Mike,
Is shikantaza insight meditation, absorption meditation or both?
--ED
--- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote:
>
> Kris,
>
> This by Bhante Gunaratana:
>
> "Insight cannot be practiced while absorbed in jhana, since insight
> meditation requires investigation and observation, which are
impossible
> when the mind is immersed in one-pointed absorption. But after
emerging from the jhana, the mind is cleared of the hindrances, and the
> stillness and clarity that then result conduce to precise, penetrating
> insight." [my italics]
>
> I hope anyone can see that this is what I've been saying all along.
>
> Mike
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