the boat ready as fast as possible to cover a full calendar for the busy wedding season. However, it was apparent our business was going to tank amid the pandemic, and the struggle went on until the end of the year.
Luckily, we scored an awesome condo for only $19 a day at Mazatlan. On the 10th day of our stay, we received the news that all harbors will be closed the next Monday morning. We thought we’d be stuck in Mexico longer, but another sailor advised us to leave before sunrise.
We felt the adrenalin of escaping the Mexican harbor master just before the sun rose that faithful day. The seas were rough as waves were building up in the tight channel that led us to the open ocean. We ended up anchored off an adorable little isle just a mile offshore. We enjoyed cruising to many spectacular anchorages and cute villages on our way to Puerto Vallarta, where we would depart for Maui on May 7. On May 30, 2020, we completed our 24-day passage from Mexico to Maui.
