Zazen Notes

In one of the sermons of the Pali Canon, Gautama the Buddha described “seven (types of) persons existing in the world”. Here are the first two “persons”, followed by an explanation of Gautama’s terminology:

And which, monks, is the person who is freed both ways? As to this, monks, some person is abiding, ...  read more

Here’s a  question that was directed to me from someone on “The Dao Bums” forum site, and my reply:

Do you know any reason why I am getting a headache after meditation? I can’t sleep well if I meditate more than 20 minutes.

I have no experience with either of those symptoms.

Something I wrote might apply:

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In a previous post, I quoted the twentieth-century Indian sage Nisargadatta:

Meditation means you have to hold consciousness by itself.

(Gaitonde, Mohan [2017]. Self – Love: The Original Dream [Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s Direct Pointers to Reality])

In that post, I used Nisargadatta’s description of meditation to make sense of two lines ...  read more