ONE wall spot

[will]

Re: ONE wall spot

Also thought I'd add a note:

Mostly this "I had this experience" business is just mind trying figure stuff out: trying to "GET IT". How can mind get something that is bigger than it is?

It's like one theory of simulated reality and computers. A computer could be running a program of a simulated reality, but no computer within that simulation could find out. The physics used in the simulation would have to be the same as those used by the computer running the program. It could be said that the virtual computers are limited according to what information the main computer gives them.

Wiki
If we are being simulated, we might be misled about the nature of computers.

Basically It's a dead end for those computers. Just as it's a dead end to think about Zen.

Bendowa Modern Interpretations

Although we eachhave the natural state, if we do not return to it in this practice, it does
not show itself, and if we do not experience it, we do not realise what
it is. It comes to us and fills us as soon as we give up our intentions,and is not a
discriminative state. When we speak, this state expresses
itself through our mouth in complete freedom. Buddhas live in and
maintain themselves in this natural state in which they do not separate
reality into two parts: mental and physical. People who do not separate
reality into two parts are buddhas.

Will

[Bansho]

Re: ONE wall spot

Hi,

PS- Buddha was something of a couch potato ...

For those who may not be aware of it, that image is a depiction of Buddha's Parinirvana.

Gassho
Ken

[Jundo]

Re: ONE wall spot

Hi,

PS- Buddha was something of a couch potato ...

For those who may not be aware of it, that image is a depiction of Buddha's Parinirvana.

Gassho
Ken

Really? I thought he was just watching TV.

[will]

Re: ONE wall spot

My arm always falls asleep when I lay like that.

W

[Chris H.]

Re: ONE wall spot

Thank you to everyone for your remarks. I realize I have to not be so down on myself that my practice has slipped a bit. There is no good practice and no bad practice, right? Just practice. And since sitting time has been waning, I've been increasing Jundo's patented "InstaZazen" moments. Although, as a professional editor/writer I can do with less Typing Zazen!

And I wasn't distressed at all about seeing myself on the same level as a piece of furniture in the living room. In fact, it showed me a fleeting bit of the independent/interdependent nature of all material and non-material stuff.

Gassho-

Chris

[Marina S]

Re: ONE wall spot

Thanks for sharing your experience with the rest of us, Al. I, too, have had similar experiences during meditation practice. As for your mind trying to figure things out after the fact and wanting to re-live it, well, that's natural. I did the same. Guess that comes with having a brain and being human :wink:

Metta and gassho,

Marina

[louis]

Re: ONE wall spot

Alan,
Glad to hear you are well after the hurricane.