Now this is really interesting; I wasn’t aware this level of teasing out individual threads had been attempted yet. Am I correct in reading this table that Tibetan is the only tradition which has a technique in every category? Does Tibetan have a privileged place in the study at all (for example an expert on the tradition participated in its design)?
I am particularly curious why Calm Abiding Without Support proved to merit a category all to itself; this paper is going in the reading list.
I’m actually somewhat suspicious of the overall quality of the table given how it classifies shikantaza. Shikantaza can lead to non-dual insight but is in practice more like open monitoring, though through shikantaza you can have insight of no-self and the non-dual nature of reality, but this is also possible with koan practice. They may explain more in the paper how they came up with this classification but just reading the table I’m uncertain how much info you can draw from it though to be fair much of it is right and this may turn out to just be an error or a nit.
Now this is really interesting; I wasn’t aware this level of teasing out individual threads had been attempted yet. Am I correct in reading this table that Tibetan is the only tradition which has a technique in every category? Does Tibetan have a privileged place in the study at all (for example an expert on the tradition participated in its design)?
I am particularly curious why Calm Abiding Without Support proved to merit a category all to itself; this paper is going in the reading list.
I’m actually somewhat suspicious of the overall quality of the table given how it classifies shikantaza. Shikantaza can lead to non-dual insight but is in practice more like open monitoring, though through shikantaza you can have insight of no-self and the non-dual nature of reality, but this is also possible with koan practice. They may explain more in the paper how they came up with this classification but just reading the table I’m uncertain how much info you can draw from it though to be fair much of it is right and this may turn out to just be an error or a nit.