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Everything
is Self-Perfected in This
Cameron: I just want to let you know the pointing out
was so clear last time there seems to be this entirely
stable clarity now. The clincher was when you pointed out
that even when the sense of 'I' and 'doing' arise there
still is no one doing even that. It's complete freedom. It's
so simple. It really just is this. Thoughts are being
thought, sensations are happening in the body, but there is
no one—just
this luminous present.
Strangely, far from being detached, all the thoughts and
emotions are so vivid. But it's like this raw energy. Even
when my mind is very discursive and there are what seem to
be negative stories, it's like the discursiveness is this
torrent of energy and I really enjoy it. In my life
situation I am going through a very stressful time of year,
but there is just this vivid sense of being. And the more
intense things get the more beautiful it seems.
As a
Buddhist I used to often chant "Everything is self-perfected
in the Dharmadatu (Sphere of Reality)" and never get it. I
thought the Dharmadatu was this cool place you see when you
are enlightened. Now I see what it means. It's astonishing.
Stephen: Yes, that's it exactly.
Your
description reminds me of Nisargadatta's description of
this:
"It is solid, steady, changeless, beginning-less and
endless, ever new, ever fresh.
This reality is so concrete, so actual, so much more
tangible than mind and matter, that compared to it, even
a diamond is soft like butter. This overwhelming
actuality makes the world dreamlike, misty, irrelevant.
To
me nothing ever happens. There is something changeless,
motionless, immovable, rock-like, unassailable; a solid
mass of pure being-consciousness-bliss. I am never out
of it. Nothing can take me out of it, no torture, no
calamity.
My
world is free from opposites, of mutually destructive
discrepancies; harmony pervades; its peace is rocklike;
this peace and silence are my body.
My
condition is absolutely steady. Whatever I may do, it
stays like a rock—motionless.
Once you have awakened into reality, you stay in it. It
is self-evident and yet beyond description."
Cameron, he's describing your natural state, my
natural state, our natural state. So many years
struggling to discover this simplicity that was always here—I
am this. It all makes sense now. So simple.
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