04-11-2008, 12:00 AM
Awesome croc ... back on topic! (note to self ... post personal issues in separate posts ... hrmm ..)
Fire in the traditional sense, tends to consume something to fuel itself.
My own inner fire is partially stoked by my work with negative emotions, and bad habits and my own resistance to change.
One sense that I have is that all views, personal or otherwise that hold some form of duality will inherently generate conflict, a kind of conflict that can
lead to suffering.
However if we have the ability to engage what the Tibetans call Rigpa, or non-dualistic awareness then we can engage another kind of fire.
This is something "other". Then the activities of suffering, can be the fuel or material for our transformational fire.
Are we willing to hurl ourselves on the pyre and burn Phoenix-like?
Has anyone else discovered the Attention I speak about?
Fire in the traditional sense, tends to consume something to fuel itself.
My own inner fire is partially stoked by my work with negative emotions, and bad habits and my own resistance to change.
One sense that I have is that all views, personal or otherwise that hold some form of duality will inherently generate conflict, a kind of conflict that can
lead to suffering.
However if we have the ability to engage what the Tibetans call Rigpa, or non-dualistic awareness then we can engage another kind of fire.
This is something "other". Then the activities of suffering, can be the fuel or material for our transformational fire.
Are we willing to hurl ourselves on the pyre and burn Phoenix-like?
Has anyone else discovered the Attention I speak about?