New Buddhist Geeks mag interview with Kenneth!

www.buddhistgeeks.com/2010/03/balanced-e...nd-the-chronic-yogi/

Awesome interview jgroove!!

It really makes everything we have been talking about on the Dynamic jhana Thread make more sense. Thanks!

Thanks for the link...

I found this installment really, really good!

Hey Everybody,

Glad you liked it! It would be great if some of you would post some comments over at Buddhist Geeks Magazine. We could have a discussion there, which would help to create interest for new people to read the interview and would help to promote Buddhist Geeks Digital Mag.

See you there!

Kenneth

"Hey Everybody,

Glad you liked it! It would be great if some of you would post some comments over at Buddhist Geeks Magazine. We could have a discussion there, which would help to create interest for new people to read the interview and would help to promote Buddhist Geeks Digital Mag.

See you there!

Kenneth"

I'll post on Buddhist Geeks as well, but --
I loved --
"So it is fine to say 'Oh, 100 times a day I'm able to see that it is perfect.' Yeah, but for the rest of the day you're a jerk and embedded in your experience, acting out, because you haven't developed Teflon mind, which is what we want. We want Teflon mind so that things don't stick."
For me the surrender has to be simultaneous with a pretty objective awareness of sensations, thoughts, actions -- I can't really surrender unless I am in my present experience and I can't really be in my present experience unless I am totally surrendered to what might and does come up.
Call it, maybe "surrendered watching."
And, as soon as I stop and go "oh wow, look! I'm surrendered and look at how awesome everything is" then it is ALL OVER and I am stuck in a thought about an experience I just had and I'm missing the next one and the next and the next.
For best results I'm thinking that an objective surrender must be as continuous as possible, like a movement. It doesn't matter what happens (heaven or hell) what matters is the quality of attention brought to what happens again and again and again. I can't take a snapshot of some great moment of surrender and then live there forever. Something new is ALWAYS coming down the pike and there is a pretty good chance it will suck. (Sorry, don't mean to be negative there but I think it is the truth -- one must develop the ability to surrender to and objectively watch the sucky as well as the sublime because there is no getting away from either)

I'm glad people are enjoying these. It's been great to have the chance to talk with Kenneth about this stuff. The timing here was neat: A lot of this particular interview does relate directly to the Static/Dynamic Jhana thread, as Nikolai pointed out.
Thanks to Vince and Emily Horn for running these Q&As!

Still trying to coax people into a discussion of jhana and right effort over at BGeeks Mag. C'mon over, y'all!

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