The experience of vajra nature is more than perception; it is just what we have. Perception means that you perceive something, but here there is no separation between perception and perceiver. So the experience of vajra nature is not even an experience; it just happens. Vajra nature is nonconceptual and happens without perception, and without collecting further reference points or recording anything in the subconscious mind. Vajra nature just happens.
Chögyam Trungpa, The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness, 175
“What thing I am I do not know.
I wander secluded, burdened by my mind.
When the first-born of Truth has come to me
I receive a share in that self-same Word. “
Rig Veda, I.164.37
HODL - not sure if you knew this but you can get Irish citizenship thru your grandmother. My dad got it thru his grandmother using her baptismal records. The Irish in him (and me) is definitely crazy. You can’t escape it. He reconnected with a college girlfriend who’d been living in the UK for forty years so his Irish passport came in handy since he now lives across the pond.
The codependency in me had runneth deep. I’m 39 and only now beginning to have a felt experience of freedom from the bondage of self and the chatter of what others have thought and do think about me…
I’m sober in 12 step recovery programs and one of the gnarliest things that I’ve noticed which will destroy an addict is their deep shame and the insecurity around what others think about them, family, friends, et al. You’re absolutely right. Caring about what others thought about me almost took me down for the count and ending up in some mental institution. That’s the extreme anyway.
While what you say is perhaps ultimately true I think it’s really important people discover that wounded part of themselves, that “victim”,…to get acquainted with it, not banish it to the dark corners of nowhere, but instead have tea with it, love on it, show it the light of inclusion, the way bitcoin functions as an open source to us all. If that isn’t done, then a spiritual bypass can happen and then we end up as toxic as our fiat predecessors.
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