keskiviikko 6. maaliskuuta 2019

Enlightenment consist of several things

Years ago I read books on Zen Buddhism andlearned quite much about Buddhism from them. But they said that enlightenment would be a single moment via which reach a deeper understanding, but what  have learned is that enlightenment demands several things: valuing th experienced reality, following feelings like choosing free time things freely and a job that one likes a lot, sports and healthy ways of living, civilized wisdom and civilized ways of good will that is healthy in spirit but positive for happy life and for individual freedom in harmony with the rest of the society and of the world.

maanantai 4. maaliskuuta 2019

Some comments to Asian ways

Do many Asians learn Buddhist meditation in childhood but use it years later after years of school and other education in their work? Is it then lower level intelligence, kind of technical like child's first guesses about some subject, instead of a widening of one's sphere of attention like reaching for some nice free time hobby?
As far as I understand, meditation is best as short time learning experience, not as a trick to use when the situation isn't spiritual, athletic or the like, I mean with a wider sphere of attention by ordinary civilized measures.

Do some Asians have kind of static theory perspective and think that making it better would demand meditation in motion? But instead it demands photograpf like thinking (see http://quickerlearning.blogspot.fi) and then adding video like observation ability to it.

31.8.2021   I have a book about Sanskrit which I have not read almist at all  but today I hapoened to look at the fat weird figure in the cover and it gave an imoression that Asians do not quite know what they lack in wisdom of lufe. I think that the lacking part is looking at a natural tree branch or the like with the branch in sight with all leaves in it, undisturbed, beautiful, not painted, not too clishee like, might be a photograpf. Such ought to be  part of the dsily lufe, atmosphwric, besutiful, good for the sense of sight, a piece of nature.