08-06-2007, 12:00 AM
Quote:it seems it is a mistake to believe,identify,in the perceptions of oneself...which are the perceptions of the world at large ?
Not if you question everything!
But yes, absolutely. You are correct. The key word is identify.
Most of the time we think we are paying attention when we are really just sleep walking. So we have to question our operationing assumptions. It's easy to mistake one's daydream for the Path or just daydream that one is awake.
Of course we are all identified, all of the time. It's safe to assume that, otherwise we are kidding ourselves.
When I do a work of attention, I always assume I am more or less completely identified and want to get free of that.
If we keep looking and questioning in the right way, we eventually enter the Path.
If we pursue the Path with an aim, then Seeing becomes possible.
It is perhaps the hardest thing in the world!
Non-Dualistic Awareness, is pure Awareness, that has been clarified of a taint of egoism.
In pure awareness there is no separation of myself and other as "myself" does not exist.
In Buddhist terms, one has a consciousness of a profound "emptiness" or perhaps Ultimate Receptivity would be a better term.
I don't like emptiness as a term, as people think it means a kind nothingness or negative state, when it's not.
The cool thing about questioning is you can always look again and again. I'm a firm believer in doubt.
But, ultimately we have to develop faith and confidence in our own Seeing. It's not a mistake to try. That is the purpose of our life. That's why we are here.
To fully be alive with all of one's senses in the Moment, to experience one's totality, is to go beyond dualistic, identified nature.
Why? Because in that moment, the "I", does not exist.
The beauty of it is, it's very hard to do this for a sustained length of time. But we just have to do this for one moment.
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Also, I have the book too, so let me read up tonight and see what the grandmaster has to say about it.
Not if you question everything!
But yes, absolutely. You are correct. The key word is identify.
Most of the time we think we are paying attention when we are really just sleep walking. So we have to question our operationing assumptions. It's easy to mistake one's daydream for the Path or just daydream that one is awake.
Of course we are all identified, all of the time. It's safe to assume that, otherwise we are kidding ourselves.
When I do a work of attention, I always assume I am more or less completely identified and want to get free of that.
If we keep looking and questioning in the right way, we eventually enter the Path.
If we pursue the Path with an aim, then Seeing becomes possible.
It is perhaps the hardest thing in the world!
Non-Dualistic Awareness, is pure Awareness, that has been clarified of a taint of egoism.
In pure awareness there is no separation of myself and other as "myself" does not exist.
In Buddhist terms, one has a consciousness of a profound "emptiness" or perhaps Ultimate Receptivity would be a better term.
I don't like emptiness as a term, as people think it means a kind nothingness or negative state, when it's not.
The cool thing about questioning is you can always look again and again. I'm a firm believer in doubt.
But, ultimately we have to develop faith and confidence in our own Seeing. It's not a mistake to try. That is the purpose of our life. That's why we are here.
To fully be alive with all of one's senses in the Moment, to experience one's totality, is to go beyond dualistic, identified nature.
Why? Because in that moment, the "I", does not exist.
The beauty of it is, it's very hard to do this for a sustained length of time. But we just have to do this for one moment.
===
Also, I have the book too, so let me read up tonight and see what the grandmaster has to say about it.