🌊 Waves of Wakefulness: 1. Initial Glimpse

“We need this reference point of referencelessness in order to begin the journey of awakening.” - Vince F. Horn
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[@johnpienta4200]

Delightful as always. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@bodhimofo]

This takes me back to Naropa days, it mirrors stuff Reggie, Shishin Wick, and Lama Tenpa would say. I'm so glad y'all are putting this out into the world.

[@hansenmarc]

I thought that a cessation, in which the mind apparently loses consciousness, was the taste of nirvana. In AN 9.34, the Nibbana Sutta: Unbinding, a monk asks how the unbinding can be pleasurable when there is nothing felt. Sariputa responds that it is pleasurable precisely because there is nothing felt.

[@VinceFHorn]

The pleasure comes after, not during. In the moment of cessation there are, as Bill Hamilton pointed out, no reference points upon which to base a description.