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The Mind Illuminated - A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science.pdf CULADASA (JOHN YATES, PH.D.) AND MATTHEW IMMERGUT, PH.D. WITH JEREMY GRAVES THE MIND ILLUMINATED A COMPLETE MEDITATION GUIDE INTEGRATING BUDDHIST WISDOM AND BRAIN SCIENCE pg. 470-472 STAGE EIGHT Mental Pliancy and Pacifying the Senses UNIFYING THE MIND, PACIFYING THE SENSES, AND THE ARISING OF MEDITATIVE JOY PRACTICES TO HELP ACHIEVE PHYSICAL PLIANCY AND MEDITATIVE JOY (Cont.) GETTING STUCK You can get stuck at any point during the process of pacification of the senses and the arising of meditative joy. You’ll know because you’ll consistently have disruptive and often unpleasant experiences in meditation, with little or no sign of change or improvement. Say, for example, that every time after you sit down and achieve effortlessness, you always experience abrupt, violent jerking movements, or unpleasant tingling, itchiness, and hot flashes that just get more disagreeable over time. Or, you experience intensely unpleasant energy sensations and severe pain in your chest or neck, or constantly feel like you’re falling over. Maybe you often get dizzy, sweat, or feel nauseated. While a certain amount of this is normal, when it happens consistently and doesn’t improve, something is blocking your progress. As we explained in the Sixth Interlude, it may be the hindrances of aversion and agitation due to worry and remorse. To the degree these hindrances are present, even at a subconscious level, they prevent unification of mind and normal progress through the grades of pīti. You can get stuck at any point during the process of pacification of the senses and the arising of meditative joy. If you do, the answer lies outside meditation. Adept practice depends on everything you do, all day long, every day. The antidote to aversion is deliberately cultivating love, compassion, patience, generosity, and forgiveness toward everyone, including yourself. The antidote to worry and remorse is practicing virtue in every aspect of your life. You can change bad habits and stop doing things that create the causes for worry and remorse. Make amends for things you’ve already done or failed to do, and if you can’t do it directly, do it through acts of kindness and service to those who suffer in the ways you’ve made others suffer. Seek others’ forgiveness, and especially, forgive yourself. There is actually an advantage to working through Stage Eight in daily practice rather than in deep retreat; you have more opportunities to take appropriate action to overcome these hindrances. In other words, if you find yourself getting stuck in Stage Eight, the answer lies outside meditation, in how you live the rest of your life. Adept practice depends on everything you do, all day long, every day. The Loving-Kindness meditation in Appendix C and the Mindful Review practice in Appendix E are powerful tools for overcoming these hindrances. There is actually an advantage to working through Stage Eight in daily practice rather than in deep retreat; you have more opportunities to take the appropriate actions to overcome these hindrances. Thus, Ananda, the purpose and benefit of virtuous behavior is freedom from remorse. The purpose and benefit of freedom from remorse is satisfaction. The purpose and benefit of satisfaction is joy (pīti). The purpose and benefit of joy is pacification of the body. The purpose and benefit of pacification of the body is pleasure (sukha). The purpose and benefit of pleasure is concentration (samādhi). The purpose and benefit of concentration is knowledge and vision of things as they really are. The purpose and benefit of knowledge and vision of things as they really are is disenchantment and dispassion. The purpose and benefit of disenchantment and dispassion is knowledge and vision of liberation. Kimatthiya Sutta: Purpose and Benefits of Virtue, from the Anguttara Nikaya 10.1.1.1

🫨👽😵‍💫 Consciousness_and_the_Universe__Quantum_Ph_-_Roger_Penrose.pdf Consciousness and the Universe Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind Editors Sir Roger Penrose University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Stuart Hameroff, M.D. University of Arizona, Arizona, Subhash Kak, Ph.D. Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma pg. 264-266 Chapter 13 Consciousness: Solvable and Unsolvable Problems Prof. Dr. Etienne Vermeersch Emeritus Professor, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium (Cont.) 2. A Novel Theory Before taking up the other two theses, I propose a rather novel theory that might make further discussions more convincing. 2.1.1. First, some basics about my world view. (a) In the whole universe, next to space/time, there is only E/M: things with mass or energy as referred to in Einstein’s equation (E =Mc2. (b) E/M can be measured variously by a variety of instruments. The differences lie in the different ‘states’ of E/M substrates. (c) Human knowledge cannot describe all particular states; it refers mostly to sets (classes) of states, sets of sets, etc. Without such a hierarchy of sets, our world would be a chaos and useful actions would be impossible. (d) To introduce organisation into this chaos, we use what I call I-systems (information processing systems). The simplest type has an entry which can detect different states (the input) of an E/M-substrate (e.g. different sound waves) and an exit which can exhibit different states (the output) of an EM-substrate (different light waves). The essential property of a simple I-system is that it systematically realizes a one-to-one correspondence between sets of input states and sets of output states. 2.1.2. We can generalize this elementary idea. Every system that systematically realizes an isomorphism between subsets of states of the input and subsets of states of the output is an I-system. One can also say that such a system identifies (‘considers’ as equivalent) these subsets of states of the input and discriminates them from other subsets of states. 2.1.3. The basic definition of this article is the following: a set of states of an E/M substrate that is identified and discriminated from other sets of states is a *form. Generally speaking, (to be qualified later) such discrimination and identification is realized by an I-system. Where this definition is meant, a star * is added to the term ‘form’. Further: (i) When there is isomorphism between the *forms of input and output, some E/M manipulation (‘transformation’) on the substrates is implied in most cases. (*Forms of sound waves may be mapped onto *forms of electric current etc.) (ii) *Forms can travel from one I-system to another, since output *forms of the first can be input *forms for the second, etc. (iii) I-systems can contain internal I-systems, whose existence can be deduced from its overt behaviour. (iv) Using different identification and discrimination criteria, the input of an I-system can identify different types of *forms, (v) Subsystems of a total system are mostly interlinked in different ways. 2.1.4. Here is the basic postulate of this ‘*form theory’: notions like ‘form’, ‘shape’, ‘figure’, ‘configuration’, ‘type’, ‘structure’, ‘design’, ‘melody’, ‘fragrance’, ‘meme’ etc. can be defined as a ‘*form’. More importantly, whatever is called ‘a signal’, ‘a sign’, ‘a message’, ‘ a stimulus’ and especially a unit of ‘information’, an item of ‘perception’ or a piece of ‘knowledge’, can be rigorously defined as a *form. 2.1.5. The case of ‘information’ is rather special, since this is the first real, physically described and consistently applicable definition of the term. (Compare in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for instance: “information”: 767 entries, “information AND definition”: 456 entries, “information AND concept”: 541 entries.)

OceanofPDF.com_Galactic_Diplomacy_Getting_to_Yes_with_ET_-_Michael_Salla.pdf Galactic Diplomacy Getting to Yes with ET Michael E. Salla, M.A., Ph.D. pg. 174-182 CHAPTER 5 Extraterrestrial Visitors and Secret Government Agreements – The Military Industrial-Extraterrestrial Complex Extraterrestrial Races Cooperating with the Military-Industrial- Extraterrestrial Complex Grays (Cont.) Anunnaki Finally, there is reported to be a race of tall human looking extraterrestrials that have played a role in seeding the Earth. They periodically return to determine how effectively Earth’s resources have been utilized by humanity and extraterrestrials ‘managing’ humanity. These are described by the Sumerians as the Anunnaki from the world ‘Nibiru’ in the extensive cuneiform texts translated by Zecharia Sitchin. [362] These tall humanoids form the chief ‘founding’ extraterrestrial race that were the gods described in many ancient mythologies and religions. [363] According to the accounts of the Sumerians, the Anunnaki’s chief god is Anu. The pantheon of Anunnaki, as described by Sitchin, form key figures in the hierarchy that secretly oversee management of humanity and the planet Nibiru which periodically returns to the vicinity of Earth. According to Sitchin, the Anunnaki created humanity as a slave race to work deep underground gold mines. The early humans were then genetically upgraded in order for them to be better utilized by the Anunnaki. Sitchin claims that the Anunnaki were deeply divided over the wisdom of creating a race from their own genetic material that could be used first as slave labor and later as mercenaries. The two Anunnaki factions were led by Enlil and Enki, both sons of the Anunnaki supreme leader, Anu. The two Anunnaki factions regularly had conflicts and used human mercenaries for proxy wars against one another. The result was an escalating series of battles that culminated in the use of nuclear weapons that destroyed the Anunnaki’s main space ports. According to Sitchin, the biblical accounts of Sodom and Gomorrah describe the use of nuclear weapons whose radioactive fallout made life too dangerous for the resident Anunnaki. [364] Most Anunnaki chose to leave the Earth but a few likely remained to secretly observe and manage their hidden facilities. Sitchin says little about the origin of the Anunnaki other than them originating from the ‘tenth planet’ of our solar system, Nibiru, that orbits the sun in a 3600 year cycle. For an account of their origins we can turn to Alex Collier who claims, according to the Andromedans, that the Anunnakis’ history is as follows: A very long time ago, colonies on Sirius B and the Orion Group were having trouble with each other. In order to bring peace, there was a marriage between members of each group. The woman came from the Orion Group, where the hierarchy includes a queen – the matriarchal paradigm. The male was from Sirius B. Both members were considered royalty of their respective line. When these two came together in marriage, their offspring had the genetics from both lines. Because of these genetics, the new race that was created was given the name “Nibiru”, which I am told by Moraney [Andromedan Counselor] in the Orion tongue means “divided amongst two”. This is who they literally are – a cross between those from Sirius B and a race from the Orion system. They formed a new “tribe” which has continued to flourish for at least hundreds of thousands of years. So, they are a tribe that has become a race. [365] It appears that the Anunnaki’s mode of operation is to exploit planetary resources by using ‘primitive’ species such as humanity to extract resources and for mercenary purposes. Due to their propensity for factional fighting, it appears that these experiments result in failure as factions maneuver for advantage over one another.