""Then there is the case where a monk has developed tranquillity in tandem with insight" Would it be possible to unpack this statement through descriptions of the practices pursued by this monk?
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
Step 1: cultivate tranquility (śamatha); Step 2: abide in a state of tranquility, and explore it to cultivate insight (vipaśyanā)
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @memeristor
Interestingly, the Yuganaddha Sutta provides three options: 1. first tranquility, then insight (samathapubbaṅgamaṃ vipassanaṃ) 2. first insight, then tranquility (vipassanāpubbaṅgamaṃ samathaṃ) 3. tranquility "in tandem" with insight (samathavipassanaṃ yuganaddhaṃ)
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Their "yoking" (yuganaddha) might have been, in part, an inspiration for the development of Yogācāra.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @NeuroYogacara
Wondering what is still considered Esoteric and unavailable to us. That Yogacara pointing at function and process is very appealing as a suggested engineering plan for human consciousness/mind/psy. I find the dearth of material concerning attention very interesting.
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I think no other element of our conscious experience is more "vital" then the engagement of attention with object. It is a very personal interaction filled with the "sense of self" Manasikaraa Buddhist term that is translated as "attention" or "ego-centric demanding".
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Posted in another thread materiel about the alaya-vijnana relating to the processes of recording impressions. Generally in so far as has been discovered by me the mechanisms and process are left very vague.
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Intuitively it is my feeling that attention receives so little direct commentary due to attentions relationship to individuation and sense of self. Hard to push no self with attention Also wonder if those withheld esoteric books might shed some light on the subject of attention.
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Replying to @memeristor @NeuroYogacara
"My experience is what I agree to attend to" (William James). Unwise attention leads to misperception. Such misperceptions are equally part of experience as perceiving "things as they are" through wise attention. One kind leads to further bondage while the other liberates.
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On this point, in this context, yes. At least insofar as my experience confirms it!
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Replying to @NoaidiX @NeuroYogacara
No "I" exists Nearly every decision thought feeling is a product of the storehouse and sense. A decision is made which is the sum of the digits. No I required. Nearly all of our accomplishments the products of conditioning. Mr James is either very special or mistaken
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If this mythic I exists where does it hide? It comes into and goes out of a birth and death It is as the wind, driven by energies of which it has no control. The clerk winks at and I am full of myself, making plans. Cold coffee and the day is down hill. This for that machines.
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