Warrior's exam Flashcards
(42 cards)
Renunciation
Letting go The willingness to be who I actually am Renouncing the deadens ways I create extra suffering Giving up lying to ourselves Renouncing confusion Shift from confusion to basic sanity
Self Aggression
Pushing away and rejecting how things are
Rejecting oneself and one’s experience
Self rejection creates a sense of isolation, a feeing of not belonging,
It can lead to trying to people please, fear of being abandoned, acting out in negative ways
Maitri
Loving-kindness
Wish for all beings to be happy
The antidote of self-aggression
Seeing clearly and letting things be how they are
Not rejecting experiences or ourselves
A warm and kind willingness to experience whatever arises in us
It’s not a pep talk or warm and fuzzy or a technique
It’s an experience or attitude
We cultivate Maitri through our meditation practice because we see we are good
Bringing our mind into our body and watching it
We can develop Maitri with focusing practices too
Things will come up for clients and if we reject that in ourselves, the client can feel that
Basic badness
Not true but our culture is in a trance of unworthiness
We get messages that we aren’t enough and we need more and only when we have enough stuff are we good
Looks like hopelessness, Anxiety, rage, depression, anger
This is ego-clinging- even thinking I’m bad is ego-clinging because it’s making myself a solid self
Ego
Mistaken notion of a Solid self
We’re somebody but we’re a changing somebody
Our Ego is fake news
We exhaust ourselves defending a “solid self” that doesn’t exist
Ego is made up of sensations, thoughts, and a sense of duality- sense perceptions that we use to create a self
Spiritual Materialism
Using spiritual practice to strengthen the ego
Misusing our meditation practice to support a sense of solidity
Privileging “spiritual” thoughts to negative thoughts
Hanging on to what you “think” your experience should be
You have a good experience in meditation and you try to get that to happen again
Spiritual materialism is saying “this is who I should be”
Parasympathetic Nervous System
It’s like a “parachute” and it going to calm us down like a parachute helping us land gently.
Sympathetic Nervous System
It is the “gas” that is triggered and puts us in hyper arousal and we aren’t able to use the higher functions of our brain
The parasympathetic Nervous system is the “brakes”
During flight or fight trigger- our digestion stops, pupils dia late, mouth becomes dry, might even pee ourselves
Zone of resiliency- if the “brake” or “accelerator” gets stuck there are problems
Can also get stuck in freeze
Secondary trauma
Traumatized by seeing others in a traumatic situation
Tracking, resourcing and grounding
These help regulate the nervous system
Not helpful for “waking up” and can be spiritually bypassing if you use these during meditation can you want to move towards difficult things
But these are good when you’re working with your own traumas and clients traumas
The limbo system has a protective negative. It’s, grounding and tracking can balance out the negative bias
3 poisons
Passion, avoidance, and aggression
Mindful Suppression
Postponing an emotion so you can allow your nervous system to relax
Count to 10 while angry for example to calm down and not cause damage
Applying an Antidote
Taking in the good when amidst a negative emotion
Doing a loving kindness meditation when angry for example
Antidote for jealousy is rejoicing in the joy of the person setting off your jealousy
Penetrating to the wisdom of the emotion
The wisdom that your energy can go towards something else
Brilliant Sanity
Basic goodness, our buddhahood, realizing the nature of emptiness, observing the flowing stream that is experience and being present. Not grasping our experience or pushing it away
Touch and Go
Touching or tasting our experience and then let it go
Let go of story, recognizing your story as story and then touch your experience and then let it go
Letting go
Being willing for the next moment to realize
When you do that you’ve already let go of the previous moment
4 foundations of mindfulness
1) Body
2) Feeling
3) Mind
4) mental context or dharma
Trungpa’s 4 foundations
1) body
2) mindfulness of livelihood and life
3) effort
4) mind
Mindfulness of body
Psychosomatic body is the mind’s interpretation of the body filtered through habits and thoughts
We all have glimpses of direct experience of body - of non-duality, of no separation between having a body and experiencing it
Body Body is the Buddha Enlightened body
Get closer to this through meditation, body awareness
We’re mindful of a confused notion of our body - the extreme is “body dysmorphic Disorder”, you experience your body as being wrong and reject it
Focusing, felt sense
Focusing is a way to recognize and be with a felt sense
Using the body to go deeply into an experience beyond words
Focusing as a way to pause
Felt sense
Unclear, hard to pin down, experience arising in body but more than just body
An experienced sense of a whole situation that can’t be formed in words
Formed “Now” not in “body memory”
Mindfulness of life or feeling
Pleasant, unpleasant or neutral
Paying attention to the texture of your experience
The opposite of bypassing
Paying attention to what’s going on in your mind- urge to let go of grasping and let go of clinging
We bring our mindfulness to our tendency to grasp and cling
Noticing the grasping
Mindfulness of effort
Bring ourselves to the moment where we realize we are no longer distracted
Bringing mindfulness to the moment you are spontaneously present
Just suddenly back from the moment of distraction
The micromoment when you’re just here
You know you are “here” but you aren’t languaging it - bringing language to it
Being like an elephant walking around very aware - you should try but don’t try and try and try
Paying attention to effort that doesn’t take any effort
The Abstract watcher
A function of the mind, mindfulness itself, bare awareness, bare attention
Too tight and too loose
Too tight- thinking you should never get distracted
Extra tension
Too loose- having mind wandering all over and not bringing it back to the breath ever
Need to find the balance with resting in space and being with what arises
Balance between containment and openness
Precision as well as space
Noticing each moment of “now”, can never escape “now”
3 marks of existence
Egolessness, impermanence, suffering
