Robin: When consciousness (Vijnana, or Citta) is adulterated with desire (Kama), there are the various attitudes or moods (Caitta) that are the aggregations of...
It sounds like you are refering to feelings as being synonymous with sensations, as in being sensual or sensational. Does that mean that vedana always involves...
Hi Trock: Yes Vedana means sensation as in a sensual and sensational experience and it does necessarily involve the senses. In ordinary thought these are...
Thanks. Tell me, would you say that these four spheres constitute a progression from shallower to deeper? Trock ... experience ... these ... Panca ... with ......
Yes they can certainly be viewed as ranging from shallow to deep. Physical desires and needs are the most immediate, and consequently are the easiest to...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Right. The vast majority of sensation escapes conscious detection. We even generally respond to sensation on 'auto-pilot.'...
OK then Robin and Peter (or anyone else): According to Buddhism, how does the mind (presumably 'consciousness') decide which feelings/emotions (vedana) are...
I am still unclear on what vedana means. Raw sensation? We can pretty much objectify the raw sensation of the 5 sensory faculties. But what is the raw...
Before memorizing the Kanji {and Siddam} on the scroll, I used the Nichiren mandala like a sort of spiritual Ink blot test. I just had an excellent experience...
Try to think of Vedana as rushes or waves of feelings and emotions that are impacting the senses. Because sensations are ordinarily mixed with desire (as well...
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... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That is what I am thinking of as the 6th Consciousness, the brian stem and 'knee jerk' or autonomous nervous system; as opposed...
I can understand your attempts to make correlations between the attitudes of consciousness (Caitta: Vedana, Samjna & Samskara) and the different levels of...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think that is what I am doing; maybe excessively. At least I am trying to describe my own experience {from...
... In provisional Buddhism one seeks freedom from these attachments through the artifices (`provisions' or `different means') of spiritual cultivation and...
Does anyone know what that means? I take it to mean to become established in dharana, roughly the same thing as samadhi. Someone suggested that was a reference...
Hi Robin: Sorry I have not had an opportunity to respond earlier. A Dharani is a an object of meditation (Dhyana). It is a prayer formula that is observed over...
Thanks for that. As you likely know, discussions of dharanis versus mantras can get 'interesting.' That came up the in thread that prompted my question. This...
I noticed a dialog on another board that asked about the difference (or the conflict?) between practicing seated meditation and chanting, presumably the...
Hello I am new in this group. I prefer to practic Zazen, but often I have chanted with friends from the Nichiren sect. I would say the greatest difference is...
Hi Trock: Chih-I advocated adapting the right means to serve the capacities and needs of the practitioner. In the liturgies he produced he prescribed ...
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... Nichiren seems to have believed that some Great Masters knew of the Daimoku/Lotus Sutra Honzon, but kept them as a private practice. I once thought...
gostaria de obter informacoes sobre a teoria do itinen sanzen?? i would like to have informationa about itinen sanzen teory, and i would like to know if...
Hi. is everyone here still doing silent za-zen? Q's below: ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I got a lot from this. I took at as sort of consciousness...
For anyone who was wondering www.tientai.net is back up and running. It seems that the domain registration ran out, but it has now been renewed. Peter...
