04-11-2010, 12:00 AM
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Hello again, MS!
In regards to finding will power through awareness in routine actions, perhaps read my post again. I know it's long and rambling, yet it seems to cover this.
As to whole body will power, universal will power and no will power, interesting question.
When questions like this arise in our life, the thing we always need to find out is: What difference would it make in my practice if I knew the answer to this?
What is our practice? Our practice is to be completely present in this moment and to experience whatever arises fully. And that's it. There is nothing more, because everything else is imagined or constructed. We have sensation, we have emotion, and we have thought. All three of these arise, often simultaneously, and we invariably take them to be fact, while actually, they are only the movement of energy.
If we look, we can notice that there is an awareness that is aware of all these movements, but is not a part of them, and is not affected directly by them. This awareness we tend to call "I", but when we fall into this awareness, we find no "thing" there that could be identified as an "I" or a "person" or a "body". It is the direct experience of this causeless awareness experiencing itself that is the purpose of our practice.
I don't know if this answers your question, but seemed appropriate to me
Kris
Hello again, MS!
In regards to finding will power through awareness in routine actions, perhaps read my post again. I know it's long and rambling, yet it seems to cover this.
As to whole body will power, universal will power and no will power, interesting question.
When questions like this arise in our life, the thing we always need to find out is: What difference would it make in my practice if I knew the answer to this?
What is our practice? Our practice is to be completely present in this moment and to experience whatever arises fully. And that's it. There is nothing more, because everything else is imagined or constructed. We have sensation, we have emotion, and we have thought. All three of these arise, often simultaneously, and we invariably take them to be fact, while actually, they are only the movement of energy.
If we look, we can notice that there is an awareness that is aware of all these movements, but is not a part of them, and is not affected directly by them. This awareness we tend to call "I", but when we fall into this awareness, we find no "thing" there that could be identified as an "I" or a "person" or a "body". It is the direct experience of this causeless awareness experiencing itself that is the purpose of our practice.
I don't know if this answers your question, but seemed appropriate to me
Kris