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# Re: Bardon and the Buddha

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: Bardon and the Buddha
- From: "sokan108" <carpediem108@...>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:24:24 -0000
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    Something that I have become more aware of is that the only constant
    nature of my Mind is empty space (no cheap jokes please :)). I use
    the term Mind to mean that which is left over after I stop holding
    onto (clinging) thoughts, emotions and physical sensations as a
    constant and true me. How can someting that is always coming and
    going, and never always there, be a true state of consciousness that
    I can call me. When I am very concentrated I see all these thoughts
    and feelings like clouds drifting past me, I catch myself getting
    stuck to one or two and then must regain my focus. So, in a way I
    feel like an actor playing a role, I choose to use white mirror
    qualities to play my part, but know that it is in a way just an act.
    When a Zen master asks the question "what did your face look like
    before your parents were born", it can only be answered when all
    possible answers are dropped. I believe that to have true intent and
    will power I must find and firmly estabish this true state of self,
    this is why I think Bardon makes the vacancy of mind a prerequisite
    and life long preactice. The mind is a mirror, and what is truth is
    reflected in that moment.

    I'll step off my soap box now

    Sokan

    --- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "sokan108" <carpediem108@a...>
    wrote:
    > I'm wondering if anyone has had the same experience I have had in
    > seeing a relationship to mastering the mind, emotions and body, and
    > the meditation practice in Zen and Vipassana Buddhism. I am
    > specifically refering to the process of observing and ultimatley
    > letting go of thought, feelings (the mirrors) and the body (asana).
    > Both traditions if mastered allow the practitoner to focus the mind
    > on pure consciousness (vacancy of mind), and to not be a slave to
    the
    > emotional (controling the sub-conscious) and physical bodies (body
    > control). Bardons method is governed by an application of will
    power,
    > and Buddhas through developed mindfulness.
    >
    > Just food for thought
    >
    > Sokan

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