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Diana – sorry, have been so slack with checking the forum!
Thank YOU for all your thank yous (😉), for leading on meditations, and for always bending over backwards to keep our sessions going. You’re amazing!Link to Geshe-la’s session on the Four Close Placements of Mindfulness is here.
Four Close Placements of Mindfulness workshop
He ran it as part of a fantastic weekend of teachings, practices and contemplations on physical and mental wellbeing organised by Science & Wisdom Live. It was a brilliant event.Good day lovely people ✌🏼😊
Hi Jared, will you be opening up a session this eve? 9pm?
BTW Monday’s was excellent – thank you for it!!Quick line to thank Diana, Lars, Bill, Jared and all who led / would like to lead meditations.
I personally find our morning sessions not only useful but also most enjoyable!
Therefore – we had initially agreed to meet on Monday and Weds (which works for Katrin) and then changed to Monday and Thursday (which works for more people). How about we increase the sessions to x3 weekly (Monday, Weds and Thursday)?
😊Thank YOU for helping me do some meditation. Feels less of a heavy duty with you there.
Look forward to tomorrow’s session – amazing!✌🏼
Happy start of Saka Dawa lovelies 🙏😊Amazing – thank you Diana for making this happen!
Looking forward to seeing you guys tomorrow at 9am.
L✌🏼Great! Thank you Katrin and Diana 🙂
Now just a matter of finding suitable days/times.Good ones for me would be (in UK time):
– Monday AM
– Weds AM
– Friday after 7:00PM
– Sun 9:00AM
Any of these work for you?Thank you both for getting in touch
– and thank you Maya for your texts!Take good care,
LauraWhit were you at the Sci&Wiz LIVE talk with Professor Hiley? If not catch up the recording it was extraordinary, think you’d like it 🙂
Thank you.
Seems to me like you know a lot on the subject.
And are very generous with sharing your knowledge – much appreciated!
Will get going with reading your papers (I started from the section at the end because it reads “don’t read this” hahaha how daft 😁)Hi Jared
Realising emptiness does not somehow make things fragmented nor separate subject-object.
Yes, I get that.
Don’t worry about the dissociative episodes thing – dissociations are not very well understood in Psychiatry and Psychology, at least in my experience (I work in the field).
The important question for me is:
is direct realisation of emptiness an all or none process?Ta! ✌🏼
I love this thread, hope it stays available for the entire duration of the BP. So many interesting perspectives and personal stories – amazing! I can imagine how fun (and a bit cringe) reading it all back in 5ys time will be for me. If I don’t snuff it before, that is.. 😁
your mind is far from fragile or simple
Thank you.
The gap from ‘the mind isn’t generated by the brain’ to ‘the mind comes from somewhere else before birth’ is a rather small one.
It now is for me too. Wasn’t actually conscious of the logical implications of B) but yes, I agree. Thank you for spelling it out for me.
A collection of material components that share no properties in common with the mind […] is an incoherent explanation.
Very elegant.
Eventually, this dance becomes sufficiently complicated that humans begin using the language of cognisance to speak about the robot’s behaviour, but there’s still no one home.
Great sentence but I don’t get it – sorry. What do you mean by ‘the language of cognisance’? ‘I’statements?
Haven’t read your papers yet (will do so soon) so if it’s in there apologies.Physical things are undifferentiated and uncharacterized when (hypothetically) disconnected from the mental aspect of reality (per sunyata and Quantum Mechanics), although such a disconnection is impossible.
Except when emptiness is directly realised?
If so, is this disconnection an all-or-none or a gradual process? Meaning: could it happen in one sensory modality but not others? Could it arise in response to particular situations (say when you’re overwhelmed with strong pain or stress) but then subside?
What I’m getting at is: could this be a plausible framework for studying dissociative episodes?Physical reality doesn’t have any properties without mind imputing them, so how can mind follow after the properties of physical reality?
Touché!
‘You must have teeth!’
Make it fangs even 😉
