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Re: Have I ever truly meditated?
Have I ever truly meditated?
There are probably as many definitions of meditation as there are practitioners.
Some questioning of whether you are truly meditating or not, tends to be a less deluded space to practice within than just assuming that your meditation is true.
The real difficulty however in attaining a satisfactory answer to this question is more tied up in our attachments to a sense of self than it is about whether our meditation technique is true or not.
If the human condition is seen as a dream state of our ego or identity's storyline,
meditation is simply our attempted disassembly of the constructs of that dream.
To the degree that one approaches meditation as something to be acquired & possessed, is the same degree to which one's slumbering continues over any real awakenings.
To the degree that one approaches meditation as a renunciation of one's attachments, is the same degree to which the question answers itself.
All meditation practitioners who honestly persevere will eventually have awakenings of differing strengths and longevity. The most common prelude to such things though seem to arise when the practitioner no longer seeks out such experiences.
Take some comfort in a meditative truth that is seldom told.
When comparing awakenings.....
Small awakenings arise from small delusions
Big awakenings arise from big delusions.
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Re: Have I ever truly meditated?
Were you given instructions by a qualified meditation instructor?
Re: A Buddhist teacher admits ... BUDDHISM HAS FAILED!
Lets try to keep any criticism we have to the ideas or approach and avoid critiquing Jundo as a person. We really don't know all that much about him.
person
Re: A Buddhist teacher admits ... BUDDHISM HAS FAILED!
The problem seems to be Jundo's presentation in the OP than anything about the money.
If it was going to be used as a fund-raiser, he should have led with that and not some egregious overstatement. In fact, "Buddhism Has Failed" should have been toned way down, otherwise it sounds like a bush-league, liberal pundit, you-tuber, trying to get attention for his videos and monetizing his channel. A real turn-off.
I wish Jundo the best of luck on his book. Maybe, after I get rid of the bad taste in my mouth, I'll buy a copy.
Re: A Buddhist teacher admits ... BUDDHISM HAS FAILED!
The arrogance of the man astounds me actually, 2500 years and all the various traditions and methods casually consigned to the bin as a “failure” but don’t worry buy this book and it’ll be fine.
JohnMac
Re: A very useful resource
I once considered becoming a Buddhist monk. Then I read Stephen Batchelor’s Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist in which he talks about his decade as a Buddhist monk, and it seemed to me it wasn’t for me.
But the more resources the merrier!
Jeroen
Re: A Buddhist teacher admits ... BUDDHISM HAS FAILED!
Odd. Reminiscent of an American evangelist. Slightly scary.
JohnMac
Re: A Buddhist teacher admits ... BUDDHISM HAS FAILED!
@Jundo said:
It is time to begin exploration of technology and the laboratory, medicine, biology, engineering, nanotech, genetics and coming advances in neuro-science.
I watched the video, and it is unclear to me how these things are going to influence the billions of humans. The USA is home to about 350 million people, the European Union to about 550 million. China has about 1.4 billion people, India about 1.3 billion, out of a total world population of 8.1 billion people.
New technology doesn’t move so quickly towards the billions. There are still people to whom a smartphone is new, and it has spread like wildfire, being the first computer that many people own.
54% of the world owns a smartphone.
You could follow the road of politics. In the successful Trump election campaign of 2016 he made use of Cambridge Analytica to find the psychological levers which motivate people to vote a particular way. They profiled 50 million Americans from Facebook data.
Would you want to “persuade” all these people to take up Dharma?
Jeroen
Re: Being fed up with all things spiritual
From what I have read @Jeroen perhaps you should steer clear of Tibetan Buddhism or any path that has "woo woo" as you disparagingly term it. From my understanding (and I am happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, and that's a possibility as I am no expert) Zen and Western/Secular Buddhist paths do not have devas or deities.
After all, the Buddha did not demand people accept his teachings blindly but to test them for themselves. I think the fact there are so many different Buddhist paths in existence are testament to the fact people took that advice. Wouldn't it be better to find a path suited to you rather than try to fit a square peg into a round hole and be so frustrated?
I say this while I too am reassessing my current path in Buddhism.
Re: A Buddhist teacher admits ... BUDDHISM HAS FAILED!
@Jundo said:
100% of the proceeds will go to Buddhist and other charities, nothing to me. I would never sell Dharma.
I don't care about the money from the book. You're still trying to sell it. You're selling Dharma. You just aren't keeping the money. My guru earns his living from his books. What he doesn't keep are the annual offerings made by his centers and the national organization. He sends the checks back. I don't care if you keep the money or not, Jundo. I care about seeing things for what they are, and you sir, are, for whatever reason, trying to sell a book.
Good luck :-)