Tony
18th July 2011, 13:35
Confidence.
For some spiritual paths are full of flowers, bells and whistles, for others quite ordinary, just a few rocks. It all depends on what is needed. Our path is the result of past accumulated actions and reactions together with what is happening in the present moment. This karma is due to much puffed-upness.
What is happening to us is quite precise, and points to 'our' journey back. Other's views maybe helpful to reflect and study, but our path is our and theirs is theirs. We are all unique, though we may share a journey for a while.
The way back is letting go of our accumulated adornments we have acquired, they are no longer needed. This forum is very good as a catalysis (help to undergo change) but it can become a hindrance to actual experience. We are in danger of adorning ourselves with other's dreams.
In a group there is always much blustering going on, It is like this! No! It is like that!
Our innate wisdom has many qualities, and it manifests in many ways. Sometimes profound, sometimes funny, sometimes a little crazy. This usually depends on the situation - the needs of others, which is an expression of compassionate energy. This carries a great deal of responsibility.
Confidence is in accepting ones lot (Karma) be it good or bad. We all wish it were better, but what happens, is the way it just is...=justice! Our path maybe very complex or very simple or somewhere in between, all we have to do is note and accept it. Letting go, is just opening up, into infinite unelaborated consciousness.
Of course we don't always get this right!
If we lack confidence we will not be able to liberate these thoughts and emotions, so we may need a firm platform to work from.
Having a high view or deep meditation may not be helpful if it is a mind-made view or meditation. We can become conceited, which is not a remedy, but only serves to create more problems. We may develop power, but if we lack compassion our afflictions will not be destroyed. If the path doesn't free us from the afflictions then it is not considered to be the perfect path for us. So maybe we should review from time to time what in fact we are holding onto.
Our conduct should be one of continuity of sitting meditation so whatever arises is self liberated . Any holding on is the occupation of ego. Remember ego is just consciousness, driven by like or dislike or indifference.
Suppose you practise meditation and can rest one-pointedly or can visualise clearly without wavering, if this is coming from a dualistic mind it is not the right view, and there is still a subtle I and ego fixation. Because of that, everything becomes part of that ego fixation it makes it even worse than before because we develop spiritual conceit on top. Spiritual materialism.
If you really know the key point of self-liberation then anything that arises will be liberated, all the afflictions (including the happiness you feel from achieving the practice) and also the antidotes. After washing with soap which is the remedy, we wash off the soap, which is the letting go.
When a thought arises it is a seeming thought. It is only a thought if there is clinging to that thought which produces thinking, then reaction, then emotions, then confusion and then suffering.
Everything depends. Everything depends on something else. We, pure cognisant essence do not depend on any thing. We just are.
Maybe that is what is meant by higher self? Finding that is easy, it's just there. Quite ordinary. It's pure perception. The difficult part is to stop puffing it up, this only creates problems. The way to find what we are looking for is to stop reacting, stop be complicated. This only creates karma. Karma is the adornment.
Have confidence in merely being.
For some spiritual paths are full of flowers, bells and whistles, for others quite ordinary, just a few rocks. It all depends on what is needed. Our path is the result of past accumulated actions and reactions together with what is happening in the present moment. This karma is due to much puffed-upness.
What is happening to us is quite precise, and points to 'our' journey back. Other's views maybe helpful to reflect and study, but our path is our and theirs is theirs. We are all unique, though we may share a journey for a while.
The way back is letting go of our accumulated adornments we have acquired, they are no longer needed. This forum is very good as a catalysis (help to undergo change) but it can become a hindrance to actual experience. We are in danger of adorning ourselves with other's dreams.
In a group there is always much blustering going on, It is like this! No! It is like that!
Our innate wisdom has many qualities, and it manifests in many ways. Sometimes profound, sometimes funny, sometimes a little crazy. This usually depends on the situation - the needs of others, which is an expression of compassionate energy. This carries a great deal of responsibility.
Confidence is in accepting ones lot (Karma) be it good or bad. We all wish it were better, but what happens, is the way it just is...=justice! Our path maybe very complex or very simple or somewhere in between, all we have to do is note and accept it. Letting go, is just opening up, into infinite unelaborated consciousness.
Of course we don't always get this right!
If we lack confidence we will not be able to liberate these thoughts and emotions, so we may need a firm platform to work from.
Having a high view or deep meditation may not be helpful if it is a mind-made view or meditation. We can become conceited, which is not a remedy, but only serves to create more problems. We may develop power, but if we lack compassion our afflictions will not be destroyed. If the path doesn't free us from the afflictions then it is not considered to be the perfect path for us. So maybe we should review from time to time what in fact we are holding onto.
Our conduct should be one of continuity of sitting meditation so whatever arises is self liberated . Any holding on is the occupation of ego. Remember ego is just consciousness, driven by like or dislike or indifference.
Suppose you practise meditation and can rest one-pointedly or can visualise clearly without wavering, if this is coming from a dualistic mind it is not the right view, and there is still a subtle I and ego fixation. Because of that, everything becomes part of that ego fixation it makes it even worse than before because we develop spiritual conceit on top. Spiritual materialism.
If you really know the key point of self-liberation then anything that arises will be liberated, all the afflictions (including the happiness you feel from achieving the practice) and also the antidotes. After washing with soap which is the remedy, we wash off the soap, which is the letting go.
When a thought arises it is a seeming thought. It is only a thought if there is clinging to that thought which produces thinking, then reaction, then emotions, then confusion and then suffering.
Everything depends. Everything depends on something else. We, pure cognisant essence do not depend on any thing. We just are.
Maybe that is what is meant by higher self? Finding that is easy, it's just there. Quite ordinary. It's pure perception. The difficult part is to stop puffing it up, this only creates problems. The way to find what we are looking for is to stop reacting, stop be complicated. This only creates karma. Karma is the adornment.
Have confidence in merely being.