Martin Aylward in Conversation with Jacob Burda

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This is beautiful Jacob!

[@mandys1505]

... i appreciate what he said on the meditation on dying; i have practiced zazen and felt the ego dissolution which is very comforting, what they call the " dharma-kaya" , or the dwelling in- between the selves. Also i have gotten insight into what medieval christianity was going after, with the bodily ordeals amd valuing sickness, because when i have been ill and in pain, i have experienced a shift in my ego, where i no longer identified with it ( or "me" my name, my body, my self... ) in the same way. And maybe this gives us insight the ego has many potentials... and this can teach us, possibly, the wisdom of values, and that health and social ego are not the highest, but that what we could call the connection to and participation in the holy, is the highest value; whether we are sick or healthy~ and then that would give us a kind of security and trust which would be unshakable, through all of these vacillations..

[@mandys1505]

interesting that he went and even visited with hermits; i have always been fascinated by them...