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

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

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.

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

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