In buddhism the first awareness is
of the body sensation. Cognition follows from feeling.
The non-existent knower you are
referring to is the delusional self. Buddhist "knowing" is not
perception. Sentient beings have the capacity of "direct knowing"
beyond sensation, feelings, perceptions and volition.
One of the fruits of vipassana
meditation is the progressive disengagement of our mind from body
sensations, feelings, perception and volition. This disengagement
is not the silencing of the mind of jhana. When the mind no longer
engages the mindstream it has the capacity to discern the quiet
advice of our innate wisdom.
When
we see the world through a multitude of thoughts all we are really
seeing are our thoughts and all the attendant baggages. To
see the world without thoughts is to see the world anew, fresh and
alive - insight will arise unimpeded.
Liberating insights that you
referred to above will come at a special moment.
There are other definition.
It is not well reported but some
years back there was one in malaysia I could remember. If you visit
some vipassana center you are made to sign a waver before you are
allowed sign on. I was in myanmar many years back and before I
signed up I was asked to sign such waiver.
A person with a lot of thoughts will benefit from
some form of dynamic meditation.
Hardly buddhist ! Zen is
undefinable.
This is not what I was referring
to. Samatha meditation or concentration meditation tries to exclude
thoughts by focusing on a singular object. The fruits on the
mindstream is very different from repeating a delusional thoughts
over and over again.....please don't mention mantra ;-)
Kasina meditation, while it has
elements of samatha, its fruits are slightly different from
samatha. Kasina works on our energetic system and is very similar
to some tantric practice
The vipassana-yanika will disagree with you. This is one
of the almost violent disagreement in buddhism.
In buddhism the first awareness is
of the body sensation. Cognition follows from
feeling.
In Buddhist logic,
the first awareness of our body sensation is considered as
cognition itself. It is the source of our knowledge. It is our
intellect that interprets this sensation from our memory into what
we eventually take the object we percept to be. Feeling if any
arises after repeated cognitions which is recognition.
Buddhist "knowing" is not
perception. Sentient beings have the capacity of "direct knowing"
beyond sensation, feelings, perceptions and
volition.
Simply, just good
old Intuition
There are other
definition.
Why not give your
take as well.
It is not well reported but some
years back there was one in malaysia I could remember. If you visit
some vipassana center you are made to sign a waver before you are
allowed sign on. I was in myanmar many years back and before I
signed up I was asked to sign such waiver.
You have being to
such retreat before, in your opinion, do you think the course
contents or the methods used in such
vipassana meditation offered, can be likely cause for one to lost
one’s mind? There could be other outside factors too that could
contribute to one losing one’s mine even before one attend such
retreat.
Hardly buddhist
! Zen is undefinable.
Very Buddhist
indeed! And just as undefinable is you statement below.
“To see the world
without thoughts is to see the world anew, fresh and alive -
insight will arise unimpeded.”
Kasina meditation, while it has
elements of samatha, its fruits are slightly different from
samatha. Kasina works on our energetic system and is very similar
to some tantric practice.
Kasina objects, such
as colours, earth, water, fire and wind are used for Samatha
meditation. Why should the fruit of using these objects be any
different?
The vipassana-yanika will disagree
with you. This is one of the almost violent disagreement in
buddhism.
You would just use
the term momentary concentration instead of access concentration
and forgo the absorption stages.
