No matter how altruistic our intentions, all of the knowledge that we harvest and all of the beliefs that we rely on are hindrances to our awakening to truth.
Knowing untainted, unfiltered and uninterpreted truth, cannot happen as long as there is a self, an ego, a sense of “I am this”. I have difficulty using the term enlightenment for the same reason that I have trouble using the term God. There are so many different ideas about what it is that to just throw it out there would be saying a million different things, most of which, wouldn't be what I'd intended.
There's a way to hold one's self where there's inner quietude. No chatter, emotional currents or compulsion to change. Things are known or understood, without being recollected, or being translated into words, images or any concrete, tangible or communicable form. The individual is empty. There is awareness, but not presence, in the way it's typically conceived. The presence that is there extends well beyond the boundaries of the body and the individual's life and condition. It's centered, more or less, in the body, but it doesn't seem/feel like it's bound to it.
This state simply can't be realized as long as one clings to their ideas of self – period.
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