Tuesday, May 18, 2010

are these really skills states of being?



Core Compentencies of RM:

1. the unconditional mind - the ultimate goal of all human endeavors
2. contemplative practice - easy and natural-doing what we are doing

3. obstacles experiencing he unconditional mind
a. attachment to suffering
b. the habitual need to be doing something
c. the need to know ... what is happening and where we are
d. the need to create meaning
e. fearful projection about the unconditional mind

4. working in the here and now - is anything missing in the moment...
5. doing nothing - until it is obvious
6. observing fixations - attachments and resistance to feelings and ideas
7. intimate yet detached - discovering a desireless way of doing
8. achieving completion
9. pure listening and speaking - beyond interest and disinterest
10. Preferring neither speech or silence - giving equal value to both
11. Doing nothing and knowing nothing
12. observing our condition - not conditioning the next moment
13. open and spontaneous
14. creative ambiguity
15. nothing to think about - practice serenity
16. natural koans - what is this? - who I am?
17. deconstructing fixations - the madhyamika way
18. broadening the river of life - not making a problem out of problems
19. the contentless transmission - talking about nothing - which is not nothing
20. natural contemplation -effortless meditation
21. deep silence - managing nonverbal conversations
22. the final cleaning - checking for the purity of the conditioned experience
23. dancing the paradoxes of non-dual experience