You are welcome to post my comments anywhere you feel is appropriate. I confess, I copied them to my blog. I believe in the vocabulary I have developed to describe these things (of course, it’s bits and pieces of the Pali Cannon, Tai-Chi teachings, and cranial-sacral theory, so I’m just the collector of it), and I have come to understand ...
consciousness conditioned by ignorance, attachment, or aversion
As to the witness of the place of consciousness conditioned by ignorance, attachment, or aversion, this is as constant as the experience of suffering in our lives; the trick is to recognize a sense of location as consciousness occurs, and to do that it’s necessary to accept that consciousness is not continuous. Hence the great wisdom of the ...
hypnosis + ‘the most important thing’
There’s a phenomena in the practice of zazen that is similar to hypnotic suggestion from one’s own unconscious.
At S.F. Zen Center, Kobun Chino Otogawa once said: “You know, sometimes zazen gets up and walks around.” My own understanding, which I have come to years after having the experience Kobun described, is that the pulmonary ...