On 5/30/2014 11:31 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
The rest is just bullshit, bullshit, swaha.
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As a meditation technique, /mindfulness/ is similar to /TM practice/ and
/Soto Zen/ - that is, a direct introduction to the natural state of mind
where all thoughts and perceptions are realized to be just mental
projections having no absolute existence. In Tibet they called it
/rigpa/ awareness which is very similar to 'witnessing sleep' in TM - an
experience which helps the individual understand the unreality of waking
consciousness as phenomena. It's a form of /semde/ - which is Tibetan
for the Sanskrit word /cittavarga/: meditation on one's innate
awareness, which is it's natural state of pure consciousness (citta) -
that's why they called it the /Mind School/ in Tibet - just /being aware
of being aware /- meditation on one's innate awareness.
'Consciousness Only' school, founded by Asanga in India.
Work cited:
/'The Funerary Transformation of the Great Perfection'/
by David Germano
JIATS, no. 1, October 2005
p.12
Other titles of interest:
/'Knowledge And Liberation: Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology In Support Of
Transformative Religious Experience'/
by Anne Carolyn Klein
Snow Lion, 1987
/'The Supreme Source: The Fundamental Tantra of the Dzogchen Semde'/
By Kunjed Gyalpo', Namkhai Norbu and Adriano Clemente
Snow Lion Publications, 1999
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