39 Questions & Answers + Supporting Life Blood of Sangha. [EN-PT] Zoom 02.2025

12nd February 2025. James Low had invited questions from people watching his Zooms, which he began to answer.

Supporting the sangha of some students from Brazil to travel and attend James' retreat in Portugal this summer, 2025: https://simplybeing.co.uk/autocategory/28876/

Intro) Supporting the life blood of the Sangha

P1) You have said before that we should observe our minds to see how we cheat ourselves. Does this mean that we should try to observe the moment at which we begin to reify our experience? And does this bring us along the path of the eight consciousnesses? If so, could you explain a little how to do this in meditation?

P2) When it is said, after dying, the consciousness sees and hears, for example, when relatives enjoy the fact that you are dead, how is this possible? It is said that our perceiving is as seeing a copy of the objects. What then about this object, which are surely empty?

P3) When I identify with awareness itself, when I find myself in awareness, and then release a bit from the aspects of my personalities and the specificities of my identity, I myself also seem to become another person in a way, as if this is a different kind of experience, but there is still a certain center or subtle focal point in my heart area. Is this a dualism to go beyond?

P4) I have understood that the cleansing effect of Guru Yoga ceases in the moment in which we put mind into thinking voluntarily. I find it hard to distinguish which thoughts are spontaneous and which ones are voluntary. How can I distinguish them?

Portuguese translation: Milton Petruczok

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