Sir, This begs the question "How to care for and cultivate the field so as to produce the most abundant harvest possible?" Is sitting for an hour or two a day in an artificial setting sufficient to effect the transformation sought after? The world needs help!
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
Are parlor monks equal to the task of day to day engagement required in order to act as a mitigating presence off setting the insanity that has become todays norm? With respect if our interactions become offensive in any way please say so.
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Replying to @memeristor
There's power in both "doing" and "not-doing" (not killing, not stealing, etc.). So-called "parlor monks" (monastic recluses) might contribute to the off-setting of insanity through abstention from insane activity.
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Replying to @NoaidiX
Apologies it was not my intent to offer criticism but to ask if enough is being done both in our individual practices or in our out reach. Is an hour or two sufficient? Each of us has an atmosphere which subtly interacts with those whom we come into contact, alluded to earlier
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No criticism detected. Perhaps I can rephrase. By abstaining from adding to the problem, one has mitigated and minimized damage. Such non-action casts unobstrusive ripples into the social atmosphere, influencing others quietly, often unbeknownst to them. Such are my observations.
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Replying to @NoaidiX
Parlor monks refers to newly minted meditation industry. Does it seem that the vast majority of consciousness researchers understand consciousness experientially? It does not seem so to me. Machines pretending to be something other defining themselves as conscious agents. IMO
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
I have a great deal of respect for any individual who engages in practice. FYI my practice is very different from the more common forms of engagement. It is a very aggressive even confrontational engagement with the processes summed up by Dogen as "I generation and extinction"
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
My experience with this coming and going of presence has in many ways left me the odd man out. Do not even know how to ask meaningful questions. Here is a hesitant question. Do you see the movement of thought as it rises from the foundation blooming and becoming?
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
Is the ability to follow multiple thought streams an aberration or a skill? IE engage in a internal chant and visualize an image simultaneously. If skill what to do with it?
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Existence requires engagement. Is it possible to exist without a self? Does ones Buddha nature itself, constitute a self? I wonder if when you are reading following the words you have observed the moment when imagination comes into the process? 2 streams 1 verbal 1 visual
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Flowers exist, conventionally. Do flowers have selves, ultimately? For Dōgen, impermanence is Buddha nature. Multiple streams of impermanence converge. Water is wet. Who are you?
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Replying to @NoaidiX
Flowers are perfectly self conscious within the domain of their physicality. Remember I accept panpsyhism as reasonable. Commonly I am attention in either a passive or active relationship to sense and previously registered impressions Essentially a bit more then a reactive self
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Replying to @memeristor
They may be self-conscious, but are they conscious of a *metaphysically substantial, enduring self*?
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