The ‘bliss’ associated with higher levels of contemplation and meditation, is, in my experience, a body-wide muscular contraction that continuously ripples up and down. This
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Looking at Buddhist Monasticism
He who is controlled in hand, foot, and in speech, who is well disciplined and practices the utmost restraint; he who delights inwardly, in concentration,
The Morning Star and the Continuation of Anti-Buddhist Reporting
ARTICLE: The Morning Star and the Continuation of Anti-Buddhist Reporting The BMA (UK) condemns all forms of fascistic terrorism, whilst recognising the intellectual, emotional and
Lenin Dialectically Crushes Trotsky: Disruption of Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity
Although he claims to be non-factional, Trotsky is known to everybody who is in the least familiar with the working-class movement in Russia as the representative of “Trotsky’s faction”. Here we have group-division, for we see two essential symptoms of it: (1) nominal recognition of unity and (2) group segregation in fact. Here there are remnants of group-division, for there is no evidence whatever of any real connection with the mass working-class movement in Russia.
How Plotinus Makes Use of the Material World
Therefore, it must be truthfully stated (as Plotinus does), that a continuously changing beauty exists beyond any concepts of ‘static’ beauty, and that such a beauty with regards to that which lives is ‘beautiful’, but that even that which is ‘dead’ is also ‘beautiful’ when viewed in a certain way. Although Plotinus advocates (for a time) a ruthlessly ‘looking within’, he does not permanently ‘reject’ the physical world he strives to ‘look beyond’.
Alan Watts: Consciousness and Matter Entwined
Alan Watts, I suspect, is mixing Western notions of Japanese Zen with modern, Western concepts of science, and he does this very well, but the point he is missing is that from the perspective of Chinese Ch’an, there is a stage of development he does not know about and therefore is missing in his analysis.
