Re:Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation (2016)
by rabidrat on Sunday July 12, 2020 @05:43PM
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Mastering the Core Teaching of the Buddha might be up your alley. I won't strictly "recommend" it, as the path it espouses is intense and engineered for enlightenment, which is (perhaps ironically) "no fun", in contrast to modern western mindfulness meditation with phone apps which is pleasant and relaxing but won't get you anywhere. But if you want results and are willing to put in the work (which is 1000x the effort of just reading the book), you could give MCTB a shot. Either that or join a Zen monastery for a couple years :)
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Re:Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation (2016)
by skadamou on Sunday July 12, 2020 @05:52PM
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Thank you for suggesting this book. I'm not 100% sure what to make of it but it's all available for free online and the introduction is really intriguing. If nothing else, I now know something exists that I didn't before.
Re:Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation (2016)
by l_davis on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:31PM
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Wow. The author of this book calls himself an arhat. That is, shall I say, presumptuous? Not what I think I would look for in a Buddhist teacher (though, full disclosure, I practice Buddhism with a school I am very happy with so already have some opinions on the subject).
Re:Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation (2016)
by rabidrat on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:55PM
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His whole schtick is "plain talk about enlightenment". I agree that it "sounds" egotistical, but if someone really had attained arhatship, and thought that the best way to promote spiritual training was to talk about it in a plain way, I don't think he's being unreasonable. And his lineage confirms his attainment.
Re:Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation (2016)
by l_davis on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:34PM
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Can't tell what his lineage is from what I have read.
The temple that I belong to was founded in Japan. The honorifics we use to describe our High Priest and other priests are never used by then to describe themselves. That posture is consistent in Japanese society in general, not just the sect of Buddhism I belong to. So this does seem very strange to me.
Re:Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation (2016)
by rabidrat on Monday July 20, 2020 @03:14AM
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America is very different from Japan, and Americans respond to different social signals when choosing who to follow. This obviously a terrible idea for society in general, but you gotta promote to the market you're in :/