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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Really enjoyed this conversation on the evolving presence of Vajrayana in culture and practitioners' lives. Rich: youtu.be/wSxPC-BpZTk?...

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Ep307: Modern Vajrayana Buddhism - Lama Justin von Bujdoss & Charlie Morley

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The relationship between writing and thinking is a fundamental one and getting more attention given that we can (presumably) offload our writing to AI systems. I often find that we don't really understand things sufficiently well if we can't write it in ways that others understand.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Seeking to step out of birth and death, This tangle you are tightens: Its end before your beginning is missed. Looking obscures seeing, But if you don't once look back, Where no eye can be, You'll never see! How difficult!

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Some older meditation manuals are written for use by both teachers and students, and you'll find offhand lines going something like: "If at this point the disciple has not been introduced to the view that all is the magical appearance of one's own mind, introduce it now." 😄

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Who is reading these words? What is this? Where is reading occurring? ❤️ Wrong answers only.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Ever tried to find the exact boundary of these skinbags we call our selves on the level of sensation? Weird.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

An illuminating exercise: pair Do Nothing with free-writing. You can alternate this way between an unfixated state and automatic writing until they merge. Any time you notice the intention to control attention or direct the stream of thought or expression arise, drop it. Enjoy!

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In this one cycle of breath you may notice self and world arise and vanish. Here and gone, here and gone. Amazing! I'll be leading a Zoom intensive focused on refining mindfulness of breathing this Saturday, which I invite anyone interested to join, info and link below.❤️

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Post-mortem pondering put to rest:

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Eventually the ever insistent urge for abstraction away from this wears thin and mind, wearied from endless fabrications, rests open and free. Amazing!

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

How long to sit came up a few times on retreat: I notice diminishing returns past 90 minutes. Sitting truly motionless for that duration is a good goal. Past that, unless you're in hard/formless jhana territory and the body's out of the picture, best to break sessions up. YMMV

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Hindrances which arise when attempting to unify with an object in meditation are only this mind showing its habits. How good to see oneself clearly, to know without doubt what here remains to let go!

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Death is certain; only the time is uncertain. Knowing this, how will I pass these the few hours of this life? Remember, remember.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Recorded thoughts on the importance and function of retreat practice: youtu.be/AHijhjFElPs?...

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Why Retreat?

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Stepping into an online retreat with Leigh Brasington tomorrow and soon after beginning a year-long immersion in Rangjung Dorje's presentation of Dzogchen. Good friends, teachers, and community on this path make all the difference. May all be well. ❤️

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Nothing quite like old masters spilling steaming Zen tea:

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

"Therefore, if the proliferation and decline of the Teachings Are measured, not by the realization of reality itself Or by actions that accord with the Dharma, But instead by numbers of people, Genealogy, physical appearance or power, That is nothing but delusion and stupidity."

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Short video reflecting on and encouraging going all-in on practice: youtu.be/pwyCUbl1Hjc?...

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Encouraging Coming Undone

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

😆Hakuin heckling the Heart Sutra is gold:

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

METTA HOLIDAY! Saturday, December 21, 12-6PM Pacific, 3-9PM Eastern. Drop in for time immersing, saturating, and suffusing in loving awareness extending to all, offered on donation. www.wystantbs.com/intensives

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

"Though this Great Matter of seeing into one's nature calls for the crushing of one's bones, it is not uncommonly difficult to get it clear. What is hard to achieve is to have it function freely and clearly, always and everywhere, in motion and in rest, in good and adverse circumstances.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Without knowing anything about a particular person's proclivities, a practice path I'd happily recommend to just about anyone: Metta -> Jhana -> Vipassana -> Nondual practice(s).

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A long, informative, and entertaining journey to, "lol idk, maybe."

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Expelled some bile and threw it up on the stack. Cathartic. Reflecting and expressing feelings regarding full-time teaching. wystan.substack.com/p/reflecting...

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Tonight, last one of the year, holding open space for practice and discussion, resuming 8th of January. www.wystantbs.com/drop-into-op...

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Loved this, passing massive nenju around while all intoning the Komyo Shingon.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Whatever your beliefs, ritual magic is 🔥. Goma a few days ago: body, speech, and mind ablaze invoking Fudo Myoo's power for others' benefit. All intoning his mantra, translated: Homage to the all-encompassing Vajras! O violent one of great wrath, destroy! hūṃ traṭ hāṃ māṃ.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Iconographical tidbits: Fudo's blue-black coloring is due to his wading into the muck and shit of samsara endlessly in service to all sentience. He brandishes a sword of prajna to cut delusion, his lasso of samadhi binds affliction, his wrath blazes, burning all suffering.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Say what you will about the Bodhisattvayana. Never out of a job! There being no beings to liberate, all Buddha by nature, most miss the memo, so a tap and a nod are needed here and there.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Thinking in public, same old troubles: The structure of my neurotic tendencies makes retreat training relatively easy and enjoyable. The home-front is where more gears grind and stick, residues linger and stink. Before arriving back home tonight, giving intention to shift this.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

"Is Fudō Myōō real? In a Buddhist view, he's about as real as you are." ☀️💎🌈

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Was lucid for a portion last night. Later, caught in illusion again, chased by a murderer, I shoved her away and woke up, my body having made the shoving motion, my hands outstretched. I rarely have 'bad' dreams anymore, and when they happen I always wake up. Practice.🙂

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

🔥Short Shugendo retreat at Korinji completed.🔥 Delightful ritual and mantra practice connecting and embodying Fudo Myoo. Syllables still vibrating in my bones. Already looking forward to returning for sesshin and further mikkyo training. 🙏🙇‍♂️ My attempt at his seed-syllable:

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

"In training in Zen in recent years many people seem to have forgotten that Zen includes a great spirit of bravery and great strength. Therefore, those who train in Zen become tender-hearted, admirable-looking, desireless, and good-natured,

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"To state it concisely: by the power of the vow of Great Compassion all karmic obstacles disappear and all merit and virtue/strength are completed. No principle remains obscure, all ways are walked by it, no wisdom remains unattained, no virtue incomplete…

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Found on morning walk. 🥰

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Enjoyed this interview covering nonrenunciate householder Dharma practice, psychedelics, and much more besides: youtu.be/YYtvpiiABFk?...

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Unlocking Life's Potential With The Enlightening Lama Justin Von Bujdoss | Dharma Podcast

YouTube video by SAHAJA SOMA: Ayahuasca Preparation & Integration

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Every time I'm away from the internet for a week or so I both delight in returning and engaging and am aghast at its powerful influence over my heart and mind. Methinks this mammal would be happier with more intentional limitation of media consumption of all sorts.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A new friend asked recently which of the five hindrances I've struggled with most in the course of practice. Cause for reflection! Sensory desire, sex mostly, and ill-will, anger directed inward and outward. Much less trouble with sloth-and-torpor, restlessness, and doubt.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Contrived forms: a zendo, a mandala, a mantra, all assist seeing this whirling world as always already being what these fabrications point us towards. "Truly, is anything missing now? Nirvana is right here, before our eyes, This very place is the Lotus Land..." - Hakuin 🙇‍♂️

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Favorite films on religious life:

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This wonderful thing happens when this nature of mind comes clear, in that it's also shining as every being encountered such that there's no doubt in their nature or capacity to recognize it, either. Grateful for my own teachers for seeing me so, inviting me out of myself. ❤️

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Short video describing some varieties of experiencing absence of separate selfhood: youtu.be/Rgbj4j7Qs-U?...

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Varieties of No-Self

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

These thoughts bubbling up in response to talking with Corey today, and reading this among some of his other writing over the past few days. coreyhess.substack.com/p/90-minutes...

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A pattern I'm noticing with folks I'm seeing who are looking to deepen their practice and pick up momentum in daily life: Most often the bottleneck isn't lacking the 'right' meditation object or method, it's not misunderstanding some conceptual mapping,...

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I ask Corey about energetic opening, Zen training, bringing essence out in life, relationship, and differing cultural forms, Great Doubt, awakening, and more: youtu.be/UMaAAlRUj2U?...

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Corey Hess: Opening, Energy, and Embodiment

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

RPGs came up in my convo with @tasshin.com, and given how many hours I spent imagining myself and my friends as sorcererous heroes it's not so surprising what I've gone and done in adulthood... 😄 Left, a sorcerer from 3e D&D, right is Fudō Myōō.

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Wystan @wystantbs.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

In which I ask @tasshin.com about his life's journey, vow, evolving path, eroticism, and ending with the script flipped and me talking about sila, integration, and a little parable of mirrors: youtu.be/s8qIFM6FAlU?...

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Tasshin: Fun, Pilgrimage, and Eros

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