The Essence of Reality

[deci belle]

One must not assume or mistakenly conceive of creative evolution as different than the totality of universally ageless bondage by a self-consciously perpetuated matrix of karmic pattern-awareness.

Karma is not an element of influence acting on a separate realm called creation in that existence is itself nothing but karmic momentum through and through. Karma doesn’t “happen” to you. It already defines your entire reason for being through and through. There is no other reason for being. I hope that fact doesn't shock you.

Rest assured that the reality of existential properties falls into neither relative mode of philosophical eternalism nor nihilism. Existence is simply a mystery beyond the ken of empirical scientific method— based simply on the level of its own modalities of currently devised properties attributable to quantum physics.

“Karma” isn’t even a thing. To believe it is a thing would be like believing “ego” is an absolute in terms of the identity of the being that is going to die. When it does, it is gone forever. People who actually believe as much are categorical "nihilists". "Eternalism" is a belief in a transmundane "soul" able to perpetuate the ultimate identity of the individual: either by reincarnation or by eternal salvation or damnation. Actually, creation and karma are both references to the mundane, the created, the realm of delusional existence, and all such references fall into the realm of process, time, or, the incremental.

Even so, referring to the “transformational” properties attributable to the absolute essence of the created is only a provisional teaching device in that the essence of reality doesn’t change. Why? Nonorigination. Beginningless nonorigination. Beginninglessness isn't a reference to a far away time. It is literally without beginning. Such is the nature of reality, and its essence is awareness. Being uncreated, awareness is void of self and void of emptiness. As such, one's own quality of being is awake. Being is karmic and nonbeing is awake. Obviously, nonbeing is transcendent in its causelessness and being is a process of endless changes.

Because one must first see essence oneself in order to “transform” the created into potential is only in a manner of speaking. Why? Because reality and delusion are even now, without a doubt, not different. It is only a matter of one's quality of unobscured clarity into the nature of reality that one realizes delusion or nondifferentiated unity by the being's inherent enlightening function. Why?  Because the delusional created realm being none other than enlightenment for those who see essence, who see reality, it follows that those whose Dharma eye is obscured by habit energy (conditioned consciousness) consider enlightenment as something else, something other than their own mind. Even if deluded people afflicted by ignorance of their inherently nonoriginated enlightening function take it upon themselves to mistake the thieving human mentality for sincere open wonder, they still do not see reality and cannot partake of the vehicle of the unconditioned. By seeing reality, one naturally forms a partnership with creation and its karmic changes on par with the Causeless, thereby to transcend endless rounds of birth and death while in the very midst of delusional karmic evolution. This means that seeing delusional existence as potential in reality and not as things relative to the personality, one deals with essence directly and goes along with the uncreated. Ordinary people see transcendent reality as creation and see essence as things, and thereby go along with karmic momentum, changing along with things (birth and death).

Though enlightenment and delusion are not different in terms of essence, whether or not people see reality or delusion is a matter of clarity or obscurity, in terms of one’s degree of awakening to self-refining practice. Some people have light karma and some people have heavy karma. But it doesn't matter because the rule is arriving at the cessation of future karmic generation by refining away the karmic basis of the being that is going to die in spite of circumstantial cycles karma of past and present. The simple fact is that if one isn't presently free, one won't be free in the end. The essence of reality has never been other than this very instant.

 

 

ed note: change "(change)" to "(birth and death)" at end of 6th paragraph

Edited January 7, 2021 by deci belle

[How to be wise]

@deci belle Realise that karma is an illusion. That’s how you end it!

[deci belle]

Mme Wise, though I can appreciate your contribution to this thread, I must tell you it is a fact that "you" don't end anything.

It is only when YOU are ended, that delusion and reality are seen as they are, which is the same, ei: selfless.

Intellectual activity defining the person is what perpetuates illusion as self/other.

Awakening to nopsychological awareness allows one to see reality as is, which is unified.

Therefore,  there is no possibility, much less a need to "end" anything.

As for the buddhist term "cessation", referring to the end of karmic momentum, it is only indicative of ceasing the habitual use of mind in terms of psychological pattern-awareness that perpetuates delusional relationships with "externals." As for externals, who is going to end their illusions, hmmm? So "ending" illusion is only in the mind of those who see reality. Such people see illusion for what it is: illusion, that's all. In seeing illusion as illusion, one then accords with one's inherent enlightening function and absorbs its potential without pandering to its created energy. Otherwise, illusion is the totality of existence— there's no end to it. It literally constitutes the entirety of all creation for all time. It is all there is, though its nature is nonoriginated.

There is nothing "bad" about illusion, because illusion and reality aren't different. Illusion only resides in the self-conscious pattern-awareness of those ignorant of their enlightened true nature. Such ignorance is the obstacle to seeing reality and adapting to karmic evolution without going along in its creative flow rendering endless cycles of birth and death. At any rate, illusion never ends because it is all there is.

As for creation's conditional dual nature pairing delusion and absolute, where's reality? It must be understood that reality is neither ordinary (delusional) nor holy (absolute). Reality is neither both nor neither as well. When an ignoramus says these words, he's wrong. When enlightening beings say these words, they're right. It's the difference between "borrowing" words and owning them.

When you see your nature, you experience the absolute for the first time. It's you; you are NOT it. Why? There has never been such a one. In terms of the absolute, there has never been such a buddha. Illusion is only in the ignorance of not knowing you are ignorant of the nature of reality. That is, the absolute nature of reality is essentially the delusional nature of reality in terms of seeing reality. In other words, reality is only in the nature of the enlightening quality of seeing. Seeing is itself the seeing of the Dharma eye of the unconditional, not the seeing of the rat-eye of pattern-consciousness. The Dharma eye is NOT a thing— it is the expression of selflessly aware inherent enlightening function. It sees illusion as… illusion. It does not "end" it. How is that? Mind. Delusion is the human mentality habituated to perpetuation of the false self. Sudden enlightenment is seeing the absolute nature of human awareness for the first time. One only sees it once, not twice. The absolute and the delusional are both extremes of the same causeless reality. Clinging to or rejecting one over the other is itself delusional— even for those who have already seen their nature. Taoism's Complete Reality (Quanzhen) teaching is equivalent to Chan (zen) buddhism's teaching of Suchness. Both teachings are essentially identical in that true reality is nonoriginated, undifferentiated selfless unity. What would there be to end?

Authentic practice of enlightening being is seeing through phenomena without denying its characteristics and activating the mind without dwelling on its contents. Transcendence is a matter of seeing through subjective delusion while dealing with exactly what delusion is: karmic momentum. One's OWN karmic momentum. Whose else would it be? Even a buddha's lifetime is karmic. How else would one endeavor to absorb creation's potential unless there is its momentum to work with in the first place, unless? There is no ending it. It is endless. It is all there is. This is the mystery. I'm very sorry❤︎!!

Don't use the mind to end things, even formless things such as ideas or cravings. The third patriarch of Chan buddhism said, "Don't seek reality (by rejecting illusion), just stop views (relative to the personality). Strive to end the habitual use of mind which creates the illusion of "things" hinged to a false self-identity based on nothing but the perpetuation of self-reifying thoughts relative to the thinker, the knower and the liver of life. The Buddha said, "Reality has no such pattern." The essence of reality has never begun. The unborn is your own mind. How could measly human intellectualism endeavor to "end" anything? This isn't philosophy or clinical psychology, it is nonpsychological and therefore spiritual. Its inconceivability is neither good or bad, nor self or other— its use approaches the realm of wizardry. Human nature is a selfless, nonoriginated inconceivability. We are truly inconceivable beings. It is the way it is, and no one knows why.

One would be wise to experience Suchness as it is. How wonderful would that be?

 

 

 

ed note: add content below 5th line; typo, 6th paragraph; add "conditional" in first line of 8th paragraph, then split it to form the 9th; add "hinged" to 3rd line of penultimate paragraph

Edited January 7, 2021 by deci belle

[Breakingthewall]

5 hours ago, deci belle said:

At any rate, illusion never ends because it is all there is.

The eternal crazy dance. How is possible that exist? How is possible that is all that exist? Well, who knows the ultimate nature of the reality

[deci belle]

Hi Breakingthewall— excellent comments. 

Yes, the vision of the dance is in perpetual subsumption, where the symbolic mystical vortex of particulate light and even more glistening dark elements churn tacitly in what taoist mysticism calls the liquid pearl. "Out of the dim void, a point of illumination hovers auspiciously in stillness."

Existence, illusion; just this is truly the mystery of mysteries. The Absolute is no mystery. The homeland of nothing whatsoever is just the seat of selfless nonoriginated wonder… miraculously aware. Who knows? The Absolute is as far as human awareness can go. It is not the person. Taoism calls this the true human with no status. But there is always that which is beyond the limit of the limitless. Such is the realm of unknowability even beyond our puny human inconceivable nature. Having returned from the voidless void, where absence has no precedent, just here in the presence of inherent open awareness, one sees through illusion and gathers its potential. By virtue of the realm of karma itself, one joins in true partnership with the creative by seeing Change and thereby transcends its rounds of birth and death throughout endless cycles of creative momentum— thus, by somehow standing aloof in the midst of delusion, one "gathers" its potential, grain by grain, while biding one's time in the highest good of receptivity to incipient potential by virtuous nonresistance.

Who knows the essence of reality? Only those with the eyes of subtle spiritual accord in reality to do so. Authentic practice is a matter of perpetually clarifying and preserving the fundamental. It's not somewhere else, but you (the person) are not it. When it's you and yet you yourself have never been such a one, you're close. It's a matter of intimate knowledge beyond judgements and opinions. Real knowledge is immediate and impersonal, independent of the thinker, the knower and the liver of life, so there is no how involved. Why? Because reality truly has no pattern, action relative to psychological process is eons away. In seeing the essence of reality, in terms of ordinary situations, one does not partake of relative manipulations, only adapting to present conditions without seeking honor nor avoiding ignominy— all the while abiding in clear, open sincerity.

 

 

ed note: tweak 2nd paragraph; add starting with "…but you (the person) are not it", ending with …eons away." in 3rd

Edited January 7, 2021 by deci belle

[Breakingthewall]

On 6/1/2021 at 1:17 AM, deci belle said:

 

the problem with the unlimited is that there can be nothing beyond it. but all the infinite kosmos is at the same time a point without dimension. from the absolute arises the relative, so the nothingness generates something. from here the reason seems useless. but it is a fact that the human mind has the rare ability to understand the universe.

[Awayfarer]

Deci-

 

Moo

 

East Mountain Walks on Water

 

I have been dancing with dragons and wrestling with tigers and suffering so, so much  Your commentary is/was/will be invaluable. I try my best not to trade one delusion for another.

I found this, also, to be illuminating and thought it might help others.  Use the captions, the lyrics are hard to understand. 

 

Much gratitude to you. 

[deci belle]

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The following is entry into the realm of inconceivability: Do not employ reasoning to grasp its import.

The Absolute is as far as human awareness can go. It is not the person. Taoism calls this the true human with no status. But there is always that which is beyond the limit of the limitless. Such is the realm of unknowability even beyond our puny human inconceivable nature. Having returned from the voidless void, where absence has no precedent, just here in the presence of inherent open awareness, one sees through illusion and gathers its potential.

There is no problem (beyond one's habituated clinging to psychologically referenced rational dualistic intellectualism), because the actuality is that nothing doesn't exist. "Absence having no precedent" means there is no "nothing". There is no "it" to have something (or not) beyond (it). This is not a philosophical word-game. What this proves (by my description)  is that nothing (no things) and not-nothing (things) are BOTH part of the dual nature of the created karmic realm and do not imply any aspect of intrinsic reality. Why? Because thingness and nothingness are both illusion. This means they do not exist in terms of absolute nature.

In terms of the Absolute, there is no relative factor. That's why it is called the Absolute. The homeland of nothing whatsoever is void of "nothing" as well. The absence of absence is what proves the reality of enlightenment in terms of the absolute. In the ancient Sanskrit description of Shunyata (emptiness), found in the classic prose of the Heart Sutra, there is a mantra which surpasses the philosophic emphasis implied by the literal meaning encompassed by the term "shunyata": [Om] gate gate paragate parasamgate [bodhi svaha]. This translates as gone, gone, beyond gone, gone beyond. Obviously, there is no limit imposed by "emptiness" at all, much less by the "unlimited." Why? Emptiness, as such, does not exist in reality. Why? Emptiness as a factor of the Absolute would imply non-emptiness as well, and this simply is not the nature of reality, nor its essence.

In this sense:

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"the problem with the unlimited is that there can be nothing beyond it…"

"Beyond" is a relative term. The "unlimited" is not a thing. The absolute is actually experienced as is, being your selfless immortal beginningless aware nature without inside or outside. There is no nothing to begin with. Really. Reality has no limit. "The limit of the limitless" refers only to the inconceivable capacity of the nature of human awareness, which is unborn. True, there is no dimension— but your conception of this seems to be an actual point in space. "The unlimited", to use your term, has no distance. In other words, space is not a matter of breadth or expanse, nor is it (I can assure you) cramped. Why? There is no inside or outside. Aside from the nature of inconceivability, undifferentiated unity is just that: complete, whole, perfectly formless, beyond dimensionality. You will just have to experience it for yourself.

Therefore:

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"…a point without dimension…"

is trapped in intellectual reasoning which is simply the wrong tool to encompass the fact that there is no thing. "No thing" includes its dualistically implied nothing, as well. There is no thing. There is no dimension and no thing without dimension, no emptiness, no point, no beyond the imaginary point, etcetera. I only mentioned the reference to "beyond the limit of the limitless" so people would not be mistaken that the homeland of nothing whatsoever, in terms of "sudden enlightenment" is the ultimate limit of the absolute. Spontaneous selfless insight into the nature of the absolute is not defined (not limited) by sudden realization. The limitlessness of human being's selfless spiritual nature implies a profundity beyond the personality's psychological apparatus, but the extent of the spiritual (nonpsychological) nature of human being is only a very small and inconsequential aspect of the inconceivable nature of the Absolute. There is no end to delusion, but the absolute has no beginning because the Causeless is nonoriginated. THIS is your nature.

It is necessary to dispense with intellectualism in order to experience reality— both before and in the aftermath of the sudden. When the psychological apparatus of the being that is going to die finally craps out, there you are, selflessly aglow. The whole point of authentic teaching divulging authentic practice of the Celestial Mechanism is that (hopefully) you will experience the absolute nature of reality (being your own mind) BEFORE you die. When you die, it's too late. Anybody can see the absolute when they die, but seeing reality requires that you are alive in your body and functioning in everyday ordinary situations in order to absorb delusion's unrefined potential for further refinement void of intellectualism by virtue of having awakened to your inherent enlightening function in the first place!!

As for:

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"…from the absolute arises the relative, so the nothingness generates something…"

As a manner of speaking, it is said that "the one bifurcates into the two and the ten thousand things manifest therefrom, but, in reality, the absolute does not precede the relative in terms of time. If it did, the absolute would be relative to time, and it's not. In terms of the absolute, there is no time in the same way there is no emptiness (no nothing). In the same way, the absolute and the relative are the same in terms of reality: they don't exist. That's why existence (illusion) is a mystery. It just is. The absolute is not a mystery. That's why it is said that Suchness is neither ordinary nor holy. In the same way, Dogen said "wood does not turn into ashes." Wood is wood and ashes are ashes. Dogen's (or my) writing may not help matters, but the fact is, the absolute and the relative are the same, not different, in terms of reality. How else would one endeavor to absorb potential (uncreated) from within the midst of delusion (created)? If it weren't the case, there would be no basis in reality for authentic teaching having been left behind by all prior illuminates in order to keep the knowledge alive. The real is only found by virtue of the false. They are the same for those who see reality. Those who see reality, see reality because…

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Authentic practice of enlightening being is seeing through phenomena without denying its characteristics and activating mind without dwelling on its contents. Transcendence is a matter of seeing through subjective delusion while dealing with exactly what delusion is: karmic momentum. One's OWN karmic momentum. Whose else would it be? Even a buddha's lifetime is karmic. How else would one endeavor to absorb creation's potential unless there is its momentum to work with in the first place? There is no ending it (illusion). It is endless. It is all there is. This is the mystery. Delusion and the Absolute are both endless.

This means that by virtue of the real knowledge of "nothingness" being identical to "something" without generational attributes, one transcends creation. Since you yourself see in terms of karmic duality being generational birth and death, you follow creation along in terms of the laws of karma. What you see is what you get because karma and liberation are both a matter of the nature of one's selfless clarity in terms of pure awareness (or not). The clear rises and the opaque sinks. Awareness does as awareness is. If you don't see reality you go along with illusion. It's just the way it is and no one knows why…❤︎

I failed to acknowledge my appreciation of your deep comments contributing to this thread at the beginning of this post, Breakingthewall— before creating the first quote-box. I don't know how to place text above the quote-box once I create it~ I'm sorry!!

…and you are most welcome, Awayfarer❤︎!!

 

 

ed note: add 2nd half of 7th paragraph

Edited January 8, 2021 by deci belle

[Breakingthewall]

On 6/1/2021 at 1:17 AM, deci belle said:

 

your mind is sharp as a blade. it is true that you delight in listening to yourself. But the music that your instrument composes is in tune. A pleasure to listen 

[Awayfarer]

24 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

your mind is sharp as a blade. it is true that you delight in listening to yourself. But the music that your instrument composes is in tune. A pleasure to listen 

You can spend lifetimes listening to Deci's tunes. Deep tracks. Use google. A poem for her tunes, a paltry payment from someone with much to learn:

 

Awareness, here, now.

By these letters, I am two.

Alone, then

I am not.

[Breakingthewall]

On 8/1/2021 at 0:41 AM, deci belle said:

trapped in intellectual reasoning which is simply the wrong tool to encompass the fact that there is no thing. "No thing" includes its dualistically implied nothing, as well. There is no thing. There is no dimension and no thing

In my limited experience I have seen the infinity, without limits, and because it was infinite it was nothing, since any "something", in comparison, became a zero, flat, without shape . I would like to know more, but the terror of annihilation leaves no space

I talked about a point without dimension because I realized myself as a point in the no space that wasn't happening, stuck in the no time, eternal because it isn't any movement. But who knows if it was point. Much more dentegration of the veil are required

Edited January 9, 2021 by Breakingthewall

[Carl-Richard]

On 6.1.2021 at 1:17 AM, deci belle said:

One must not assume or mistakenly conceive of creative evolution as different than the totality of universally ageless bondage by a self-consciously perpetuated matrix of karmic pattern-awareness.

[deci belle]

It is very difficult to motivate a moderator to let me change anything after a set period of time. They do it for me sometimes, though. I actually only have so much time to edit my posts to make absolutely certain that the intent and alacrity of my expression is absolutely intact (not to mention catching outright mistakes in syntax, grammar and the odd historical fact or quote, which I check). This is because authentic teaching is based on spontaneous all-at-once adaption to potential in terms of karmic (situational) evolution. I have to say the whole thing without leaving anything out. If the expression is partial, it's not as completely real as the milieu of Suchness requires. That is, my description will not serve as a faithful mnemonic as well as an effective talisman for those who follow. It is a VERY serious error to mislead people when divulging the Dharma— deliberately, lazily or even accidentally. So the literal, figurative and aesthetic requirements imposed by the content of my writing and my intended audience is what makes my posts so dense and even (hopefully not too) tedious, which is why alacrity is utterly essential. If it weren't for that, even those who have a perceptive affinity to absorb the subject matter nonpsychologically might be dissuaded. The fact is, this stuff cannot be effectively rendered intellectually by readers, so I deliberately starve the psychological apparatus …it's not even invited to this rave❤︎

Hmmmm, Breakingthewall~ I wonder what that is about… by the way~ you seem to be a very good sport …I try not to be too critical, but I want to avoid coddling anyone.

Now, "having seen the infinity", seems to possibly be a psychological release of some sort. The reason I dare imply this in such a direct manner is that selfless awareness isn't relative to the person. So, if there is terror of annihilation, which IS understandable when approaching long-obscured, recondite aspects of one's mind, what you are describing still seems to be well within the realm of conscious knowledge, not the real knowledge of inherent enlightening function. But I might never know…

Also, I need to ask you about the other part of your comment where you say that there were qualitative and comparative attributes active in your experience of "the infinity." While it is true that real emptiness isn't empty, that doesn't necessarily imply that there are "things" therein that "became a zero, flat, without dimension." How is that? Would you care to elaborate via PM?

I have only experienced the state, an open, clear (no lights) field comprised of unified awareness and intimacy of accord in terms of ambience without psychological ripples, as it were. There has never been a "me" (the person), in my experience. I have heard that unsettling experiences should be cut off and not entered into again. Maybe it was something you ate? heehee!! (Just kidding!!)

I have had strange, even inconceivable occurrences as myself the person, but I am able to intend boundaries in terms of a seemingly benign sparkly entity that has visited me more than once in the last 27 years. The first time I let it have its way with me, which wasn't untoward. But, I would prefer whatever it is to communicate something other than the "fizzy" feeling it makes when it goes inside me, before I let it "enter" again, so to speak. One must be very careful— it is truly the wild west beyond the realm of convention.

It seems that your experience is relative to the person, though. If I am on the right track, and your experience is entered into by way of deliberate meditative concentration, you might consider corroborating further details (if you wish). You can PM me if you prefer, Breakingthewall.

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Awareness, here, now.

By these letters, I am two.

Alone, then

I am not.

 

I have not resorted to the kind of poetry you express in quite a while, Awayfarer~ please do keep developing it. It is an excellent means to communicate one's grasp of subtle awareness, or at least where you are concentrating your subtle awareness and applied intent. Bravo, mon ami❤︎!!

Also, I want to acknowledge that Mme Wise's contribution was very helpful in motivating me to bring to light the aspect of authentic teaching's treatment of illusion. The reason I need to mention it is because even though I am not cordial with her, her point is totally in the vein of acceptability in terms of provisional teaching relative to "personal liberation" where illusion is given a negative connotation (and logically so), which is to be gotten rid of as she correctly pointed out. I would hope that she start a thread on that subject and endeavor to describe just how one might do so. One could make a career out of that kind of helpful information!

Therefore, since it is very rare for one such as myself, who is able to freely express manifold subtleties of enlightening activity, I must be VERY strict, at least at the onset, when one such as Mme Wise posts on my threads, because my content is so tenuously obscure as it is, and must be so very strictly presented to (hopefully) communicate the necessary approach to be taken by students, that volunteered content must be dealt with exhaustively before I can move on— which I would like to do. But I must admit that my responses to the posts by Mme Wise and Breakingthewall have been exhaustive AND exhausting!! But I don't mind— as long as the content is posted in utter sincerity.

 

ed note: delete "personality" and insert "psychological apparatus" at end of 1st paragraph; delete last part of last paragraph

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[deci belle]

Someone asked me to "dumb-down" something I wrote.

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One must not assume or mistakenly conceive of creative evolution as different than the totality of universally ageless bondage by a self-consciously perpetuated matrix of karmic pattern-awareness.

Fair enough. This is the opening line to the OP. In other words… with three alternate renderings:

Ordinary pattern-awareness as perpetuated habitually by the person fomenting its endless streams of psychological momentum in all things, places and situations must not be conceived of as other than creative evolution itself.

Creation is driven by pattern-awareness.

Following thought unawares perpetuates karmic bondage to endless rounds of birth and death.

 

 

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[Carl-Richard]

4 minutes ago, deci belle said:

Ordinary pattern-awareness as perpetuated habitually by the person fomenting its endless streams of psychological momentum in all things, places and situations must not be conceived of as other than creative evolution itself.

Creation is driven by pattern-awareness.

Following thought unawares perpetuates karmic bondage to endless rounds of birth and death.

Now you come up with one to my satisfaction or I'll zap you into a sexy zoomie thing forever bwaaahahhahhaaa!!

Yo I'm a stupid frat boy, can you put it in terms that I can understand?

[deci belle]

I had a theme in my head last night to help me continue this, but it went away…

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[Breakingthewall]

7 hours ago, deci belle said:

"having seen the infinity", seems to possibly be a psychological release of some sort

I was not there, only at the end of the experience. I'm talking about breakups with 5 meo. My mind is in the process of refinement (using your words), still tied to a great extent to the "karmic" but having seen the absolute necessity to free itself from all bondage. A year ago i wouldn't have known what I'm talking about. Now I'm working 24/7 in that. 5 meo is my teacher, beyond any writing, so instead of showing me only wonderful landscapes, he teaches me what I feared and did not even know that I was afraid.

I take the opportunity to link to another of yours, very inspiring, in case someone wants to take a look at it

 

Edited January 9, 2021 by Breakingthewall

[Carl-Richard]

7 hours ago, deci belle said:

I had a theme in my head last night to help me continue this, but it went away…

Does this help?:

Edited January 9, 2021 by Carl-Richard

[Awayfarer]

12 hours ago, deci belle said:

One must be very careful— it is truly the wild west beyond the realm of convention.

Is this a reference to the trigrams?

 

Re: 5 meo - Be careful. All teachers have pros and cons. Here is something for you that I have been saving:

 

The gift

Of the Tree.

Awareness

at the Edge

of Time.

 

Edited January 9, 2021 by Awayfarer

[Awayfarer]

This is an older writing of Deci's from daobums.com that was very helpful. If she wants it taken down, let me know:

 

"So when I speak of appearances that do not confuse people in the midst of situations, it is just that there is no personalistic psychological locus existent to posit confusion because there is no habitual thought based on the facetious personality of the being that is going to die.

 

This thing of no location is universal. The Center is the totality of reality with neither inside nor outside. Though its (transcendent) effect does not rely on the sudden—experientially, it's you: therefore, you are not it by virtue of its (your) selfless nature. There is nothing to maintain for appearances sake. I have been bouncing back and forth between the relative and the absolute in terms of appearances for a reason. THEY ARE SAMENESS. THERE IS NO TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN. THERE IS NO COIN. Just smile!

 

It goes without saying that you do not constitute a point for confusion to accumulate. And by that, in terms of the relative, I mean there is really no self to maintain in terms of a psychological locus for confusion to accumulate. There is already nothing whatsoever to account for in terms of self and other relative to conditions. When Gautama buddha held up the flower, Mahakasyapa just smiled. Confusion? How can there be confusion where there is nothing to understand?

 

Confusion is only possible by referencing the personality's construed psychological awareness in terms of its own relative not-self, whereas nonpsychological awareness' perspective is in terms of the present impersonal situation.

 

The only reason the authentic teachings exist is to counter habit energy being YOUR habit. Conditioned energy is karmic— it just is, whether you see your nature or not.

 

The provisional teaching of emptiness or the illusion of temporal existence is just so people will avoid losing themselves unawares long enough to develop an independent perspective based on nonpsychological awareness in order to forget the self-reifying thoughts and feelings that bind one to karmic existence.

 

Reality and delusion appear the same because they are the same. Substantial stability of clarity functioning in the midst of appearances has no confusion because there is no psychological locus (location) for habitual self-reifying thoughts and feelings (confusion) to accumulate.

 

What's left is impersonal characteristics. Just this is the basis of one's response. Effective response is the result of seeing through phenomena without denying their characteristics.

 

Abiding here (enlightening being) is the incipient pivot of the creative arising undifferentiated radiating aware essence. The creative is itself potential, if one sees. If one doesn't see, it is creation/karmic evolution. If one sees, then one can use it. Arising undifferentiated is Complete Reality; this being the Center. Obviously, it is the self. Radiating aware essence is presence. This is one's function. Just smile.❤︎"