What is KHTK? (old)

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The acronym KHTK stands for “Knowing how to Know.” It just happened to be that way without any thought. The organization of basic knowledge in the subject of Scientology (a word, which means “knowing how to know”) is definitely impressive, so that might have something to do with it.

KHTK is an effort to get the available spiritual technology applied at the grass roots level. The model for this is the same as used by Buddha 2600 years ago.

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KHTK is an evolving subject. The following may be said about KHTK at this stage of its development:

  1. KHTK starts with mindfulness as practiced in Buddhism. Mindfulness provides the discipline for looking and contemplation. Therefore, the first action of KHTK was to develop the The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness. One may train oneself on mindfulness by following the exercises documented in Training in Mindfulness.

  2. KHTK is designed for self-application at the grass roots level using the model provided by Buddha. Thus, KHTK is freely available on this blog to anybody who is interested.

  3. Like Buddhism, KHTK places knowledge above self. Knowledge derived from any source, such as, Christianity, Buddhism, modern psychology, etc., must be consistent. If there is an inconsistency, it is investigated to discover the underlying consistency.

  4. KHTK Exercises based on Buddhism contains the ten basic exercises derived from what Buddha taught.

  5. KHTK Exercises based on Scientology provides self-help exercises based on Hubbard’s research in Scientology, which address conditions in a more targeted manner. Here the discipline of mindfulness replaces Hubbard’s use of e-meter. More exercises shall be added over time.

  6. In KHTK, a person resolves his or her problems through mindful looking as directed by the exercises. Thus, KHTK helps resolve personal problems without the violation of one’s privacy.

  7. These KHTK exercises may be used to help friends and family members by first instructing them on the 12 steps of mindfulness (see Training in Mindfulness), and then assisting them with the application of these exercises. This may be done over long distances using phone or Skype without any difficulty.

  8. KHTK does its own investigation into inconsistencies encountered among the various sources of knowledge, and provides their resolution in terms of more basic understandings. See the Philosophy Project.

  9. Beyond these exercises and understandings, spiritual gains may be obtained by continually spotting and resolving inconsistencies as they are encountered in life. Please see Knowledge & Inconsistency, Inconsistency & Looking, and Looking at Knowledge.

  10. KHTK study prepares a person along this path through the application of mindful discussions. See Discussions and what needs to be avoided.

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In this Information Age of today knowledge can be accessed easily through Internet. Therefore, it is not necessary to accumulate knowledge in one’s head. One only needs to learn to rapidly resolve inconsistencies in the knowledge referenced before one applies it. This is how one will be able to survive in this Information Age.

KHTK aims to help develop the ability to spot and resolve inconsistencies by training people on mindfulness.

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January 12, 2013 – 5:26 PM Categories: KHTK | Comments (3)

Cause of Unwanted Condition

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[Reference: The First Noble Truth – Dukkha]

  1. An unwanted condition is Dukkha per the first noble truth of Buddha. It results from ‘imperfection’, ‘impermanence’, ‘emptiness’, and ‘insubstantiality’.

  2. The physical and mental forces and energies in this universe are always changing. That is their inherent nature.

  3. What brings about unwanted condition is the desire to bring these physical and mental forces and energies into enduring forms that is enjoyable, pleasing and satisfying.

  4. None of the desirable forms created in this universe can endure forever. What then persists is the desire to make these forms endure.

  5. This desire exists in the physical and mental forces and energies themselves, out of which these forms are created.

  6. The center of these physical and mental forces or energies is what we know as the perception point.

  7. As the perception point becomes fixed with the desire for the pleasing forms, it gradually develops into a “self.”

  8. A tightly knotted set of desires and considerations may appear as an “identity” with a certain purpose.

  9. As “self” winds up into complex configuration of desires and considerations, unwanted conditions start to set in. These conditions are patterns fixed in space.

  10. There seems to be no way out of this condition.

  11. Plato started out by considering the Ethical problem. That led to the Political problem; which, in turn, led to the Psychological problem.

  12. Plato then came up with a solution to this Psychological problem in terms of setting up internal controls.

  13. These controls involved the indoctrination of people into believing in a personal God who can judge, reward or punish them.

  14. Plato’s solution provided the groundwork for later religions, such as, Christianity, which provides a system of faith designed to set up internal controls to make people behave properly.

  15. Here we see an attempt to resolve ethical, political and psychological problems by fixing desires and considerations into acceptable configurations.

  16. It is the fixedness of these desires and considerations that creates the unwanted condition. It doesn’t matter whether that fixedness is acceptable or not.

  17. Fixedness comes about when arbitrary decisions are taken during confusion. When such patterns become part of the identity they are difficult to spot.

  18. As part of the identity one uses fixed patterns to look at everything. The identity as a fixed pattern then becomes part of the unwanted condition.

  19. Resolution of unwanted condition then involves a resolution of fixed identity.

  20. Attempts to fix the patterns of physical and mental forces and energies into some acceptable configuration shall never lead to a resolution, because that very effort to fix them generates unwanted conditions.

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December 27, 2012 – 6:57 PM Categories: KHTK | Comments (23)

Mindfulness in Mental Objects (Truths)

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Reference: The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness

The FourNoble Truths are part of the mental objects that one needs to be mindful of. These are:

  1. ‘This is suffering’
  2. ‘This is the origin of suffering’
  3. ‘This is the cessation of suffering’
  4. ‘This is the road leading to the cessation of suffering’

 

Here are some excerpts from Satipatthana Sutta: The Foundations of Mindfulness.

“And further, monks, a monk lives contemplating mental objects in the mental objects of the four noble truths.
“How, monks, does a monk live contemplating mental objects in the mental objects of the four noble truths?
“Herein, monks, a monk knows, ‘This is suffering,’ according to reality; he knows, ‘This is the origin of suffering,’ according to reality; he knows, ‘This is the cessation of suffering,’ according to reality; he knows ‘This is the road leading to the cessation of suffering,’ according to reality.
Thus he lives contemplating mental objects in mental objects internally, or he lives contemplating mental objects in mental objects externally, or he lives contemplating mental objects in mental objects internally and externally. He lives contemplating origination-factors in mental objects, or he lives contemplating dissolution-factors in mental objects, or he lives contemplating origination-and-dissolution-factors in mental objects.[27] Or his mindfulness is established with the thought, ‘Mental objects exist,’ to the extent necessary just for knowledge and mindfulness, and he lives detached, and clings to nothing in the world. Thus, monks, a monk lives contemplating mental objects in the mental objects of the four noble truths.
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“Verily, monks, whosoever practices these four foundations of mindfulness in this manner for seven years, then one of these two fruits may be expected by him: highest knowledge (arahantship) here and now, or if some remainder of clinging is yet present, the state of non-returning.[28]
“O monks, let alone seven years. Should any person practice these four foundations of mindfulness in this manner for six years… five years… four years… three years… two years… one year, then one of these two fruits may be expected by him: highest knowledge here and now, or if some remainder of clinging is yet present, the state of non-returning.
“O monks, let alone a year. Should any person practice these four foundations of mindfulness in this manner for seven months… six months… five months… four months… three months… two months… a month… half a month, then one of these two fruits may be expected by him: highest knowledge here and now, or if some remainder of clinging is yet present, the state of non-returning.
“O monks, let alone half a month. Should any person practice these four foundations of mindfulness in this manner for a week, then one of these two fruits may be expected by him: highest knowledge here and now, or if some remainder of clinging is yet present, the state of non-returning.
“Because of this it was said: ‘This is the only way, monks, for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the destruction of suffering and grief, for reaching the right path, for the attainment of Nibbana, namely the four foundations of mindfulness.’
“Thus spoke the Blessed One. Satisfied, the monks approved of his words.”
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EXERCISE

PURPOSE:   To practice mindfulness in Four Noble Truths.

1.    Look and contemplate on ‘This is suffering.’

2.    Look and contemplate on ‘This is the origin of suffering’

3.    Look and contemplate on ‘This is the cessation of suffering’

4.    Look and contemplate on ‘This is the road leading to the cessation of suffering’

5.    Continue contemplating these noble truths internally and/or as observed externally.

6.    Be mindful of the origination factors in these noble truths, and/or the dissolution factors in these noble truths.

7.    Be mindful that these noble truths exists to the extent necessary just for knowledge and mindfulness.

8.    Live detached, and cling to nothing in the world.

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Further references: KHTK Mindfulness

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December 23, 2012 – 7:52 PM Categories: Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Sacred Religious and Philosophical Truths

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Here are some words of wisdom from St. Ferenc Francisco and his cohorts (rearranged in alphabetical order):

ABSOLUTISM
There is absolutely nothing but sh*t.

ATHEISM:
I don’t believe this sh*t!

BUDDHISM:
Whatever sh*t happens—don’t cling to it. Let it arise and pass away.

CAPITALISM:
Let us profit from sh*t happening.

CATHOLICISM:
If sh*t happens, you deserve it. Say 100 Hail Mary’s as penance.

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY:
For only $99,999, we’ll clear you of all sh*t happening. Then you can experience David Miscaviage’s very special kind of sh*t.

CONVENTIONAL SAYING:
Sh*t happens.

CONFUCIANISM:
Kung-fu-tzu say: “sh*t happen.”

COURSE IN MIRACLES:
It’s your illusory ego that says sh*t is happening. So—you have a choice: Fear sh*t or Love sh*t.

DARWINISM:
Survival of the sh*ttiest.

EXISTENTIALISM:
Sh*t is a strange and absurd happening. The question is: to be, or not to be, sh*tty?

FEMINISM:
Men are sh*t.

FREUD AND HIS FOLLOWERS:
We are trying to determine whether “sh*t happens” expresses an “anal retentive” or “anal explosive” psychosexual fixation!

FUNDAMENTALISM:
If you don’t believe Jeeeesus, Satan will make terrible sh*t happen on you, arranged in the sign of the beast: 666.

FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTOLOGY
The slide down the dwindling spiral is lubricated by the sh*t you’ve created.

GEIR ISENE:
Placebo effect at a fundamental level is the mother of all sh*t.

GREEK DELPHIC ORACLE:
Know thy sh*t. (And Heraclitus warns: don’t step in it twice, even if it’s not exactly the same sh*t.)

HATHA YOGA:
Do not let sh*t happen when you are standing on your head!

HINDUISM:
This sh*t happened before.

ISLAM:
If sh*t happens, it is the Will of Allah! We pray that no more sh*t will happen, Inshallah! (God Willing)

JUDAISM:
Why does sh*t always happen to us?

KHTK:
Inconsistencies are the mother of all sh*t.

LIBERTARIANISM
My sh*t is my sh*t. Don’t step on it.

MAHAYANA BUDDHISM:
Emptiness = sh*t. Sh*t = emptiness.

NATIVE AMERICAN:
Our medicine power make lot of sh*t happen for white man.

NEGATIVISM
Everything goes to sh*t.

NEW AGE:
Repeat the affirmation: “I am sh*tless. I am so beautifully free of sh*t. Sh*t cannot happen to me!” (If it does happen, let’s use crystals on it and become prosperous in our abundance!)

NONDUAL VEDANTA:
This is all a dream. No sh*t ever really happened.

PATRIARCHALISM:
Women are sh*t.

PROTESTANTISM:
Let sh*t happen to someone else.

QUANTUM PHYSICS:
Sh*t happens but you cannot say both where and when.

RASTAFARIAN:
Sh*t happen, mon. Roll it up. Smoke it up!

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISM:
Sh*t doesn’t happen on Saturday.

SHIRLEY MACLAINE-ISM:
In a past life, I made so much cosmic sh*t happen! (with all my chakras open!)

SOCIALISM:
If sh*t happens, let us distribute it equally.

SPIRITUALISM:
The spirit guides say: “Sh*t doth happen to us, too. This is why we channel so much of it through you.”

TAOISM:
Sh*t spontaneously happens of itself, soft, yielding, one with the Tao.

THE FINAL TRUTH:
And God sayeth unto them: “I like sh*t. Let there be sh*t.” And S/he saw that it was GOOD.

THE REALLY FINAL TRUTH:
When we realize Who We Really Are, then sh*t happens.

TIBETAN BUDDHISM:
Visualize tantric sh*t happening 100,000 times.

UFO CULTS:
I saw the Space Brothers make the most beautiful, interdimensional sh*t happen! (plentiful Pleiadian poop)

WICCA PAGANISM:
Sh*t is a sacred happening, an offering back to Mother Earth. Let’s make a magic circle of it.

ZEN BUDDHISM:
What is the sound of one sh*t happening? Where were you 1,000 years before the First Big Sh*t?

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December 23, 2012 – 5:59 PM Categories: General | Comments (5)

Mindfulness in Mental Objects (Enlightenment)

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Reference: The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness

The Seven Factors of Enlightenment are part of the mental objects that one needs to be mindful of. These are:

  1. Mindfulness
  2. Investigation
  3. Energy
  4. Joy
  5. Tranquility
  6. Concentration
  7. Equanimity

Here are some excerpts from Satipatthana Sutta: The Foundations of Mindfulness.

“And further, monks, a monk lives contemplating mental objects in the mental objects of the seven factors of enlightenment.

“How, monks, does a monk live contemplating mental objects in the mental objects of the seven factors of enlightenment?
“Herein, monks, when the enlightenment-factor of mindfulness is present, the monk knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of mindfulness is in me,’ or when the enlightenment-factor of mindfulness is absent, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of mindfulness is not in me’; and he knows how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of mindfulness comes to be; and how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of mindfulness comes to be.
“When the enlightenment-factor of the investigation of mental objects is present, the monk knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of the investigation of mental objects is in me’; when the enlightenment-factor of the investigation of mental objects is absent, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of the investigation of mental objects is not in me’; and he knows how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of the investigation of mental objects comes to be, and how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of the investigation of mental objects comes to be.
“When the enlightenment-factor of energy is present, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of energy is in me’; when the enlightenment-factor of energy is absent, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of energy is not in me’; and he knows how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of energy comes to be, and how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of energy comes to be.
“When the enlightenment-factor of joy is present, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of joy is in me’; when the enlightenment-factor of joy is absent, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of joy is not in me’; and he knows how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of joy comes to be, and how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of joy comes to be.
“When the enlightenment-factor of tranquility is present, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of tranquility is in me’; when the enlightenment-factor of tranquility is absent, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of tranquility is not in me’; and he knows how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of tranquility comes to be, and how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of tranquility comes to be.
“When the enlightenment-factor of concentration is present, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of concentration is in me’; when the enlightenment-factor of concentration is absent, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of concentration is not in me’; and he knows how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of concentration comes to be, and how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of concentration comes to be.
“When the enlightenment-factor of equanimity is present, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of equanimity is in me’; when the enlightenment-factor of equanimity is absent, he knows, ‘The enlightenment-factor of equanimity is not in me’; and he knows how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of equanimity comes to be, and how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of equanimity comes to be.
“Thus he lives contemplating mental objects in mental objects internally, or he lives contemplating mental objects in mental objects externally, or he lives contemplating mental objects in mental objects internally and externally. He lives contemplating origination-factors in mental objects, or he lives contemplating dissolution-factors in mental objects, or he lives contemplating origination-and-dissolution-factors in mental objects. Or his mindfulness is established with the thought, ‘Mental objects exist,’ to the extent necessary just for knowledge and mindfulness, and he lives detached, and clings to nothing in the world. Thus, monks, a monk lives contemplating mental objects in the mental objects of the seven factors of enlightenment.”
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EXERCISE

PURPOSE:   To practice mindfulness in the factors of enlightenment.

1.    Look and contemplate on MINDFULNESS.

  • When the enlightenment-factor of mindfulness is present, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of mindfulness is in me’.
  • When the enlightenment-factor of mindfulness is absent, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of mindfulness is not in me’.
  • Know how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of mindfulness comes to be.
  • Know how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of mindfulness comes to be.
  • Do steps 8 – 11 before going to the next step.

2.    Look and contemplate on INVESTIGATION.

  • When the enlightenment-factor of investigation is present, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of investigation is in me’.
  • When the enlightenment-factor of investigation is absent, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of investigation is not in me’.
  • Know how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of investigation comes to be.
  • Know how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of investigation comes to be.
  • Do steps 8 – 11 before going to the next step.

3.    Look and contemplate on ENERGY.

  • When the enlightenment-factor of energy is present, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of energy is in me’.
  • When the enlightenment-factor of energy is absent, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of energy is not in me’.
  • Know how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of energy comes to be.
  • Know how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of energy comes to be.
  • Do steps 8 – 11 before going to the next step.

4.    Look and contemplate on JOY.

  • When the enlightenment-factor of joy is present, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of joy is in me’.
  • When the enlightenment-factor of joy is absent, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of joy is not in me’.
  • Know how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of joy comes to be.
  • Know how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of joy comes to be.
  • Do steps 8 – 11 before going to the next step.

5.    Look and contemplate on TRANQUILITY.

  • When the enlightenment-factor of tranquility is present, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of tranquility is in me’.
  • When the enlightenment-factor of tranquility is absent, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of tranquility is not in me’.
  • Know how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of tranquility comes to be.
  • Know how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of tranquility comes to be.
  • Do steps 8 – 11 before going to the next step.

6.    Look and contemplate on CONCENTRATION.

  • When the enlightenment-factor of concentration is present, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of concentration is in me’.
  • When the enlightenment-factor of concentration is absent, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of concentration is not in me’.
  • Know how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of concentration comes to be.
  • Know how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of concentration comes to be.
  • Do steps 8 – 11 before going to the next step.

7.    Look and contemplate on EQUANIMITY.

  • When the enlightenment-factor of equanimity is present, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of equanimity is in me’.
  • When the enlightenment-factor of equanimity is absent, know, ‘The enlightenment-factor of equanimity is not in me’.
  • Know how the arising of the non-arisen enlightenment-factor of equanimity comes to be.
  • Know how perfection in the development of the arisen enlightenment-factor of equanimity comes to be.
  • Do steps 8 – 11 before going to the next step. 

8.    Continue contemplating this factor of enlightenment internally and/or as observed externally.

9.    Be mindful of the origination factors in this factor of enlightenment, and/or the dissolution factors in this factor of enlightenment.

10.    Be mindful that this factor of enlightenment exists to the extent necessary just for knowledge and mindfulness.

11.    Live detached, and cling to nothing in the world.

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Further references: KHTK Mindfulness

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