This Facebook post by ‘Buddha Heart’, a quote by the master of silence, Adyashanti, caused me to became angry last evening. It prompted much contemplation into the nature of reality and ‘enlightenment’ and finding a quick and easy place to note my streaming thoughts (after many cocktails I might add) was not easy … The dialogue will remain etched in my mind for contemplation for some time … And caused me to reach for Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras this morning ….
I asked Buddha Heart : Cannot it (enlightenment) be both … Happy, Seeing Clearly … Aren’t these 2 of the 7 factors of enlightenment ….
The Seven Factors being:
- Mindfulness (sati)
- Keen investigation of the dhamma (dhammavicaya)[3]
- Energy (viriya)
- Rapture or happiness (piti)
- Calm (passaddhi)
- Concentration (samadhi)
- Equanimity (upekkha)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/piyadassi/wheel001.html
To which Buddha Heart replied: Victoria, I think that enlightenment does bring a deeper joy in being, but even in enlightenment we feel pain at the loss of a loved one, for example, but we experience it completely, not through distorted feelings hampered by things we previously held true. I think the point Adyashanti is making is that our experiences and emotions in enlightenment become fully experienced emotions because of a deeper and clearer insight into the true and real nature of life and being. We no longer sense and react through distorted lenses .
Humm, I thought this morning … Thank you for bringing greater clarity to Adyashanti’s thoughts on karma …. To quote the great yogi master Patanjoli … “The apparent indivisibility of seeing and the seen can be eradicated by cultivating uninterrupted discrimination between awareness and what it regards … However, consciousness can be colored by both awareness and the phenomenal world, thereby fulfilling its purpose … Freedom is at hand when the fundamental qualities of nature, each of their transformations witnessed at the moment of its inception are recognized as irrelevant to pure awareness; it stands alone, ground in its very nature, the power of pure seeing. That is all. ♥”
As I wrote to my friend Bridgette, at this point, I do not see ‘enlightenment’ as a destructive process, but an inclusive process, because that which we resist persists, but I guess Adyashanti’s not saying here to resist it … pretty deep shit LOL …
