See below. Even a Buddhist monk agrees with me. I'm totally onto something here!
Matt
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From: Withheld
Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Seeking guidance
To: Matthew Daly <matt.daly.06@gmail.com>
Hi Matthew,
It looks like you have joyful energy coming out of your ears. This is a fantastic website. So thorough and playful.
It's wonderful that you had a glimpsing experience. This is the taste of emptiness within the context of the relative, or the context of our usual deluded, striving mind. And yes, the four insights that came out of them for you are direct and true. Don't push them away, and don't put them on an altar and worship them.
Such energy and such elation... it can feel like you've found the secret to life. And of course you have, and it was with you the whole time. And is with everyone, so there's not so much to proselytize, maybe just some reminding to do of one another, like a close friend telling you there's food stuck between your teeth over dinner.
I can make time to check in on the 19th at 2:15pm MT if that is open for you. We are in practice period, and all my usual interview slots have filled out for the month for this reason.
Now that you've read through so much of the pali canon, maybe try Dogen's Shobogenzo (Kaz Tanahashi's translation). Lot's of insight and joy there too.
Bowing,
Withheld
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:25 AM Matthew Daly <matt.daly.06@gmail.com> wrote:
Just to give you some more context, my recent experiences have made me feel so good that I feel almost..."evangelical" about the Three Jewels (the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha). To the point that I threw together a website where I'm consolidating all the readings I've done from the Pali Canon (A.K.A. The Buddhist Bible) so far. I think of it as "the greatest hits." The most important stuff (in my opinion) to read about Buddhism straight from the source.
https://mattdaly064.wixsite.com/mattdaly
Lemme know what you think!
Matt
On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 12:06 PM Matthew Daly <matt.daly.06@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi again! Would you be available for another Zoom session in the future? I had yet another "awakening" experience that I'm processing. Very powerful for me. Very profound for me. As a some context, this is what I wrote my Mom about it:
"Update 1/8/2022
While meditating this morning, I glimpsed Nibbana. It was for a split second. It felt like my heart stopped. It was so shocking that I bounced out of my meditation. It felt like making the jump into hyperspace. Felt like I was dead. Felt like I was completely no more. It was infinite whiteness. It was everything and yet completely empty. It was good. It was safe. It was timeless. It was all powerful. It was awe inspiring. It was infinite happiness.
The big take aways were these:
• Everything you think and believe is true. So think good thoughts. That will make you happy.
• All that is subject to arising is subject to cessation. Everything arises and then passes away.
• Cessation of thought, feeling, and perception is happiness.
• Being dead is either like being asleep or Nibbāna. Don't be afraid.
I love you!
Matt"
Seeking assistance/guidance working through my recent experience. Any help you can offer is appreciated, but feel no obligation.
Yours,
Matt Daly
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 2:33 PM Matt Daly <matt.daly.06@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds great!
Sent from Space Phone.
On Apr 4, 2021, at 2:29 PM, Withheld wrote:
Let's meet via Zoom tomorrow. Here's a link:
Withheld
I'll send a calendar invite as well
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:51 PM Matthew Daly <matt.daly.06@gmail.com> wrote:
"How is Monday at 10am MT?"
That's 12 noon for me EST. Works great. How would you like to connect? Phone? Zoom?
Your reply is greatly appreciated.
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:08 PM Withheld wrote:
Hi Matthew,
Withheld forwarded your request to me. I’m a priest and teacher here at Upaya.
I’d be happy to have a conversation and explore this opening you’ve come into, or that has come into you. It’s not our way to describe the experience other someone is having or to categorize it, but we do find it useful to have an open conversation and point to some teachings or maps of the dharma that might shed light on what’s arising.
Also to say that the experience will change with time, and your understanding and relationship to your insight will change. Let’s talk about all that. How is Monday at 10am MT?
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From: Matthew Daly <matt.daly.06@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 7:15 AM
Subject: Seeking guidance
To: Matthew Daly <matt.daly.06@gmail.com>
Hi! I'm currently in the midst of a very profound, personal, subjective spiritual revelation. Are there any teachers or spiritual guides you would recommend I contact to help me process this experience. I'm looking to speak with someone who is or has experienced what I'm experiencing. I would like their opinion as to what is happening to me.
Plus, if what is happening to me has happened to someone else, then I wanna talk to that person and trade notes/talk shop about things.
Many thanks!
Matt Daly
P.S. Here's my Enlightenment Manifesto for your review:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mflcp9XFjkg8HIXmYI8RpqEOM7eJ1yPq6FQO9HAAWhc/edit
Enjoy!
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