the strength of wisdom awareness.
-- Gampopa, in "The Jewel Ornament of Liberation", published by Shambhala
Publications
-~
- Your eggnog to rum ratio should be 23% to 77%. I would then spice the
-eggnog with nutmeg and use more than you're comfortable with because sailors
-used to use it as [a] hallucinogen...
- Also, enter on a reindeer. And if you enter on a reindeer, stay on the
-reindeer. And if you can’t reach something because you’re too high up
-sitting on the reindeer, just ask for help. That goes for life, too. Don’t
-be afraid to ask for help and stay on that reindeer.
- -- T.J. Miller’s recipe for the perfect holiday party
-~
-if you can't beat them, join them, and subvert them from the inside.
- -- fred t. hamster
-~
-regarding christmas cards...
-"i would create my own as a desktop publishing activity, with all new current
-stuff. but it's way too much effort. basically, i can either give you a
-present or make you a card. which do you prefer?"
- -- thus spake slackathustra.
~
III. Path of Insight
the perfect equanimity branch.
-- The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, by Gampopa, published by Shambhala
Publications
+~
+IV. Path of Meditation
+
+The path of meditation practice begins after the realization of special
+insight. It has two paths:
+ A. the path of worldly meditation practice and
+ B. the path of meditation practice beyond the world.
+A.
+ Worldly Meditation Practice consists of the first, second, third, and
+fourth meditative stages, and the formless stages of increasing the infinite
+nature of space, increasing the infinity of consciousness, increasing the
+nothing-whatsoever-ness, and increasing neither perception nor non-perception.
+There are three purposes to practicing this meditation:
+
++ suppressing the afflicting emotions which are the subject of
+abandonment in the path of meditation;
++ establishing the special qualities of the Four Immeasurables and so
+forth; and
++ creating the foundation for the path beyond the world.
+
+B.
+ Meditation Practice Beyond the World consists of the furthering of calm
+abiding and special insight, focused on the two types of wisdom. During the
+path of insight there were two “patient acceptances” and two
+“awarenesses” corresponding to each of the Four Noble Truths, making a
+total of sixteen. The eight patient acceptances were completed in the path of
+insight. One becomes familiarized with the eight awarenesses in the path of
+meditation through the calm abiding and special insight related to the four
+meditative concentrations and three of the formless absorptions. Furthermore,
+part of the awareness of phenomena is to familiarize oneself with all the
+realization of dharma-as-such. Part of the continuity awareness is to
+familiarize oneself with all the realization of primordial wisdom. The state
+of neither perception nor non-perception is merely worldly meditation because
+the movement of sensation is so unclear.
+ Why is this called the path of meditation? Because there, one becomes
+familiar with the realizations that one achieved in the path of insight. At
+this stage, there are eight of the thirty-seven branches of enlightenment:
+
++ perfect view,
++ perfect conception, perfect speech, perfect action,
++ perfect livelihood,
++ perfect effort,
++ perfect mindfulness, and
++ perfect absorption.
+ -- Gampopa, from "The Jewel Ornament of Liberation", published by Shambhala
+Publications
+~
+ Your eggnog to rum ratio should be 23% to 77%. I would then spice the
+eggnog with nutmeg and use more than you're comfortable with because sailors
+used to use it as [a] hallucinogen...
+ Also, enter on a reindeer. And if you enter on a reindeer, stay on the
+reindeer. And if you can’t reach something because you’re too high up
+sitting on the reindeer, just ask for help. That goes for life, too. Don’t
+be afraid to ask for help and stay on that reindeer.
+ -- T.J. Miller’s recipe for the perfect holiday party
+~
+if you can't beat them, join them, and subvert them from the inside.
+ -- fred t. hamster
+~
+regarding christmas cards...
+"i would create my own as a desktop publishing activity, with all new current
+stuff. but it's way too much effort. basically, i can either give you a
+present or make you a card. which do you prefer?"
+ -- thus spake slackathustra.
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