One Taste

     " ... once the idea of 'me' has withered, the single 'dragon's roar' of all existence may be heard."           Yakusan

       Douglas Penick "It's for you." Shambhala Sun, May 2014   www.shambhalasun.com


     See also: http://www.johnlovas.com/2012/04/perception-and-gaining-mind.html


 

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Mindfulness Practice - an Iterative Process

     Iteration, according to Wikipedia, is "the act of repeating a process usually with the aim of approaching a desired goal or target or result. Each repetition of the process is also called an 'iteration,' and the results of one iteration are used as the starting point for the next iteration." 
     The stepwise, cumulative learning that occurs with longstanding mindfulness practice seems to be iterative in nature.
     See: http://www.johnlovas.com/2012/04/perception-and-gaining-mind.html

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Perception and "the Gaining Mind"

     "When a thief sees a saint, all he sees are his pockets." Sufi saying

     “one’s understanding of the self, the world, and others, when fully perfected, leads to actions whose moral qualities are commensurate with the level and depth of insight or ‘vision’ of one’s mind. That is, the greater one’s intellectual penetration into the fundamental nature of reality, the greater the virtuosity of one’s actions. In short, moral action is the fruit of intellectual insight … the Buddha and Socrates seem to share the view that lack of vision or insight in the realms of epistemology and metaphysics leads inevitably to failure in the moral sphere.”   

       Laumakis SJ. An introduction to Buddhist philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 2008. 

     “Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore.”              Franz Kafka

 

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