Its field can be as vast as springtime, which encompasses all of its flowers, birds, and mountain colors. Its state (samadhi) can be like an ocean that is serene and yet dynamic. Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.Meditation (zazen) can be restful and enjoyable, according to Dogen. We give ground to reality by creating it. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We label things through value systems that we have developed. So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self. We picked the dimension according to our self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. Mind appears to exist because it perceives. Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. It is created anew at every moment by mind. You will come to see the eternal voidness of all things. When you stop all thought, the battle is won. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing…no object in view. Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux. Existence only occurs through the act of perception. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection. The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable. There are projections, moments of existence. There is no deterioration and there is no creation. Everything happens all at once forever.Īll incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space when your consciousness is fixated in a body. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. Perhaps you're far, far away and this is just a dream. How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment. There's no creator, there's no creation there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. There is no evil, there's no bad there's no good. Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.Įmptiness is just another idea, another illusion. When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew. Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing. When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature. We don't even exist, which is the freeing part. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception. How could we not exist since we never existed? When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows. None of this has ever been or will ever be all is an appearance, all is an illusion. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.Įverything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
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