Any
need for attention practice?
>Question
to the people who have purified tenth bhumi. Do you feel there is any
need for attention practice or shamata?
-Absolutely not. When
all phenomena is seen empty, distraction is out of the picture and
therefore there's no existential reason to cultivate attention or
concentration. Concentration for other reasons like bettering health
is a different matter. My view about the limitations of shamatha
practice since ending purification has become even more clear than
before though I've been critical about it after my zen days. This
purely from the perspective of realization of dharma, not saying that
shamatha wouldn't be beneficial for other reasons, which it is.
>Like do you drift away still, or is attention
flawless?
-Drifting has transformed into non-drifting. All
bets are off. Understand?
>Also have any of you
tried/experienced jhanas or samadhi or anything like that after
10th?
-There is the legend of Shakyamuni Buddha doing jhanas
at the time of his passing but I don't think it is true. When all
states; samsaric, trance and meditative, that by definition have
collapsed into emptiness, how could you get absorbed into whatever
meditative states, trances or whatever else? Not possible! This is
the sole reason why buddhas are the only ones outside the wheel of
existence. It's kind of like saying that lion, the royalty of all
animal kingdom does a special practice to momentarily become a mouse.
What would be the purpose of that, other than hindu/theravadan
propaganda? It makes no sense... For taking a vacation from reality
and keeping the natural state away jhana is perfect, though. I did it
for few thousand hours, so I am speaking from experience.
To
realize buddhanature you need to shatter both the samsaric state and
lower types of meditation practice, namely mindfulness. Mindfulness
will never make you satisfied, it will only lengthen your existential
confusion. I'm sorry to give you the news but mindfulness and all
these jhanas and samadhis are sheer waste of time and pale next to
the practice of recognizing the natural state. It is the natural
state itself that is the sole royalty of all states and
samadhis.
KR, 28.6.2022
