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What do you mean by “doing Vipassana, all the time”? Body scanning? Focusing on equanimity? Observing change in the phenomena you’re perceiving?

akomtu 4y ago
Not the OP, but some schools of buddhism, e.g. gelungs, describe two types of meditation: static and dynamic (my own terminology). The static one is sitting still and sharpening your focus. The end goal is the state when your mind naturally snaps into this fully attentive state - samadhi. But that's a weak result, and dynamic meditation is ability to retain this state no matter what you're doing or even thinking. That's vipassana. There are decent books about the history of buddhism and dzogchen that explain this better.
- boppo1 4y ago
  > decent books Such as?
  - swayvil 4y ago
    I recall Ram Dass's Journey of Awakening being nice. Or if you want a truly esoteric brick, Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali. (The big yellow one) https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPsQJuyvBSN18K_X-nrMUjePUSMSXMYUr4t2e5WfpBMcobio8Z&usqp=CAc https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPsQJu...
- swayvil 4y ago
  How about shrinking and growing? I think I saw that in Patanjali
- swayvil 4y ago
  Another one is "meditation with a seed" and "meditation without a seed". From Raja Yoga. Translated. Samprajnata Dhyana and Asamprajnata Dhyana, respectively.
  - akomtu 4y ago
    From what I know, meditation without a seed is "just" observing your own mind, with full attention, to let it release to its natural state (kun-dzi).
    - swayvil 4y ago
      In my experience there are only 2 things that you can do with your awareness. They go by various names, are described various ways, depending on the tradition. But ya, just the 2.
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swayvil 4y ago
Well, in Vipassana we cultivate an awareness that is big, relaxed, spread-out, nonreactive. I do that awareness shape all the time.

akomtu 4y ago

Not the OP, but some schools of buddhism, e.g. gelungs, describe two types of meditation: static and dynamic (my own terminology). The static one is sitting still and sharpening your focus. The end goal is the state when your mind naturally snaps into this fully attentive state - samadhi. But that's a weak result, and dynamic meditation is ability to retain this state no matter what you're doing or even thinking. That's vipassana. There are decent books about the history of buddhism and dzogchen that explain this better.

boppo1 4y ago
> decent books Such as?
- swayvil 4y ago
  I recall Ram Dass's Journey of Awakening being nice. Or if you want a truly esoteric brick, Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali. (The big yellow one) https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPsQJuyvBSN18K_X-nrMUjePUSMSXMYUr4t2e5WfpBMcobio8Z&usqp=CAc https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPsQJu...
swayvil 4y ago
How about shrinking and growing? I think I saw that in Patanjali
swayvil 4y ago
Another one is "meditation with a seed" and "meditation without a seed". From Raja Yoga. Translated. Samprajnata Dhyana and Asamprajnata Dhyana, respectively.
- akomtu 4y ago
  From what I know, meditation without a seed is "just" observing your own mind, with full attention, to let it release to its natural state (kun-dzi).
  - swayvil 4y ago
    In my experience there are only 2 things that you can do with your awareness. They go by various names, are described various ways, depending on the tradition. But ya, just the 2.

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swayvil 4y ago

Well, in Vipassana we cultivate an awareness that is big, relaxed, spread-out, nonreactive. I do that awareness shape all the time.