dmb, On Sep 2, 2013, at 2:07 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Direct experience is neither true nor false. What we SAY about experience can > be true or false. The concepts we use can agree with experience or not. But > direct experience itself is independent of and prior to language. It doesn't > even make sense to say that meditation or mindfulness "agrees with > experience" because it is experience. Marsha: I have there to be a difference between direct perceptional experience and unpatterned (DQ) experiences. There are all types of meditation practices. The book 'Mindfulness in Plain English' is an excellent source of information. Would you like to sit and watch your thoughts, those thoughts (patterns) that conceptually construct you world? "Mindfulness is awareness of change. It is observing the passing flow of experience. It is watching things as they are changing. it is seeing the birth, growth, and maturity of all phenomena. It is watching phenomena decay and die. Mindfulness is watching things moment by moment, continuously. It is observing all phenomena -- physical, mental or emotional -- whatever is presently taking place in the mind. One just sits back and watches the show. Mindfulness is the observance of the basic nature of each passing phenomenon. It is watching the thing arising and passing away. It is seeing how that thing makes us feel and how we react to it. It is observing how it affects others. In Mindfulness, one is an unbiased observer whose sole job is to keep track of the constantly passing show of the universe within." How do you explain radical empiricism? Marsha Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
