Today I put the finishing touches pf yet another of my "Space series", which sadly enough was covered thick with dust and dirt from being poorly stored; but but the time I was done it came out just as it was suppose to. I thought I had given up painting, at least for now, but what is now but a moment in time. Whats is now but a fulfilling of one's sense of being in the sea of life. To remain afloat one has to know how and it is best if one can dive and swim at the same time while drinking the water doing it; this is life. Why limit yourself when the whole spectrum of existence is out there for you to walk if and when you want to. If you can give up your sense of security, your clinging on to life, you might be able to detach your self and float away to the next unknown destination where everything is new and fresh to deal with. But most of us have our feet nailed to the floors in the form of routine ritualistic existence of a bread winner and home maker.which not at all bad but it has its limitations; our movement is restricted, we have others to answer to, our responsibilities to fulfill; we are the lay people in Buddha's reaching.
To be free from having a baggage on one's back can be the beginning of an enlightenment practice regardless of who one is whether religious of not, all one has to do is live for now, keep being in the Now, this moment in time in our life. Let us sit and watch our minds at work while we observe it with bare attention. Non attachment of thoughts no matter how profound.Letting go of thoughts and its discursive nature can help ease our emotional baggage; we have come to think too much. Finding the gap of silence in between our every thought is like a hopeless cause but not impossible if we decide to make it our practice. Our practice simply is to try to find the ways and means to create the gap of silence more and more often and to make such moments last a little bit longer when found.
" Eat when you are hungry,
Sleep when you are sleepy,
Sit, and watch the grass grow.
A Zen saying.
This is the art of non-doing, (wu wei) or inactive action, this is form in emptiness and emptiness in form; this is Being (here in the Now). This is the tiny gap that had been open through Right Mindfulness i8n action. Brief as the flash of a lightning, narrower than 'Siratal Mustaqin , this the window that the camel has to pass through; the eye of the needle. This is Satori, the brief moment of awakening of the the subconscious, Moksha, the death of the ego the stopping of the thinking mind; It happens.
"Moksha is attained by disidentification with the body and mind, which are temporarily and subject to change, and realisation of our true identity."...Wikipedia
"In Sikhism, one rises from the life of do’s and don'ts to that of perfection — a state of "at-one-ment" with the All-self. Secondly, the mukta is not just a friend for all, he even strives for their freedom as well. He no longer lives for himself, he lives for others."...Wikipedia
What is It that happens when the mind is silence? When there is no more dialogue floating around in the head, what happens? You as you think who you are is no more the same guy, the world around you is no more as relevant as it used to be, you step back into your inner being and view life with complete detachment, life is out there and you are in here untouched by it. This can be a very light-thing, enlightening, makes you feel lighter, and brighter. It is like a switch is flipped on in your head that was never there before. You see the external with a clearer vision of non-discrimination, non- attachment and bare attention (awareness).
Thought is the first habitual illness that man was inflicted with when he was sent out of the garden. ever since Adam could think for himself after eating the forbidden fruit and getting his butt kicked by God... it was our first awakening experience. From then on thoughts became history. Today we ares till trying to justify what went wrong and what really happened, what could or would have been: what if? Most of humanity is not aware, nor care, most do not even venture to look within other than their tooth ache and stomach pains. The number that has taken upon themselves to investigate life and come to understand the inner workings or the human mind is growing all over the world thank goodness. We are starting to become more conscious of who we are and how we relate to the rest of the Universe. We are beginning to see that we are no more individuals bent upon our own personal survival but that of the rest of Humanity; we are humanity; I am Whole! That I am, One.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
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