Dharma Treasure Community | Ted Lemon | Activity http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/members/tedlemon/activity/ Activity feed for Ted Lemon. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1c3037b0f061b94f7712344114b857a0 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Any practitioner in France ? in the forum Dharma Treasure Community Information http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/any-practitioner-in-france/#post-3516 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:17:44 +0000 Il y a au moins un francophone qui se joint fréquemment à ma convocation en ligne du samedi matin. Je ne mentionnerais pas cela, mais vous n’avez pas reçu de réponse, cela semble donc préférable à rien. Des informations sur la convocation peuvent être trouvées ici: https://abhayakara.fugue.com/weekly-meetup/

La convocation est malheureus…[Read more]

]]> b6ac177fdcd0c3c14e4540037feffa80 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Dullness and agitation together? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/dullness-and-agitation-together/#post-3280 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 12:55:21 +0000 One of the barometers I’ve used for this in the past is to notice what the content of the agitated thoughts is. If it feels kind of weird, surreal or fictional, that’s hypnagogia, not agitation. It feels busy like agitation, but indeed the cure is to counteract dullness in one way or another. One way to do it is to notice whether peripheral…[Read more]

]]> 5fdb9f6d81e9526d7e00f7b884f2bbdd Ted Lemon replied to the topic Index of a/v recordings in the forum Help Wanted or Offered http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/index-of-a-v-recordings/#post-3203 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:40:50 +0000 We’ve actually been working on a wiki to accomplish something like this. Do you think that would work, or are you thinking of something different?

]]> 042fc2a095b40c47f1c4249b6eb60e9b Ted Lemon replied to the topic No perception of breath in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/no-perception-of-breath/#post-3126 Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:32:05 +0000 When you say you are working on stage 3, the assumption would be that you are experiencing forgetting. Is that the case, or is it just that when you put your attention on the breath, sometimes there is no breath there? If it’s the latter, what you are describing sounds like stage 4, not stage 3. And if all you are experiencing is subtle…[Read more]

]]> a70a85e56dbdedd7ef4f20703ece31cc Ted Lemon replied to the topic Eyes hurt during meditation in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/eyes-hurt-during-meditation/#post-3093 Tue, 03 Jul 2018 21:41:58 +0000 One thing you might want to think about is that “ignoring” is not the right thing to do. What you want is to just not be distracted. It’s fine to be aware of your eyes—you just ideally want your attention on the breath and your eyes in awareness. Ignoring them, particularly at the early stages, is a pretty artificial solution.

What is l…[Read more]

]]> dcfee58d9e472211eeac103b9083e210 Ted Lemon replied to the topic How to overcome doubts about meditation in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/how-to-overcome-doubts-about-meditation/#post-3044 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:30:56 +0000 Depends what you mean by compatible. Will TMI meditation work in that context? Sure. I’ve used TMI meditation in a practice that I would describe as similar to what you are experiencing. It’s not my a practice I do anymore, but it was a lovely practice. The ability to stabilize the attention while maintaining mindfulness worked just great…[Read more]

]]> 2f3af66bf059a142da708454596a9066 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Meditation path, senses, orientation, misc in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/meditation-path-senses-orientation-misc/#post-3021 Thu, 31 May 2018 15:36:42 +0000 No, TMI is a process for becoming an adept meditator. Once you become an adept meditator, the practices that you’re calling “Theravada” practices are things you can do. Before you are an adept meditator, many of these practices are impossible to do well enough to get much value out of them. However, bear in mind that “vipassana” means…[Read more]

]]> 5a6e10710734bc9c2788fe7f2868bf4f Ted Lemon replied to the topic Meditation path, senses, orientation, misc in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/meditation-path-senses-orientation-misc/#post-3007 Tue, 29 May 2018 13:19:20 +0000 Lots of good questions here. First, meditation is one of the aspects of the eightfold path: “right concentration.” So there’s no conflict between TMI and Theravada. TMI is a “shamata/vipassana” practice, meaning that you are practicing vipassana at the same time that you are learning to practice shamata. In order to reach the later stages…[Read more]

]]> 933e419157d5b758b546be8dc645a45b Ted Lemon replied to the topic Impasse at an early stage in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/impasse-at-an-early-stage/#post-2993 Mon, 28 May 2018 16:14:14 +0000 One thing that I would suggest you consider is that you may not be meditating at stage 2/3. It’s pretty common for new practitioners to mistake stage 4 for stage 2 or 3 because they don’t know the distinction between forgetting and distraction. So the first thing I would suggest is that you make sure you aren’t doing this. If you aren’t,…[Read more]

]]> 802eacd93a0811c8e0ffce83257ed04d Ted Lemon replied to the topic Agitation in Stage 3 in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/agitation-in-stage-3/#post-2853 Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:24:06 +0000 Wow, I’ve heard enough people talk about this happening at the end of stage three that I think it’s almost a marker. I suppose it doesn’t happen to everybody, but rest assured that you are in good company. It certainly happened to me.

The approach I took, which may or may not work for you, was to learn to laugh at and love the inner toddler…[Read more]

]]> 6d8fd294212af7790a0522b1a15d41d9 Ted Lemon changed their profile picture http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/all-activity-streams/p/3045/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:14:15 +0000 0 279d5da253213149a62c370ef405e6c9 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Difference between gross and subtle distractions in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/difference-between-gross-and-subtle-distractions/#post-2852 Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:11:59 +0000 A couple of things to say about this. First, gross distractions are a stage four phenomenon, not a stage three phenomenon. Beware of confusing gross distraction with forgetting.

Second, if you are in stage five with no subtle dullness, you’re in stage six. But that doesn’t really sound like what you are describing. Don’t think that subtle…[Read more]

]]> b1d0fda7b1c3882ce9c20b8b530a7546 Ted Lemon 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-2542 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:38:44 +0000 To expand briefly on what Frédéric just said, one thing you should be aware of is that having a clear experience of the distinction between something that is “in awareness” and something that is a subtle distraction is something that doesn’t happen early in the process. You get glimpses of it when stage four practice is close to the stage four g…[Read more]

]]> b32d67c6825283561331a348e8b4b318 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Questions on involuntary body movements in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/questions-on-involuntary-body-movements-masquerade-masquerade/#post-2391 Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:00:16 +0000 What is your current medical condition?

It’s hard to answer the question on body movements because it’s different for everyone.

]]> 97adff539cc5b7e26d0fcf5f2424ad19 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Culadasa is now offering private consultations online in the forum Dharma Treasure Community Information http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/culadasa-is-now-offering-private-consultations-online/#post-2086 Sat, 05 Aug 2017 01:57:22 +0000 Samuel, one thing that what you have said brings up is actually a really important question: how do you determine whether or not a teacher is legitimate? As students, we don’t always have a good way to do it. One of the Bodhisattva vows in the Tibetan tradition (possibly in others) is to behave in a way that gives the appearance of being…[Read more]

]]> b779230951910eef4f2bfff218afd3b4 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Renunciation and Social Interactions in the forum Dharma Practice in Daily Life http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/renunciation-and-social-interactions/#post-1998 Sat, 17 Jun 2017 16:41:14 +0000 Renunciation doesn’t mean that you stop doing things you enjoy. It means that you let go of the idea that doing things you want to do will make you happy, and that avoiding things you want to avoid will prevent you from being unhappy.

As a consequence of this, your habits may well change, but it’s the understanding that’s the core of…[Read more]

]]> 223850f68fbd15620bcb5d021384334b Ted Lemon replied to the topic Holding goals/expectations lightly in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/holding-goalsexpectations-lightly/#post-1994 Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:24:06 +0000 Striving is generally used to refer to a certain kind of activity in pursuit of the goal which winds up being counterproductive. Culadasa uses the term “diligence” to refer to what you might call wholesome striving, as opposed to “striving” which is unwholesome and causes stress.

What you have described here is essentially what Culadasa calls…[Read more]

]]> 3745479fb558f649019354f379733ece Ted Lemon replied to the topic Stage 4 Tension Headaces - Pushing Through Vs. Switching Focus To The Abdomen in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/stage-4-tension-headaces-pushing-through-vs-switching-focus-to-the-abdomen/#post-1986 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 01:09:16 +0000 I’ve heard this suggested as well, but I actually try to avoid putting any effort into telling the eyes where to look, because for me that creates tension. But you’re definitely right to suggest noticing what’s going on with them, because I was unconsciously staring at my nose, and that was causing significant eyestrain, even though my eyes were…[Read more]

]]> 93777d1e65d1baad5a392ae9eedbff80 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Stage 4 Tension Headaces - Pushing Through Vs. Switching Focus To The Abdomen in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/stage-4-tension-headaces-pushing-through-vs-switching-focus-to-the-abdomen/#post-1984 Tue, 06 Jun 2017 15:22:30 +0000 You can definitely experience piti. However, I would tend to suspect that this is a stage four purification, which is expressing itself in the form of muscle tension. You may also be engaging in efforting. If it’s manifesting as pain, that’s a bit unusual—for me that sort of piti generally manifests as pressure, but isn’t particularly p…[Read more]

]]> df63c27371b9f78a53b91074502fdd7e Ted Lemon replied to the topic Momentary Concentration in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/momentary-concentration/#post-1982 Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:26:06 +0000 Ah, thanks for clarifying. Using momentary concentration at stage five is not what Culadasa recommends—he says that momentary concentration, while it can be successful in producing insight, is less stable than continuous attentional stability with mindful awareness. You should keep reading! 🙂

]]> 58227c969555792e25b7e476392f0630 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Momentary Concentration in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/momentary-concentration/#post-1980 Mon, 05 Jun 2017 18:00:57 +0000 Ah. I know several people who definitely use this technique, but I don’t use it myself, so I can’t really speak from personal experience. But I would say you are probably on firm ground here, if it’s working for you. Do you have a sense of what stage you are meditating at?

]]> 38c4bf15e588182f7b724ab8cbddcbd6 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Momentary Concentration in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/momentary-concentration/#post-1976 Mon, 05 Jun 2017 12:30:39 +0000 Are you talking about Mahasi-style noting practice?

]]> eeb34a31267966aa1028c9c839747cc3 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Physical sensations and pain medication in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/physical-sensations-and-pain-medication/#post-1968 Thu, 25 May 2017 14:47:08 +0000 I can’t tell you much about the effect of pain meds, but I can tell you that what you are describing sounds pretty normal to me. Getting to where you are experiencing clear, vivid sensations at the nose and in the body takes a while. Some people get lucky and figure it out quickly; for others it can take a long time. It took me a long time.…[Read more]

]]> 06222e899687d11b8cea92491743e559 Ted Lemon replied to the topic No net progress after almost a year, dullness, unwholesome lifestyle in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/no-net-progress-after-almost-a-year-dullness-unwholesome-lifestyle__trashed/?view=all#post-1962 Sat, 20 May 2017 21:49:24 +0000 Great! Yes, that’s what I was getting at.

]]> 288c8f5e691e5329df8e0e1db83552a6 Ted Lemon replied to the topic No net progress after almost a year, dullness, unwholesome lifestyle in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/no-net-progress-after-almost-a-year-dullness-unwholesome-lifestyle__trashed/?view=all#post-1956 Fri, 19 May 2017 00:25:35 +0000 What is your awareness like when you relax your attention and dullness starts to progress?

]]> 333cd5a47ba11808b30f620a11f24cfa Ted Lemon replied to the topic No net progress after almost a year, dullness, unwholesome lifestyle in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/no-net-progress-after-almost-a-year-dullness-unwholesome-lifestyle__trashed/?view=all#post-1945 Sun, 14 May 2017 02:02:09 +0000 Can you go out and not drink, just experience the music? Can you do it in moderation, so that you aren’t always tired?

One of the key things that you get out of a meditation practice is an understanding of how to be bored and be okay with it. But possibly you are also lonely?

As for your problem with dullness, how hard are you focusing on…[Read more]

]]> 8ca626b2072d08f5c849270f0577fcd9 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Self retreat schedule in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/self-retreat-schedule/#post-1886 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:17:06 +0000 That’s a longer schedule than Culadasa normally does in retreats. It might be okay for a single day, but we normally start sitting at 7am and the last sit is normally scheduled for 8pm, with a fair amount of slack time in the middle. Culadasa’s retreats aren’t quite as hardcore as some other lineages do. You might want to try a mix of…[Read more]

]]> 9f626de2acfcc4a70eecda5aaea82870 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Subtle dullness in daily life in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/subtle-dullness-in-daily-life/#post-1822 Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:14:44 +0000 The diagnosis that you have provided doesn’t particularly match the symptoms you are describing. It might be worth stepping back and telling us more about how you got to where you noticed this as a change, and identified it as a problem. Is this your experience all the time, or just when you are bored, or doing some particular activity?

]]> 3853ed05d70613def2d15f03b457b739 Ted Lemon posted a new activity comment http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/all-activity-streams/p/1710/#acomment-1720 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:38:59 +0000 Ronald, sorry you haven’t gotten an answer to this sooner—it looks like you posted it as an update to your member page rather than on one of the forums. I’d be happy to take a shot at answering, but it might be good to re-post it on one of the forums so that others can see and respond to it—I only noticed because I use an RSS feed to follow the…[Read more]

In reply to - roncraig posted an update I am wondering if I am interpreting a couple of issues correctly. Question 1: If something is unconscious it is just the sub-minds doing what the sub-minds do and I am not aware of […] ]]> a9d489bc6ba49e0b57fa83481537ee0f Ted Lemon replied to the topic Hard Problem of Consciousness in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/hard-problem-of-consciousness/#post-1768 Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:04:27 +0000 Consciousness is everywhere, but we’re not aware of all of it? The unconscious is simply that portion of consciousness that does not appear in awareness. Since I am not directly aware of any of your cognition, my knowledge that you are thinking is not based on direct awareness of your thinking, but rather awareness of the effects of your…[Read more]

]]> 23f779243692c5f871eda222033ce5f2 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Present moment awareness vs peripheral awareness in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/present-moment-awareness-vs-peripheral-awareness/#post-1759 Fri, 06 Jan 2017 17:54:16 +0000 Ah, I see. Attention can only observe the activities after they have happened. What Culadasa is talking about here is that introspective awareness can watch the activities of the mind as they are happening. I think he talks about this somewhere in that section, but I may be mistaken.

]]> 94ca00c1e934fa7204e075f331f973c5 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Present moment awareness vs peripheral awareness in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/present-moment-awareness-vs-peripheral-awareness/#post-1755 Fri, 06 Jan 2017 03:45:14 +0000 How do you know that you are experiencing your mind state in your awareness and not in your attention?

]]> 668ddb4369299cace140340dcef6f690 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Present moment awareness vs peripheral awareness in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/present-moment-awareness-vs-peripheral-awareness/#post-1753 Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:00:18 +0000 If you look at a pencil, your attention is on the pencil. If you hear the sound of a passing car, your attention may flicker to the passing car, or even land on it, or it may not move to it at all. You can be aware of the passing car even if your attention never goes to it. This is difficult to see until you start doing it in stage six—you c…[Read more]

]]> 720eddb8f0800574a61664d65f5ce7e3 Ted Lemon replied to the topic How Did Your Awakening Cease Suffering? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/how-did-your-awakening-cease-suffering/#post-1749 Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:02:04 +0000 Thanks for that. That’s a much more clear way of putting it. I was trying to make the same point in my most recent reply, but neglected to point out that my earlier reply was actually wrong. 🙂

]]> 0aef4958138d650f2393510b59c959e5 Ted Lemon replied to the topic How Did Your Awakening Cease Suffering? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/how-did-your-awakening-cease-suffering/#post-1747 Wed, 04 Jan 2017 02:53:17 +0000 Think about it this way. A story about Jevan feels like a story about “me” to you, right? And a story about “Ted” feels like a story about “Ted.” If you break down the connection between “me” and “Jevan,” then a story about “Jevan” will seem less like a story about “me” and more like a story about “Ted.” It’s not that you won’t care what…[Read more]

]]> 6553e92f19dd164bc8f97f716caa88b9 Ted Lemon replied to the topic How Did Your Awakening Cease Suffering? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/how-did-your-awakening-cease-suffering/#post-1744 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 04:25:27 +0000 Bear in mind that there are four paths of awakening in the Theravada tradition so how they end your suffering and to what extent depends on which path you are talking about. Stream entry doesn’t end your suffering, but it does suck a lot of the energy out of it.

Culadasa could probably give you a better answer than this, as could some of the…[Read more]

]]> fcfb6c1a6f779160a1a285a0bc44a609 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Strong dullness in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/strong-dullness/#post-1724 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:11:03 +0000 Ah, I see your problem.

And the hold your breath, clench up and release technique has no effect?

I should say that I went through a process similar to yours, and only made it out the other side when I finally figured out how to notice that I was entering dullness before it got so strong, and learned to counter it at that point, not later on when…[Read more]

]]> a3eb884e8e8d83607c1864776e8755fd Ted Lemon replied to the topic Strong dullness in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/strong-dullness/#post-1722 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:31:45 +0000 Major props for creativity. Meditating while standing didn’t work?

]]> f56de6adbe93596e2615a13221c68c10 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Starting stage 2 after dullness experience in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/starting-stage-2-after-dullness-experience/#post-1711 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:29:35 +0000 So many people report it feeling like they backslid in stage four. This is not unusual. One of the nice things about stages two and three is that all of that mind-wandering really energizes the mind, so when you are on the object, you can feel quite sharp, and then the loss of that source of energy can result in a feeling of things having…[Read more]

]]> 01cd657702338290ff591721c5ce6e5b Ted Lemon replied to the topic Starting stage 2 after dullness experience in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/starting-stage-2-after-dullness-experience/#post-1707 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:32:13 +0000 None of this is going to be particularly clear at stage two. My main experience of it was simply noticing the breath either being in the foreground or in the background. The background is still attention, though. Awareness is not the background. The distinction between “background” and “awareness” is really subtle, and I think the first…[Read more]

]]> 6037c47a18c2125362a220054427e25b Ted Lemon replied to the topic How to sit longer ? in the forum Help Wanted or Offered http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/how-to-sit-longer/#post-1589 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 03:22:22 +0000 When you attain pliancy, you will (so I am told) be able to sit for two hours without pain. But that doesn’t happen until pretty late in the stages.

When I want to meditate for more than an hour, I do it in a comfy chair. If you are at stage five or later, you should be able to meditate in a relaxed posture without sinking into dullness.

If…[Read more]

]]> b31c88ff2d76535bd3fda831822b87ac Ted Lemon replied to the topic Got an Insight and my practice became rare in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/got-an-insight-and-my-practice-became-rare/#post-1555 Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:47:02 +0000 I do all kinds of different things, but what I did on the cushion on Wednesday was to use use a particular piece of music I love (Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium), which I really feels comes from a place of silence, as an entry point to get to the place of silence that Culadasa talks about in TMI. I’m not clear on whether I’m getting to the…[Read more]

]]> 2aeeafbefa3af4831e6ced4b90825f37 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Got an Insight and my practice became rare in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/got-an-insight-and-my-practice-became-rare/#post-1550 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 23:44:21 +0000 Thanks for asking the question, Sergey. I found the answers you got very helpful to me as well. I’m curious if Meshe can talk about his experience of the “still point” meditation. When I heard the name of the meditation, it reminded me so strongly of a meditation I’ve been doing that I went to read the description, but the description is a…[Read more]

]]> 3ef82d7a0c0274cedbb2fc457c64d207 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Got an Insight and my practice became rare in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/got-an-insight-and-my-practice-became-rare/#post-1546 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 02:31:33 +0000 Do you feel like negative emotions still arise? For me, the strong ones are obvious, and don’t stick, but the subtle ones can creep up and hang out. You might want to really pay attention to what’s keeping you from sitting and see if it isn’t some low-key grasping that isn’t loud enough to trigger your new-found protective shield.

]]> b8bae4df8e5c9647e558837707e38654 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Problems meditating on the breath around the nose and mouth in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/problems-meditating-on-the-breath-around-the-nose-and-mouth/#post-1540 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 22:27:32 +0000 This is what we in the business refer to as a “meditation obstacle.”

It’s actually not uncommon to have experiences like this when meditating. I get this frequently when I do the body scan–my body will tense up where I am scanning, and when I notice, I have to consciously release that tension. I have never had it happen when following the…[Read more]

]]> 2a1f898dc4ca77384c5e501451c73082 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Hard Problem of Consciousness in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/hard-problem-of-consciousness/#post-1539 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 22:20:35 +0000 Addressing the hard problem of consciousness would violate Gödel’s Theorem. 🙂

This is a really intriguing topic, and I think there’s a lot of value in trying to answer this question in meditation, as long as you don’t get attached to succeeding. I would suggest that it’s like an Awareness meditation, or Mahamudra, or Dzokchen.

]]> 71e14c07ee7ca903f8d64b5485bcb124 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Vajrayana? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/vajrayana/#post-1505 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:02:21 +0000 You should read the section of the book that talks about Jhanas. Outside the context of the book, Culadasa has also been talking a lot about the value of doing metta practices, which are very much related to Vajrayana practices. Another thing you will find common to Vajrayana and to the presentation Culadasa is offering is the emphasis on the…[Read more]

]]> 6a37932c2a3502f9b9360ab417e4a5e9 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Vajrayana? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/vajrayana/#post-1505 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:02:21 +0000 You should read the section of the book that talks about Jhanas. Outside the context of the book, Culadasa has also been talking a lot about the value of doing metta practices, which are very much related to Vajrayana practices. Another thing you will find common to Vajrayana and to the presentation Culadasa is offering is the emphasis on the…[Read more]

]]> 4dd2dbafbf87617589aa5712e1d0bde3 Ted Lemon replied to the topic Rate of Progress While On Retreat in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/rate-of-progress-while-on-retreat/#post-1421 Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:54:36 +0000 I’ve been to quite a few retreats with Culadasa at this point. My experience is that real progress occurs between retreats, but retreats really help to give glimpses past where I’ve gotten so far, and they also help me to _see_ the progress I have made since the last retreat. Your mind is never more clear than in the middle of a retreat, so…[Read more]

]]> e7493eea0ed41eacbae575d2d7560d7a Ted Lemon replied to the topic Between 3 & 4 in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/between-3-4/#post-577 Thu, 26 May 2016 16:40:47 +0000 Wow. That is very cool. Thanks for sharing it with us!

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