You may have a problem taking me seriously because I don’t have lineage. So far I don’t feel I’m up to pursuing it; I’m still working on my lotus. Hopefully you won’t dismiss my remarks simply because after 40 years I have found a way to sit the lotus, and you have decided that it has cost you the health of your knees ...
Research on the Sense of Self
I’d like to offer some excerpts from Olaf Blanke’s articles on his medical research into out-of-body experience (also known as autoscopic phenomena, or AP-variants include AH or autoscopic hallucination, HAS or heautoscopy, and OBE or out-of-body):
Several authors have also highlighted the role of proprioception ...
Mind, Having No Fixed Abode, Should Flow Forth
I’d like to correct myself: the passage the Sixth Patriarch heard that day in the marketplace was from the Diamond Sutra, not the Lankavatara Sutra.
I’m told now that the passage was this:
Mind, having no fixed abode, should flow forth.
(Bassui)
Here’s what I can say about that: if I lose pitch, yaw, and roll where my mind is, my toss ...