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I have learned about Kobun recently and i feel a strong bond to his teachings ! Thanks a lot for sharing and for your conversation ✨🙏

An example of the delusion Jacques Derrida aptly described in a rather different context as “the dream of reason.”

Is you is or is you ain't :) ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tath%C4%81t%C4%81

Wonderful to find this as I nav away from guitar study. Thanks be…

Hey vince where can i find that podcast episode where you share your path experienfes? Thanks :)

Excellent.

Yes, good Amitabha

For whatever reason this reminds me of the fact that when you cycle around the unit circle on the complex plane it's actually a spiral, from one perspective merely a circle, traversed, from another a spiral.

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Always great to see more Buddhist Geeks. Thought this was very interesting. Thanks for sharing again. It's a great companion to your interview recently.

Great topic. Very elucidating talk.

Ken’s audio was off kilter sounded tinny

Very informative, thanks! The phone quote is from Alan Watts, not Ram Dass (:

What does he say at around 34:04? “I can see you have very strong past life _______…”

Great episode. Thanks! In this video you and Stephen briefly discuss freedoms. For me, it seems possible to assign many freedoms to two categories: 1. The freedom to exploit others and 2. Freedom from exploitation. In most nations, freedoms are defined by laws and how those laws are interpreted, applied and enforced. Take for example the issue of labor organizing: Do the laws lean toward freedom to restrict labor organizing (the freedom to exploit) vs leaning toward greater ability to organize (freedom from exploitation). Another related perspective is do the laws favor the rich and powerful? Or do they favor the working class and those without lots of individual power? (Laws being a way to specify some allowed freedoms and restrict other freedoms.) This perspective can more ground discussions of freedoms in the real world and not just freedoms as an abstraction divorced from real consequences. So, what does the Buddha Dharma say about the freedom to exploit vs freedom from exploitation? Could be an interesting discussion. And I'd love to hear the real world examples you and your guests would elucidate in the discussion. Thanks for the great videos! Cheers.

Thank you much for these first-hand details! Scaling up ignorance is not skillful, and IMO it sounds likely that Jhourney is partly playing that kind of game. Decades ago I did two 10-day silent retreats at Wat Suanmokkh, lived there a couple of months, and based on that and time spent in other practices I share your concerns. I am glad the Jhourney guys sought your feedback and hope they learn from it.

It is clear that you are speaking from experience. Keep up the good work.

This was a good one. Germane to the times, albeit less directly Buddhism. But definitely Buddhist geeks. Delightfully so. Thanks for sharing... There's an excellent recording on UA-cam of McGilchrist, Schmachtenberger, and Vervaeke talking about what we might do to bring forth the kind of world that could appropriately confront the metacrisis.

very clear Ryan thank you

This was really beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

TWIM is my main method. Did some retreats with it and had a great experience with it. The six Rs are clunky at first but one gets into a smooth flow after a couple days; I thinks it’s great for counteracting the tension of craving and keeping a person moving in the soft jhana direction. It’s frustrating to hear that it is being by appropriated and I agree with Vince says here. Someone had to say it. Doing a ten day at Dhamma Suhka where Bhante V used to teach is amazing for the record. TWIM is legit as are many methods. I also did Goenka retreats and TWIM is much safer. I feel like I’m mainly saying TWIM works well and has a strong context. Nothing is perfect and I am always learning and listening to new teachings. Thanks

This understanding of "buddhist tantra is incorrect". So the starting point is wrong. But i do understand the desire to change things, especially if it is in a way we think is more in line with modern thought. This guy should claim to base his new approach on some of the ideas behind tantra and buddhism.

Cultural appropriation? As a Scot should I be outraged when I see non-Scots using penicillin, the TV, the phone, the fridge, the syringe, the engine, the tyre, or the flushing toilet? Maybe you should be carrying your excrement into the back garden and burying it, instead of insensitively flushing it away using Scottish tech.

Very nice idea. Thank you for sharing! 🙏

I don’t know many details about the histories of Bill Hamilton, Kenneth Folk, and Daniel Ingram. Were they lineage holders? I wish Jhourney the best of luck, but would definitely feel better if they partnered with more experienced retreat teachers. I know Delson Armstrong has both taught TWIM retreats and been involved in medical research involving jhanic states. He seems like the perfect person for them to collaborate with. I wonder if they’ve reached out to him.

Once I hear you cant adopt things because It is "cultural appropriation" then I know you are dealing with woke bullshit. If a practice is good steal it. Are you proposing patented dharma ?

He already knew that technologies make people lonely. Yes, we are now...I really thank for your teaching🙏May buddhism wisdom spread all over the world and may we be wiser and more compassionate!

Delightful as always. Thanks for sharing with us.

I thought that a cessation, in which the mind apparently loses consciousness, was the taste of nirvana. In AN 9.34, the Nibbana Sutta: Unbinding, a monk asks how the unbinding can be pleasurable when there is nothing felt. Sariputa responds that it is pleasurable precisely because there is nothing felt.

This takes me back to Naropa days, it mirrors stuff Reggie, Shishin Wick, and Lama Tenpa would say. I'm so glad y'all are putting this out into the world.

Thank you for this! ❤

9 years ago. Are we closer now?

Thank you so much Ryan !

Delightful. Thanks for sharing this.

I just saw this shared today, and magically enought I had just been thinking of Bob Thurman sharing this years ago and how much I loved it! Excited to watch this video.

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Thanks, Ryan!

Great video. Thankyou

I always thought the vagueness was important in cults and spiritual organizations and religions because the practitioner can fill in the blank with what works for them in terms of motivation. Also it makes the promises of these organizations more or less obtainable depending on what the leader(s) would like, so they can move the goal post if they would like to keep you around our get rid of you. It just provides wiggle room. The practicing within a group also gives lots of room to hide out and disguise our intent through keeping it vague. And a final thought it’s all pretty subjective, and open to interpretation so good luck to science trying to nail it down.

Diane Musho Hamilton quote highlights from this video: “Some people actually have a difficult time taking their own perspective … Some people literally couldn't take their own point of view.” “Then you have people who could take their own point of view, but couldn't take the point of view of the other.” “I suddenly started to see that perspective-taking was developmental.” Egocentric self: Ego development, developing an ego, is absolutely not only natural but necessary. It's a localized experience. There tends to be a lot of stress, a lot of emphasis on survival, accomplishment, being seen. The self isn't bad; the self is simply limited and tends to suffer. Ethnocentric self: I'm now concerned with my group, my family, my nation, the people I belong to, the people I feel at home with. There’s a set of virtues and values. I’m willing to sacrifice my life for my clan or my group. The egocentric self suffers, the ethnocentric self goes to war. It's much more dangerous for human beings to identify with this which is why we disown it. World-centric: I become a member of humanity. I really feel like I belong, and I also feel that the pain of the world is mine. National boundaries dissolve. I start to see the beauty of the ecosystems and caring about the species on the planet. We see a global community. Rather than being threatened by difference, we're interested in it. Cosmic-centric self: Paradox is my reality. It's all one. It's the same. There's a beauty that starts to emerge. I can be available to the world-centric domain, I can be available to my family and the ethnocentric, and I can continue to work with my own consciousness. Your compassion is large enough to actually handle what you're doing because it's not yours.

"Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect" I was lucky enough to hear that when I was a teenager, from an actual World Champion who lived near us: Jonah Barrington.

totally agree and i had a similar hunch that regardless of the practice, jhana is included or a necessary prerequisite, and in some cases, like when a person stumbles upon a deep and lasting insight, samadhi or jhana still needs to occur if it hasn’t already, in order for it to be an abiding awakening. for instance Ramana Maharshi spent years in Samadhi AFTER his awakening.

I can't fucking believe it! I'm just discovering/realizing for the first time in my 44 years of life... The rage and grief I feel... THESE ARE MY SUPERPOWERS! The fact that I can feel these at all, this alone, is my superpower! It is sacred it is divine it is feminine it is miraculous. Most are too numb to know or to feel. But I know. And I feel. This has all been in preparation for my mission as an alchemist. I am a Lioness. I am a Goddess. I am a Radically Honest Biker Bitch! Holy heaven I am mind-blown! HALLEUJAH! AND PRAISE THE LORD!

Beautiful, thank you.

Thank you for discussing this. I think there's a level where you have to be willing to put some time into a method, maybe even any method to develop the discernment to choose a more suitable method. The analogy I would use is when I was first learning to play guitar, I wanted to get a very good guitar. My father pointed out that I didn't know enough yet to know what a very good guitar was, and I should spend time learning and getting to the point where I would know a good guitar when I picked it up to play.

1st gear: looking at the objects in awareness 2nd gear: to whom is this happening? 3rd gear: recognizing the essential nature of mind

Thank you! 😊

his love for his teacher shines through

very clarifying. thankyou

Hi vince! What path would you consider yourself at? (1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, or any others)