Natural Awakening

https://www.evolvingground.org/

Charlie here:

https://vajrayananow.com/

You can find me and my scribblings on my website: https://www.wystantbs.com/ and playing amongst the ashes of the trash-fire currently known as X: https://twitter.com/WystanTBS May you and all beings live happily, free from suffering in sympathetic joy and profound equanimity!

https://www.amazon.ca/Gateless-Gate-Classic-Book-Koans/dp/0861713826

If you're interested in an accurate description of practicing the 無 kōan from someone who knows better than I, please see Corey Hess' excellent, evocative treatment:

https://youtu.be/87yUZ5EGYSA

See also Daido Loori Roshi's introduction to Zen training:

https://monasterystore.org/products/eight-gates-of-zen?_pos=1&_sid=541953426&_ss=r

I had the privilege of training at https://zmm.org/https://zmm.org/ for 13 of the most frustrating, rewarding months of my life.

From beneath the bottom of my heart, thank you.

For further detail, please consult the introduction to Victor Sogen Hori's wonderful Zen Sand:

https://www.amazon.ca/Zen-Sand-Capping-Phrases-Practice/dp/0824835077

And either/both of Meido Moore Roshi's brilliant books:

https://www.amazon.ca/Rinzai-Zen-Way-Guide-Practice/dp/1611805171

https://www.amazon.ca/Hidden-Zen-Practices-Awakening-Realization/dp/1611808464

You can find Roger on his website:

https://www.rogerthisdell.com/

You can find me and my scribblings on my website:

https://www.wystantbs.com/

And playing amongst the ashes of the trash-fire currently known as X:

https://twitter.com/WystanTBS

May you and all beings live happily, free from suffering in sympathetic joy and profound equanimity!

You can find me on my website: https://www.wystantbs.com/

and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WystanTBS

Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy! May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

You can find Rick at his website here: https://www.rickrepetti.com/

and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rickrepetti

and the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation can be found here: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-on-the-Philosophy-of-Meditation/Repetti/p/book/9780367647469

You can find me on my website: https://www.wystantbs.com/

and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WystanTBS

Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy! May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

You can find Chris at his website here: http://www.chrisletheby.com/ and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisletheby

His book, the Philosophy of Meditation: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/philosophy-of-psychedelics-9780198843122?

and the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation, to which he contributed: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-on-the-Philosophy-of-Meditation/Repetti/p/book/9780367647469

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Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy! May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

You can find Graham and his work at: https://grahampriest.net/

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Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy! May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

You can find Stephen, his books, and upcoming retreats at: https://awakeningdharma.org/

and his Twitter: https://twitter.com/BuddhasHeart3

Andrés blogs at: https://qualiacomputing.com/

His Twitter is: https://twitter.com/algekalipso

QRI's website: https://www.qualiaresearchinstitute.org/

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You can find Leigh at: http://www.leighb.com/

Andrés blogs at: https://qualiacomputing.com/

His Twitter is: https://twitter.com/algekalipso

QRI's website: https://www.qualiaresearchinstitute.org/

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Thanks for watching and listening!

May you be happy!

May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

Tucker can be found at his website here: https://meditatewithtucker.com

and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tucker_peck

The Open Dharma foundation for retreat scholarships: https://opendharmafoundation.org/

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Check out the Dharmachanics at their website: http://www.dharmachanics.com/

and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Dharmachanics

SN 45.2: Half the Spiritual Life:

So I have heard.

At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Sakyans, where they have a town named Townsville. Then Venerable Ānanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:

“Sir, good friends, companions, and associates are half the spiritual life.” 

“Not so, Ānanda! Not so, Ānanda! Good friends, companions, and associates are the whole of the spiritual life. A mendicant with good friends, companions, and associates can expect to develop and cultivate the noble eightfold path.

- https://suttacentral.net/sn45.2/en/sujato?layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin

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Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy! May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

See the first episode with Dean for more context: https://anchor.fm/wystan-t-bryant-scott/episodes/Natural-Awakening-Yogi-Khenpo-Drimed-Dawa-Dean-Vajrayana--Dzogchen-Seeing-Things-as-They-Are-e1g4t28

Wherein Dean provides a sketch of the history of tantric preliminary practices, a description of the actual activities, and explains their purpose and function within the structure of Tantric practice. Enjoy!

You can find Dean's organization, lineage, online courses, and much more at https://www.awaminstitute.org/.

His YouTube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/user/DharmakirtiCollege

Finally, I wholeheartedly recommend his excellent and thorough book, 'Innate Happiness: A Direct Guidance Manual for Householder Yogis and Yoginis', which you can find directly for purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GTDDWM4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

From Patrul Rinpoche's 'The Essential Jewel of Holy Practice', translated by Emily McRae and Jay Garfield:

Samsara is mere appearance, nothing more. See mundane appearance as divine to benefit others. By seeing things this way, you grant all beings the four empowerments. Plumbing the depths of samsara, chant the six-beat mantra...

Dedicate whatever arises to the guests of spontaneous liberation. Mold whatever appears into the tsa-tsas of empty appearance. Offer nondual prostrations to the protector, the nature of mind. Performing only virtuous acts, chant the six-beat mantra.

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Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy! May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

To learn more about, connect with, and contribute to the EPRC please see its website here: https://theeprc.org/ and the white paper: https://theeprc.org/#studies

To learn more about, connect with, and contribute to Emergence Benefactors please see its website here: https://ebenefactors.org/

Daniel can be found at his website here: https://www.integrateddaniel.info/

and on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/danielmingram

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Form is like a glob of foam; feeling, a bubble; perception, a mirage; fabrications, a banana tree; consciousness, a magic trick... However you observe them, appropriately examine them, they’re empty, void to whoever sees them appropriately... No substance here is found. - Pheṇa Sutta  (SN 22:95): https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN22_95.html

Andrés' article on 'The Pseudo-Time Arrow', for reference and further explanation: https://qualiacomputing.com/2018/11/28/the-pseudo-time-arrow-explaining-phenomenal-time-with-implicit-causal-structures-in-networks-of-local-binding/

You can find Roger at: his website, where you can find articles, videos, and more: https://meditative.dev/web/

and associated twitter profile: https://twitter.com/meditative_dev

and on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069819468309

and on Discord: RogerThis#8351

Andrés can be found blogging at: https://qualiacomputing.com/. Check out QRI at: https://www.qualiaresearchinstitute.org/

and the QRI Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1735260376685389

and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/algekalipso

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Thanks for watching and listening!  May you be happy!  May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

You can find Jay at: https://jaygarfield.org/

I wholeheartedly recommend the books mentioned:

Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration: https://www.amazon.com/Buddhist-Ethics-Philosophical-Exploration-PHILOSOPHERS/dp/0190907649/

Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy https://www.amazon.com/Engaging-Buddhism-Why-Matters-Philosophy-ebook/dp/B00QSDBVTC/

Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self, available for preorder (releases May 24): https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Ourselves-Learning-Live-without/dp/069122028X

The ultimate falls out when you investigate the conventional

And see how the conventional arises from the ultimate!

The two truths are inseparable, transcend thought, natural and glorious.

With a view free of fabrication, chant the six-beat mantra.

Cut off the mind's obsession with appearance.

Let the whole structure of deluded appearance crumble away.

The nonduality of mind and appearance is an infinite expanse.

Realizing that single essence, chant the six-beat mantra.

- The Essential Jewel of Holy Practice, by Patrul Rinpoche, translated by Jay Garfield and Emily W. McRae: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Jewel-Holy-Practice-ebook/dp/B071SDC2GT/

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You can find Chelsey at: https://www.chelseyfasano.com/

and on twitter: https://twitter.com/fasano_lee

The podcast series we mentioned (highly recommended!) can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlkzlKFgdknxjhwG5wmXRVfrkeGczVPVI

Ikkyu:

...Rinzai’s disciples never got the Zen message, But I, the Blind Donkey, know the truth: Love play can make you immortal. The autumn breeze of a single night of love is better than a hundred thousand years of sterile sitting meditation...

...My life has been devoted to love play; I’ve no regrets about being tangled in red thread from head to foot, Nor am I ashamed to have spent my days as a Crazy Cloud— But I sure don’t like this long, long bitter autumn of no good sex! Follow the rule of celibacy blindly and you are no more than an ass; Break it and you are only human. The spirit of Zen is manifest in ways countless as the sands of the Ganges. Every newborn is a fruit of the conjugal bond. For how many eons have secret blossoms been budding and fading?...

Taken from: https://www.lionsroar.com/love-letters-sent-by-the-wind/

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Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy, knowing always and in all ways the innate intimacy and connection of your senses, sensuality or no ;).

May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

https://meditative.dev/web/

and associated twitter profile: https://twitter.com/meditative_dev

You can find Roger on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069819468309

Dogen:

To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly. Garfield, Jay L. Engaging Buddhism (p. 69).

From the Kaccānagotta Sutta (SN 12:15):

“By & large, Kaccāna, this world is supported by [takes as its object] a polarity, that of existence & non-existence. But when one sees the origination of the world as it has come to be with right discernment, ‘non-existence’ with reference to the world does not occur to one. When one sees the cessation of the world as it has come to be with right discernment, ‘existence’ with reference to the world does not occur to one."

https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN12_15.html

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Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy! May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

You can find Dean's organization, lineage, online courses, and much more at https://www.awaminstitute.org/.

His YouTube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/user/DharmakirtiCollege

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A few lines from Dzogchen master and tertön Jigmé Lingpa:

No outside, no inside and nothing in between — that quality of attention is Mind itself, free from conceptual distortions.

- McLeod, Ken. A Trackless Path: A commentary on the great completion (dzogchen) teaching of Jigmé Lingpa's Revelations of Ever-present Good .

Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy! May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

Check out Dave's writing (it's really good!): https://utexas.academia.edu/DavidCollins

His twitter is https://twitter.com/bodhidave3

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https://utexas.academia.edu/DavidCollins 

https://twitter.com/bodhidave3

Wystan:

https://www.wystantbs.com/

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Check out Dave's writing (it's really good!): https://utexas.academia.edu/DavidCollins

His twitter is: https://twitter.com/bodhidave3

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