Post by Neo on Oct 18, 2020 19:02:56 GMT -5
Q: What is the meditation of being mindfulness of in-and-out breathing?
A: From the perspective of Dark Zen it means that fundamentally we are unrelated to in-and-outbreathing .
Q: What! I have never heard that before. I thought that mindfulness of in-and-out breathing meant that we must follow our breath. Isn't that right?
A: If you follow something, aren't you led by it? In that case you are less than what you follow. And don't you also, as a consequence, become more of what you follow?
Q: Yes, of course. But isn't that what the Buddha is telling us to doing this particular form of meditation? I mean—aren't we supposed to be aware of our breathing?
A: Why would the Buddha, who is detached from his corporeal body, teach his students to be dependent on the breath cycles, as if to be led by them? Maybe he is telling his students to remember what is before in-and-out breathing so as to be aloof from any kind of breath attachment—and overall, the mortal body.
Q: Give me a practical example. I am confused right now.
A: When I meditate, I first recollect the antecedent source of my breathing. In this state, when breathing is going on, I maintain a recollection which is prior to the totality of breathing which is most imperceptible. ~ Zenmar
Source:
www.darkzen.org/dzfaq.html
A: From the perspective of Dark Zen it means that fundamentally we are unrelated to in-and-outbreathing .
Q: What! I have never heard that before. I thought that mindfulness of in-and-out breathing meant that we must follow our breath. Isn't that right?
A: If you follow something, aren't you led by it? In that case you are less than what you follow. And don't you also, as a consequence, become more of what you follow?
Q: Yes, of course. But isn't that what the Buddha is telling us to doing this particular form of meditation? I mean—aren't we supposed to be aware of our breathing?
A: Why would the Buddha, who is detached from his corporeal body, teach his students to be dependent on the breath cycles, as if to be led by them? Maybe he is telling his students to remember what is before in-and-out breathing so as to be aloof from any kind of breath attachment—and overall, the mortal body.
Q: Give me a practical example. I am confused right now.
A: When I meditate, I first recollect the antecedent source of my breathing. In this state, when breathing is going on, I maintain a recollection which is prior to the totality of breathing which is most imperceptible. ~ Zenmar
Source:
www.darkzen.org/dzfaq.html