28 May 2012

Contemplation: Same and Different

After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take the following as your object of contemplation:

Store consciousness is neither the same nor different,
Individual nor collective.
Same and different inter-are.
Collective and individual give rise to each other.

from Transformation at the Base by Thich Nhat Hanh, p. 11

21 May 2012

Contemplation: All and One

After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take the following as your object of contemplation:

Seeds and formations
Both have the nature of interbeing and interpenetration.
The one is produced by the all.
The all is dependent on the one.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Transformation at the Base, p. 11

14 May 2012

Contemplation: Seeds and Formations

After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take this as your object of contemplation:

Seeds can produce seeds.
Seeds can produce formations.
Formations can produce seeds.
Formations can produce formations.

from Transformation at the Root by Thich Nhat Hanh, p. 11.

07 May 2012

Contemplation: Seeds

After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take the following as your object of contemplation:

Although impermanent and without a separate self,
Store consciousness contains all phenomena in the cosmos,
Both conditioned and unconditioned,
In the form of seeds.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Transformation at the Base, p. 11