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  @lasnadas19 сағат бұрын

  Thank you Sensei

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  @stephensnyderdharma18 сағат бұрын

  You're welcome

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  @JhannySamadhi-zh7un19 сағат бұрын

  Just as a heads up, Castaneda has been thoroughly debunked as a fraud with dubious integrity. Most of his stuff is western occult concepts repackaged with Native American veneer. The most thorough presentation of this debunking that I’m aware of is ‘The Don Juan Papers’ by Richard de Mille, but there are many sources. One of his professors even found his sign-in into the UCLA library on a date that he was supposedly out in the desert with Don Juan. Obviously this doesn’t make his work valueless, but a teacher proven to be as lacking in integrity as he was is not a teacher at all in my opinion. Look into his “witches” and how he treated women. Very sad indeed.

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  @stephensnyderdharma19 сағат бұрын

  I’m aware of all this. The assemblage point is nonetheless worthwhile teaching.

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  @RedRabbleRouserКүн бұрын

  I really appreciate this one, and your work more broadly. It’s really clarifying. I’ve noticed the importance of meditation in part through suffering from OCD. OCD is driven by fear, the need for control, and anxiety about uncertainty. All of these things are addressed directly by Buddhist practice. Without this suffering, the desire to engage in meditation practice might not have been there for me (even tho it’s by far the most important thing I’ve ever learned how to do). Funny how that works! :)

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  @stephensnyderdharmaКүн бұрын

  I’m so glad to hear you are finding this style of teaching is appealing and worthwhile. I too believe meditation is good for many human issues.

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  @willieluncheonette58432 күн бұрын

  fine zen story

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  @lasnadas4 күн бұрын

  Mis más profundos agradecimientos, sensei, despierta usted almas en la distancia

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  @gavinstrelitz155810 күн бұрын

  Excellent, thanks

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  @stephensnyderdharma10 күн бұрын

  Glad you liked it!

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  @aerosonic308811 күн бұрын

  Thank you for the explanation.

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  @stephensnyderdharma11 күн бұрын

  You are welcome!

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  @leifrengar817413 күн бұрын

  thanks a lot for your videos <3

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  @screamingchickenshoppingne239014 күн бұрын

  Stephen,,,I have a few thoughts on this when we get a chance to discuss,,,,Sampai,,,,Joen

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  @gavinstrelitz155815 күн бұрын

  Gasho

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  @JhannySamadhi-zh7un15 күн бұрын

  I thought one had to be an anagami or arahant to experience nirodha samapatti? Or is this a different cessation? For dhamma and faith followers streamentry doesn’t even require jhana. What am I missing here?

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  @stephensnyderdharma14 күн бұрын

  Although I am not a Buddhist scholar, my understanding is that nirodha samapatti is referring to the ability to enter the Absolute realm (the Ninth jhana), the Source, and have Cessation arise after mastering all eight jhanas. This is but one way to open to Cessation. It is the rare practitioner who can enter Cessation from the eight jhana access concentration. One can also open to Cessation through a guided meditation from a potent teacher or through following the passing away of phenomena (dharmas) using impermanence as a practice.

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  @deborahferguson708315 күн бұрын

  I really appreciate your explanation of the position of shikantaza as a practice with respect to contemplation...whether that is koen or other sacred scripture where words are a particular gateway to that which "transcends the murmur of syllable and sound" ibalso find resting in the hara or the heart which might seem at first to be an object of attention allows for me a greater energy for awake/alert while softening effort. Thank you both for this.

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  @deborahferguson708315 күн бұрын

  It is so helpful to consider the balance of energy that allows for alert, awake yet relaxed and objectless. Thank you

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  @stephensnyderdharma15 күн бұрын

  You're welcome.

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  @aerosonic308815 күн бұрын

  Outstanding explanation. Thank you. 🙏🏻

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  @stephensnyderdharma15 күн бұрын

  You're very welcome!

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  @aerosonic308815 күн бұрын

  Thank you for the clarity in the explanation. 🙏🏻

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  @stephensnyderdharma15 күн бұрын

  Glad it was helpful!

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  @mpavoreal15 күн бұрын

  Thank you 🙏

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  @screamingchickenshoppingne239027 күн бұрын

  Perfect! Gassho!

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  @hansenmarcАй бұрын

  3 components are: 1. a deep experience of the absence of self 2. nondual unity/love experience including pure awareness 3. recognition that this is my true identity Question: do these realizations typically occur separately or as part of a single experience?

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  @ZenCloudsMeditationАй бұрын

  They normally come one piece at a time,, but can be an all inclusive wow moment of all of it,, or combined portions,,,

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  @ZenCloudsMeditationАй бұрын

  in example,,, during a near death experience,,, often times,, all of that is experienced at once,,, for myself,,, it was a combination and sequential of holy Shit/ wow moments that changed my world forever,,,,

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  @hansenmarcАй бұрын

  @@ZenCloudsMeditation thank you for your very helpful responses. I would love to get your feedback on my own personal experiences. I had a striking unity/love experience where all I could see was perfection wherever I looked. It felt like everything was love solidified in the form of matter and all of us were still living in the garden of Eden. The original sin that kicked us out was merely allowing ourselves to have somehow forgotten or getting talked out of realizing the true situation and therefore believing that we had been kicked out. My absence of self experience occurred while watching the scenery go by while riding in a car. I realized that the experience was of watching the world go by without having constructed a “self” that was doing the watching and I was reminded of the Bahiya Sutta. The experience was like being in a flow state or getting lost in a book. It made me realize that my sense of self comes and goes. For example, make a mistake in front of a crowd and the feeling of self becomes very strong. The realization made me focus on and trust my sensory experience much more than my thoughts, which is the opposite of my previous life experience. I had an intellectual understanding of emptiness from reading examples like King Milinda’s chariot and Theseus’s ship, so I knew that I couldn’t find a self when I searched for one in the five aggregates, but now I saw that even the felt sense of self was transient rather than a fixed, unchanging thing. I’d always had a type A personality, but these realizations changed me into being much more relaxed and much slower to getting upset or angry, as I saw that getting upset about the state of the universe didn’t make sense and wasn’t helpful. You can still recognize things that could be better and do something about them, but getting upset has no value. Also, other people are also a bunch of processes already set in motion (and many if not all of those processes were not chosen by the people) instead of “selves” making conscious decisions about their actions. So getting upset at them is like getting mad at a tree for falling on your house. The tree didn’t make that choice. The experience of my true identity is much more difficult for me to explain. If I had to describe my true identity, I guess I would say that I’m an ever-changing set of sometimes conflicting processes set in motion by nature and nurture (causes and conditions). My identity subjectively feels like my current awareness overlaid with memories that influence my preferences, but I don’t feel the senses of striving and desire for control anywhere nearly as strongly as I used to. I like the analogy of an eddy in a river. The eddy exists due to the motion of the water, but it can’t exist apart from that motion. So really I feel like I’m the universe in motion using the atoms of this body. Libet’s experiments and the subsequent reproductions of the effect show that our conscious minds have the feeling of making choices about half a second after our subconscious has already made the decision. So really, I feel like a consciousness that was put into a bodily avatar in order to have an earthly experience. It’s like I’m living the experience of a character in a story, but I frequently forget and get caught up in the experience. It seems like everything that happens, happens out of love (though sometimes an unskillful form of love, like desire). I now feel unconditional love for everyone (including myself) because I see the same awareness plus processes in every person, so I feel a deep affinity for them.

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  @stephensnyderdharmaАй бұрын

  Either is possible. I only confirm Kensho if all three are evident and impactful.

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  @hansenmarcАй бұрын

  @@stephensnyderdharma thank you. That makes sense.

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  @just_me_melanieАй бұрын

  there are two ads in the middle of the meditation :(

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  @stephensnyderdharmaАй бұрын

  @just_me_melanie Apologies. That is very frustrating. This channel isn't monetized and those ads are completely controlled by KZread. Once the channel grows enough to hit certain KZread benchmarks, then KZread unlocks features that will give us more control over reducing/eliminating some of the ads. Hopefully this will happen in the next couple of months. In the meantime, many of these meditations are also available on the Insight Timer app.

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  @mpavorealАй бұрын

  This is very helpful and timely. 🙏

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  @mpavorealАй бұрын

  Thank you. Happy to spend this time with you this morning. 🙏

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  @raginald7mars408Ай бұрын

  my Son hanged himself 4 Weeks ago in the forest... I showed him ALL those "techniques" no way to reach him... Anxiety racing to panic can be suicidal unstoppable Life is difficult enough without “panic”

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  @stephensnyderdharmaАй бұрын

  @raginald7mars408 I am so sorry for your loss. No words can touch this grief. Please try to be tender with yourself.

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  @WhatsItLikeToBeEnlightened2 ай бұрын

  I appreciate the details and specificity... Thank you.

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  @stephensnyderdharma2 ай бұрын

  You're very welcome!

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  @ajitagrace52272 ай бұрын

  Thank you Stephen - a potent meditation 🖤

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  @stephensnyderdharma2 ай бұрын

  You're welcome.

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  @brianl94192 ай бұрын

  Hi Stephen. Appreciate your videos.🙏Do you have instructions for 4 Elements Meditation?

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  @stephensnyderdharma2 ай бұрын

  @brianl9419 The full instructions to the meditation are in a book I co-authored titled Practicing the Jhanas. There is a playlist on KZread for Four Elements Meditation but the videos may not include all of the instructions quite yet. More videos will be coming.

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  @stephensnyderdharma2 ай бұрын

  Four Elements Meditation playlist, kzread.info/head/PLONhH1hHdoXtakNQIvXQRZAQRPNSmMHGm

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  @user-tx4rq9fb4j2 ай бұрын

  Waking up Like falling asleep Surrendering to Nowhere to go

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  @stephensnyderdharma2 ай бұрын

  Beautiful!

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  @user-tx4rq9fb4j2 ай бұрын

  ❤

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  @Chichi-cy2bb2 ай бұрын

  Great meditation but it doesn't work if you are continually interrupted by adverts.

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  @stephensnyderdharma2 ай бұрын

  @Chichi-cy2bb Apologies. This channel isn't monetized and those ads are completely controlled by KZread. Once the channel grows enough to hit certain KZread benchmarks, then KZread unlocks features that will give us more control over reducing/eliminating some of the ads. Hopefully this will happen in the next few months.

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  @stephensnyderdharma2 ай бұрын

  Also, some of the meditations are available on the Insight Timer app which might be another option for you.

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  @Chichi-cy2bbАй бұрын

  Thank you! I think your channel is fantastic.

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  @Viscid2 ай бұрын

  Nice to see some Theravada/Zen syncretism. I've always wondered why, if many of the practices of Theravada and Zen were not that dissimilar, one would emphasize the non-dual quality of it while the other did not. To me, as someone with a mere intellectual interest, that suggests that the phenomenology of the states are shaped by the expectations of the traditions. As someone who has studied both, have you seen evidence of the expectations of the tradition informing the experience of the practitioner?

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  @stephensnyderdharmaАй бұрын

  yes. Our expectations can color our experience. The Theravada model or path is usually presented from a dualistic perspective. I am going to do this meditation is the approach. Yet in deep experience, such as jhana, in the Theravada tradition, that is a nondual experience.

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  @alberttanner4083 ай бұрын

  Mind Soul God are mythological concepts the body brain is real. There is lower and higher consciousness Higher consciousness is awareness of the myth of Mind Soul God. Lower consciousness is a by product of functional brain.

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  @alberttanner4083 ай бұрын

  He typically misses out the Bharatian origins and that Japanese and Chinese people are Aryadharmic not CCP

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  @cyberpunkworld3 ай бұрын

  Now you're referencing those loops, which in some of my musical pieces I do avoid. It's all over the media. We think, for example, of Nationalities in terms of rugby or cricket matches, we fail to see the Evil around us, and we fail to see how we're all in this. Whenever a new dungeon is discovered in Perth, someone in Poland maybe will say "we're better, this doesn't happen here." And they are wrong, of course. The rat kind is in the underground, infesting everything, we common mortals need visas and a whole lot of money to travel everywhere and contemplate the Evil.

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  @cyberpunkworld3 ай бұрын

  No. That's the thing. A Koan maybe. "There's gifts in store for everyone that has respect." :)

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  @cyberpunkworld3 ай бұрын

  The short answer is this, and it is true. Perhaps Tricky wants to see more, before he's giving you the gift. Don't worry too much. I probably read a book and half, maybe?? :))

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  @cyberpunkworld3 ай бұрын

  Yet, once Enlightenment comes in, one serves. And they continue to serve. That's the thing. It's not that they serve, whether they want it or not, they want to serve very much :))

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  @cyberpunkworld3 ай бұрын

  In my understanding "no-self" means the subject is not one bit preoccupied about their own person. The self isn't there, therefore.

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  @cyberpunkworld3 ай бұрын

  Well, the first question to ask, immediately, after the previous statement was accepted is the following. Why are we here right now, and not in The Pure Land?? I am afraid I do not know the answer to this one... :))

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  @cyberpunkworld3 ай бұрын

  Regarding the distinction between Heaven and Earth. As I said previously. When anybody's got any form of doubts, they should remember The Pure Land as a true fact, in whatever way, shape or form they imagine a true fact to be. The Pure Land is a true fact!

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  @mpavoreal3 ай бұрын

  Gassho!

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  @todd_lisonbee3 ай бұрын

  Thanks Mugen!

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  @patrickflood3 ай бұрын

  Thank you for this teaching on Shikantaza and also for publishing the guided Shikantaza videos which I found to be very helpful. I heard a very similar explanation of the stages of Silent Illumination while studying Chan in the past. I wonder whether these stages correspond directly to different jhanas or would they be now considered different teachings?

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  @stephensnyderdharma3 ай бұрын

  @patrickflood I felt they were stages of breath awareness meditation and applied these to the shikintaza

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  @ajitagrace52273 ай бұрын

  I found this meditation very healing and moving. Powerfully held by love. Thank you Stephen 🤍

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  @mikewright36333 ай бұрын

  🙏🙏🙏

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  @ajitagrace52273 ай бұрын

  Thank you Stephen I LOVE this meditation!💗

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  @Aleksandrpajic3 ай бұрын

  It seems than that the cessation experience is total opposite from the Absolute and that implies Duality again. I have always struggled to reconcile my Buddhist practice and my faith in the Absolute and you are the only who has talked about both them existing. Can you please clarify on my first point. Thank you so much for your videos Stephen 🙏

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  @stephensnyderdharma3 ай бұрын

  Cessation is nondual too. It is the center of the source -the Absolute.

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  @Aleksandrpajic3 ай бұрын

  @@stephensnyderdharma It is almost like the womb of God, but why do we return to the manifest after the Cessation, does the Absolute want us to exist, expand and serve the creation ?

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  @stephensnyderdharma3 ай бұрын

  @@Aleksandrpajic For some of us, we choose to be reborn to save all sentient beings (who are already saved.)

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  @Aleksandrpajic3 ай бұрын

  @@stephensnyderdharma That's an infinite task then ! Thank you so much for your replies, the experience of Cessation and no self has caused me so much existential anxiety and panic attacks and your explanation that's it's a loving Cessation, a loving Absolute helps a lot since I haven't heard any other Buddhist teacher talk about it in that way.

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  @mpavoreal3 ай бұрын

  Thank you for your commitment to realizing the bodhisattva path for our benefit 🙏

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  @michaelnice934 ай бұрын

  I think you are correct about those fears generated by the mind regarding surrendering into peacefulness. Do you find it helpful to develop a counter narrative about how our goal is to seek that peace and allow ourselves to be open to it? Cultivating a desire for peace seems like it may help overcome our hesitancy about it.

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  @stephensnyderdharma3 ай бұрын

  Holding a wholesome intention is very helpful to our development and practice.

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  @mpavoreal4 ай бұрын

  🙏 Thank you.

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  @stephensnyderdharma4 ай бұрын

  You're welcome!

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  @Reflekt0r5 ай бұрын

  Thank you

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  @thomasjedensjo43165 ай бұрын

  This is a wonderful talk!

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  @zachparade27915 ай бұрын

  Thank you! 🙏 Very interesting! Very helpful!

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  @stephensnyderdharma5 ай бұрын

  Glad it was helpful!