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Hi AEN,
Just read your post this morning and an innocent joy arose spontaneously. Indeed, after bringing non-dual to the foreground, the next step is to let go of this subtle grasping of presence and penetrate deeply into the two fold Emptiness.
In many of your recent posts after the sudden realization of anatta from contemplating on Bahiya Sutta, you are still very much focused on the vivid non-dual presence. Now the everything feels ‘Me’ sort of sensation becomes a daily matter and the bliss of losing oneself completely into scenery, sound, taste is wonderful. This is different from everything collapsing into a “Single Oneness” sort of experience but a disperse out into the multiplicity of whatever arises. Everything feels closer than ‘me’ due to gaplessness. This is a natural but as you mentioned in your post,
...somehow, even though luminosity is no longer seen as a Self or observer, there is still a sense of solidity that luminosity/presence is constantly Here and Now. The tendency to sink back into substantialist non-dualism is still strong...
Indeed and very well said. ‘Now-ness, Here-ness’ are no different from ‘Self-ness’, let go of all these. There are several discussions in your forum recently that are related to the pointing out of the difference between the bliss that comes from non-dual Luminous Presence and 'self-liberating' aspect that comes from the insight of two fold Emptiness. You can re-read them, it may help. Also, it is time for you to put aside the Presence, this taste is already implicitly present, rather focus on having direct experiential insight of the following:
1. Unsupported
This experience is radically different from One Mind that is non-dual. It is not about stillness transparency and vividness of presence but a deep sense of freedom that comes from directly experiencing manifestation as being disjoint, spontaneous, free, unbounded and unsupported. Re-read the first stanza of anatta – an excerpt
1. The lack of doer-ship that links and co-ordinates experiences.
Without the 'I' that links, phenomena (thoughts, sound, feelings and so on and so forth) appear bubble-like, floating and manifesting freely, spontaneously and boundlessly. With the absence of the doer-ship also comes a deep sense of freedom and transparency. Ironical as it may sound but it's true experientially. We will not have the right understanding when we hold too tightly 'inherent' view. It is amazing how 'inherent' view prevents us from seeing freedom as no-doership, interdependence and interconnectedness, luminosity and non-dual presence.
2. Unfindability, Corelessness, Essencelessness and Ungraspability
Further penetrate into these unsupported freely manifesting phenomena and look into the core of whatever arises, not only there is nothing behind as a background, there is no inner core that can be found, nothing ‘inherently there’. If we truly see this unfindability, corelessness, essencelesnesss and ungraspability empty nature of the moment to moment of experience, something ‘magical’ will happen. Observe how the karmic tendency to ‘hold’ releases itself when the empty nature of ‘whatever arises’ comes into view.
3. Embrace the view of Dependent Origination
Do not get bounded by the ‘who-where-when’ construct and embrace the view of dependent origination fully; always only 缘起当生, 缘尽当了 (AEN's translation: arises upon the arising of conditions, ends upon the cessation of conditions). Practice diligently until there is the experience of unsupported continuous opening without inner core but do not rush into any experience. :-)
Happy Journey!
Update:
Translation (Prompt 6 Protocol Applied)
撇开临在，深入人法二空 ——路人（PasserBy）
AEN 你好，
今天早上刚读了你的帖子，一种纯然的喜悦油然而生。的确，在将不二（non-dual）带到前台之后，下一步就是放下对临在（presence）的这种微细执取，并深入人法二空（two fold Emptiness）。
在你通过参究《巴西亚经》（Bahiya Sutta）而顿悟无我（anatta）之后的许多近期帖子中，你仍然非常关注生动的不二临在（vivid non-dual presence）。现在，“一切皆为‘我’”的感觉已成为日常，完全消融于景色、声音、味道之中的极乐妙不可言。这不同于一切坍缩为“单一整体”（Single Oneness）的体验，而是散入一切生起之万法（multiplicity）之中。由于无间隙（gaplessness），一切感觉比‘我’更亲近。这是自然的过程，但正如你在帖子中提到的，
……不知何故，即使明性（luminosity）不再被视为一个大我（Self）或观察者，仍然有一种坚固感，觉得明性/临在（luminosity/presence）恒常地处于此时此地（Here and Now）。退回到实体化不二论（substantialist non-dualism）的倾向仍然很强……
确实，说得非常好。“当下性（Now-ness）、此在性（Here-ness）”与“实体自我性（Self-ness）”并无不同，放下所有这些。最近在你的论坛中有一些讨论，指出了源于不二的明亮临在（non-dual Luminous Presence）的极乐，与源于人法二空（two fold Emptiness）之洞见的“自解脱”（self-liberating）面向之间的区别。你可以重读它们，或许会有帮助。此外，现在是你撇开临在（Presence）的时候了，这种滋味已然隐含其中，不如专注于对以下内容获得直接的现证（direct experiential insight）：
1. 无所依（Unsupported）
这种体验与不二的一心（One Mind）截然不同。它关乎的不是临在的寂静透明和生动性，而是源于直接体验显现为不相连（disjoint）、自发（spontaneous）、自由、无界（unbounded）且无所依（unsupported）的一种深刻的自由感。重读无我（anatta）的第一节——摘录
缺乏连接和协调各项经验的主宰（doer-ship）。
没有了进行连接的“我”，现象（念头、声音、感觉等等）如同泡沫般显现，自由、自发、无界地漂浮和展现。随着主宰（doer-ship）的缺席，也带来了一种深刻的自由感和透明度。听起来可能很讽刺，但在经验上这是真实的。当我们过于紧抓“实有见”（'inherent' view）时，将无法获得正确的知见。令人惊叹的是，“实有见”是如何阻碍我们看到自由即是无主宰（no-doership）、相互依存和相互连接、明性以及不二临在。
2. 不可寻、无核心、无自性与不可得（Unfindability, Corelessness, Essencelessness and Ungraspability）
进一步深入这些无所依、自由显现的现象，并探究一切生起之法的核心，不仅背后没有任何作为背景的东西，也找不到任何内在核心，没有任何东西是“实有存在”（inherently there）的。如果我们真正看到经验刹那刹那之不可寻、无核心、无自性与不可得的空性本质，一些“神奇”的事情将会发生。观察当“一切生起之法”的空性本质进入视野时，“执取”的业力习气如何自行解脱（releases itself）。
3. 拥抱缘起（Dependent Origination）之知见（view）
不要被“谁-何处-何时”的构架所束缚，并完全拥抱缘起的知见；始终只有 缘起当生, 缘尽当了 (AEN's translation: arises upon the arising of conditions, ends upon the cessation of conditions)。精进修持（Practice diligently），直到体验到无所依的、无内在核心的持续敞开，但不要急于求成任何体验。 :-)
旅途愉快！
标签：无我（Anatta），缘起（Dependent Origination），空性（Emptiness），John Tan，不二（Non Dual），觉悟次第（Stages of Enlightenment） |
