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| About Buddhism
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| 25/8/19
| Addiction
| We live in a completely addicted society. Our worst addicted people, the super rich, .... destroy the very planet we live on in their addiction. We are all consumer addicts .... addiction is not just physical and this is where our meditation method and dhamma comrades come in.
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| Bhavana on Faith
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| 22/8/20
| Compassion
| Follow your path, return to compassion losing the egos of conditioning without getting sucked into the attachments of dukkha; enjoy the phala.
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| 21/10/22
| Compromise and Dedication to the Path
| Compromise creeps .... it creeps and expands. This is the nature of compromise .... For seekers in our daily lives we need to develop discernment and detachment so that we know and see daily life so that it doesn’t compromise us with conditioned egos.
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| Detachment
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| 24/8/19
| Eclecticism
| We developed eclectic tastes in music and the arts, finding something that was new to the social group was to be celebrated .... but the reality is that they remained in their intellects, never moved beyond their intellects – never got deep. It is in deep inner space where spirit is found.
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| 31/10/21
| Faith and Vihara
| If there was perfection, then there would be transcendence to wisdom and understanding .... My vihara is not perfect yet my path takes me into the unknown where faith reconnects me with wisdom – with Unity.
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| 24/8/19
| Guilt
| You follow the path, you do what comes naturally. Why would guilt arise? What is most important to deal with guilt is what I call sila-consciousness; sila is the Buddhist term for moral integrity. As part of “always doing the best I can”, I have tried to be as moral as I can.
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| 30/9/20
| In this time of crisis why transcend?
| In transcendence we have a process that helps all people see the movement clearly. Through transcendence people develop the Dhamma, they transcend thought and conditioning, and they develop compassion and decency that can help them discern which views and methods benefit society in all situations.
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| 15/7/22
| Integrating 4 Noble Truths with zandtaomed
| Wednesday was a significant Buddhist holiday here in Thailand - Asanha Bucha day – marking the first teaching of the Buddha in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta – the 4 Noble Truths of dukkha, samudaya, nirodha and magga. .... How do the 4NT connect to the advice and practice of zandtaomed?
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| 21/8/20
| Is Zandtaomed for the compassionate conservative?
| The key to the positive answer for the compassionate conservative to the question “Is Zandtaomed for the conservative?” is that Zandtaomed is beyond views, does not cling to views, lets views go .... For any student Zandtaomed using MwB will help that student follow their path.
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| 2/7/22
| Liberation
| in MwB there is a process of liberation with the release of attachments. Where do attachments arise? the purpose of this advice to help a seeker be liberated by being aware of patriarchy. Know the dangers
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| 16/1/20
| Mcmindfulness
| in unison of their criticism of the Mcmindfulness industry, and as Ron explained clearly early on in the interview mindfulness is only part of the 4 Noble Truths .... but there is a question “Has he lost the essence of Buddhism – the spirituality of the path?"
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| 6/3/24
| Are you ready for meditation retreats?
| Be advised, take your retreat slow. Maybe avoid retreats if you can't do two sessions a day. Meditation is good but it is not the path - just do the best you can to follow your path."
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| 25/2/23
| MwB and Embodying Love
| Crossing the threshold is prajna portal but there is one exception because of omission – the embodiment of love in meditation.
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| 26/11/21
| Path and egos
| For me the zanshadtao z-quest gave a clarity concerning paths and egos, we reconnect with our paths by releasing conditioned egos. In summary we can do this through
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| 13/4/20
| PTSD Fragmenting
| Fragmentation is nature's way of helping us cope, it is a process that can be hugely beneficial if managed. Whilst paths require integration, in the situation of PTSD nature has quite sensibly drawn a curtain over the trauma causing the PTSD-fragment. Accept nature's way of handling the trauma; the path has created the fragment, trust your path.
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| 4/6/22
| SEEing - the Mindfulness Movement
| Zandtaomed watched the documentary - The Mindfulness Movement .... (it) promoted the secular origin of the current mindfulness movement .... What has been lost with this secularity?
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| 13/3/22
| Seeker Story
| For a Seeker Story to have meaning it could hurt, it could concern parts of your personal history .... I therefore recommend that this story be written under the guidance of an elder, a person who understands the path.
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| 27/10/21
| Spiritual Bypassing, Narcissism et al
| Spiritual bypassing is an ego but we have to be so careful in describing what someone does as spiritual bypassing. If a teacher spends time in solitude to develop spiritually, is that bypassing or learning?
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| 12/2/22
| Spiritual Narcissism
| Please try to follow your path. Please don’t run away from your path because spiritual teachers are accused of being narcissistic. Ask, if you are not satisfied .... If teachers exploit the vulnerable .... bypassing .... If you think their teachings are narcissistic then go somewhere else.
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| 19/4/22
| Tathata of 2 Conditionings
| The essence of tathata is to SEE the way life is – both inner and outer.... Here tathata sees the process of conditioning as paticcasamuppada, and suggests SEEing that process as dual conditioning – the natural conditioning of upbringing and the societal conditioning of kilesa with all its implications.
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| 20/8/20
| Tathata, Timeless and Tacit
| To know what is what, tathata, is to know the timeless and the tacit. How can we understand the timeless wisdom without understanding the context?
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| 14/10/19
| The Protection of the 5 Dhamma comrades
| Updated - 4 Dhamma Comrades is the name Buddhadasa gave to the essential dhammas that arise during Mindfulness with Breathing. Zandtaomed has added love to make 5 Dhamma Comrades - Mindfulness(Sati), Spiritual Love, Wisdom (Panna), Embodiment (Sampajanna), Concentration (Samadhi). 5DC is NOT a Buddhadasa thing.
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| 17/5/23
| What does zandtaomed teach?
|  Zandtaomed helps a seeker build their practice so that the seeker develops their own autonomy and starts their quest into the unknown – path.
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| 18/11/21
| Where do Seekers go?
| How many true followers of the path started this way? .... “when the student arises [is ready], the moment’s teacher appears to appear”. So seekers stumble around finding insights in the wind or snippets from the great wisdom of teachers in and out of the institutions, and eventually find their path .... or not.
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| 12/4/23
| Zandtaomed Autonomous Practice
| The seeker seeks the autonomy of the path, and the seeker is their meditation. As part of the path wise enquiry is an ongoing essential as the seeker develops that autonomy. Be your meditation.
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| 13/11/20
| ZQuest - Deep Enquiry
| Do we always try to go deeper with our spirituality? There is a sense of rightness in looking positively at people with a daily meditation practice as having a spiritual life within the mire of a defiled world. But ....
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