Hiding from Reality

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Buddha’s Lost Secrets:
Tips on Meditation & the Spiritual path #203
from your Buddhism expert



A sweet and earnest 12-stepper, who was exploring
Hindu mysticism, enthusiastically shared some of her
guru’s advice with me.



The utter nonsense that he was passing off as
spiritual guidance was, “Always Return to your
Breath.” Hmmm sounds nice {in a mindlessly
superficial sort of way}, but what was his point?

He was advising his students to turn from their
sufferings of sorrow, fear, aggression and turmoil and
run into the arms of Breathing meditation.

What a steaming Load of Monkey Poop!

Yes, just as I taught in “The Centering Questions” the
tranquility offered by effective breathing
meditation can be calming, peaceful and blissful. But
it can also be deceptively seductive.



Listen, before Buddha was Buddha, when he was still
Gautama the Monk, he quickly mastered the eight
“Jha-nas” of deep meditation. But he quickly observed
that whatever painful emotion drove him to mediate, was
NOT dissolved by his blissful meditation.

Rather, when he concluded each meditation session he
noticed that the painful emotion that drove him to
meditate, in the first place, was still there, with
all it’s destructive energy, poised and ready to
pounce; like a cat, sitting in front of a mouse hole,
waiting patiently for the inevitable re-appearance of
his quarry.



Buddha found that the only purpose of deep
meditation was to prepare the mind for contemplation.

In the centuries before Buddha, men like
Pantanjali taught the virtues of concentration and
men like Shankara praised the benefits of
contemplation. Just as Reese combined the great
tastes of both peanut butter and chocolate into
their “peanut butter cups” likewise only Buddha
successfully united both concentration and
contemplation into one, dynamically effective system.



A very effective presentation of Buddha’s
essentialized “middle-way” contemplations can be
found in the “Sutric Questions” portion of the
practice text “Quick Path to Happy Peace.” That is
why I’ve also made it available for FREE download.


Remember it is tranquility that gives us the
resourcefulness to contemplate effectively. As
I explained in “Harnessing the Power of the Bowing
Prayer,” ancient Indians described magick in terms of interdependent:
• matter,
• energy and
• thought.



Just as the Bowing Prayer is important to prepare the
body for mediation, likewise the practice of the
“Karmic Dynamo” is crucial for preparing both the
energy and the mind for the truly transformative and
liberating union of concentration and contemplation.


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Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso
Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika


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