Dharma Treasure Community | Bernadette | Activity http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/members/bernadette/activity/ Activity feed for Bernadette. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 eeabc852aa1c53cb365fd11a9874c43a Bernadette started the topic Love from the current holon managing committee in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/love-from-the-current-holon-managing-committee Thu, 19 Apr 2018 02:30:13 +0000 To our scientist, doctor, lawyer, cook, protector, timekeeper, handyman, housekeeper, historian and financial advisor to name just a few of you.

Thank you for all your ongoing input to the quality of our life.

We are convinced, based on recent experience, that regular one hour sessions when none of us can be given thinking space will enable all…[Read more]

]]> a8074dc50eaaea5fdcd265f9529bc9ce Bernadette replied to the topic Ten day meditation at home in the forum Dharma Practice in Daily Life http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/ten-day-meditation-at-home/#post-2854 Sat, 14 Apr 2018 04:58:47 +0000 Hi Ivan,

Thank you for those guidelines

Bernadette

]]> 483290a629638b3391b9260118473201 Bernadette replied to the topic Ten day meditation at home in the forum Dharma Practice in Daily Life http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/ten-day-meditation-at-home/#post-2842 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 06:27:33 +0000 Hi Li-Anne,

Thank you for your message and offer of more connection here in Perth.

Regards, Bernadette

]]> 2701210f3b694bcce0e2dc772d18ecf0 Bernadette replied to the topic Ten day meditation at home in the forum Dharma Practice in Daily Life http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/ten-day-meditation-at-home/#post-2837 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:30:24 +0000 Thank you Chloe and Ivan for your interest and suggestions.

Ivan, The Teaching Retreats recordings look great and thank you for the link. Now i have the excellent dharma talks ready to go for 10 days !

Would you mind giving me a rough outline of a days timetable that you use on your TMI retreats that i can aspire to?
Interested in how to get…[Read more]

]]> df1a957082411669dc612a4473b389cc Bernadette started the topic Ten day meditation at home in the forum Dharma Practice in Daily Life http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/ten-day-meditation-at-home Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:31:10 +0000 Hi Everyone

I am planning to do a ten day meditation at home, cant find a sangha that supports TMI yet.
Could someone kindly list a good sequence of dharma talks to follow that you have grown from in the Dharma Treasure Audio Archive. ?

Yours sincerely,
Bernadette Lenzo

]]> 1cd9ea54b1e2c132e8cf32a60c24355b Bernadette replied to the topic Looking for some practice advice in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/looking-for-some-practice-advice/#post-2809 Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:11:45 +0000 Hello Black Ghost

No advice, too early in my practice yet, but loving kindness coming your way.

Struggling with the some of the same frustrations and appreciate your explicit descriptions.

Bernadette

]]> a8c237a26c7056167b2180336c010e99 Bernadette replied to the topic Me and a wave in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/me-and-a-wave/#post-2794 Sat, 31 Mar 2018 02:25:46 +0000 Hi Don,

Hello fellow wavicle. laughing and smiling here too. How cool that two tiny? wavicles right now can talk to each other and enjoy the process like it is the very process of life

Bernadette

]]> a631770700ab722a8767cb14c3b47d08 Bernadette started the topic Me and a wave in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/me-and-a-wave Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:38:19 +0000 currently listening to the audio archive in resources of Dharma Treasure Shangha from Jan 2010 What is Enlightenment and Why Should I Care? Session 7

Me a wave? These five aggregates moving like an ocean wave through time and space interacting with everyone elses containers?
Mmmmm minute feelings of rewiring occurring.

Bernadette

]]> fafef9c181c95e7c2a8478578058c94a Bernadette started the topic A string of beads? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/a-string-of-beads Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:17:14 +0000 Is it true to say that stretching the perception of a single breath out to many differentiated sensations allows many small spaces to be created between those senations and that that then allows perception of peripheral awareness to occur interlaced with micromoments of attention and that consistent training in dovetailing the two is what bears…[Read more]

]]> 5a71386fe2aa560d2e53a6275f016b03 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/3/#post-2734 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:22:50 +0000 Thank you Ivan.

]]> e3f8d76718336cb7780d63cd55ed7c35 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/3/#post-2718 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:17:48 +0000 Thinking feels at the time of thinking more solid and real than the state of awareness and yet it proves to be the more ephemeral. What is thinking? What is happening when i am thinking? Why do i think?

Bernadette

]]> 31a70783532f91f92672cad3b583d774 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/3/#post-2717 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:14:12 +0000 Ok, will make sure to check that out.

A logistics question. You sent a message regarding teachers which was helpful but when I came into the forum to reply to it it wasn’t there.Is it somewhere else in the forum?

Kind regards Bernadette

]]> 0b2b5fef6e8c6398f616b0b14d9ea6b5 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/2/#post-2696 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 04:20:55 +0000 Dear Ivan,

That is a very clear description and differentiates the two “spaces” and how thought moves through them and in what sequence. Thank you. I can work with that now on the cushion this evening and in coming days.

Thank you for the heads up regarding the audio archives. I have been listening to the recordings steadily over the past weeks…[Read more]

]]> 85b106b42ec64fe0773ddf9e0b0aa71e Bernadette replied to the topic Differentiating between awareness and attention as a body experience in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/differentiating-between-awareness-and-attention-as-a-body-experience/#post-2693 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 12:25:31 +0000 Thank you for this to all. I am processing your answers.

]]> 2d45dfe2512ca971bd7d8cb9da7d7c53 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/2/#post-2689 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:24:51 +0000 How can i tell which stage im at with any certainty?

]]> 9fc8750ad0ad692e15109ea1e73a2a51 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/2/#post-2688 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:22:07 +0000 Goal setting right now involves a choice from “everything” How to narrow it down is my question.

]]> 2c9aa1001e36367cb54119b1453cd47e Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/2/#post-2687 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:07:45 +0000 It seems to me that attempting focussing on the detail of the breath and on peripheral awareness requires a constant shifting which therefore doesn’t feel stable.

Your thoughts on this?

]]> ba6fd42e92417bbea5edec63e819382a Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/2/#post-2686 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 23:47:59 +0000 Hi Mary,

Thank you for the detail on the book references. 🙂

Bernadette

]]> 8fc4477b12be57d2d28aad5795ce070f Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/2/#post-2682 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:13:12 +0000 Hello Ivan,

I hope this finds you well where you are.

Does a time come through practice that thinking occurs in an aware space and not in the rarefied atmosphere of seemingly only being the thinking event?

Bernadette

]]> 10470734d58dd892de3d57a42ef6235f Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/2/#post-2680 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 01:14:12 +0000 “Fused with thought” is a very accurate description. I would like to stay with this train of thought for a little while as i sense inwardly that the dialogue between us is having an ungluing effect on that fusion. Is it ok with you if i pursue this further here?

]]> 5f6aa3a03d48e3cc5201e63db87f0245 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/2/#post-2679 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 01:00:31 +0000 Hi Ivan

That is reassuring. Ok, on we go!.

]]> 27bf283915daf3aae919af2f65d8c76d Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/page/2/#post-2677 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:52:17 +0000 Hi Julian over there in Christchurch 🙂

Thank you, I would appreciate knowing someone here in Perth involved in this pathway..B

]]> 202300f10e171c6df90327cbe56a51b9 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/#post-2676 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:38:40 +0000 Hi Ivan,

So I think, and that act of thinking takes up all my mind space and then something? happens and my attention expands to include the fact that i am thinking. This moment of expansion makes me feel uncomfortable alot during these days right now. I have to calm myself to accept the expansion. Included in the expanded field of attention are…[Read more]

]]> 53be9127eb7ebcc9133fa1c9748425ae Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/#post-2674 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:19:59 +0000 Hi Tom,

Bernadette 🙂

]]> fd687cb80e0443655371911e03b57850 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/#post-2670 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 23:48:37 +0000 Hi Ivan,

That is clear. Thank you. There is no dharma group here in Perth Aus, that I know of that follows the TMI pathway so skilful use of the book is important for me.

With thanks Bernadette

]]> 400d79a64e5f8b503472b40d173a8519 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/#post-2667 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 22:23:37 +0000 Dear Ivan,

Thank you for that reply. Would you kindly give me a page number in the book or perhaps explicitly state here the steps you refer to?

Kind regards Bernadette

]]> 070cc88c2027664dc5fb1f3735ca19c0 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/#post-2664 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 08:33:39 +0000 Hi Ivan,

Thank you for the feedback

Then is it true to say that responding to the perception of thinking with complete equanimity is the wisest way to go? A bit like not making a big deal of the changes in the outside weather but definitely noting them as an event.

With interest Bernadette

]]> b6d0feb3a685c747b27df0455bc26d52 Bernadette replied to the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say/#post-2656 Wed, 07 Mar 2018 22:28:43 +0000 Hi Ivan,

Your comment is helpful. Where you describe that I am creating a new relationship to thought wrapped itself neatly into my neuronal pathways, if that even happens with thoughts. Nevertheless the comment was meaningful and orienting for me. The other parts of your comments I am still processing now. Some parts shimmer with potential like…[Read more]

]]> 6ac8a103d3474c1adfe0766ba0df21be Bernadette started the topic Is it true to say in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/is-it-true-to-say Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:00:16 +0000 Hello

Is it true to say that I am practicing removing my attention from thinking because thinking is the act of clinging and aversion before its physical expression?

If this is so then am i practicing creating a space and place in my mind that did not exist before to go to when thoughts seem to be the only reality?

Also is it true to say that…[Read more]

]]> 24d4a83ee38630a5613bd817086ea92b Bernadette replied to the topic Differentiating between awareness and attention as a body experience in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/differentiating-between-awareness-and-attention-as-a-body-experience/#post-2548 Sat, 17 Feb 2018 08:30:19 +0000 I am unsure of how to reply to separate individuals comments to my post. Would you kindly let me know how to reply to for example, Frederic’s comment only first and then Ted’s?

Hi Frederic,

Thank you for your answer. The following part of your answer made sense to me and the rest fell, sadly, on an inexperienced mind.
“Basically, you try to keep…[Read more]

]]> 3751fb0d85599d064aad4a934536a281 Bernadette started the topic Differentiating between awareness and attention as a body experience in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/differentiating-between-awareness-and-attention-as-a-body-experience Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:45:39 +0000 Hello,

Is it true to say that introspective awareness includes the sensations of anything i perceive from outside and inside me at the same time? Is my purpose to be splitting my attention between my breath primarily and all other sensations secondarily and at the same time maintaining awareness that that is exactly what I am doing?

I have been…[Read more]

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