The practice of samadhi requires commitment to wise effort towards concentration. it requires overcoming resistance to concentration, to be willing to feel intimacy with teh object. The fruit of commitment to concentration is one-pointed equanimity. Concentration can be considered om five different qualities from dedication to steadiness.
Awareness is a wholistic but differentiated into thought, heart and body intelligences. Through accessing the five elements we begin to return to a unified field.
Awareness is a wholistic but differentiated into thought, heart and body intelligences. Through accessing the five elements we begin to return to a unified field. Copy of http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/9/talk/12813 with recovered audio
Deepening concentration moves on two axis - horizontal and vertical. Continuity, or staying over time, is the horizontal axis. Intimacy, or the movement toward dissolving the subject/object, is the vertical axis. Together concentration deepens.
One expression of our suffering is homelessness--feeling cut off from the presence and aliveness that is our source. This talk explores the existential and cultural forces that foster disconnection from our physical and energetic being, the practices that enable us to embrace our unlived life and the gifts of homecoming.
