09-01-2010, 12:01 AM
Can you elaborate on what you mean here?
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Yes, I recall an experience of sudden perceptual change; it lasted around two weeks and was a dramatic lessening of plus change in the content of my internal dialogue accompanied by feelings of peace and bliss, however at that time I was a long way from peace and bliss overall and when the experience left I thought I was enlightened and special because of it, it inflated my ego causing further unbalance. As I do the work I find it grounds me and helps keep such perceptual shifts from becoming episodes of� the same.
I think peace and bliss are in the relative perhaps?
What about experiencing all the range of emotions but underlying is a total detachment from them? Detachment implies the emotional aspects are not regarded or felt, but I say they are regarded and felt, whist being detached. So something is severed and can never be put back (and truly it was always this way). Always there's these two disconnected components--the self and all its identities, and the part that witnesses but is untouched by, our true nature, but so undefinable that the mere mention of true nature seems to obscure and make it relative.
To me perceptual shifts happen because of our unrelative "aspect", but what occurs as a product applies to the relative, and this means no matter what, folly.
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Yes, I recall an experience of sudden perceptual change; it lasted around two weeks and was a dramatic lessening of plus change in the content of my internal dialogue accompanied by feelings of peace and bliss, however at that time I was a long way from peace and bliss overall and when the experience left I thought I was enlightened and special because of it, it inflated my ego causing further unbalance. As I do the work I find it grounds me and helps keep such perceptual shifts from becoming episodes of� the same.
I think peace and bliss are in the relative perhaps?
What about experiencing all the range of emotions but underlying is a total detachment from them? Detachment implies the emotional aspects are not regarded or felt, but I say they are regarded and felt, whist being detached. So something is severed and can never be put back (and truly it was always this way). Always there's these two disconnected components--the self and all its identities, and the part that witnesses but is untouched by, our true nature, but so undefinable that the mere mention of true nature seems to obscure and make it relative.
To me perceptual shifts happen because of our unrelative "aspect", but what occurs as a product applies to the relative, and this means no matter what, folly.