Some fun meditation geekery:
@DeepMindfulness have started doing a live stream on YouTube - yesterday they had @ShinzenYoung on to chat about subjective space-time in meditation, some guided practice, Q&A.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VColeBskMY …
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I'd like to ask him about his 'dance at the source' diagram, and whether he is familiar with Longchenpa's writing about time. (Three times — past, present, future — and the 'fourth time' of Samantabhadra, the essence, nature, compassion of awareness ['the source'?])pic.twitter.com/jdjXrUhR5i
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Whenever I look at that diagram and read 'activity at the source', my mind immediately associates it with the Dzogchen idea of lhündrup. That association may not be helpful – mixing metaphors – but it's fun to see how different traditions try to model experience quasi-poetically.
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Replying to @misen__
Was just about to send a tweet to you saying ‘any idea what word ‘source’ is being used to substitute/translate?’ Then I realized you were maybe wondering the same thing.
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I have been wondering that, yes. I have a vague recollection of a discussion between Shinzen and Har Prakash Khalsa — a lovely Canadian chap & serious meditator — where Shinzen referred to Source as 'd'vekut' in the context of Jewish mysticism.
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Seems to me that he uses it loosely/poetically in his teaching, because he'll use 'Source' when talking about nirodha/cessation, IIRC. I'm not quite sure on the nuances of how he uses it. Michael is probably a good person to ask.
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