deci belle Posted November 26, 2013 Not you, not some other you There is no one. Not a thing On the cusp of going into action In perpetuity. When has this ever moved? When the Unborn Has become activated Just this is nonbeing. Emptiness is not void Awareness is complete Who knows before the first thought Peerless knowledge unknowing? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deci belle Posted November 27, 2013 (edited) Thank you, Basher!!❤ Someone was noting various ranges of experiential realization via PM and this was my response. ed note: say hi to Basher Edited November 27, 2013 by deci belle Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deci belle Posted November 28, 2013 (edited) When the Unborn Has become activated Just this is nonbeing. "When the Unborn has become activated" doesn't imply it has just become so. "Just activating" is activating it yourself in everyday ordinary affairs. Activating nondwelling awareness is simply using its function, its capacity, its power to transcend its contents because there is no dwelling on these fleeting conditions of conscious awareness of events, people, places and things. The reality of sudden realization is not beyond ordinary affairs. Mystical experience is not up to oneself, nor is it even necessary to everyday enlightening function. Nonbeing is your own mind's nature. Selflessness is not a moral imperative in the higher teachings of buddhism or taoism. It is a description of the nature of aware reality. Activating the Unborn is simply seeing with your inherent enlightened aware capacity void of habitual psychological views of self and other. There is still self and other in conventional terms and impersonal adaption also encompasses this, yet one abides in the natural mind without transforming it into other states of existence. Why? Just this is nonbeing. The mystery of reality takes on the aspect of process in terms of the temporal, yet the potential of being is a secret that takes no energy to realize. It is just a recondite, hidden capacity that people rarely enter into. Why? Attachments to self and views of other which are projections of habitual energy patterns of the psychological awareness of the being that is going to die. Ego awareness closes down the aperture of awareness to suit its limited capacity to see. It is necessary to exercise the nonpsychological capacity of awareness to circumvent the intentional myopia perpetuated by the small faculties of the matrix of the ego-identities feeding the numberless streams comprising the flow of karmic existence. So in opening up our capacity to see reality as it is and not limit our scope only to that which props up the illusion of ego-identity, the natural and necessary ego functions perform within their capacities and the selfless identity of the being that is going to die enacts transcendence in terms of the process of karmic evolution no different than the nonbeing nature of when the Unborn has become activated. This is not a product of wealth, so politically motivated efforts to redistribute it have no intrinsic merit. Even in ancient times, it was the middle classes comprised of producers and merchants that paid the price— and opted out of it when their livelihoods became untenable due to laws and regulations governing their operations (sound familiar?). The wealthy/ruling class has always taken care of number one (even when that meant squeezing the economy to pay tribute to outsiders who eventually took over anyway). Everyone has this potential, yet so few activate it. Only concerned with external cravings, humanity goes on and on in the dark, suffering for no reason and blaming one another for conditions that each and every one themselves perpetuate simply by the fact of giving birth and being born. Taking personal responsibility for the being that is going to die is independent of society, events, people and things. It doesn't depend on anything. Activate the mind without dwelling on anything. ed note: add "these fleeting conditions of" in 1st paragraph, last four paragraphs Edited November 28, 2013 by deci belle 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deci belle Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Emptiness is not void Awareness is complete Who knows before the first thought Peerless knowledge unknowing? Moving further into the unborn to its source in terms of real experience this stanza notes that there are no extraneous elements or symbols relative to anything, much less vestiges of the human mentality's inherited instinctive, cultural or or other psychologically grounded content: i.e., voices, pageantry or any derived atmosphere involving an identifiable self: oneself or another. Here, the person has been stripped away, revealing the original face, the essence of awareness, the true human with no status. There is only essential awareness seeing nonoriginated aware nature. Emptiness is not void. Awareness is complete. Immaterial, awareness has no inside or outside where not even nothing exists. Complete, the unity of uncreate space is the totality of Mind, empty yet not void. Before the first thought there is aware Mind, peerless knowledge unknowing. This is who. Who is not a person. This is our aware nature having no identity. This is where the term selflessness comes from. Selflessness has no attribute denoting a personal locus. Awareness is impersonal, hence our nature is selfless, impersonal, nonoriginated Unity. Knowledge unknowing is nonbeing being. Knowledge refers to the quality of being. Unknowing is its capacity as never having begun. This is the state of the absolute in perpetuity. Awake living awareness, miraculous and immaculate without peer. ed note: sweeten it up here and there Edited December 5, 2013 by deci belle 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deci belle Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Not you, not some other you There is no one. Not a thing On the cusp of going into action In perpetuity. When has this ever moved? Though this thread was inspired by an issue pertaining to mystical experience and I started off this commentary on my initial response to that PM, the first two stanzas are being discussed last. Why? Whether or not the gradual is employed by those born knowing, the unity of before and after in terms of enlightening activity also works the same for those who must practice gradual self-refinement due to karmic obstructions. So once people discern the real immaterial intangible potential in ordinary affairs and begin authentic practice based on essence itself, gradual practice before and after the sudden is the same in that the course of freeing potential from the matrix of polluted self-reflective awareness transforms the organism, according to its predilection, from creation. This practice and its transformative results are one, even though it can be said to have differentiation in terms of before and after. Actually, before and after being one is one's authentic active presence outside of the two times whereby one adapts impersonally from within karmic evolution itself without attracting residual karmic influence. In the case of gradual practice in the aftermath of sudden realization, one's selfless adaption to ordinary affairs influences the course of evolution for those ready to evolve along with the reversal of the light in terms of habitual consciousness. Not you, not some other you, there is no one, is one's freedom to act selflessly in the midst of ordinary affairs unbeknownst to anyone according to the time. This is enlightening being. It is just the way it is and no one knows why. Though this statement could apply to sudden realization, the fact is, the power of the absolute is inherent in conditions. The real is found by virtue of the false. Enlightening being is a matter of knowing how to work with reality as is. It isn't difficult~ it's just selfless. It just makes me want to laugh! Not a thing On the cusp of going into action In perpetuity. When has this ever moved? When passion and essence fuse, the creative reverts to the source and all is as it is: as ungraspable as a mass of fire. Sinking into passions and clinging to the absolute are the two extremes. There is a perpetual instant residing in each of us having no beginning or end or inside or outside. If you can bring this up, the world has always been this ungraspable mass of fire. Plunge the ungraspable mass of fire into the ocean of realization. ed note: tweak spaces between text and commentary and fix last sentence Edited February 12, 2014 by deci belle Share this post Link to post Share on other sites