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14 years 7 months ago #1412 by Dharma Comarade

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Nik posted it on FB this morning and I just watched it. Not that long ago I would not have liked this. Today I really like it and it pretty much lines up with how I see things at the moment. Weird.

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14 years 7 months ago #1413 by Ona Kiser

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I think he's kind of funny and adorable. What didn't you used to like about him? I've only watched a few of his videos, and only recently, so I don't have a strong opinion at the moment.

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14 years 7 months ago #1414 by Kate Gowen

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This one is cool, too.

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14 years 7 months ago #1415 by Dharma Comarade

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I think he's kind of funny and adorable. What didn't you used to like about him? I've only watched a few of his videos, and only recently, so I don't have a strong opinion at the moment.

-ona

Ona - welcome!

Okay, I'm not sure why I didn't like him. My best guess is that his teaching seemed to be just him "talking" to his students in these satsangs, you know? No method, no map, no sitting as far as I know (could be wrong about that), and that sort of teaching didn't seem right to me. But, what he is saying, just seems so so so true.

I'm not sure yet how to reconcile my earlier impressions with my current understanding, No hurry.

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14 years 7 months ago #1416 by Ona Kiser

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Makes sense. There's tons of stuff I recall reading at one point and I either think it just makes no sense and barely can pay attention, or it sounds to me like it's self-involved poetic drivel, or similar. (ranging from Shinzen Young to Sangharakshita to Crowley and others...not to mention stuff in forums) Then another point can come where I stumble back on the same text or lecture and parts of it seem so shockingly profound or meaningful. Or I come back to it and it seems really boring and useless.

Just matters if the person's style and content fits with where you are?

I suppose there is always some teaching that is just plain old bad no matter where you are or what you know. Or some stuff so deep my brain will never wrap around it.

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14 years 7 months ago #1417 by Kate Gowen

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For awhile, he was holding monthly sittings close enough to me that I went to a number of them-- +/- half hour of meditation, then a talk, and some dialogue with students. He didn't come out of nowhere like Tolle, and I don't really see them as similar [although others have compared them]; he's the product of hair-on-fire Zen practice, under the guidance of a Zen master [female, American, and relatively unknown; I don't know her lineage]. I don't know why he adopted the 'satsang' format and the Sanskrit name; maybe the straight Zen schtick of the day was too limiting in some way.

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14 years 7 months ago #1418 by Chris Marti

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The description of the "slowly sinking" effect being described in that second video - wow - that's exactly how I would describe my practice now, and have here recently. It's moved from the head down into the heart and gut. Slowly, yes. Seemingly inexorably.

And there is a kind of simplification going on, too. As I described it to Ron Crouch in an e-mail earlier this morning, it's like the terms in a complicated mathematical equation - my earlier view of the practice - have been cancelled out, leaving a simpler, more connected practice that has two boundaries; right now and what is experienced through the six sense doors. Immediate experience is all that seems to matter, all that there is to focus on and practice with. Nothing erudite, complicated or intricate.

Thanks for posting those two snips you two!

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14 years 7 months ago #1419 by Dharma Comarade

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leaving a simpler, more connected practice that has two boundaries; right now and what is experienced through the six sense doors. Immediate experience is all that seems to matter, all that there is to focus on and practice with. Nothing erudite, complicated or intricate.

Tara Brach tells a story of being at some dharma teachers conference and each teacher was asked to go to the podium and give their definition of dharma practice in a nutshell. She came up with a complicated description, and, just before her Richard Baker came up and said two words only:

"attention" and "intention."

She admitted to being envious of him because she felt he got it exactly right.

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