Hi to those who read this blog. It has been a while since I have entered anything into this blog. Sorry. My only excuse is that life gets busy. I have written two more chapters that I have not yet eddited. I will try to get these chapters into the blog soon.
Now a response to a comment on my last blog. The writer said that she is able to enter a clear meditative state but feels that it separates her from other people and does not create a feeling of oneness with others. I think this is probably very common. Yes we can become very quiet and calm in meditation but not truly loose a sense of self and then we see how calm we are and how frantic everybody else seems to be. I have to say everybody's experience is different but I think that this person has not reached a deep enough state or stayed there long enough to have a deep cognitive shift in which emerges a deep understanding of the non-dual. One must truly disappear in sitting where not a single grain of self is left and then somehow recognize this. Koans often help in creating this sort of breakthrough but I think what is even more important is the accumulation of chi. If we can truly let go of self one breath at a time then chi will accumulate until in one big experience the cognitive and the emotional fall in line with a deep understanding of oneness. Working in deepening concentration helps in this regard
Now a response to a comment on my last blog. The writer said that she is able to enter a clear meditative state but feels that it separates her from other people and does not create a feeling of oneness with others. I think this is probably very common. Yes we can become very quiet and calm in meditation but not truly loose a sense of self and then we see how calm we are and how frantic everybody else seems to be. I have to say everybody's experience is different but I think that this person has not reached a deep enough state or stayed there long enough to have a deep cognitive shift in which emerges a deep understanding of the non-dual. One must truly disappear in sitting where not a single grain of self is left and then somehow recognize this. Koans often help in creating this sort of breakthrough but I think what is even more important is the accumulation of chi. If we can truly let go of self one breath at a time then chi will accumulate until in one big experience the cognitive and the emotional fall in line with a deep understanding of oneness. Working in deepening concentration helps in this regard
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