Contemplation: Unobstructed

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

Unobstructed and indeterminate,
Store consciousness is continuously flowing and changing.
At the same time, it is endowed
With the five universal mental formations.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Transformation at the Base, p. 10

Jikan's Office Hour: 12 May 2012

I have scheduled an Office Hour for 12 May 2012 starting at 10:30am.  You can find out more of the wheres, whens, and whys of this event here, at our meetup page.  I look forward to seeing you there!

Contemplation: Individual and Collective

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

All manifestations bear the marks
Of both the individual and the collective.
The maturation of store consciousness functions in the same way
In its participation in the different stages and realms of being.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Transformation at the Base, p. 10

Contemplation: Manifestations

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

Manifestations from store consciousness
Can be perceived directly in the mode of things-in-themselves,
As representations, or as mere images.
All are included in the eighteen elements of being.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Transformation at the Base, p. 10

Contemplation: Habit-energies

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

The function of store consciousness
is to receive and maintain
Seeds and their habit energies,
So they can manifest in the world, or remain dormant.

from Transformation at the Base by Thich Nhat Hanh, p. 10

Contemplation: Seeds

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

The quality of our life
Depends on the quality
Of the seeds
That lie deep in our consciousness.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Transformation at the Base, p. 10