Darla Ken Pearce
17th April 2011, 16:41
If we can learn in our daily living to function like an objective scientist we learn to think in precision and learn in precision. Science surprisingly goes parallel to spirituality. Just as in science in spirituality we function with unknown entities. In the physical we cannot with our naked eyes see the atoms, the gases, the plasma, the molecules and so on. In the same way with our naked eyes we cannot see our aura, all psychic formations like the thinking process and results in changes in body. With more and more sensitive instruments developed by man in both these sciences it would in the future be possible not only visualise the unknown but verbally understand in simple measurable terms. We are familiar daily with feelings, perceptions, thinking and consciousness. All these four aspects are interlinked.
They are psychological aspects yet to be known with precision and clarity. They are closely linked to the six sense out-lets in us and they function so fast that the combinations are not recognized instantly. If we learn the art of being perfectly mindful we learn quickly that the six senses are all the time playing the fool with you and taking you far away from enlightenment qualities hidden within your true nature.
It is possible to side track this lengthy samsaric sensuous journey to nibbana by taking the proverbial bull by the horns, to twist to turn and battle without injury to anyone or break the delicate china in the china-shop. When we try to live the dhamma every moment, we, the lay people, are holding the bull by the horns. A monk's life is different. The Buddha takes care of his enlightenment path. However, the lay path of the householder is tough. Eventually everyone arrives to the same summit. Experiencing infinite space, infinite consciousness, not leaning on anyone, absolute self-confidence, bliss in emptiness through and through the body and mind, all heaviness from anger, hatred, envy, greed and grasping gone, a buoyant, light happiness living with the heart of love, caring, and concern only. Nurturing every moment a positive, joyous mind and so on and so on of those beautiful Nibbanic qualities.
To nurture a neutral mind and move like an objective scientist thinking in precision one has to watch the mind every moment. We have to watch our likes, dislikes and nurture the in-between only. If we can treat life like a never ending experiment, objectively watching every move likes a perfect witness or a perfect judge you observe without likes and dislikes. You watch the drama of life as watching a video-film. How much provocative the film is you cannot quarrel with any part of the film. Soon you realise that all of it is simply vibrations forming and disappearing.
To take an example of a food item we like not to psychically demand it with greed but learn to keep a distance between your demanding thought for the food item and yourself and hoping eventually neutral thinking comes through. It will be the same with a dislike or aversion. For instance your dislike for a person is constantly coming through you learn with distancing yourself from that person. Psychically you can visualise removing the emotional hook to that person each time thoughts of despise escalate in you and you experience the twitch of pain. If the links are too close like a brother or a sister you may have to practice removing the imaginary psychic hook over and over many times to get that distance and the neutrality. Constant pain calls for constant practice. Once the distance is captured and the hurt is gone you can think of him in the fresh moment. That is by living in the present. When you meet him next, to you his past is no more. There are no nasty assessments. You will see him as if seeing him for the first time.
Your reactions will be positive and pleasant. As the hurt and pain in you has gone compassion and well-being for him flows to you spontaneously. What more can you give?
You learn to verbalise in precision. No exaggerations or understatements. No distortion whatever. No slandering, no hurt to anyone. You "say things as they are". You talk like the Buddha and the Christ.
When our mind is neutralised we do not nonstop argue that we are right. There is nothing that is absolutely right or absolutely wrong. There is always a "just is".
When the Buddha was denying his body of food and fasting under a tree and opened his eyes he saw a boat coming down the river painfully slow, then instantly wisdom flowed to him. When the ropes of the boat are too loose or too tight boat's function is impaired. It has to be just right!
Although we can wean away from evil and the clutches of the 'mara' we must not remain elated in our thoughts about the good. We must remain in equanimity for the peace mind we seek through practising a neutral mind. Every time you do good you at the same time learn to let go to keep a neutral mind. So the mind remains in-between good and bad.
The same applies to remaining elated with positivity. Equanimity must reign however one feels wonderful in elation. Neutral mind beats one done to the expansion of energy in a straight line, not up and down and back and forth like the waves of an ocean. Such turbulent motion is gross. All vibrations begin with a dot and ends with a dot like the TV waves. Dot by dot in straight-line motion is the equilibrium expansion of purified energy through controlling and disciplining and training the mind. When you hold the bull by the horns and twist with the bull you come to a stage when you learn to be a witness - to see other's likes and dislikes but without your own likes and dislikes. When in twisting and turning you learn to manipulate without hurting others the bull's wild strength diminishes and you have in your hands a light, tamed bull! What happiness that is!
When energy is still gross in us we experience "boiling" anger not just irritations. The anger is untrained, therefore a habit, a reflex reaction from the habitual subconscious mind. The reaction of anger is instant, comes and hits without a warning.
It is by slowing down our mind-physical system through a course of disciplining, controlling, training and developing that the anger reaction is slowed down. Equanimity settles in. So slowing down through meditation practices is very powerful. It transforms the personality.
More and more your mind experiences the 'just is', that is, 'nature as it is', mind is calm, serene and tranquil. Strong views disappear. For and against arguments are there but only with the intent of understanding using the intellect and instantly going back to your 'just is' nature of calm, serene, tranquillity. You see the banyan tree as a banyan tree. Not say it gives shade or its branches are twisted. Learning to non-judge all the time makes you relaxed all the time. Very often the mind without refinement is petty. It creates aversions even to looks of persons. Most of it is your undisciplined imagination and speculations. You will realise one day it is unjust to harbour thoughts of this nature.
When you live without yesterday and tomorrow, just capturing the fresh moment you can experience the cosmic eternity. You are ageless. Worry with the change with time is gone. You experience timeless-ness. Yesterday's memories do not bother you. It does not leave an imprint to dwell upon. You learn to associate with perfect selfless feelings for the other butalso instantly dissociate and enjoy a free mind. It does not mean you cannot link up with the person again but connections are moment by moment, freeing instantly giving relaxation and then linking again for the welfare of the other. The mind is eternally in timeless space. It is peace in space while moving with chores and persons. It is peace in space that moves with you like a solid mountain that puzzles people and may wrongly call you "un-moving", "unemotional" and "indifferent". When we die we know from the many "near-death experiences" reported we may go into another dimension - the astral timeless dimension. Here "solitude" stays like a bubble of inspiration never ending in boredom because your astral energy (electro-magnetic body) is enwrapped in an invigorating environment of love, empathy, understanding through empathy, wisdom and a soothing peace of well-being. The mind in the fresh present when involved in a task, with no hurry to complete, gives such wonderful feeling of stress-free joy of well-being.
The space in the mind inspires one with a continuing bliss and solitude with stillness and silence and in itself is the peace you have ultimately captured from that never ending turbulences of samsara. Once you have captured this ultimate emptiness, the peace, you learn the art of retaining it at any cost to you, even if you have to move heaven and earth. Solitude that harbours peace and bliss you seek every moment for your well-being. The natural sounds of 'nature as it is' without sound pollution from radios and TVs comes with it the inspiring bliss of still peace where boredom never stays. We may call this bliss 'shanti suka', a combination of Sanskrit and Pali, that is 'peace-happiness' or 'ananda' in Sanskrit. It is the 'ananda' the Vedantic Hindus • experience at their liberation "moksha" when they experience "sat-chit-ananda" or the "truth, consciousness and bliss" - their ultimate reality.
http://www.knowbuddhism.info/2009/03/neutral-mind-and-its-cosmic-expansion.html
They are psychological aspects yet to be known with precision and clarity. They are closely linked to the six sense out-lets in us and they function so fast that the combinations are not recognized instantly. If we learn the art of being perfectly mindful we learn quickly that the six senses are all the time playing the fool with you and taking you far away from enlightenment qualities hidden within your true nature.
It is possible to side track this lengthy samsaric sensuous journey to nibbana by taking the proverbial bull by the horns, to twist to turn and battle without injury to anyone or break the delicate china in the china-shop. When we try to live the dhamma every moment, we, the lay people, are holding the bull by the horns. A monk's life is different. The Buddha takes care of his enlightenment path. However, the lay path of the householder is tough. Eventually everyone arrives to the same summit. Experiencing infinite space, infinite consciousness, not leaning on anyone, absolute self-confidence, bliss in emptiness through and through the body and mind, all heaviness from anger, hatred, envy, greed and grasping gone, a buoyant, light happiness living with the heart of love, caring, and concern only. Nurturing every moment a positive, joyous mind and so on and so on of those beautiful Nibbanic qualities.
To nurture a neutral mind and move like an objective scientist thinking in precision one has to watch the mind every moment. We have to watch our likes, dislikes and nurture the in-between only. If we can treat life like a never ending experiment, objectively watching every move likes a perfect witness or a perfect judge you observe without likes and dislikes. You watch the drama of life as watching a video-film. How much provocative the film is you cannot quarrel with any part of the film. Soon you realise that all of it is simply vibrations forming and disappearing.
To take an example of a food item we like not to psychically demand it with greed but learn to keep a distance between your demanding thought for the food item and yourself and hoping eventually neutral thinking comes through. It will be the same with a dislike or aversion. For instance your dislike for a person is constantly coming through you learn with distancing yourself from that person. Psychically you can visualise removing the emotional hook to that person each time thoughts of despise escalate in you and you experience the twitch of pain. If the links are too close like a brother or a sister you may have to practice removing the imaginary psychic hook over and over many times to get that distance and the neutrality. Constant pain calls for constant practice. Once the distance is captured and the hurt is gone you can think of him in the fresh moment. That is by living in the present. When you meet him next, to you his past is no more. There are no nasty assessments. You will see him as if seeing him for the first time.
Your reactions will be positive and pleasant. As the hurt and pain in you has gone compassion and well-being for him flows to you spontaneously. What more can you give?
You learn to verbalise in precision. No exaggerations or understatements. No distortion whatever. No slandering, no hurt to anyone. You "say things as they are". You talk like the Buddha and the Christ.
When our mind is neutralised we do not nonstop argue that we are right. There is nothing that is absolutely right or absolutely wrong. There is always a "just is".
When the Buddha was denying his body of food and fasting under a tree and opened his eyes he saw a boat coming down the river painfully slow, then instantly wisdom flowed to him. When the ropes of the boat are too loose or too tight boat's function is impaired. It has to be just right!
Although we can wean away from evil and the clutches of the 'mara' we must not remain elated in our thoughts about the good. We must remain in equanimity for the peace mind we seek through practising a neutral mind. Every time you do good you at the same time learn to let go to keep a neutral mind. So the mind remains in-between good and bad.
The same applies to remaining elated with positivity. Equanimity must reign however one feels wonderful in elation. Neutral mind beats one done to the expansion of energy in a straight line, not up and down and back and forth like the waves of an ocean. Such turbulent motion is gross. All vibrations begin with a dot and ends with a dot like the TV waves. Dot by dot in straight-line motion is the equilibrium expansion of purified energy through controlling and disciplining and training the mind. When you hold the bull by the horns and twist with the bull you come to a stage when you learn to be a witness - to see other's likes and dislikes but without your own likes and dislikes. When in twisting and turning you learn to manipulate without hurting others the bull's wild strength diminishes and you have in your hands a light, tamed bull! What happiness that is!
When energy is still gross in us we experience "boiling" anger not just irritations. The anger is untrained, therefore a habit, a reflex reaction from the habitual subconscious mind. The reaction of anger is instant, comes and hits without a warning.
It is by slowing down our mind-physical system through a course of disciplining, controlling, training and developing that the anger reaction is slowed down. Equanimity settles in. So slowing down through meditation practices is very powerful. It transforms the personality.
More and more your mind experiences the 'just is', that is, 'nature as it is', mind is calm, serene and tranquil. Strong views disappear. For and against arguments are there but only with the intent of understanding using the intellect and instantly going back to your 'just is' nature of calm, serene, tranquillity. You see the banyan tree as a banyan tree. Not say it gives shade or its branches are twisted. Learning to non-judge all the time makes you relaxed all the time. Very often the mind without refinement is petty. It creates aversions even to looks of persons. Most of it is your undisciplined imagination and speculations. You will realise one day it is unjust to harbour thoughts of this nature.
When you live without yesterday and tomorrow, just capturing the fresh moment you can experience the cosmic eternity. You are ageless. Worry with the change with time is gone. You experience timeless-ness. Yesterday's memories do not bother you. It does not leave an imprint to dwell upon. You learn to associate with perfect selfless feelings for the other butalso instantly dissociate and enjoy a free mind. It does not mean you cannot link up with the person again but connections are moment by moment, freeing instantly giving relaxation and then linking again for the welfare of the other. The mind is eternally in timeless space. It is peace in space while moving with chores and persons. It is peace in space that moves with you like a solid mountain that puzzles people and may wrongly call you "un-moving", "unemotional" and "indifferent". When we die we know from the many "near-death experiences" reported we may go into another dimension - the astral timeless dimension. Here "solitude" stays like a bubble of inspiration never ending in boredom because your astral energy (electro-magnetic body) is enwrapped in an invigorating environment of love, empathy, understanding through empathy, wisdom and a soothing peace of well-being. The mind in the fresh present when involved in a task, with no hurry to complete, gives such wonderful feeling of stress-free joy of well-being.
The space in the mind inspires one with a continuing bliss and solitude with stillness and silence and in itself is the peace you have ultimately captured from that never ending turbulences of samsara. Once you have captured this ultimate emptiness, the peace, you learn the art of retaining it at any cost to you, even if you have to move heaven and earth. Solitude that harbours peace and bliss you seek every moment for your well-being. The natural sounds of 'nature as it is' without sound pollution from radios and TVs comes with it the inspiring bliss of still peace where boredom never stays. We may call this bliss 'shanti suka', a combination of Sanskrit and Pali, that is 'peace-happiness' or 'ananda' in Sanskrit. It is the 'ananda' the Vedantic Hindus • experience at their liberation "moksha" when they experience "sat-chit-ananda" or the "truth, consciousness and bliss" - their ultimate reality.
http://www.knowbuddhism.info/2009/03/neutral-mind-and-its-cosmic-expansion.html