From “I AM” to non-duality, no-self, emptiness and spontaneous perfection
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This blog is about spiritual awakening, maps and stages, the blinding effects of our strong momentum/conditioning (karmic propensities), view, realization, experience, etc. If you are new, begin with the Must Reads.
When contemplating, do not just let our contemplation remain as a mental reasoning exercise. For example:
What appears is neither "internal" nor "external". For the notion of "internality" is dependent on the notion of "externality", without either, the sense of neither can arise.
Do not just let our contemplation remain at this level. If we do that, at most the freedom will simply remain at the mental level -- merely a pellucid, pure and clean state. It is no different from practicing raw attention although insight on how conceptualities proliferate the mind may arise.
But go further to relate directly to our sensations, thoughts, smells, colors, tastes, sounds and ask:
"What do we mean by thoughts are neither inside nor outside our head?"
Seeing through this will be much more penetrating. It will bring a deep sense of illusoriness and mystical awe as a real-time lived-experience into our entire body mind.
I
have a question. With awakening, and cessation of self, can you sort of
tell, which Suttas are relevant, and which are potentially irrelevant
to the path towards Nibbana?
Mr./Ms. TZK
hmm answering this Q I will easily get bombed for it for being
“arrogant” lol but anyway honestly just from my own xp and sharing and
not authoritative.. (Damn long disclaimer lol)
Insight is powerful
Once a practitioner have anatta insight, the Pali canon makes sense, don’t need to read all, the experience will teach
The satipathanna sutta is their state 24/7
The Buddha is teaching us to fake it till you make it. Transform the mind entirely
The
sutta describes their experiences and one can understand the Buddha’s
intent of teaching those suttas very easily.. which cannot be done
without insight
If the practitioner directly experience emptiness
The Mahayana Sutta like heart sutra literally come alive, as it will describe their experience
It will feel intimate and not intellectual.
Even cryptic Dogen is intimate.
And
if someone describe your state just in a few words, you will know
immediately.. so u will be able to know who can teach u.. who
understand the subtle dharma.. etc
It’s
like someone describe to you how tough being a lawyer is, and you go
into that space and there’s an intimate transmission no one else could
understnd if they are not a lawyer.. sthg like that.
Satipathanna also practise enlightenment in my opinion
Buddha
taught from awakened perspective. He only teach after he woke up not
like ppl now no insight also teach everyone also can teach so the
buddhas intent can be lost in teachings.
Good to follow awakened teachers like thich nhat hant so won’t deviate.
Mr./Ms. YEH haha no worries, it is not strange. and no Q is silly.
It
is intimate yes. we are everything. the whole manifestation is our true
nature. what is our true nature? Who are we? are we this limited
bodymind? definitely not, so who are we? That is the one thing we want
to find out and we can only find our for ourselves, other pp can tell us
alot of things, but only we ourselves can feel it intimately for
ourselves, as it is beyond words.
