What we’re about
You have absolutely no reason to believe I understand life any more than you. Through meditation and spiritual practice, understanding does not necessarily predicate knowing. Wisdom can only exist as a union of knowledge, experience and contemplative application-
The interaction of those concepts and our connections to them and each, the depth of which are occuring simultaneously and always in fluctuation. I found for me that every sitting or meditation must begin with a warmup, focusing attention lightly upon something for as few that we know for sure we shall take we rarely focus on the details, of the breath to be what it is. the constant presence of the breath which seems to be the only true constant presence in each life, although never the same breath twice from the perspective of Awareness, the breath, like life is perfectly defined to be as life itself. Breathing in I count in breaths to 10 until i make it without losing focus. I repeat exhalations to 10 without losing focus, and then I am presently aware and of the mind to know (budho). Think of the breath as without dwelling:
Samsara is sanskrit for the cycle of birth, life (suffering) and death, so each breath can be viewed similarly ocvuring: Birth breathing in, inhaling life, exhaling aging and dying, the pause is a point of focus for some, but I simply remind myself that I am not breathing, not to ensure I continue, but to know it is not a choice and become aware in a real personal way that something as essential and necessary as that function occurs without my consent, yet should my will be broken is strong enough to ensure it does not continue perhaps before it was meant to cease. In that way each breath meditation encapsulates everything you need to know about the cycles of birth, suffering, and death (samsara). After a time, I highly suggest meditation every night until it hits you in the forehead. Once you feel the vastness of an awakening mind there is no mistake it feels different when you meditate, as if you've lived your whole life pressed to a window only watching the world you begin to feel the vastness of beyond and peel away from, it is thrilling and frightening. I don't mean that to sound phoney, cool, or get laid. If you can think, and count to 10, and you're not dead you are capable as I am to come to know your own feelings on something that is universally shared with all life. the essence of pure knowledge is not exclusive, has no requirements for membership, only effort. It feels good to do it. I best surmise scientifically that yes you activate chakras and all that, but as with all pathways created in the mind if your brain works like mine, I feel new pathways, or even thoughts or ideas I have not had, and new connections form, meditation helps create and make pathways rarely stumbled upon become exciting ways of perception. some times it makes you anxious dizzy, afraid. When you focus your mind by letting go, you begin to realize that it is simply our fear of death itself that prevents us from truly achieving a state of peace inward and outward. You don't need to take my word for it. I have read dozens and again I'm not trying to score spiritual groupie lays, I have read hundred of hours of texts, thousands considering that physics, cosmology, buddhism, are all speaking about very similar concepts in very different languages, but I can tell you what they told me.
You are, you are alive, how you are treated is inevitable, how you live, if not a choice that benefits all benefits none, you are dying, you will die, life can be terrible to experience, we are literally no better at surviving today than we were from day one, and we are literally no kinder, better, more considerate, helpful or concerned with fixing the basic needs of life to exist, energy, a home; water..., a community-even of solitude and self awareness; where you are accepted. Water, and a sense that tomorrow will atleast have the God's created chance for the oppertunity to fix all the worlds problems to be just a little less likely than the world solving a single one without causing others to suffer (as we have solved no task for survival put to humanity since day zero, that zero is the chance that we have to go on as our present success rate. you're dying, people are too stuck worrying over what necessaries they must make necessary to worry themselves for theirs, shrug their shoulders and pass by. Life itself is to suffer and die. All life came from life, of life, of, of. Life is too hard to spend one moment ignorantly causing the suffering of others, but not even to survive because the truly awakened mind knows that one is one or none.
Thanks for attending the event. It literally virtually just hit you in the forehead. Go be nicer to someone. literally virtually.
I am not A Buddhist.
I have practiced and/or studied Buddhism and Zen Buddhism, cosmology, philosophy, and all physics that doesn't make me do math. You can surmise I watch a lot of Ancient Aliens and I resent you because I've seen them all so you're wrong. That's inaccurate I actually read...books, I had no choice of documentaries at that time. Having read a broad selection of schools of thought and traditional teachings, including koans, dozens of texts covering Pure Land, Mahayana, Theravada, and Zen buddhism. I have also had the pleasure of sitting in numerous meditations with Bill Donna and Fraiku, and for their shared compassion and practice I am forever grateful.
I will never claim to know it all, simply that all is known, and I enjoy exploring the ways this can be experienced through contemplative intentional living. "I am not a Buddhist." -The Unbuddhist.
This the second group I have created for the exploration of the idea that all is already known, yet to be understood and put into practice. Group members ideally think, question and feel. I also established the first Buddhist meditation weekly sitting at the New Hanover Correctional Facility. The goal is simply to know it happened, afterwards.
Events happen, so do life, all of it virtually, so define what that may mean for you. Be attending, or don't. One thing is for certain...either way you will.