Emptiness, No-Self, Stream-Entry, Bodhicitta, Mettā-Insight-Prajñā = One

The 3 Refuges/ Triple Gem: the Buddha, the Dhamma, the Sangha for Refuge I go!
Ti-ratana ti-sarana (and just a couple of Precepts, Just posting for no real reason… I have videos of of dong Puja’s,  Guided Meditations.

Dharma Talks, etc, but this Blog has been about my own recording of the process of Integrating and assimilating after the experience of Breaking the first 3 fetters,
The months of bliss, then months of rearranging of “energies” things moving around,  and  (four months without any sleep, or any fatigue, or dark-eyes,

everything changed, but the was the 12-18 months, after the original, or immediate 5-6 months of uninterrupted bliss, which was “tuned upside-down”…
It’;s a very bizarre place to be, so close,  and yet in some ways ‘light-years’ from what it termed mundane versus supra-mundane.
I have written about it extensively, although much I only wrote, and didn’t post or publish in any way.

That’s a juxtaposition,  compared with also , now that one “Sees” with Right-View, it true that the experience absolutely,  radically changes one, and that does not fade, or just ‘blend in’
And if you live you whole life believing what you see, understanding the concept,  understanding it ‘profoundly’ but when it arises, at least I know one experience, fully and directly,  it’s instantaneous,
And one minute you’re a Wave, the next “you” are Gone, and not just Ocean, the clouds and rivers,  and solar flares, the wind and rain,  everything and nothing…
No matter how many time one says it…it’s not true,  there is no Unconditional Love in the conditioned reality,  but what arises ,Insight and Metta,  energy, radiant mind, yet you see how close and how totally off the mark most people are, learnignto speak, like a 2 year old,  and overflowing with one unconditional Love, Wisdom,  Emptiness,  No-Self,  it’s a miracle…but it’s not at all, it’s a perfect symphony of Pratītya-samutpāda!

But what else is seen with the Clear radiant mind,  is other False-Views, these Samskāras, Karma/kamma and vipāka, and intense absorption of mental states,
and the “little” ways that worked and rationalized before, or were unaware of, are keenly aware. I believe it probably overwhelms some, and they do whatever…Shinzen Young was talking about a book, today (on video)

about a photographer that went around,  finding homeless people that are just in the full bliss of Śūnyatā, and the story is fascinating.  Shinzen I had met one of these homeless (and the Not the Anagarika, homeless wanderers, but dudes living under the freeway.) He was as someone’s house,  they had “coffee table book” out, he started to look at the photos, and new exactly what the photographer had done.  He was able to get a phone number for the  Photographer,  the guy answered (he had also mentioned that this book has some reviews from someone, or people quite famous) the artist answers the phoned, and Shinzen tells him why he’s calling, and that he ‘knows’ what his book is about.  The Photographer was surprised and asked ‘sure,  tell me, then?’

The Photographer was floored by  Shinzen’s response; “You are first person, ever, in all the showings with artist and collectors and critics, and many,  many people offering their thoughts,  no one had a clues, and go around the country,  searching for those homeless Ariyan-Sangha members, with the look in their eye, but had Entered the Stream, Stream-Enterers, Stream-Entrants, ‘Stream-Winners’ and sotāpanna,  that “topically” had no idea what had happened to them, other than the;r minds were in extreme suffering,  and just :Cracked”, into Emptiness. (Which is not unlike what happened to me, but I had 20 years of practice, 16 since joining community, living in ‘Ecumenical Buddhist Seminary” as I refer to it (and it really quite fitting,  I learned recently that is a “Buddhist Seminary” int the US. somewhere (one of only 2 universities that offers this Minister (Naropa is not one, I don’t think…now my eyes have had enough Computer Screen… Rev Danny Fisher went to the one… that’s not University of the Pacific, but something similar sounding, in Southern CA.

Well , that was awesome training,  as was the ecumenical part, and seeing what shared by all traditions,  not what’s different.  And it showed the Arisen Bodhicitta is the exact same event as Stream-Entry, and everything else clear The Dharma, Dhamma on Insight is a a whole new breed! Well, I may not publish this, because I am working hard on a book,  and it’s not a “simple spiritual book” or all subjective, but it’s Mythic, and there’s a who;e loot of drugs, sex and more drugs and sex (and rock and roll) and a long time of bad times, and the Dharma,  and what I did was Psychoanalysis, not psychotherapy, but Real Psychoanalysis (5 days/week) and this Bardo I was in, half Enlightened, half not ,which was extra clear withe he half that was (Obviously,  this talk of half being this and that, is figurative) just explaining why is was super intense, and with the Psychoanalysis ,Karma purification, childhood traumas,  conflicting energies,  I went from Bardo,  to thrust into significantly farther on the path (another level of the

The Buddha and His Dhamma Living in Paradox, Psychoanalysis, Stream-Entry & Arisen Bodhicitta/ Bodhisattva are 2 aspects of One experience. , One Buddhadhamma

, but that’s not the point, not really, butt nat a those axtra powerful times, and line doubles-up on the effort, and strikes while the iron is hot…can have Huge, catalyzing effects!

Namo buddhāya
Namo dhammāya
Namo saṅghāya
Namo nama

oṁ
āḥ
hūṁ

Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa

Buddhaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi
Dhammaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi
Saṅghaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi

Dutiyampi buddhaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi
Dutiyampi dhammaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi
Dutiyampi saṅghaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi

Tatiyampi buddhaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi
Tatiyampi dhammaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi
Tatiyampi saṅghaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi

Pāṇātipātā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṁ samādiyāmi
….
Micchādassanā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṁ samādiyāmi

We Build Walls to Protect Out Heart: Turn into Prison Walls of Isolation

Tripitaka Koreana stored at Haeinsa (해인사, Temple of Reflection on a Smooth Sea) is one of the foremost Chogye Buddhist temples in South Korea. It is most notable for being the home of the Tripitaka Koreana, the whole of the Buddhist Scriptures carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks, which it has housed since 1398. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We build walls around our hearts and lock all our doors and wonder why nobody ever saves us.                              Protective walls become Prison Walls of Isolation.            Victim Mentality.

[•This Post is About the Image: We build walls around our hearts and lock all our doors and wonder why nobody ever saves us.  Protective Walls Become Prison Walls…Victim Mentality…Mind the Gap, and Transcend from the cyclical, mundane path or Reactive Mind (Samsara), to the “Transcendental Path,”  also called “The Spiral Path,” or “Path of Creative Mind” as well as “The Unconditioned” &  “Supra Mundane”  Post starts on next line…you’ll see where it ends___________ the line, the rest is Scripture/Asian Canon ref]

“Truly so”..even more so; a truly common phenomenon… Wise observation, and Creatively expressed (Referring to the Text Image)

I am intimately familiar with this phenomenon; I have spent years, ‘not-living’, barely surviving, hobbled by self-imposed isolation, Mindlessness, stuck in, feeling sucked-in, this ‘Vicious Cycle’… Fear-based, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, My Perception = My “Reality”,  where Delusion Permeates All, Inability to differentiate Truth from False, Loss of Direction, No Orientation,  a different Mask for everything, My Protective Walls = Now  Prison Walls.

I find it strikingly similar to the paradoxical properties of an ‘Autoimmune Dis-ease‘ dis-functions: instead of protecting ‘Health’ from illness by ‘attacking’ invasive Pathogens, the Immune System produces Illness by ‘attacking’ itself/the host.

‘Auto-Cognitive Dis-ease:‘ instead of continually evolving greater/higher conscious-awareness, expanding wisdom, enhancing the experience of life, with ‘Ease’ of ‘Oneself‘…  Contrary to Auto-Cognitive Dis-Ease of Oneself, where one’s own Mind produces illness by ‘attacking’ itself… reducing conscious awareness, constraining one’s capacity for free-choice diminishing one’s experience of life, of self, and on-and-on, a truly vicious cyclical.

I know it may not be easy to change one’s momentum, yet it is a simple  process of change…Knock Down, or walk-through ‘the Wall’ (also simple, & gets easier with practice) & Empowering to Not be a ‘Victim‘ who believes I Need “Saving”… Framing Dependency upon Actions of Others, which only perpetuates the cycle.

Asking the right person for help: Is genuine intention, honest, proactive, “Beaten into a state of reason,” humbled, reduced ego identity directly proportional to reduction in fear… Now is the Perfect Moment, the Catalyzing action, we change ourselves, the moment we transforms from a ‘victim’ into one whom deliberately ‘opened the door’ to unlimited possibilities. This opportunity only & always exists Here & Now. This is the moment, the quantum leap, from the Cycle of Reactivity, to the Spiral of Creativity, The intersection of the Infinite & Eternal, spontaneously creative, The Power of Now.

(Creating the term ‘Auto-Cognitive Dis-Ease’ to describe a  universal phenomenon, & fit contextual style…or ‘neologoautogenesis’ a new word to describe creating new words. ) Spontaneous creativity, Imperturbable well-being, free-flowing-focus, growing, neuroplasticity, ‘walking through walls’ and a fun, playful sense-of-humor are symptoms of ‘AnAuto-Mental Liberation:’ natural co-production, omni-expansive, holistic-being enhancement that is an inseparable aspect of the Spiral Path & Creative Mind.) (With the addition of the prefix “An-” subtracts the ”Self,”or shifts to “No-Self”, “adds” “Liberation”… Emptiness, at this point the whole analogy dissolves. No words are effective, or more accurately, all words are equally ineffective. Applying that as “understood”, Śūnyatā & Anātman aka Anātta are ‘relatively more useful,‘ yet, any further elaboration is moot, at best.)

(Random observation: I get considerably more usefulness from “dead languages” than spanish. Me gusta español, pero  I  use Pali, Sanskrit daily, & Latin (& Greek) for ‘Science’ (& for fun creating  words.)

*This Post is a lesson in Buddhism, without Buddhism. Meaning, it isn’t explicitly framed in traditional Buddhist Terminology (except for the references at the end) but the Buddha-Dharma is implicit, as is the •Abhidhamma, or Abhidharma, traditional Buddhist Psychology

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The Abhidhamma is one of Pitikas, (three Pitika comprise the Tipitaka, or The Pali Canon, the oldest Buddhist Scripture, from India, There is also a Chinese Buddhist Canon, Contains the Chinese Tipitaka as wells the Sutras of Mahayana Buddhism, as well as the Tantras of Vajrayana School of Buddhism, aka as Tibetan, and Esoteric Buddhism, and Tantric Buddhism.

Chinese Buddhist Canons (There are several version, varying from various Chinese Dynasties,  also called; “The Great Treasury of Sutras” differs by not containing the Udāna Pitika, but unlike the Pali, or Indian Buddhist Canon, The Chinese contains the Āgama Pitika, and instead of being etched in Banana Leafs, and sewn together (sewing together the banana leafs is where the term “Suttas” and “Sutras” comes from, the same root word as “Sutures” (as in surgical sewing) (The Tantras are the name for Vajrayana Buddhist Scriptures, which name is also derived from the construction process.)

Pali Canon, or Tipitikas, Three Baskets contain the Vinaya Pitika (The list of over 220 Moral, Ethical Precepts of theHistorical Early Sangha, the disciples of Gautama Buddha, aka Shakyamuni Buddha, the Historical Buddha. The same Vinaya Pitika Precepts are currently, and have been, maintained by the Theravada Buddhist Monastic Order of Bhikkhus (Monks) and Bhikkhunis (Nuns). The other two baskets, (Pitikas) are the  Utterances of the Buddha or the Udāna Pitika, (such as the Dhammapada) and the Abhidhamma (Commonly referred to as the Sutta collection of Buddhist Psychology)

A True Testimonial to the Mindfulness and Samādhi Absorption ofBuddhist meditation is evident in the  Tripiṭaka Koreana or Palman Daejanggyeong was carved into  blocks of wood between 1236 and 1251, during Korea’s Goryeo Dynasty, onto 81,340 wooden printing blocks with no known errors in the 52,382,960 characters. It is stored at the Haeinsa temple, South Korea.

The  Taishō Buddhist Canon,  is the Japanese Buddhist doctrinal collection in Tokyo, Japan.. Also there is a Vietnamese, Buddhist Canon as well, all together the re are Many version (One from each country listed, except China which has several, varying from Dynasties) of the Buddhist Canonical Texts throughout Southeast, East Asia & Asia Pacific

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Why is Not the Question, But How… How to Accept and Love Unconditionally

(This is my reply to a comment by Lisa Pearlman  bellow, from the

The Master Shift – The Meditation 12.12.12 – Guided Meditation for World Unity, Peace & Love

but seems relevant enough to stand on its own, plus then I added some more details and a visual aid 🙏😄💚☯♻🙏)
Beautiful! It just depends on one’s definition of “coincidence.” Two angles (I first typed angels) that fit together perfectly, are said to coincide, forming a coincidence. The semantics of the word has changed over time. Synchronous is another word for it that has kept it’s meaning; e term coined by Carl Jung to describe the affects of the Collective Unconscious.
But the Reality exposed with Transcendental Insight, Stream Entry, Bodhisattvahood, etc, shows the Ultimate Truth: That there is no such thing as random. It’s a Perfectly Just Universe, with All things manifesting from the conditions that created them. That is a Universal Law. That is the Fundamental Experience of what marks Nirvana in the Buddha-Dharma, or Buddhist Cosmology, which is not theory or belief, or thought, or feeling, but Fact…an Absolute Reality.
Now trying to understand all the causes and conditions behind the events that lead to an Experience, whether that be your brother’s passing, the shooting in CT, or your stumbling upon my Blog, are FAR TOO MANY…INFINITE, in fact. So it’s an Unanswerable Question, as to exact “WHY” of “ANYTHING.”
(Other than the overall truth that if were any other way, than it wouldn’t be how it is. It IS, because it Is. Pratītyasamutpāda (Sanskrit; Pali:paticcasamuppāda) is commonly translated as dependent origination or dependent arising.****
So I do my best to utilize my Energy for Greatest, Most Skillful Actions and Outcomes. Speculating is an Unskillful Mental State. Instead, I strive for he Perfection of Acceptance, also known as Unconditional Love. THAT is the most Skillful use of This Precious Present Moment. 🙏💚🔆♻☯🌼∞🌿🌍🌀

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The term is used in the Buddhist teachings in two senses:

• On a general level, it refers to one of the central concepts in the Buddhist tradition—that all things arise in dependence upon multiple causes and conditions.
• On a specific level, the term is also used to refer to a specific application of this general principle—namely the 12 Nidanas, or The twelve links of dependent origination. Is the ESSENTIAL TECHING OF BUDDHISM, ENLIGHTENMENT a.k.a. Nirvana.

The concept of pratītyasamutpāda (in both the general and specific meanings) is the basis for other key concepts in Buddhism, such as karma and rebirth, the arising of dukkha (suffering), and the possibility of liberation through realizing no-self (anatman). The general principle of pratītyasamutpāda (that everything is interdependent) is complementary to the concept of emptiness (sunyata).” Definition from Wikipedia…who would have thunk that Wiki would be so spot-on!?!?

The 12 Nidanas,  or 12 Links twelve links of dependent origination. It may look like a Bog ol’ Mess…but it’s a diagram that shows the paths of “Conditioned, or cyclical (Samsara) existence, and The Gap  that through Mindfulness and Meditation, one is able to transcend cyclical existence, and enter the Spiral Path to Enlightenment, Nirvana. Explained more in my Blog titled “Mind The Gap”