The Prison Of life Part two
We experience a level of awareness behind the coming and going of thoughts and feelings, and concepts. It is a wordless, timeless, non-dualistic perception. If we can remain always in that higher level of total awareness, we are Buddha.
It is simple. This awareness is not something up there, and it is not actually something that is difficult to realise. Awareness is just awareness. The Tibetans compare it to the sky. The sky has no centre, and it has no circumference. It is endless. The sky is not just up there. It is within and around us. It is space. In Tibetan, the word for space and the word for sky is the same word. So where is space not? Where is this awareness not?
The word "Buddha" means to awaken. We are all asleep, we are all dreaming, and we believe our dreams. This is the problem.
When we awaken for a moment, then we see that what we cling to is really our own projection. Then our minds are so sharp, so clear, and so awake, and we realise that our true nature is something completely beyond the conceptual thinking mind. The important thing is that externally nothing changes, but inwardly everything changes. Everything becomes alive and clear and vivid, but there is no ego driving it. Then everything spontaneously happens, whatever one needs to do is spontaneously accomplished, without the ego getting in the way. It is accomplished skilfully.
What stands in the way of our liberated mind? This is what we have to deal with and what is happening in our society nowadays.
We experience a level of awareness behind the coming and going of thoughts and feelings, and concepts. It is a wordless, timeless, non-dualistic perception. If we can remain always in that higher level of total awareness, we are Buddha.
It is simple. This awareness is not something up there, and it is not actually something that is difficult to realise. Awareness is just awareness. The Tibetans compare it to the sky. The sky has no centre, and it has no circumference. It is endless. The sky is not just up there. It is within and around us. It is space. In Tibetan, the word for space and the word for sky is the same word. So where is space not? Where is this awareness not?
The word "Buddha" means to awaken. We are all asleep, we are all dreaming, and we believe our dreams. This is the problem.
When we awaken for a moment, then we see that what we cling to is really our own projection. Then our minds are so sharp, so clear, and so awake, and we realise that our true nature is something completely beyond the conceptual thinking mind. The important thing is that externally nothing changes, but inwardly everything changes. Everything becomes alive and clear and vivid, but there is no ego driving it. Then everything spontaneously happens, whatever one needs to do is spontaneously accomplished, without the ego getting in the way. It is accomplished skilfully.
What stands in the way of our liberated mind? This is what we have to deal with and what is happening in our society nowadays.
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