S.R. from "TBLD" again: We need training in three wisdom tools to facilitate awakening. They are:
1) Wisdom of listening and hearing
2) Wisdom of contemplation and reflection
3) Wisdom of meditations.
Perhaps "civilization" will survive long enough to recognize these as the true ABC's of a child's education. Sure beats 30 years of reading books and practicing on faith, otherwise known as my way. We need teachers of wisdom in the West, genuine teachers of immutable truth. As an aloof westerner, though, I just might be too cynical of frauds and imposters to fully accept a human teacher. That's another problem westerners have, kind of a spiritual post traumatic stress syndrome. So I put in my 30 years and came in the backdoor...
"To be ego-less, ego whispers to us, is to lose all the rich romance of being human, to be reduced to a colorless robot or a brain-dead vegetable." S.R.
Actually just the opposite is true. Awakening brings recognition of colors and the clear light from which they came, and yes, it does bring recognition of our brains as fabricators of empty realities, as dream-weavers. Nothing wrong with seeing the real as real and the false as false. This way freedom lies, freedom from the fiction of "rich romance."
"...in the space of freedom opened up my meditation...you are momentarily released from grasping, you glimpse the exhilarating spaciousness of your true nature." S.R.
This "momentary release" is the seed of earnestness, a siren call for more meditation, more mindfulness, until the time comes when it is not so momentary, and it is tapped or accessed with a mere shift of attention to "am."
1) Wisdom of listening and hearing
2) Wisdom of contemplation and reflection
3) Wisdom of meditations.
Perhaps "civilization" will survive long enough to recognize these as the true ABC's of a child's education. Sure beats 30 years of reading books and practicing on faith, otherwise known as my way. We need teachers of wisdom in the West, genuine teachers of immutable truth. As an aloof westerner, though, I just might be too cynical of frauds and imposters to fully accept a human teacher. That's another problem westerners have, kind of a spiritual post traumatic stress syndrome. So I put in my 30 years and came in the backdoor...
"To be ego-less, ego whispers to us, is to lose all the rich romance of being human, to be reduced to a colorless robot or a brain-dead vegetable." S.R.
Actually just the opposite is true. Awakening brings recognition of colors and the clear light from which they came, and yes, it does bring recognition of our brains as fabricators of empty realities, as dream-weavers. Nothing wrong with seeing the real as real and the false as false. This way freedom lies, freedom from the fiction of "rich romance."
"...in the space of freedom opened up my meditation...you are momentarily released from grasping, you glimpse the exhilarating spaciousness of your true nature." S.R.
This "momentary release" is the seed of earnestness, a siren call for more meditation, more mindfulness, until the time comes when it is not so momentary, and it is tapped or accessed with a mere shift of attention to "am."
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