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Exploring Skandhas: Creative Practice Unveiled

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The talk explores the application of the skandhas, Buddhist concepts describing the components of human existence, highlighting their role in both personal practice and communal engagement. Emphasis is placed on experiential learning through shared practice without the need for hierarchical evaluation or predefined objectives, fostering creativity and new insights into personal practice. The discussion also touches upon the evolution of understanding the skandhas through repetitive practice and collaborative exploration, facilitating deeper comprehension and practical application.

  • Buddhist teachings on the five skandhas: These teachings provide the foundational framework for understanding how personal identity and perception are constructed and deconstructed, central to the practice and discussion presented.

  • Exploration of creativity in the fourth skandha: This is highlighted as an aspect of individual practice, demonstrating the potential for creative interpretation and application within the traditional framework.

  • Traditional communal methods of learning and practice: Reference is made to how certain Tibetan practices allow for shared discourse and learning, indicating the importance of community in deepening comprehension and spiritual engagement.

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I would like to repeat what Karin said. I think what we are doing here is special. It is like an example of the Fourth Scandia. We meet here with a common intention. that we want to understand something that we may not understand so well. And we have no mission, so I don't have to explain something to someone or I don't have to explain it better than someone else, so I can just say what I want to say and just hear what the others say without having to evaluate it. And in this, from this heaven, swimming, from this Gatsbashi, associations of others to this topic, associations for my own practice arise in me, which I had not had alone and which are probably much more accurate to this practice, but which I cannot explain myself in this context, but I can explain it in my own

[01:13]

I feel a lot more clearly. I think it's a sensational experiment. Yes, I would like to follow up on that. I have never practiced any of this before. I have heard so much that it has to be said first, and then I also tried to practice it. And then I will see if this is fruitful or not. You will see it too. Yes, well, I'd like to follow up on that, too. I think it was the doc who told me that, of course, I was a little scared to go in there. And yes, a lot has become clear to me, I say, and so on, and I didn't know anything at all at all, and that's why I said it very, very well, no matter what I said, I listened to it. That's so tough.

[02:16]

For me it is the recovery, the recovery the practice, well, the skandhas are also the fundamental practice here, but simply that we come together here, as Marie-Louise mentioned, and then do it together again and again, so not only the common oriopi practice, but also the common sitting and the being together here and speaking about the skandhas. This repeats the roshila, I have learned many, many, many times and through the repetition for me it is probably worth it because it also makes me slow down and I can look at every scandal again and through your contributions, of course, that becomes even more fruitful.

[03:53]

I would also like to say about the associative areas that I find them very creative, and for me daydreaming also comes into play, because I am someone who likes to daydream in order to get out of the way of perhaps sometimes a bit of a helpless reality, but that somehow has a whole So let's say I have to go through the line in Frankfurt and it is so full of people where I don't want to go, then I do it in such a way that I take a detour or I walk through three side streets in order to reach the point where I really have to go. And all the paths parallel to the line. Yes, please.

[05:02]

Well, this weekend has now taken a fear away from this scandal. That was always such a big picture for me, where I heard a lot, but I never knew at what point I could touch. because I couldn't even remember the five skandhas, I couldn't even count them because it was already too complicated. And because we have now opened it up piece by piece and I was able to look into each single one more closely and also hear a lot, it made it so clear now. in the difficulty, yes, it can be, but it is still, I have a clear view on it, I can throw a clear view on it and can also practice with this knowledge.

[06:08]

because I know so much about it now. Thank you all. But I also wanted to say something about the fourth scandal. The word creativity has been mentioned a few times. I also find it extremely creative. I have already written letters, I have designed costume pictures, I have designed lessons. You can do a lot in this. I think that's great. Finally, I can do it. I think I'm done. I would like to discuss the fact that the five standards of their true nature are according to Buddha. No, yes. What do you mean by Buddha? All five. There is also a film called Buddhas.

[07:28]

Then it's 25. 5 times 1. Maybe I'll do it again. Yes, do it again. For the first time. Yes, I'm now also here in the Warneshof for a week. I'm sitting here with you now and this is the first time I'm hearing from Alexander. I've never heard a lecture from Roshi before. I just wanted to say thank you for the openness and... What did you say? No, not that. That was it. I just wanted to ask. When I had signed up and said to her, I'm coming there, I thought, man, you're in trouble.

[08:36]

You have no idea. Really. And then the first lectures came and then I thought, yes, that's me. You never know what to say. Then I read something and thought, I'm studying all of that now, I'm preparing myself now, as you can see, 12 o'clock, copy that, read that, and the stack was always there, and what did I read? I read one such part. It didn't work out, but somehow I felt encouraged, and I'm so happy that I came here, because a lot has been clarified, and I have a completely different intensity in my practice and I also know why I like to sit so much and what it all does and changes. And these scandals are now just on. Maybe you can connect that with the others.

[09:38]

with the other ideas, with koans or something like that. I haven't researched that yet, but that's quite normal for me now. And I thank you all, because I think it's like you said, it was so free. I have rarely been able to express myself so freely, really. I never thought about it, how did it come about, how did it come about, how was it evaluated, or did I say something wrong? I don't know anything about it on this weekend, otherwise I would have had it for a long time. Did it come right and did you understand it and don't I have to add something and correct it again? And I think there is nothing left, no smell left. Yes, that there is such a trust that it is well balanced or that it is let go again.

[10:48]

So both. That it also works again. I think you did a great job. I didn't understand the e-mails at all, but it was always so concrete, he does it like this and like that. I found that so helpful, because I always think, how do they actually do that? Yes, actually we wanted to go much more into practice and say, how do we practice with it now? But I think it was very fruitful from the beginning. And I really like it now. There are many suggestions and it takes time to say, okay, I'll sit down now and try it very concretely. And does this confirm itself or does it not confirm itself?

[11:58]

Or are there completely different experiences? And that has found a very fruitful basis. We have actually also learned to talk about it together, I don't know, the first seminars or small groups or, as I said, yes, I think there is a Tibetan practice that does nothing else for a long time, the monks sit there for days, together and hit each other in the ears. They are so good. They argue. And I think we learned that very well. We can think about how it goes on now. That's what we hope for now. Another topic for next year. There are still many interesting topics, but I think we'll leave that open for now. I'll also make suggestions.

[13:00]

I'll have to see, I'll have to talk to Froschel about what could be a second topic for next year. Did I miss something? No, but the fifth can already be said. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, [...] no But to be in it and to say, I see that I make concepts, I create the concepts. As you say, in every scandal you can create it yourself. Hi, I'm Celina. I wouldn't want to send out a new topic for the new year or something like that, what's new, what's new, what will be in the course of the year, for the next year, that has time now.

[14:24]

And if it is decided, we can also do it again in the second year. At least this possibility exists and we are there for it. We can really do it the way we want it to be. How often do you think it will happen? Once a year. Once a year. There is simply no more time. If you look at the schedule, then there is simply no more time. Do you know what I could imagine? According to our old name Buddhist Study Center, you could have a discussion group instead of a study group. If someone comes here and talks about a topic, you can participate. This is a kind of tool of our Sangha. Maybe it's not possible to meet each other every week. I have no idea. But it's as if something dramatic is created in this group that is otherwise not possible.

[15:50]

Maybe it has to be the same group. I don't know what the recipe is that is good for us. We were the present. Yes, I can say that. I have already said it, it is very nice that we all did it together. All together in one big room, where we all sit and breathe. That is very good. Just like in Sardinia, but now in the room. I would say it was something historical. I have never heard of something like that before. I don't know either. Yes, I know a lot, but I don't know that. Well, I think it's also better to think about it in a masochistic way, because I think in Skanda there are actually also the other teachings that we share, to appear, to pass away, and so on.

[17:00]

All these teachings are also in there. Yes, because then I am more for the deep. So that means, again ...? Yes, or another aspect, or, I don't know, practice. Yes, we now know what the skandhas are, but what is it actually about, what do we have to do? It is about converting them into emptiness, at least, or something like that. What is the Buddhist meaning of our practice? That's what you should do now. Yes, that's what we should do now, because we're going to do that now. And then it happens. That's what happened with the one you just talked about. Yes, but then we're going to experience it. But I also think that next year we might be able to do this again. And we can still continue to write or exchange experiences with each other.

[18:19]

That doesn't have to stop. I'll show you again. Yes, go ahead. I think it would be interesting to have something to say about the 5th, that we still have to write about it. Just like that. Just a little bit, not the whole thing, but just a little bit. On the other hand, I think it has proven itself in our Saga, that we just let it go, let it go, and then see what comes back after a month of practice, what's on it now. I'm curious as well. The song just got loose. We are going to Vienna, I need two days.

[19:25]

But Kiko, this is really an invitation and you are also on this list and a short e-mail to all that you know that we have talked about the most important thing and then ideas for all that you have received. Cool. And then it goes on. And then it goes on. Now we're all in front of your house. But now it's here. Now it's here. Now it's here. Now it's here.

[20:28]

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