27 Aug '08 16:19>
As another normally long-winded poster, I too should take jaywill’s project here to heart. With that sentiment:
The way of continuing transformation just is salvation.
The first step is re-discovering clear-mind awareness, prior to all thoughts and conceptualizations.
In clear-mind awareness, one witnesses reality as it is prior to any of our thinking about it, any of our words or names. One realizes simply that one is also inseparable from that reality.
In clear-mind awareness, one becomes aware also of how all of one’s own thoughts arise from the mind-ground itself, and are either thoughts about the pre-conceptualized reality, or just thoughts about other thoughts, concepts about other concepts, words about other words.
Then one can think as one chooses, without self-confusion, using whatever word-symbols that one finds helpful.
Above all, one will not confuse the ineffable referent with any of the ideas, words and names with which we clothe it.
First rediscover the natural clear-mind awareness and spend sufficient time to become intimate with that way of being aware. Then you will be started on the ever-enrichening way of continual transformation.
I should really do nothing else but to point to that clear mind, over and over, from this angle or that—without any further long-windedness.
Be well, along the way.
The way of continuing transformation just is salvation.
The first step is re-discovering clear-mind awareness, prior to all thoughts and conceptualizations.
In clear-mind awareness, one witnesses reality as it is prior to any of our thinking about it, any of our words or names. One realizes simply that one is also inseparable from that reality.
In clear-mind awareness, one becomes aware also of how all of one’s own thoughts arise from the mind-ground itself, and are either thoughts about the pre-conceptualized reality, or just thoughts about other thoughts, concepts about other concepts, words about other words.
Then one can think as one chooses, without self-confusion, using whatever word-symbols that one finds helpful.
Above all, one will not confuse the ineffable referent with any of the ideas, words and names with which we clothe it.
First rediscover the natural clear-mind awareness and spend sufficient time to become intimate with that way of being aware. Then you will be started on the ever-enrichening way of continual transformation.
I should really do nothing else but to point to that clear mind, over and over, from this angle or that—without any further long-windedness.
Be well, along the way.