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A Mystical Kiss (...for Mystics, Anti-Mystics, Lovers, and Realists...) - (The Boundless Heart) 14 mentions

• or in some buddhist traditions to see the buddha nature of all beings what does that mean there's actually in their
• times the original teachings of the buddha and if you approach that with as freer perspective as possible
• um what's called the unconditioned which the buddha referred to sometimes as saying so everything is conditioned uh
• dependent on other things and then the buddha talked about the unconditioned the unfabricated
• and now there's a big debate on is that really what the buddha said what did he mean is it real etc and these two
• but equally you see the opposite and a person says the buddha was not a mystic the buddha was not a mistake
• person says the buddha was not a mystic the buddha was not a mistake but what what kind of person says that
• people without mystical experiences that like to hear that the buddha wasn't a mystic does it supports something
• mahayana teachings in buddhism about a few hundred years after the buddha died there was a great teacher called
• just a process everything is just a process actually the buddha never said that he never said that there's not one
• and sometimes it gets passed off as something that the buddha said but actually he never said that it's popular
• need to feel comforted we need to feel that god loves us or there are buddhas that are looking after us and we have a
• purposes too that's their main purpose the problem in the buddha's view is that we believe something about reality
• all things that's that's basically what the buddha was saying from from day one emptiness is the ultimate truth of all

Non-Duality and the Fading of Perception - (Meditation on Emptiness) 13 mentions

• question and answer and bruce um mentioned a story of the buddha which is actually in the pali canon i couldn't
• so i'll paraphrase uh the story the buddha was hanging out one day uh with with a group of monks i believe
• riddle-like cryptic statement of the buddha so a few a few different sort of three
• impermanent that's not just what the buddha was getting at so things come and go dependent on causes and conditions
• missing i would say i mean the buddha said what is nama rupa the fourth link he said
• part of of so when the buddha is talking about japan rising he's talking about the
• project here in very different ways some people it's like well the buddha said this so i have to kind of understand
• into another gear the buddha has a phrase um to to meditative meditative instruction
• someone i think someone even does it to the buddha at one point which is very striking yeah
• striking yeah um the buddha too uh had uh chronic back pain and his older years and could find
• so story we started with from the buddha what does the end of the world mean this
• uh of the end of the world what did the buddha mean this is what he means to see the end of the world but i need to see
• you take one away the other goes the buddha actually if you read i'm not again i'm sorry i don't know where this

Soulmaking (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 13 mentions

• with things as they are uh to misuse the phrase of the buddha when i'm doing that then then there is no fabrication no
• dharma is what awakening is what who the buddha was etc so there is fantasy mythos image
• um perceptions of of all that of dharma of awakening of of buddha of parth etc thank you
• and sense and conception of what awakening is and who the buddha was and the historical buddha and and my whole
• awakening is and who the buddha was and the historical buddha and and my whole idea of ending dukkah
• particularly what awakening is who the buddha is and what it means to enduka if we compare sort of three streams if you
• things mean ending docker awakening the buddha etc compare that with sort of more classical
• etc and the historical buddha and all that and compare that with some of the more
• indian buddhism it's rad it's complete i'm not even sure that buddha would recognize it as buddhism
• um who or what the historical buddha actually was and whether this or that is
• are operating for that person around the buddha historically around buddhism around dharma around self around all
• spin the history of the dharma and so this is what the buddha was really trying to say historically and so i
• um kind of championing and rescuing the buddha's original message perhaps um so one could

Love and the Emptiness of Things - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 13 mentions

• all of that is gradually slowly transformed i'm in the buddha's words drop by drop the bucket is filled
• when the buddha described his path the path that he set forth
• mind going to move towards what's unconditioned and the buddha talks about what's unconditioned as the goal of the
• it would have a nice picture of the buddha on the front and a quote and for about five years the
• things through the eyes of compassion and quote the buddha and usually i would just get the program
• be proper insight meditation but remember the buddha didn't teach insight meditation and when i said at
• principle is almost always the same for the buddha wholesome nourishment investigation
• what can be discovered here is what the buddha might call skillful means
• waiting to happen and use the buddha's analogy as sure as the
• and just to see the buddha talked about two
• and it's gone on more than 2000 is it predates the buddha one then gives an inherent existence to
• that statement what i can learn in that state but when the buddha talks about emptiness
• seen and understood at the deepest level the nature of perception and the buddha said to understand fully the nature of

Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 4) - (Vajra Music) 13 mentions

• is earth or ground and sparsh has to touch so it's the gesture of the buddha touching the earth and you've seen the
• sitting there in meditative posture by his with the buddha's right hand touching the earth
• awakening and the buddha tv was sitting there uh meditating practicing for awakening and
• to sit there and the buddha in response that suggested touched the earth
• um and of course with the with the buddha buddha's uh boomi sparsha mudra one could actually just replicate that
• you will know is an epithet that the buddha used used to refer to himself he didn't call himself the buddha i mean
• buddha used used to refer to himself he didn't call himself the buddha i mean okay once in a while but mostly he
• i think i'm pretty sure around before the buddha's time and he picked it up and even he gave multiple uh multiple
• speech and mind of all the targeters of all buddhas of all those who are gone to and come from the truth
• all that the body of the attributes of the buddha of the transcendent buddha the
• the body of the attributes of the buddha of the transcendent buddha the primordial buddha
• of the transcendent buddha the primordial buddha can we exercise
• so i want if i can to actually talk a bit more about buddha nature and this kind of thing

Home and Homelessness - (Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat) 13 mentions

• so if you read the original text of it from the time of the buddha a lot of encouragement and emphasis given to uh
• wandering from place to place as they were primarily at the time of the buddha they've had they've sort of sort of made
• and we're the real security is so the buddha talks a lot about purity in practice making a home in the
• one track mind here buddha talks about can we in our lives can we build a home build a mooring
• all about everything that's out there so the buddha uh in the mythological story the buddha he was also that his
• so the buddha uh in the mythological story the buddha he was also that his father tried to protect him from seeing
• be in the present moment where the buddha says let go of the past let go of the future let go of the present
• deepened cultivated our inner resources so the buddha is uh really encouraging us to make a home
• matter of compassion of joy and equanimity and the buddha says make your home make your vihara let
• but it talks also about taking refuge in the buddha in the dharma in the sangha so to take refuge in the buddha to
• the buddha in the dharma in the sangha so to take refuge in the buddha to take that as our home what does that
• that there will be a sense of security buddha actually tends to phrase his original originally it has to phrase his
• meaning of that is in the buddha also one who abides nowhere abides freely

Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 4) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 13 mentions

• desire is is the deities desire whatever or or the buddha's desire for his consort or whatever
• and again you can recall the image of those those buddha images and tankers or mandalas etc the
• images and tankers or mandalas etc the this or that buddha whoever it is of the different buddhas in iniabyum in in
• this or that buddha whoever it is of the different buddhas in iniabyum in in erotic
• with their consort is there something that and that um the buddha there is is regarded as not just it's this buddha
• that and that um the buddha there is is regarded as not just it's this buddha and his consort that the buddha is the
• regarded as not just it's this buddha and his consort that the buddha is the totality of the the male and the female
• figure so the console is is um they together are the buddha see so the whole thing the whole
• constellation is if you like god making love to her himself the buddha or this or that buddha making love to her
• love to her himself the buddha or this or that buddha making love to her himself
• desire it's this divinity it's the buddha's eros it's the buddha's desire or it's the the deities or the the
• or it's the the deities or the the buddha nature's desire to know herself fully as fully as possible
• seeing it as their buddha nature's desire to know herself fully as possible as god's desire to

Realizing the Nature of Mind - (IMS Forest Refuge) 12 mentions

• that group and there's a reason that they do that partly because the buddha was
• as they really are things as they truly are to quote the buddha and so the you know the constant
• it's also a little bit in what the buddha said but mostly in the commentaries
• practicing one has heard of the unconditioned the buddha talking about the unconditioned or the deathless
• a lot of love there the buddha makes a very marked point on one occasion i think it was to ananda
• this is one of the most fundamental insights of the buddha that if we it's easy to practice a long time
• fundamental and important insights of the buddha we might say what's the problem uh with
• usually mean space it's not easy one time the buddha went to a group of monks and he basically told them not to
• lovely as it was and it says the monks did not rejoice in the buddha's words yeah
• we build awareness and it's empty so the buddha in a lovely quote said um
• trick it doesn't actually exist as something your consciousness of buddha says is like a magician's trick like an
• to things all the time that's what the buddha called delusion the fundamental level of delusion

Opening Talk on Samatha (Concentration Practice) - (Samatha Meditation) 12 mentions

• throughout humanity towards calmness to develop kind of predates the buddha is something that also the buddha stepped
• develop kind of predates the buddha is something that also the buddha stepped into that stream
• but if one goes back to the teachings of the buddha which this tradition is based on and finds it enormous encouragement
• path as being the only way that the buddha taught but it seems to me that he taught at
• ananda who was somebody you know it was the buddha's cousin and his sort of attendance sort of right-hand man
• and after i think it was after the buddha died and ananda said you know of all the people men and women who have
• what's coming to us and what the what the buddha emphasized over and over again is that mind states especially
• developing happiness these are what the buddha would call noble intentions they're beautiful intentions their
• care of the heart but it's also the buddha puts it also at the sort of basis of the path
• um uh most buddha statues are sitting down for some reason i don't know why that is
• for some reason i don't know why that is uh the buddha actually didn't put it didn't place a hierarchy of posture so
• foundation when buddha talked about developing meditation developing some attack this

Creative Samadhi - (November Solitary) 12 mentions

• of course maybe and if you're very much into the buddha and his teachings if that's important to
• enough space to work backwards where was where what was the buddha if again if you're into the buddha and what he said
• where what was the buddha if again if you're into the buddha and what he said where where was he pointing to where is
• if if one does look at kind of the totality of the buddha's teachings um and again what he does he what does he
• cultivation i said there's two wings cultivation the buddha talks about uh qualities that are crucial skillful or
• the these qualities that are cultivated with the buddha recommended culture they also uh very wonderfully they allow our
• so samadhi who said is one one of the qualities that the buddha emphasized cultivating
• but if we again use this principle where are we going when the buddha talks about samadhi what's he actually talking about
• so this is just to say this is what the buddha is talking about when he talks about somebody this is where we're going
• um it works well in the sense that it does evolve towards what the buddha was talking about when he said samadhi the
• the focus i mean the whole sense of so where are we going when the buddha talks about samadhi what's the directionality
• concentration not that because that's not if you read the buddha it's not really what he meant