Comments on: Retreat Reflection Pt 1: The 3 Marks

By: Numinous Nonsense » How has the Practice Changed?

Numinous Nonsense » How has the Practice Changed? — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:48:49 +0000

[...] The practice has changed since the long retreat. How? The three characteristics are directly understood, not ideas which I believe in, but are related to my understanding concerning the nature of phenomenal reality. Nothing can satisfy ultimately, because it’s always changing, and because there’s no one driving this bus. [...]

By: Numinous Nonsense » Independent Study 2005

Numinous Nonsense » Independent Study 2005 — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:12:07 +0000

[...] Part 1. The Three Marks [...]

By: VincentHorn.com » Retreat Reflection Pt 4: So What?

VincentHorn.com » Retreat Reflection Pt 4: So What? — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:16:07 +0000

[...] I dear friend of mine, after reading my first retreat reflection asked me quite frankly, “so how will this affect others?” My first response to the question was one of slight annoyance. I think subtly I get frustrated at this question, because on the one hand, spiritual practice isn’t done in order to change anything. It’s done because there’s something fundamental and deeply vital, which needs to be resolved and one really has no choice but to resolve this nagging “problem.” One might describe the problem as, “suffering,” or “duality,” or perhaps even “sin.” It’s a problem that has to do with why things aren’t quite right, when it seems they should be. I’ve experienced some form of this nagging as far back as I can remember, and spiritual practice, to me, is about coming to understand this problem and its resolution completely. And it’s done, paradoxically, by coming to accept that everything is as it is. I know as an idea this is completely counter-intuitive. As I said, it is a paradox. But as a practioner, it makes total sense, and I’ve begun to see that nothing else will resolve this core problem. [...]

By: Generation Sit » Blog Archive » Retreat Reflections

Generation Sit » Blog Archive » Retreat Reflections — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:29:44 +0000

[...] Retreat Reflection Pt 1: The 3 Marks Retreat Reflection Pt 2: Who am I? [...]

By: Generation Sit » Blog Archive » My Retreat Reflections…

Generation Sit » Blog Archive » My Retreat Reflections… — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:12:25 +0000

[...] Retreat Reflection Pt 1: The 3 Marks Retreat Reflection Pt 2: Who am I? [...]

By: VincentHorn.com » Retreat Reflection Pt 2: Who Am I?

VincentHorn.com » Retreat Reflection Pt 2: Who Am I? — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:15:54 +0000

[...] My last reflection was on the practice of vipassana and the three marks of existence. This was the primary practice I engaged in while on retreat, in terms of time-spent. The other practice (which is a bit of a non-practice) was that of self-enquiry, a practice taken from the Advaita Vedanta tradition [Advaita Vedanta literally means “radical non-duality”]. The enquiry “Who am I?” is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss. When in this manner the mind becomes quiescent in its own state, Self-experience arises of its own accord, without any hindrance. #150; Ramana Maharshi, Self Enquiry [...]

By: coolmel

coolmel — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:57:57 +0000

great reflection. i guess my stupid question is, so how will this affect others?

“tell me, did you sail across the stars,
did you make it to the milky way,
and see the lights all faded,
and that heaven is overrated?”

glad to be have you back here in samsara dawg!

By: Deep Surface » Perspectives

Deep Surface » Perspectives — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:23:08 +0000

[...] Tomorrow I head to Seattle for another Integral experience. As an apt preparation, today I read some excellent writing by Vince Horn. I met him briefly while passing through Colorado last summer, and again in the fall during my ITP course. He has some thoughts related to a six week Vipassana course he attended recently. Six weeks! I can rarely muster the willpower to meditate once a week, let alone 12 to 14 hours a day for six weeks. If his words are any indication of spiritual progress through meditation, Vince is an inspiration for those of us with less than regular practices. [...]

By: martin

martin — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:50:52 +0000

looking forward to seeing more of these reports…

By: field/figure » transience

field/figure » transience — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:11:11 +0000

[...] A fellow I met during my touch-and-go work with the Integral Institute recently spent several weeks on a vipassana retreat. He has a blog, and he has started to write about those weeks. This article is an attempt at putting words to what I’ve experienced during the course of those six weeks, and will in many ways be quite pointless. The reason I say that is because when one reflects on one’s experience and tries to share some essence of that with another there are at least two assumptions that one makes, which in the Therevadin tradition of Buddhism are not assumed, and are in fact challenged. One is that experience is happening to someone, a self, a person, a being, and the other is that these experiences somehow matter in some grand way. [...]