In support of the meditation techniques still taught unchanged after more than 2,500 years.
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Meeting my mind:
what we see depends on perception
On holiday to paint trees an unexpected meeting with a meditation teacher revealed that there are “Ultimate Truths” that can be observed with the “eye of the mind”. What we see depends on perception only.
Documentary: Drawings combined with a Dhamma Talk
Sketch of an
Excellent Man
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DOCUMENTARY: 1h43 minutes
In the Pa Auk Forest Monastery in Myanmar over a thousand people from all over the world are first taught 40 concentration techniques to be able to analyse the ultimate realities of Mind and Matter (Nāma and Rūpa) at subatomic particle level by “their own direct experience”. They then proceed to practise Dependent Origination (Paticca-samuppāda) and Insight Meditation (Vipassanā) as described in the “Path of Purification” (Visuddhi Magga), a 1,500 year old summary of the Pāli texts: the legacy of the profound practical knowledge as originally taught by Gotama the Buddha.
For people in search of the truth it can be a life changing experience to learn about “the wisdom light” produced by a concentrated mind found in the heart base – the sixth sense – described in detail.
Rare footage of the Most Venerable Pa Auk Tawya Sayadaw explaining Vipassanã and Dependent Origination in English, illustrated by an artist/architect (watercolour, animation) make this subtle and profound knowledge enjoyable to watch even by non practitioners.
Meditation notes unexpectedly reveal
the lost links of Buddhism in Europe
A holiday to make watercolours of trees unexpectedly turned into a search for “Ultimate Mind (nāma) and Materiality (rūpa)” after meeting a monk who taught the original meditation system of the Buddha. Notes of meditation instructions and experiences had the same images as found on ancient coins in Europe. Numbers of Abhidhamma theory were used systematically on thousands of objects made in Europe for a period of up to 1,800 years.
Meditation notes: drawings on Celtic coins
Images on Celtic horse coins resembled drawings of meditation experiences, after years of investigation the cryptic codes could be traced to the Phaistos Disk, probably made by mathematician and the first to call himself a philosopher: Pythagoras.
c. 50 BC Celtic “eye coin” Treveri with coded horse to illustrate meditation
Meditation notes: investigation of the eye to find particles in space
Meditation notes: investigation of the eye: kalāpas, subatomic particles in space
Did the meditation system taught by the Buddha Gotama in India
reach Greece in the 6th century BC?
Lost links of Buddhism in Europe
Did people in Europe meditate for up to 1,800 years until the 12th century, only 800 years ago?
Can the legacy of enlightened monks teaching meditation in Europe still be recognised?
“Earth, water, fire and wind” were not forgotten ideas of pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, but the name of a profound meditation technique taught by the Buddha, the Four Great Elements meditation technique: Catu-dhātu-vavatthāna-kammatthāna in Pāli.
Plato taught at the Akademia in Athens, he often described how the “mind’s eye” can see “particles and space” in his dialogues.
Were the sites of Knossos, Phaistos and Mycenae learning centres, rather than luxurious palaces of long forgotten Greek civilisations?
Phaistos Disk: a master key
Animated text clip, no sound.
An overview of the meaning of the images on the Phaistos Disk: a complex meditation diagram with multiple layers of knowledge – a tool to teach students not limited by language barriers.
If the Phaistos Disk of Crete was made by Pythagoras (c. 580-500 BC) in the 6th century BC around the lifetime of the Buddha Gotama (c. 624-544 BC) in India, the objects found by archeologists begin to now reveal the alternative history that was lost and buried under the broken ruins found all over Europe.
Was the Phaistos Disk of Crete made by Pythagoras in the 6th century BC?
Pythagoras (c. 580–500 BC) was a contemporary of the Buddha Gotama (c. 624 – 544 BC) in India, he was about 36 years old when the Buddha entered Parinibbāna.
If his teachings of “metempsychosis” (knowledge of past lives), was based on Dependent Origination as taught by the Buddha, the symbols on the Phaistos disk and the Linear A and Linear B scripts were “ideograms” to teach meditation step by step, and not the lost phonetic alphabets of ancient Greek dialects as currently thought.
Meditation practiced in Europe for 1,800 years?
The meditation techniques spread all over Europe when Greek philosophers fled to colonies of Magna Graecia after the Persian invasion. Phaistos Disk symbols were transformed into abstract symbols of the Ogham and Rune scripts; ideograms to write votive messages from the 5th century. Objects of gold and silver and engravings on stones made until the 12th century systematically followed information first used on clay tablets in Greece, the meaning was forgotten after people stopped meditating.