silent thunder

Our essential nature is awakened. This is clouded over by the conditioned mind which is why sitting and allowing the mind to quiet is as basic and advanced a practice as I've encountered. We are buddha nature. Tao expresses through our beingness. A muddy glass of water, perpetually stirred will remain cloudy. But allow it to settle... Muddiest water Undisturbed by meddling Rests in clarity. We need not do nor achieve any thing. To encounter our true nature allow that which is not true nature to fall away. Release everything. Absolutely every thing... that which remains is awake.

Strong description of observation forest. This exact paradoxical playground is why i have recently found so much resonance in Chuangze's sharings on 'walking two paths ay once'

I think you showed admirable restraint and patience Maddie. Were sean active at this time said troll would have been gone by his third post in the thread...

Such treasure of insight and ability to convey in words the nature of this most subtle and familiar aspects of reality. This quote in particular is nigh on an exact mirroring of Toltec cosmology and the nature of the myriad shared dreams within the one great dreamer. Thanks for this thread stimpy. Deep synchronicity amd resonance here...

This song seems to have been biding its time awaiting her arrival... such clarity and purity of tone and expression... utterly stunning!

Fantastic stuff @Maddie Thank you for sharing so openly and dealing with the ignorance of some so patiently. High skill on display. You are inspiring.

Awareness

There is Awareness here. All former notions of the various identity entities have refined into that one unshakable vajra knowingness. All else is subjected to shifting.

The expression @ 1:30! So much kinship in my core, with this snippet... so much expressed between tribe in the extreme intimacy of long path walking together. As always, I learn from teachers who speak not a word of my language mind...

Nope it's very thinly veiled bigotry and the veil is a thin coat of gaslight. Again. Wow.

I can Imagine he and John Lennon having a chat about it...

Wow. Just wow.

For many years, i would stare loosely and unfocused at a blank wall in my practice area while playing qi gong, sitting zazen or zhan zhuang. Then one afternoon, Visions began to fill the space of the wall, incredibly vivid detailed snippets of (i assume) other's lives, moving snapshots of life would play out in full cinematic detail. One upon another. Entire scenes of seemingly random home life/work life. Never considered they may have been from my own past until reading this exchange... This persisted each time I engaged the wall with loosely focused eyes. It was as surprising as it was unsought and... in the end unwelcome. While charming and intriguing it was in the end mostrously distracting. So distracting because of course my western mind was pondering how these visuals could be arising with no input but a blank white wall. Also distracting because the storyteller wanted to continue the tales, or try to glean meaning from them. I traced the visuals back to a void practice I'd been compelled toward by my inner voice. Sitting in pitch black, eyes open for an extended period each day over many months, gave rise to intense open eyed visuals, but usually only geometric, never story based and never cinematic quality detailed scenes with context. This was wholly different and occuring in broad daylit rooms. The visions were never turbid, nor particularly alluring. They seemed precisely neutral and random looking back on it, never drama involved in them. A porch swing swaying in a breeze that ruffled the leaves of a bush. Hands drying dishes while looking out the window at children playing near a corn field... that kind of thing. I painted a large picture and hung it in that place and broke off the void work as it was unwelcome at the time. Perhaps it's time to revisit, something in this exchange rekindles an interest.

Seems a rather broad proclamation of absolute certainty when your experience is limited to your own awareness and the hearsay of teachers you believe. My wife's experience runs counter to your claim of cannot and will not, so sharing this for some perspective.

My response is to engage the practice and see what arises for you. No matter their experience or expectation, what other awareness can determine what will arise for you?

Precisely. Time is a function of memory it is not a thing. It is a human concept of change but there is only the present in which the change unfolds. This is the central pivot about which revolves the subtle shift in interacting with the concept of the ever unfolding present versus Time as a thing that exists and travels from past through present to some future. There is only now. No past. No future. These are mental objects that get reified into concepts that humans consider as real because they are so consistent and familiar. My experience reveals they are experienced as real in a similar manner that trees, buildings, animals and other people in dreams seem entirely real until we wake up... Time is a word/mind object/concept that is assigned and then reified into an abstract mental object by human minds to describe an experience. The memory experience of the ever shifting nature witnessed in the perpetual unfoldingness of manifestation in the present mixed with our natural ability to project thought into possible scenarios creates a canvas upon which we assign a notion of 'time passing'. But this entire process never arises in past, or future. Nothing ever occurs anywhen but now. There is the Present. It's all Now. Past and future are mind objects that arise in thought. Thought arises Now. It's Now. perpetually...

Respect for reaching out Maddie and offering to enlighten folks, I hope those who will benefit most will be receptive. My boss and dear friend of 20 years started her transition 2 years ago in her mid 50's. Seeing her unfold into her whole self has been such a gift and awakening for me to witness. We're blessed to work in an industry that is more aware than most so it's been a blessing for her. Peace!

Reported.

The entirety of my life has repeatedly driven this exact point into my conscious awareness repeatedly.

Only in your human conditioned mind bob

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You infer what was not implied...