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To clarifyFrom: bagua
Subject: General
Date/Time 2009-07-13 20:24:40
Remote IP: 76.166.206.98
MessageHi steven:
I would not call it a model, its my direct experience and others. Our true nature is present awareness, its what is always with us and has always been with us, nothing can be added to it by ourselves, its the terrain for all of life to manifest, to come and go. We can add to our knowledge database, emotional experience, etc. We tend to associate our identity with these other things, that come and go, and this association creates separation, polarity and to an extreme fragmentation, when we think these our our self we are not living from our true self.
This is the common misunderstanding, that this true self is static, this true self is creation itself, it is dynamic and spontaneous, when we become aware of this aspect of our self, there is no judgment, no labeling, no measuring, no categorizing, it is freedom from that aspect of the mind. This present awareness is our true nature, when you know this you see the other aspects of our self and things that come and go, but this always remains.
One translation of the I Ching is "The Book of Changes and the Unchanging Truth", the unchanging truth is our true nature, all other things change. We are both but knowing the the unchanging truth is the key to self realization.
When you truly know who you are you know you are both the whole and part of creation, they two are one and you absolutely know it and will no mistake fantasy for reality.
I would propose these are the teachings of Lao Zi and Chuang Zi.
Hope I am able to express my experience clearly.
Smiling in the Tao,
BG
Hi bagua,
In your "model", do you believe that
things not previously present can be added
to the "essential nature". That is, considering
the essential nature to already be complete, can it
still nonetheless be added to.
I.E. In your terminology, can the "hidden diamond"
only exist as a static entity, or can this itself
also be subject to change.
I realize that in your model such a question is
irrelevant toward the goal, but I consider it to
be an interesting academic question nonetheless.
Best,
Steven
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