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Ok, how does progressing through the Maps of Insight really work?

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Upon my first reading of MCTB, I understood the progress of insight as a set of stages that, when they are reached, you don't backtrack. I think the book even says something like that, like how...

RE: Ok, how does progressing through the Maps of Insight really work?

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Here's how I understand the model. Warning: highly geeky. First, two more technical terms: "cutting edge", and "center of gravity". The cutting edge is the most advanced nana/jhana you have...

RE: Ok, how does progressing through the Maps of Insight really work?

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Thanks for the reply! That actually does help a lot. So to clarify something further... when people say they are "stuck in the dark night for 3 years", does that mean that their "center of gravity"...

RE: Ok, how does progressing through the Maps of Insight really work?

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So to clarify something further... when people say they are "stuck in the dark night for 3 years", does that mean that their "center of gravity" is in one of the dark night stages? And even though...

RE: Ok, how does progressing through the Maps of Insight really work?

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Wow! Just wanted to say: Great question, Beoman. That was an issue that I didn't know I didn't know, if you follow me! (So thank you for asking a question that needed to be asked.) Florian: Thanks...

RE: Ok, how does progressing through the Maps of Insight really work?

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Hi Florian, I'm sure this has been gone over before, but back a few months as I found myself in the dark night I would occasionally fall into this nostalgic feeling state. It was similar to the...

RE: Ok, how does progressing through the Maps of Insight really work?

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Hi Tomas, lately I've been looking into understanding equanimity alot, as it is the entrance point for stream entry. Daniel Johnson Posts "Stuck" in Equanimity? Seemed helpful for noticing some of...

RE: Ok, how does progressing through the Maps of Insight really work?

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Hi Florian, I just wanted to chime in and add my thanks for your responses. You've provided useful answers to some lingering questions I've had for quite some time. Thanks! Patrick

RE: Where does tantra fit in?

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Imagine You’re Enlightened: explains how the visualization practices of Tibetan Buddhism really work and how modern practitioners can use them in a meaningful way.

RE: Every Moment is Unbearable

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Kenneth Folk's Mahamudra Noting/Essence Noting can really work to soften up the pain of deep suffering in real time while simultaneously pointing the mind towards the liberation that is available...

RE: 4th Path

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So how could it really *work* for Daniel who is already enlightened and hence above AF level? Tarin, Trent and Nikolai were all 4th path (as Daniel defines it) before starting an actualist (or...

RE: 4th Path

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AF is intended to provide somewhat similar result as enlightenment without horrors of getting there (DN?) so Richard didn't intend AF to anyone near Daniel level but rather to unenlightened...

MCTB2: "My Spiritual Quest": Anything you want me to include?

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have time to really work on MCTB2 (I have taken a new job the logistics of which...

RE: Stuck In Access Concentration

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Nipuna you've certainly hit the nail with the "letting go" thing. My vipassana teacher at the centre had to really work hard to get me to stop trying so hard. And strangely enough, the best sits I...

RE: No-self, Is the observer the observed?

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in the same way. It still doesn't really work for me, but it's better than...

RE: 4th Path

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to unenlightened folks... So how could it really *work* for Daniel who is already...

RE: The value of silence.

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that really work. Hokai's descriptions of Japanese Shingon practice in the Hurricane...

RE: Getting Back Into Meditation, But Found This Sceptical Review of MCTB..

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Except that if you actually go into the tradition and practice in that style and are taught by teachers in that tradition, you realize that not only does noting really work well, but at points when...

RE: Advice from Sister Khema

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the centre/tradition i frequent). It's something I want to really work on. Trying...

RE: Buddhist Ethics

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the situation and look just at your reaction you have something you can really work...

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