This is part of my Meditation Journal where you can find dozens of more posts like this. 9-27-07 Today I climbed the steps at the mountain at Wat Tham Suea again. A Thai boy of 8 years old kept up with me as we sort of raced to the top from steps 300 to 1200. … Read more
I’ve been looking a bit at the state of my mind and giving consideration to what I want to do with it. If you’ve read some of my past posts, my mind is in a strange state at the moment. It has been in a sort of flat-line for the past couple of years. I … Read more
This is part of my Meditation Journal Experience after the Flat-mind State became permanent. Sat 23 May 09 Without writing a book about this… I want to mention it I guess because if at some point nibbana comes despite my not chasing it – there should be a path or a succession of things that … Read more
This is part of my Meditation Journal where you can find dozens of more posts like this. Anapanasati at top of Wat Tum Sua and 5? kids taking my pictures and banging the bells to see if they could get me to move and break the meditation. Mai pen rai krup… (no matter, no mind) … Read more
This is part of my Meditation Journal where you can find dozens of more posts like this. I was at Wat Tum Sua again today (Buddhist temple in southern Thailand). The weather was nice, cool and windy. No rain. There were very few people at the top. When I first got to the top and … Read more
This is part of my Meditation Journal where you can find dozens of more posts like this. Over 6 hours of no thought… no reaction. No emotion. No extra work being done by the mind. A state of high awareness and being precisely in the moment – but without naming things – without judging… without … Read more
This is part of my Meditation Journal Experience after the Flat-mind State became permanent. Fatness and no mind center… I climbed up to the Buddhist shrine at the top of the hill at Wat Tum Sua here in Krabi yesterday and I sat around 5:30pm. There were a group of monks and a woman in … Read more
My questions and responses are bold and the answers by ChatGPT, an iteration of AI on the road to general artificial intelligence, on 29 Jan 2023 follow unbolded. Can you condense down the teachings of Vipassana to around 1000 words telling me how to reach the jhana levels? Vipassana, also known as Insight Meditation, is … Read more