‘It’s sometimes easy to confuse concentration for awareness.’
Buddhist meditation
‘It’s sometimes easy to confuse concentration for awareness.’
Buddhist meditation
The more we become conscious of this awareness, and our attention is drawn to it, the more it becomes a safe refuge for us.
‘A moment of desire in your heart is drowning in water.
Realising this, you’ll no longer be at the mercy of circumstance.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Buddhist Film: A talk given by Bhante Bodhidhamma. (49 minutes)
‘It is clear before you, but you do not see it,’ says the Zen master.
We hear and read that we should look insidePapanca is proliferationWe hear and read that we should look inside; nippapanca is a mind of a buddha. Now, a simple reflection can help, at least it did in my case.
Perceiving the power of separation caused by the judging mind is also very helpful. In other words, the judging mind creates more inner solitude.
Thinking is always about something. It is an attempt to categorise. What we experience is seen in the light of past experience. What we have experienced in the past is filtered through the way we look at things, our dispositions (sankhara). That is why thought will not allow us to see things anew. If we want to experience things as they really are, then thought about those things must come to an end. When thinking stops, we must be right there with what is happening…