Musings on Compassion & The Absolute

[Consilience]

Don't really participate much on the forum these days but still check in occasionally. I'm still very much dedicated to the path and to practice. These musings came through this evening after spontaneously meditating and this is probably the only community I'm apart of that would appreciate or gain anything from the writing, so I thought I'd share. It's not a logical argument or intended to convince or explain. The coherence will either resonate at an intelligence beyond the egoic mind, or it may come across as incoherent and at worst, arrogant. It's the reader's choice. 

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Compassion is the functional expression of absolute love which are words pointing to the absolute truth. The truth of the matter is that suffering can only exist when there is ignorance of truth. This is why meditation is so powerful in the long run, it is a direct excavation of the conditions leading towards suffering. While meditation may not offer the full range of the infinitude of consciousness’s myriad forms which may otherwise be accessed through other means such as psychedelics, meditation does offer a meta-contemplation into the nature of reality by way of resolving suffering. The ignorance of what form is, in any expression regardless of state, is what allows for suffering to unfold and therefore is ignorance of form’s nature.

What do we see when we see clearly into form? Many things. One of which is that there is no one looking which is to say there is only God. Noticing the contradiction of logic, how could no one and God be identical? But such paradoxical thinking becomes coherent in the aftermath of direct experience of what you really are. When looking at the world, what is there? Cyclical existence, filled with countless beings? Or one wholeness, impossible to divide?

Any perspective held onto as preferentially true is used as the prejudice needed for self-deception; the self arises in clinging to any perceptual unfolding reflecting either the full range of relational reality or the unspeakable expression of formless space as absolute now.

We see that form is not merely infinite distinction, but that more specifically, distinction only exists as relationship, dependent co-arising. There is no such thing as distinction outside of the meta-context of relationship. A more accurate depiction of relative reality, ie form, is relationship. Reality is infinite relationship.

When self arises, so too does other. And the moment other arises, how could anything other than love arise? When we truly see other, when we’re truly with the suffering found in our own hearts and minds, right within the distinction there is union. We see through separation into the paradox of other that there is neither other nor solipsism, neither no one and me here now. And yet, it is not my suffering or your suffering, but our suffering.

There are no sentient beings to save, and yet nothing for the Love of God to do other than vow to save all sentient beings until perfect happiness is achieved by all, by one, by no one.

Compassion, therefore, automatically arises in responses to seeing the truth. When the truth of one’s deepest desires are found, when the truth obstructing the truth is seen in every corner of the mind, when original primordial perfection is seen to exist in the same place as hell, as being endlessly lost on the rounds of cyclical existence, there is only a single wish - may all beings be free.

Relative Bodhicitta is discovered in relationship with all beings and is non-dual with Absolute Bodhicitta as being the nature of God.

Shantideva’s ending dedication then makes sense - 
For as long as space endures

For as long as living beings remain

So then too may I abide

To dispel the miseries of the world

We see suffering is simultaneous with being a perfect expression of God and the very mechanism by which God is ignorant of itself.
We see that there is really nowhere to go or nothing to do, perfection was always already the case.

And we vow to exert ourselves to the fullest, committed to endless rebirth until all beings are happy.

Knowing with absolute certainty there is no birth, death, or self
Only original reality

Our original face
What we really are

And when what we really are stares into the eyes of what another really is, there is just love; there is just the compassion that sees one being doing its best in face of samsara, as though two mirrors staring at one another, unfolding into an infinite hall. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Consilience

[Leo Gura]

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