"I am like a cinema screen--clear and empty--the pictures pass over it and disappear, leaving it as clear and empty as before." N.M.
The movie is very peaceful now, perhaps on pause. The pause button did not exist back in N.M.'s day. Had it, I think he might have described meditation as the pause button that allows us to sift reality from the unreal. Or he might describe enlightenment as the moment the theater lights go on. The film may still be rolling, but you find yourself comfortably seated and wondering "how did this popcorn get all over my lap?" Must have been a suspense flick.
It is like neutral gear, disengaged from the engine, full of potential horsepower. Thought at the level of intellection is thought. Thought at the level of realization is an object, and too often it becomes a nagging, distracting object like the barking of a dog. That damn dog is always hungry. Meditation throws the dog a bone to shut him up.
Am. Lose the subject "I" and the object "that" and there you am.
There is a feeling of being insubstantial just as clear to me as my body feeling. It's a matter of adjusting attention to "open squelch."
"Pain is physical; suffering is mental...suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life." N.M.
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