lorenzop wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:34 pm
Cleric K wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:53 am
Do you agree with this depiction?
We certainly can have the sensation of a separate self, the sensation of being a separate unit of consciousness - and if we wish to feed that sensation we have that option.
Having the sensation of a separate self we should not deny that - we should behave and think in accordance with what we know to be correct behavior, the best we can. Our 'duty' is to think, behave and desire from unboundedness of Being - in lieu of that we do the best we can.
That's great. Although, I'm not sure why you and Eugene always lead inner activity to the problem of a separate self. It has been pointed out so many times that diffusing inner activity doesn't change the fact that we still behold existence from a specific perspective. If I look through my eyes and stop thinking, I'm still experiencing the same physical perspective of Being. If in deep meditation the boundaries of my body dissolve, I'm still experiencing a unique perspective within Being.
Our inner activity doesn't need to feed the separateness (that is, egoism). It surely can, but we should in no way equate inner activity with separateness/egoism. Instead, we can do what you suggest - think, behave and desire from unboundedness of Being.
Thus we reach a very simple conclusion. It is a simple fact that no matter what we think or avoid to think, we experience a unique perspective of Being. We can't change that fact by just muting our inner activity. So the real question is, like you say, to seek the inner activity that harmonizes with our moral ideal and understanding of reality.
We can observe an interesting polarity that has two extremes. One extreme is when we completely embrace the belief that Monica is flipping the switch and we only observe the playback. Such a view however doesn't have any practical value. We still need to act 'as if' things depend on our inner activity. We can't simply let go and observe how Monica takes us out of bed, showers us, works, feeds us, and so on.
On the other extreme is Phoebe. This is where there's rightful criticism about how free we really are. It's true that most of our life we simply flow along and say "I'm totally doing it!", without realizing just how many of the things happen for the most complicated reasons, and as you say, we just take credit. This is just as a pathological condition, as the first.
In a deeper sense,
free activity is that which can no longer be traced to causal chains. The Initiates call it 'creation out of nothing'. This is inner activity emanating as if from the Nirvanic depth of existence. As this activity emanates it is still formatted by the contextuality of our unique perspective of Being. For example an Angel, an alien, or a human Initiate, all can act out of Nothingness, out of Nirvana, yet that activity becomes structured according to the specific contextuality of the unique perspective of Being.
Concentrated thought can be considered as a ray emanating out of our free Nirvanic Being. It is a creative ray, it is the form the essential Being takes as it is sieved through the contextual constraints.
So this is the progression in spiritual evolution. The mission of Buddha paved the way through which the human mind, through rigorous self-discipline can reach the Nirvanic edge of Nothingness/Allness/Eternity. Yet if this was to remain the final evolutionary impulse, man would remain a passive, contemplative being. He would just reach the Nirvanic state and wait patiently to drop the physical constraints at death. The impulse that furthers the evolutionary process is brought through the Christ. To mimic or become One with the Buddha consciousness is to reach the edge of Nothingness, the edge of Time. To mimic or become One with the Christ consciousness (not Jesus the human being, but the Sun-Spirit that dwelt in Jesus for three years from the Baptism to the Crucifixion) is to
think, feel and act out of Love, in complete freedom,
from out of Nirvana. The easiest and most direct way in which modern man can find a
real experience of this raying is in the experience of strengthened and focused thought ray. As long as we believe that our thought is just a visualization of the flipping switch on the dark side of the Dream, we're not yet free. Just like Karma guides our life as a whole, so our thinking ray is still steered by unknown factors. And not only that, but we
voluntarily give our thinking ray to those factors, we practically give it away, we say "There, take it all, I don't need it." Alas, what we give away in this way is precisely the Ray of Love that emanates in complete freedom (uncaused), out of Nothingness/Allness, from the bosom of the Eternal. You have said before that we're only free when we reach the experience of Being that undresses the contextuality of Karma. In the same manner, it can be said that a thought is free when it emanates from this Nirvanic realm - a thought that is not caused by anything external.
Of course, this doesn't in the least mean that now any thought we think can be considered to emanate out of Nothingness. As said, it still becomes formatted by the contextuality of existence, all the way to the physical constraints and the brain. That's why we
concentrate our Ray of thought. We know that this ray is thick, made of many layers, but deep within, there's the inner core, the creative ray emanating from the Eternal. That's why I described to Guney, that this kind of meditation is like splitting the Now. It is as we try to split the Ray and peel the layers, while getting closer and closer to the Nirvanic core. As we approach this state, we gain true higher cognition, because we don't see visions but realize Intuitively in what kind of layers our Nirvanic
ideal ray is constrained and formatted.