Zazen Notes

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

On The Dao Bums forum site, someone wrote:

 First jhana is concentration on the sensation of piti. There is still thought. I don’t think it is possible that thought and one-pointedness co-exist.

Gautama equated “right concentration” with “one-pointedness of mind”:

And what… is the (noble) right concentration ...  read more

On a forum site I frequent, someone wrote:

Even if you have no identity, you still exist. As what? The spirituality that I follow would say “as existence”, or “as pure consciousness”.

I was reminded of Nisargadatta, a famous teacher who lived in India in the last century:

You are not your body, but you are the ...  read more