03-07-2012, 12:06 AM
scout1 wrote:glance left wrote:I saw that second hag/ghoul about 3-4 weeks ago after I transitioned into the dreaming body beside my bed. Walked out the door and began to lift off to fly down the breezeway and out the front door to our apartment complex...and that thing was hanging, like a vampire, upside down in the doorway...humongous jet black shadow menacing which delivered me a barrage of gothic/baroque images and symbols into my dreaming eye as I flew towards it. I knew it was trying to disrupt me with fear, injecting me with a feeling of power with all the flashes of imagery and its imposing form. I didn't even slow down...just flew right through the center of it...and, sure enough, it was insubstantial. As I accelerated up and into the sky I turned and gave the beastie, still hanging in the doorway, a little curt wave and a wink...."Later, gator!"
They feed on fear it seems....strong emotional reaction. If you dont' give it...they don't get it...and then they're gone And that was not me GL )
Now why would you think that I thought for a moment that that shadow was you, Scout?
Where do all these words come from? All these descriptions like a blackboard full of computations/equations..on and on and on...and then...waaaaay down in the corner is the "=" sign and then a single "eureka!" inducing symbol or gesture or word or number...maybe the number "0" perhaps...that is the answer to all of that busy work. I was sitting on the can this morning...unloading my unnecessary **** LOL! and I overheard a conversation going on outside the door. Two students talking...one guy was talking to a girl about a test he just took where he didn't have time to finish, apparently. He said, "I knew all the answers...but I just took too long over-analysing the questions!"
You've mentioned Dzogchen a few times in the forum I see....with all this esoteric nomenclature describing its various peripheral features which are inherent in the lineages, like all the details of the computations on that chalk board. The funny thing is, in my understanding and practice of Dzogchen, all of that really doesn't have anything to do with what Dzogchen is all about. In fact, Dzogchen is really only about one thing, and you know what that is just as I do. That one thing is no thing at all...nothing! It's simply pure, silent, and effortless spontaneously energetic awareness that doesn't discriminate (flyer's mind) between anything in particular. It perceives the difference in that all the manifestations/fluctuations are perennially in fluid motion around us, but it doesn't think about it...form ideas about it....it simply perceives the forever-flow of the luminous details that blaze around us all the time. Dzogchen just silently and bravely dives into that single central unified awareness until the apparent form of things...the illusion of separate solid objects...dissolves into formlessness. Pure, clear light that cruises effortlessly in pure clear emptiness.
That's it...that's Dzogchen. There are techniques upon techniques and debates upon debates and layers and layers of descriptions of various stages and thresholds of awareness as one moves down the path, but to me it all seems to spawn from that of the flyer's mind that just doesn't want to give up its seat...just wants to survive and keep talking. *to my flyer* It's ok, bra....I understand...we all want to hang out, eat and live....but then again, for all of us there is a time to move on. And this is your time.
Ok...time for my to step off ....and to practice what I preach
They feed on fear it seems....strong emotional reaction. If you dont' give it...they don't get it...and then they're gone And that was not me GL )
Now why would you think that I thought for a moment that that shadow was you, Scout?
Where do all these words come from? All these descriptions like a blackboard full of computations/equations..on and on and on...and then...waaaaay down in the corner is the "=" sign and then a single "eureka!" inducing symbol or gesture or word or number...maybe the number "0" perhaps...that is the answer to all of that busy work. I was sitting on the can this morning...unloading my unnecessary **** LOL! and I overheard a conversation going on outside the door. Two students talking...one guy was talking to a girl about a test he just took where he didn't have time to finish, apparently. He said, "I knew all the answers...but I just took too long over-analysing the questions!"
You've mentioned Dzogchen a few times in the forum I see....with all this esoteric nomenclature describing its various peripheral features which are inherent in the lineages, like all the details of the computations on that chalk board. The funny thing is, in my understanding and practice of Dzogchen, all of that really doesn't have anything to do with what Dzogchen is all about. In fact, Dzogchen is really only about one thing, and you know what that is just as I do. That one thing is no thing at all...nothing! It's simply pure, silent, and effortless spontaneously energetic awareness that doesn't discriminate (flyer's mind) between anything in particular. It perceives the difference in that all the manifestations/fluctuations are perennially in fluid motion around us, but it doesn't think about it...form ideas about it....it simply perceives the forever-flow of the luminous details that blaze around us all the time. Dzogchen just silently and bravely dives into that single central unified awareness until the apparent form of things...the illusion of separate solid objects...dissolves into formlessness. Pure, clear light that cruises effortlessly in pure clear emptiness.
That's it...that's Dzogchen. There are techniques upon techniques and debates upon debates and layers and layers of descriptions of various stages and thresholds of awareness as one moves down the path, but to me it all seems to spawn from that of the flyer's mind that just doesn't want to give up its seat...just wants to survive and keep talking. *to my flyer* It's ok, bra....I understand...we all want to hang out, eat and live....but then again, for all of us there is a time to move on. And this is your time.
Ok...time for my to step off ....and to practice what I preach