Also, I think that terminology can lead to specific induced states as it primes your mind for certain things.
Yep. For this reason, my favorite teachers often don’t talk about specific insights until a student encounters it him/herself.
I don’t think that insight cycles aren’t limited to a certain way of practicing. I read about them from a Daniel Ingram’s Therevada book, but my Zen teacher talks about them too—he just uses different words and emphasizes different aspects.
I have heard that the hard parts of insight cycles like dark nights are much easier if you do lots of morality work before getting deep into insight. In this way, different traditions can make certain parts of the path easier and harder.
As for a path that has no ground, there is a ground: it’s compassion. The challenge is that a lot of norative intermediary priors are fundamentally groundless. This is a difficulty of the territory, and not an error in the map.
It is true that dark nights are predicated on having some degree of chronic suffering. That’s true in two ways: ① without an encapsulation layer to penetrate there is nothing to see through with which to get access into a dark night and ② encapsulating world models cause chronic suffering.
Yep. For this reason, my favorite teachers often don’t talk about specific insights until a student encounters it him/herself.
I don’t think that insight cycles aren’t limited to a certain way of practicing. I read about them from a Daniel Ingram’s Therevada book, but my Zen teacher talks about them too—he just uses different words and emphasizes different aspects.
I have heard that the hard parts of insight cycles like dark nights are much easier if you do lots of morality work before getting deep into insight. In this way, different traditions can make certain parts of the path easier and harder.
As for a path that has no ground, there is a ground: it’s compassion. The challenge is that a lot of norative intermediary priors are fundamentally groundless. This is a difficulty of the territory, and not an error in the map.
It is true that dark nights are predicated on having some degree of chronic suffering. That’s true in two ways: ① without an encapsulation layer to penetrate there is nothing to see through with which to get access into a dark night and ② encapsulating world models cause chronic suffering.