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Only Mind?



Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2007

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Dhammabucha Rocksprings Meditation

You will investigate existence itself, and see if there is anything within existence that doesn't change. Whether anything within existence can provide such lasting happiness that you are afraid to lose it, and whether there is a little man or woman behind your body and mind, a self that experiences existence. Or is there only mind? Then you will rest again by concentrating your mind. You will concentrate the mind until the mind transcends itself with a shift in consciousness where you will let go of body and mind together, all in one brief release. Then the discernment and wisdom will be automatic. Regardless of what you see in the world, there will be the reality of its impermanence, the reality of its stress, and a reality from the freedom from ego that allows you to become a true warrior. All of this requires training, however, physical and mental training. It requires faith, determination, vision, mindfulness, effort, and wisdom. But the rewards are great; a thirst for truth and a disregard for falsity that creates boundless joy, unlimited energy, tranquility in the face of danger, equanimity when faced with adversity, a focused, concentrated mind, a heightened awareness. And the courage of a lion.

E. Raymond Rock (anagarika eddie) is a meditation teacher at the DhammaRocksprings Theravada Buddhist Meditation Retreat Center: http://www.dhammarocksprings.org and author of “A Year to Enlightenment: http://www.amazon.com/Year-Enlightenment-Steps-Enriching-Living/dp/1564148912

He lived at Wat Pah Nanachat under Ajahn Chah, at Wat Pah Baan Taad under Ajahn Maha Boowa, and at Wat Pah Daan Wi Weg under Ajahn Tui. He had been a postulant at Shasta Abbey, a Zen Buddhist monastery in northern California under Roshi Kennett; and a Theravada Buddhist anagarika at both Amaravati Monastery in the UK and Bodhinyanarama Monastery in New Zealand, both under Ajahn Sumedho. The author has meditated with the Korean Master Sueng Sahn Sunim; with Bhante Gunaratana at the Bhavana Society in West Virginia; and with the Tibetan Master Trungpa Rinpoche in Boulder, Colorado. He has also practiced at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and the Zen Center in San Francisco.
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