Juliette Paul's Review of Previous Insights

 

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Had a nice review of previous insights today culminating in a solid insight of total exertion. When sitting this morning I saw how identification with the content of certain thoughts can still happen and this was seen through into pure anatta. Later I relived the understanding that the sound of a plane is the plane, not OF the plane (2-fold emptiness). I was then re-reading an AtR blog post and the section about how conditions, manifestations, and consciousness are one and inseparable, never separated or interacting. Then it dawned that the conditions ARE the manifestation, not that they produce it or make it appear somehow. They are just as much here as the ting of a bell. This was then applied again to conditions in general (recursing through all conditions, times, appearances). It gets hard to describe here but it was seen that all times, all places, all appearances are in this vivid scenery right now. A belief that a specific condition only happens at a certain time and place fell away. All conditions manifest across all time/space. I can touch the heart of Kashyapa's smile even now. This vivid empty display is all displays. A fear of death was dropped. An understanding of the death talk from the show Midnight Mass on Netflix became clear. Specifically the comment about how there is "no where that this ends and I begin"

Relevant links:

https://www.awakeningtoreality.com/.../fully-experience...

Midnight Mass Scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-Z47wIgu4

John Tan commented:

 

 

"A belief that a specific condition only happens at a certain time and place fell away. All conditions manifest across all time/space. I can touch the heart of Kashyapa's smile even now. This vivid empty display is all displays. A fear of death was dropped."

I like this description by Jayson.  Somehow those that contemplated total exertion post anatta will have this insight and experience much like guru yoga where the whole lineage is being "transmitted" beyond space/time.  It does not happen during anatta, freedom from all elaborations...only via total exertion..

• Juliette Paul

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  Yes exactly. It is like all the myriad things are the complete and total dharma lineage. All things that happened in my life were opportunities to open to the dharma. The whole universe is the buddha, is dogen, is Kashyapa. I remember reading a quote before any insights that you will come face to face with the entire lineage, ancestors, and buddhas of all times and I only now understand what that was pointing to. In order for this to be realized you need to see 2 fold emptiness, non-arising, non-duality of time and existence, non-duality of epistemology and ontology and have uprooted inherent view and causality for conditionality. Only then did it become clear to me.
  

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