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New year's resolution (a little later than usual):

I'm going to kindly acknowledge when I'm putting attention and energy into things and events that do not or will not touch upon my direct experience.

And then ­­smilingly let go of it.

This as opposed to: "I must/will not [something]".

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Buddhism Basics #27: What Is Secular Buddhism?

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Reading the Lotus Sutra, it is obvious that Buddhism is a religion with mythology and supernatural ideas like any other. So, I wonder why so many people insist that Buddhism and Daoism are "philosophies, not religions." I was taught this in school and many Western books on Eastern spirituality say the same thing.

I think it is good that Buddhism is adaptable enough to be secularized, but the complete ignorance of the other stuff even existing is crazy. When I was in school I was taught about meditation, but never anything about bodhisattvas or the six realms or things like that. Maybe my teacher had never heard of them.

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“Nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to be” and “keep calmly knowing change” are my two favourite ways to describe meditation.

I want to put some effort into describing satipatthana meditation, but keep it that simple, and fully secular.

Naturally I’ll work primarily from the works of Bhikkhu Anālayo. But I’m also heavily influenced by Stephen Batchelor and Martin Aylward, to name a few.

Why? Because meditation (and some breathwork) has given me so much.

It feels nice to clear a little patch of the path, so someone who happens across my tiny clearing can use it to take a few steps ahead.

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Noticed today three states of my mind:

1. “Normal”. Thinking about a subject. It feels narrow.

2. “Daydreaming”. Thinking drifting on random subjects. It feels meandering through a wide space, but the thinking itself is still narrow.

3. “Mindfulness”. Not thinking, but experiencing. It feels wide and open. Certainly not “mind full”. If it is full of anything, it is the direct experience of body and feeling.

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There is, bhikshus, that place where there is
no earth, no water, no fire, no wind;
no base of boundless space;
no base of boundless consciousness;
no base of nothingness;
no base of neither-perception-nor-non-perception;
neither this world nor other worlds;
with neither the moon nor the sun.
Therein, bhikshus, I say, there is
neither coming nor going nor standing;
neither dying nor arising;
neither the established nor the occurring;
nor even this sense-object.

https://www.themindingcentre.org/dharmafarer/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/50.1-Nibbana-Patisamyutta-S-1-u8.1-piya.pdf

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[Secular Buddhism] 180 - Meditation: The Pause Button for Habitual Reactivity #secularBuddhism via @PodcastAddict

180 - Meditation: The Pause Button for Habitual Reactivity • Secular Buddhism - Podcast Addict https://podcastaddict.com/episode/157791950