tiistai 28. kesäkuuta 2022

Any need for attention practice?

 

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