Just real quick before I get ready for my walk after work and therapy, here’s my typical prayer I used to mentally recite (but have workshopped since then) but now I load up and read after ~1hr corpse pose closed eye nostril focused attention mindfulness meditation (temperature and pressure at the openings of the nostrils; the loop is “intentional concentration and unintentional contemplation”; return from mind wandering (Default Mode Network, experiential/narrative self) to object of concentration; the point is to use Concentration to induce Mindfulness):
Meditation modalities:
Focused Attention (FA), Open Monitoring (OM), Nondual (ND)
FA ←→ OM ←→ ND (“From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind”; Ruben E. Laukkonen, Heleen A. Slagter)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X
You basically induce mindfulness with agentic concentration and oscillate between one object and scanning, which then just levels your baseline awareness.
Zen:
Zazen (‘just sitting’) –> Shikantaza (‘Silent Illumination’) –> Satori/Kensho
Koans
Self Power (Meditation; see above) <–> Other Power (Nembutsu)
[…] → Jhana → Dhyana → Cha’an → Zen → Thien → […]
- (1). Access Concentration
- (2-5). Rupa Jhanas
- (6-9). Arupa Jhanas
- (10). Cessation of all Karmic Outflows (Nirvana)
Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas By Leigh Brasington
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/249796/right-concentration-by-leigh-brasington
Sunyata (Mahayana) or Void (Theravada)
Nonself, Impermanent, Suffering
Dependent Co-Origination
Middle Way
Identity of Samsara and Nirvana
Buddha Nature
Mind Only
Gratification, Danger, Escape
- Not assertion
- Not negation
- Not both
- Not neither
Identity and infinite recursion ad infinitum sans ad absurdum of Sunyata and Dialectical Contradiction (DIAMAT, Dialectical Materialism, Marxism)
Abelief (Buddhism), Meta-Beleif and Arbitrary Belief (Chaos Magick)
Causality (Karma), Retroactive Enchantment (Retrocausality), Synchronicity (Acausality, Results –> Miracles)
Paranoia –> Pronoia –> Metanoia
Tuck Detchon Writes 
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