Dzogpa Chenpo
According to Dzogpa Chenpo atiyoga , the entire corpus of Buddhist teachings is classified into two divisions the exoteric sutric and esoteric tantric teachings. The exoteric teachings are further divided into three yanas vehicles those of shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and mahayanists. The esoteric teachings are divided into six tantras the three outer tantras of kriyayoga, charyayoga, and yogatantra and the three inner tantras of mahayoga, anuyoga, and atiyoga. These three yanas and six tantras...
The Law Of Parsimony
Finally, I wish to strongly encourage you to use the most parsimonious method and style of suggestion to accomplish the therapeutic task. Today, many hypnotists seem to be trying to make hypnosis much more complicated and difficult than it needs to be. This often stems from misinterpretations of Erickson's work Hammond, 1984, 1988b . Esoteric, multiply embedded metaphors and confusional techniques are unnecessary with most patients, are often perceived as condescending, and usually meet the...
The Entrance to the Jhana
The Buddha describes the attainment of the first jhana with a standard formula recurring throughout the Pali Canon. The formula runs as follows Quite secluded from sense pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states of mind, he enters and dwells in the first jhana, which is accompanied by applied thought and sustained thought with rapture and happiness born of seclusion.1 Wr. tr. . Examination of the formula reveals that it divides into two parts, one indicating the states which must be...
Deidentification Pattern
This pattern is useful for going beyond limiting and therefore false identifications, usually in the form of a CEq. Complex equivalence's are the language construction of identification. With a slight adjustment of the language you can use this easily on yourself therapeutically or as a meditation if you continue to repeat steps 3 through 6. 1. Elicit the identification in the form of a Complex Equivalence. Listen for 2. Pace and feedback the complex equivalence. So, you are_. 3. Is that all...
Taima Mandala
See also Chiko Mandala Pure Land Mandalas Raigo. W A Picture of the Pure Land of Amitabha preserved in Taima-dera in Nara prefecture Japan . The writing on this picture says that it is made of lotus threads. Dait 346 The Taima mandala, the most complex of the three Pure Land mandalas, derives in part from various illustrations based on two sutras, the Longer Amitabha Sutra and the Amitabha Sutra. Added to these influences, however, is the overwhelming impact of concepts such as the Sixteen...
Organizations and Centers
With the rapid spread of meditation in the West, centers and organizations devoted to the practice have sprung up in every major city and plenty of small towns, too Needless to say, I couldn't possibly list them all in these pages. So I offer you an annotated catalogue of major national organizations and in the case of traditions like Zen, where no centralized organization exists representative centers. If you just want something nearby and don't particularly care about style or affiliation,...
Mahasthamaprapta
See also Avalokitesvara Surangama Sutra Three Pure Land Sages. Vn Dai-The-Chi. One of the three key Bodhisattvas in Pure Land Buddhism, recognizable by the water jar jewelled pitcher adorning Her crown. Usually represented in East Asian iconography as a female Bodhisattva bearing a lotus bud to escort the elect to the Pure Land. Amitabha Buddha is frequently depicted standing between the Bodhisattvas Avalokitesvara and Mahasthamaprapta on Amitabha's left as one faces the Buddha . Editor na...
Notes to Chapter Nine Introduction to Thekchod and Thodgal
1. All of the individual's tensions, rigidities and obscurations are compared to a bundle of sticks khregs-pa tied together with a cord or rope. When one cuts chod this cord, all of the sticks immediately fall to the ground. Therefore, the term Thekchod means the releasing of all one's tensions and rigidities in a totally relaxed state lhod-pa chen-po . The latter term is also a synonym for Dzogchen. 2. Tsewang Rigdzin revealed these Dzogchen teachings, which he had received from his father...
Offerings to the Sangha SanghikaDana
The Buddha then explained to the Venerable Ananda 'There are seven kinds of offerings made to the Sangha, Ananda. - One makes an offering to a Sangha of both bhikkhus and bhikkhunIs headed by the Buddha this is the first kind of offering made to the Sangha. - One makes an offering to a Sangha of both bhikkhus and bhikkhunIs after the Buddha has attained Parinib-bana this is the second kind of offering made to the Sangha. - One makes an offering to a Sangha of bhikkhus this is the third kind of...
Contrasting the Therapeutic and Schizogenic Double Bind
The relation between Erickson's therapeutic use of the double bind and the studies of it by Bateson et al. 1972 in the genesis of schizophrenia offers an interesting study of similarities and contrasts. We may list them side by side for comparison. 1. Two or more persons The child victim is usually ensnared by mother or a combination of parents and siblings 2. Repeated experience of the same double bind rather than one simple traumatic event. 3. A primary negative injunction Do not do so-and-so...
The Epoche And The Transcendental Reduction
I wish, however, briefly to postpone discussion of Husserl's account of evidence, because it is very easy, when reading through this First Meditation, to think that its overall argument is really very simple, and that Husserl's disquisition on evidence just slows the proceedings down somewhat. For at the end of that discussion he seems simply to say that apodicticity is demanded by the scientist, so that we, as beginning philosophers in search of true science, should settle for nothing less....
Autogenic Verbal Formulas for Normalizing the Body
My right arm is heavy. My left arm is heavy. Both of my arms are heavy. My right leg is heavy. My left leg is heavy. Both of my legs are heavy. My arms and legs are heavy. My right arm is warm. My left arm is warm. Both of my arms are warm. My right leg is warm. Both of my legs are warm. My right arm is heavy and warm. Both of my arms are heavy and warm. Both of my legs are heavy and warm. My arms and legs are heavy and warm. It breathes me. My right arm is heavy and warm. My arms and legs are...
Development of Visions
Without Thekchod, we cannot practice Thodgal. Visions may come, but they will not be Thodgal visions. First we must practice Thekchod and make our remaining in the Natural State stable, then we can go on to practice Thodgal. In this way our visions will be stable. In Thodgal both pure and impure visions can come, but gradually the visions will become clearer and clearer, and then more and more integrated with our normal vision. In the end this integrated vision will dissolve into the Natural...
Ericksons Principles Of Individualization And Utilization
Milton Erickson emphasized the need to individualize hypnotic procedures. But many lay hypnotists and even some legitimate professionals assume that hypnotic response is only a trait and that individualization is, therefore, unnecessary. Thus, they mass produce popularized self-hypnosis tapes, presenting everyone with the same induction and suggestions. There is limited evidence, however, suggesting that hypnosis may be more effective when it is individualized Holroyd, 1980 Nuland amp Field,...
Christine Michele
Are you looking for a HIP hypnotist Well you just found her Lady Hypnotist, Christine Michele, is a professional stage hypnotist, workshop presenter and Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. Her hilarious hypnosis shows are great comedy entertainment Perfect for holiday parties, colleges, fairs, night clubs, theaters, US Navy ship's parties, grad nights, wedding receptions amp other special events What makes Lady Hyp so, well, HIP First of all, she's not your usual lounge act She's one of the...
Learn the Art of Wu Wei
In Chinese Zen, there is a practice called wu-wei. Although it means not doing, it does not mean doing nothing. It is about a certain kind of awareness, a certain attitude toward the doing. Often, when we do something, our mind is elsewhere. Brushing our teeth in the morning, we are thinking of the next thing we have to do, and the next thing, and maybe even the next thing after that. Brushing teeth in the spirit of wu-wei means coming back to the present. It means being aware of brushing our...
Elimination Of Doubts About The Essential Vision Of Reality
1. Review of other Buddhist schools 2. Establishing the meditational system of our school It was not correct on the part of some earlier Tibetan teachers to have assumed the view of intrinsic reality as consisting of abandonment not only of attachment to duality, but also of virtuous thoughts. Some have regarded this line of thought to be identical to that of the Hwashang school,73 as both 70 b are lacking in determinate awareness that comprehends the intrinsic reality. This is considered to be...
J Henry Clarke DMD and Stephen J Persichetti
Some dental patients have difficulty tolerating dental treatment because of a hypersensitive gag reflex. Direct suggestion has been used by some dentists. Desensitization may prove beneficial when anxiety and fear are the underlying etiology of the problem. Clarke and Persichetti, however, devised an imagery procedure for the treatment of a highly sensitive gag reflex in the absence of significant fear. Ed. The patient may be asked to imagine breathing through an opening in the neck...
Interspersal Of Suggestions And Metaphors
This refers to bringing up topics and using words or phrases that seed ideas, focus attention, and indirectly influence the patient. Metaphors or anecdotes may serve to illustrate a point or tag a memory, to indirectly suggest or model solutions, to foster self-reflection and insight, to increase positive expectancy or motivation, to bypass resistance, to reframe or redefine a problem, and to intersperse suggestions while bypassing defenses Zeig, 1980 . Metaphors may be used, just like hypnotic...
Valerie J Wall PhD
This procedure is designed for working with children between seven and twelve years of age who enjoy and have been to the beach. As cited at the beginning of Stanton's paper, it is vitally important to obtain careful pediatric evaluation for bedwetting problems prior to pursuing psychologically oriented therapy. Ed. Today I want to talk with you about learning to keep your bed dry at night and feeling a greater sense of self-confidence and control when you're sleeping at home or at a friend's...
after analysing them
It is stated that if anger cannot be subdued as yet by employing the methods cited above, it should be reflected after examining the elements analytically. The manner of reflection to be made is O, Yogi, you, who are developing metta through meditation what are you angry with in the other person Are you getting angry with his hair on the head, or against his urine Putting it in another way, since the hair is made up of four constituents viz. the elements of earth, water, fire and air, are you...
Notes to Chapter Five The Views of Tantra Mahamudra and Dzogchen
1. This is more or less true of all the Sarmapa schools. But nowadays, and even for some preceding centuries, the Geshes, or Lama scholars, belonging to the Menri tradition of Bon, studied and were familiar with the expositions of the Dharma by the great Tsongkhapa and certain other Gelugpa scholars, whereas they were not so likely to be familiar with Nyingmapa, Sakyapa, and Kagyudpa treatises. For example, only later while in India during exile from his homeland in Tibet, did the Lopon come to...
Translators Introduction
Mahamudra The Quintessence of Mind and Meditation represents the advanced doctrine and practice as understood and realized by the Kagyiipa Order of Tibetan Buddhism. The original Tibetan title of this sixteenth-century text is Ngedon chak-gya chenpoi gomrim seyvarjepai lekshey dawaiozer, which reads literally as Moonlight An Excellent Elucidation of the Meditational Stages of the Ultimate Great Seal. The term great seal mahamudra contains many different meanings. Here it stands for the ultimate...
CForm a Great Bubble encasing Both Bodies as a Protective Shield
1. Form one more pearl. Circulate this pearl in the Microcosmic Orbit of the physical body to gain momentum. Stop again at the perineum of the physical body. 2. As above, pull the pearl all the way up the Governor Channel of the physical body to the point one and a half inches behind the crown. Shoot it out from this point to encircle the energy body, bringing it all the way down to cover the physical body as well. You now have formed a great bubble encasing both bodies and the protective...
Questions Answers 6
Question 6.1 How should a meditator who practises mindfulness-of-breathing anapanasati but cannot see a nimitta check himself physically and mentally, so that he can improve and enter jhana In other words, what are the conditions needed to have a nimitta Answer 6.1 Constant practice is necessary in all types of meditation. In mindfulness-of-breathing you should be mindful of the breath in every bodily posture, and be so with respect. Walking, standing or sitting, take no objects apart from the...
Posthypnotic Suggestion initiating the Microdynamics of Trance Induction
Dr. Q There is a lot going on at all times. E Much more than you can see, and you have no time for anxiety. Dr. Q I think my anxiety is because I feel so blind in the situation where there is so much data coming at me that I can't understand it. E And everybody learns to count. First they count up to one. Then they count up to two, and five, and 10 and 20. Dr. Q Hummm. Dr. Q blinks uncertainly and then closes his eyes. He begins to raise a hand toward his face, as if to scratch his nose, but...
Transferringthe Microcosmic Orbit to the Energy Body
The energy body is a Chi body that offers no resistance, and so it is very easy to open its Microcosmic Orbit. Creating the energy body and transferring the Microcosmic from the physical body to the energy body is the first transference of consciousness you will experience in your practice. Each day as you work on this stage of Fusion, you transform more conscioucness to the energy body. At this stage, the energy body is simply a powerful projection of your mind and your physical body. At...
Pratyekabuddha
W These Buddhas become fully enlightened by meditating on the principle of causality. Unlike the Perfect Buddhas, however, they do not exert themselves to teach others A. Buzo and T. Prince . Prince 81 In Buddhism, Pratyekabuddhas generally mean those who live in a time when there is no Buddha but who awaken to the Truth through their own efforts. Sokk 344 Note The vehicles of the Sravakas and Pratyekabuddhas are known as the Theravada or Southern Vehicle of Buddhism. Editors na 0277
Bibliography
Sutras and tantras are listed alphabetically by English title in the first section of the bibliography. Indian and Tibetan treatises are listed alphabetically by author in the second section other works are listed alphabetically by author in the third section. Works mentioned in the first or second section are not repeated in the third section. kun byed rgyal po chos thams cad rdzogs pa chen po byang chub kyi sems kun byed rgyal po THDLNgl. 1.2.1 Compilations of Indicative Verse udanavarga ched...
The AmitayurDhyanaSutra
As I did not succeed in getting possession of a MS. of the original Sanskrit text of this Sutra, I had given up all hope of being able to give in this volume a translation of all the classical texts used by the two leading sects of the Buddhists in Japan. Fortunately at the last moment a young Japanese scholar who is reading Sanskrit with me at Oxford, Mr. J. Takakusu, informed me that he possessed the Chinese translation of this Sutra, and that he felt quite competent to translate it. It so...
The Overlooked Treasure
Have you ever felt that you didn't know who you were Not the mundane things like your name, your history, your job, or your daily routines, but knowing who the real you is, deep down, in that spot inside, which nobody knows about but you. Has there ever been a time when you literally woke up from your busy life, even just for a moment, and suddenly felt like a swimmer coming up for air after having been under for far too long Have you ever found yourself becoming unusually afraid that you might...
Professional advertising cards brochures signs print ads and yellow pages
When I set up The Hypnosis Center, Inc. I wanted to have a center where I would get to see lots and lots of clients, so many clients that I would have to hire other therapists just to handle them all And that has happened. But it never would have happened if I had taken a less than totally professional approach to how I appeared to the public, my potential clientele. Everything about my office is professional. This builds confidence in my clients. Confidence is essential, confidence in you and...
The Iconography of the Primordial Buddha
Because the Dharmakaya is totally devoid of and in no way limited by conceptions or discursive thoughts, Kuntu Zangpo is represented iconographically as a nude male Buddha figure, with cropped hair and lacking any ornaments or adornments. Sitting in meditation posture in the center of the infinity of space, He is entirely nude and unadorned because He embodies the Nature of Mind in all its unadorned nakedness, the primordial Natural State devoid of all discursive thoughts rtog-pa med-pa , much...
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
Syn Empty Store Bodhisattva Kokuzo Bodhisattva. See also True Emptiness Wonderful Existence Wish-fulfilling Gem. W Jpn Kokuzo A deity of wisdom, virtue and good fortune, whose activity is to fulfill all wishes. Her direction is south. The esoteric tradition considers this the direction from which all treasures come, and south is also associated with the Buddha Ratnasambhava Hosho , whose name means 'giving birth to treasure'. Kokuzo's name literally means 'repository of the void,' void here...
Uggahanimitta Patibhaga nimitta
According to the Visuddhimagga when you see a part by means of colour, shape, position, and delimitation this is the learning sign uggahanimitta , and when you see a part and discern it as repulsive, this repulsiveness is the counterpart sign or patibhaga nimitta. By paying attention to and developing this patibhaga nimitta of the repulsiveness of bones you can attain the first jhana at which time the five jhana factors listed below will be present. You can develop the other parts of the body...
Suggestions With Erectile Dysfunction And Premature Ejaculation
Please extend the index finger of your right or left hand straight out in the air in front of you. That's fine. Now, as I continue to speak, you will soon notice that your index finger is becoming very stiff and very rigid. And as it does, you will also find that you are completely losing all feeling in it. Soon your index finger will be just as stiff and just as numb as a bar of iron. It's becoming just as rigid and just as numb as an iron bar now. Your index finger is just as rigid as a bar...
The Writing of the Mathnawi
Some time between the years 1259 and 1260, Rumi's top student, Husamuddin Chelebi, asked his master to leave a record of his teachings for posterity. As the story goes, Rumi pulled a page of 18 verses out of his turban to signal he had already begun thinking in that direction. For the next several years, Rumi dictated his epic collection of poetry, Mathnawi, or Rhymed Couplets, as Husamuddin recorded them. At the completion of each volume, out of a composition that would eventually span six...
A Selection of Quatrains
Some of Rumi's shorter quatrains from the Divan, as follows, speak of loss, while others speak of hope, reflecting the many facets of Rumi's talent. I spent years copying others in my quest to know myself. Within my heart, I never knew what to do. When I could see no longer, I heard my name being called from somewhere. Then I took a walk outside. My heart, leave me if you cannot stand the pain. Leave me, for the streets are full of homeless lovers. My soul, if you're not afraid, then come to...
Being consumed by fire
'Aditto lokasannivaso ragaggina dosaggina mohaggina jatiya jaraya maranena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upayasehi, tssa natthanno koci nibbapeta annatara mayati passantanam buddhanam bhagavantanam sattesu mahakaruna okkamati. Lokasannivaso In regard to all beings, ragaggina the fires of raga passions , aditto are burning them with a fury producing red flames. Dosaggina the fiery anger, mohaggina delusion, the mistaken view, jatiya the fires of fresh rebirth, jaraya the fires of...
Basic Assumptions
Although the origins of Dzogchen are lost in a hoary past, it appears to have come to light in the cultural nexus of the valleys of the Hindu Kush in present Pakistan and the contiguous plateau of Western Tibet. This was in the seventh and eighth centuries when the culture of Zhangzhung dominated the area. Here shamanism, Hinduism and Buddhism were mixed, but we assume that the Indie religious ethos permeated the culture. Simplistically stated, the people of this culture believed that living...
Bibliography
Comments and recommendations are based on the author's subjective evaluation, and in no way reflect opinion of the publisher . Abrezol, Dr. R., , Inter-Marketing Group Switzerland , 1973. An original work, should be read. Alphonsi, P., and Pesont, P., , Laffont Publishing, 1973. An interesting inquiry into a case of modern-day witchcraft. Bach, Press, 1973. A very beautiful story, and one of the best sellers of all time. Bergier, J., and Duval, P., , Planet Publishing, 1963. Accessible to all,...
RecollectionofDeath Marananussati
According to the Mahasatipatthana Sutta Greater Discourse on Foundations of Mindfulness and the Visuddhimagga Commentary, the recollection-of-death can also be developed using a corpse you remember seeing. Therefore, you should re-establish the first jhana with the repulsiveness of a corpse, and with that external corpse as object, reflect 'This body of mine too is of a nature to die. Indeed, it will become dead just like this one. It cannot avoid becoming like this.' By keeping the mind...
Conclusion
The jh nas are an important aspect of training in the contemplative system of Therav da Buddhism, representing the most eminent form of concentration sam dhi . They enter into the discipline as the training in the higher consciousness adhicittasikkh , into the Noble Eightfold Path as right concentration samm sam dhi , and directly or indirectly relate to all the thirty-seven training principles leading to enlightenment. Of the two principal types of Buddhist meditation, serenity meditation...
LovingKindness Meditation
Metta, one of the illimitables or boundless states appamanna or divine abidings Brahmavihara , is a common usage in Buddhism, though its significance is rarely understood. According to the definition Mijjhati sinihyatiti Metta because of the nature of friendliness, wetness sensibility and adherence it is termed metta in essence, it is Sineha5 or SnehcC friendship which has the same rendering. It is synonymous with Adosa non-resentment or goodwill , one of the three wholesome roots. Its object...
Other irrational ideas
11. You are helpless and have no control over what you experience or feel. This belief is at the heart of much depression and anxiety. The truth is we not only exercise considerable control over interpersonal situations, but also control how we interpret and emotionally respond to each life event. 12. People are fragile and should never be hurt. This irrational belief results in failure to openly communicate important feelings, and in self-sacrifice that gives up what is nourishing and...
The Principle Of Positive Reinforcement
Reinforce and compliment the patient both in and out of trance. You're doing that very nicely. Good. You're doing very well. Umm hmm. That's right. And really enjoy the weightlessness of that hand, as it continues to float all the way up to your face. You've worked very hard today, and I hope that your unconscious mind will take a real pride in how hypnotically talented you are, and in how much you've accomplished. As a further model of how you may compliment the hypnotized patient, note what...
The Principle Of Successive Approximations
In formulating hypnotic and posthypnotic suggestions, it is essential to not expect your patients to immediately produce various hypnotic phenomena. As therapists we often err in the same way as our patients we hold magical expectations that hypnosis will produce instant results. We, like our patients, often want immediate gratification. But most clients do not leap tall buildings in a single bound. Be patient as you seek to facilitate hypnotic phenomenon, and allow the client time to develop...
Examination Of The Stages Of Tranquility And Insight
Most doctrinal treatises related to the sutras state that tranquility should be -attained first and insight afterward as the Sutralamkara states 27 b Mastery of the preceding principle results In the realization of the succeeding principles. The former is inferior and coarse, The latter superior and subtle. The above quote refers to the six principles of gone-beyond.18 It is said that each principle may be realized through the preceding one, as every preceding principle is inferior and crude,...
Bruce Walter Ebert
The following suggestions were adapted from Ebert 1988 for use with rape victims. After teaching a patient self-hypnosis, the following suggestions may be offered Take your time with this growing sense of power, control, and comfort because you will discover that, the more you relax with the techniques, the more the fears will simply fade away. Another technique utilized by Ebert 1988 was to have the patient find the image that most represented strength to her. In one case a patient imagined...
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