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RE: After 4th Path: What do to?

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tarin greco: Nikolai .: tarin greco: Nikolai .: There are options with what you seem to want to do something about. What do you wish to do about that which is unsatisfactory? 1/ Get to a place...

RE: Anapanasati and Intensity of One Pointedness

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Jorrit Zelis: Nikolai .: Try applying the unfabricated approach to all the sense doors at all times possible. It gets interesting to really start juxatposing... it pans out. Nick Hello Nikolai, I'm...

RE: ACTUAL FREEDOM - MADE EASY

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Aman A.: Nikolai .: Officially= sanctioned by Richard, no? It seems obvious that the application and instructing of 'buddhistic' influenced practices as opposed to a pure AFT set of instructions in...

RE: Fast? Or slow?

Category :: Home » Insight and Wisdom» Vipassana: Noting/Mahasi Style

Christopher N Wilson: Thanks for the reply, Nikolai. I guess my question is "am I doing this right?" So, is "thinking" OK in insight practice? I was always taught to note thinking as "thinking" and...

RE: Seeking some advice in high doubt and stress...

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Ben H: So I would answer that yes, the technique works. There are a few forum members here who have gotten pretty far with it - if I recall correctly Nikolai got stream entry at a Goenka retreat,...

RE: Emptiness, Boddhichitta, and Renunciation

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Aman A.: Nikolai .: Can you elaborate on how you cultivate bodhicitta? Are you familiar with Santideva's 'A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life'? I used to practice tonglen. You can find out about...

RE: PCE = Kenneth Folk's Direct Mode??

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Rin Maryu: Nikolai Blue Mountains Bush Yowie*: Hi Rin, Ok, Thanks. :-) You said love and fear were still present? Yet, you say there were no feelings of existing? What was fearful and feeling love?...

RE: Matching the MCTB paths up to the Theravada paths

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Fitter Stoke: Nikolai .: It's all up for grabs. Though I will say you give less of a shit where you are the further you go down the track till it seems meaningless to debate and fuss over it and...

RE: Andrew's Practice Log

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Andrew Mayer: Nikolai .: When you observe the incoming and outgoing breath, is there a difference in experience between first simply staring at/observing the incoming and outgoing breath VERSUS...

RE: PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ACTUAL FREEDOM

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Nikolai .: How's that practice of yours going? Great. If you have an experiential understanding of emptiness, boddhichitta, and renunciation, I can let you know about the practice as well and you...

RE: Guidelines for journals?

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Nikolai .: Maybe it raises one's shackles (is that the phrase?) Raises one's hackles - as in, the fur on the back of a dogs neck that it raises when it's angry/frightened/upset. You did ask. Simon

RE: AF cancelling Jhanas?

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Nikolai: If affective metta is used without this notion of 'apperception' in mind as the main objective, then one can get trapped in the fabricating of conceit etc indefinitely. Just wanted to...

RE: my thoughts on actual freedom and the dho

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Nikolai .: Is the way the 'parinirvana' or parinibbana in pali described in that quote above from wiki (a mahayana related quote) universally accepted as the definition of parinibbana? Is it found...

RE: Spot the arahat

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Nikolai .: It might lead to better things. Nick Nick, I think we're either talking at crossed purposes or have a deep disagreement on something, the resolution of which is unlikely to occur on an...

RE: Spot the arahat

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Hi, Nick, Nikolai: I would call it simply 'raising the bar'. So, where is the bar right now? Specifically: the "shadow being"... How is it lately? Have you dealt with it? If so, how?

RE: KAMMA SURFER SUTTA - How to work to 0 - Outflow and Inflow

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} the virtual prospector strikes again! { I can see the potential for a long post continuing from above here btw Nikolai I added to a response for you above.

RE: Curiosity and Wonder and ???

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Nikolai .: Haha! Notice if the flow of familiarity of your own brain triggers when the narrator starts speaking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3B3OnTVvmg Woa that's really cool!

RE: Goenka Yogi--> AF practioner

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Nikolai .: Compassion may just be a means to an end. I clearly remember reading a series of Q&A of Goenka, in which he states that Metta practice is means to an end, so you're right there.

RE: Everyone’s in the AP/DN/EQ/SE

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Nikolai .: I call bullshit. /**Arsehole mode OFF. Perhaps you do not have such an intention, but it does come across that way at times. Trolling is a form of bullshit, I suppose.

RE: Formations - clarification / confirmation / question

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Nikolai, yes I crippled your text. I cannot relate to anything other of what you wrote except this "back of the eyelids" thing... No blinking, mental overlay etc... Thanks Sven

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