06-10-2010, 12:00 AM
These truths liberate from existence.
If you believe Don Juan burned from within and left this world for an alternate reality, another layer of the onion, I assure you he will still have to deal with existence. Simply manipulating perceptions or exchanging one set of perceptions for another, ie; matter for energy does not help know the nature of reality!
The first major relief that came from the absence of objects is that the compulsion to establish being as substantial along with the imagined substantial and inherent being of objects instantly evaporates.
For instance do you imagine that you move and have your being in a mysterious universe that exists? If so ask yourself why you think this, what instantly is apparent is the compulsive grasping trying to affirm as “real” and substantial that which cannot be affirmed that way. It only appears that things are happening! Things appear to come into being, endure for awhile and then cease to be.
Now we are familiar with the Buddhist terminology of grasping. We usually associate this with the aggregate of sensation. When we do this we apply grasping to the notion of likes and dislikes that we like certain sensations and try to repeat those sensations because of the pleasure involved and avoid the ones we have aversion to because of the pain involved. However the compulsive grasping I am referring to is the confused reaction to a world of objects, where we do not stop ourselves but are driven to attribute an unsubstantiated ‘realness’ to the objects we perceive. Most of us are not aware of just how driven we are when it comes to this. The relief I referred to is when this compulsion ceases completely and multiplicity gives way to sameness effortlessly.
If we do not understand the notion of existence and how it traps awareness we might not even look for relief.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEPXXJ4sKw
“You think that’s air your breathing now.....hmmm?” Morpheus
If you believe Don Juan burned from within and left this world for an alternate reality, another layer of the onion, I assure you he will still have to deal with existence. Simply manipulating perceptions or exchanging one set of perceptions for another, ie; matter for energy does not help know the nature of reality!
The first major relief that came from the absence of objects is that the compulsion to establish being as substantial along with the imagined substantial and inherent being of objects instantly evaporates.
For instance do you imagine that you move and have your being in a mysterious universe that exists? If so ask yourself why you think this, what instantly is apparent is the compulsive grasping trying to affirm as “real” and substantial that which cannot be affirmed that way. It only appears that things are happening! Things appear to come into being, endure for awhile and then cease to be.
Now we are familiar with the Buddhist terminology of grasping. We usually associate this with the aggregate of sensation. When we do this we apply grasping to the notion of likes and dislikes that we like certain sensations and try to repeat those sensations because of the pleasure involved and avoid the ones we have aversion to because of the pain involved. However the compulsive grasping I am referring to is the confused reaction to a world of objects, where we do not stop ourselves but are driven to attribute an unsubstantiated ‘realness’ to the objects we perceive. Most of us are not aware of just how driven we are when it comes to this. The relief I referred to is when this compulsion ceases completely and multiplicity gives way to sameness effortlessly.
If we do not understand the notion of existence and how it traps awareness we might not even look for relief.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEPXXJ4sKw
“You think that’s air your breathing now.....hmmm?” Morpheus