How can we cultivate thankfulness at the end of the year? The year's end gives an opportunity to reflect and consider everything that has happened since the beginning of the year. The autumn's harvest coincides with our own efforts and chances we took during the time of earlier sowing and growing. As leaves change colors and fall from the trees, meditate on your own changes, possibly into a mode of storing and gleaning the developments of actions and patience and words said earlier in the year.
Post Under Construction 🚧 Click this for a post about The previous Jhana Click this for a Post about Reconciling Buddhism and Christianity The Sixth Jh āna ( viññāṇañcāyatana ): " And at this point it is said: “By completely surmounting the base consisting of boundless space, [aware of] ‘unbounded consciousness’, he enters upon and dwells in the base consisting of boundless consciousness.” In my theory, the Sixth Jhāna involves: Placeholder text Placeholder text If you remember from the last chapter , propriovisuality (PV): involved a 2D visual field that was modified by proprioception to make it 3D. Also in last chapter, the concepts of positive gestalts and negative gestalts were introduced. Let's attempt to combine these concepts. If you pretend to feel something in front of you, or in your hand, you are doing a technique known in Buddhism as "kasina". You can imagine feeling various things, but most things you feel will be groupe...
