Strange and August Ways

[deci belle]

The secret brilliance of one's transcendent nature is an inherently robust and rustic capacity for impersonal acceptance of the impersonal reality of things consistent with karmically generative formal multiplicity.

Unity isn't just the perspective of the absolute. But paying lip-service to reasonable and logical notions of Universal Good is just a matter of intellectualism. The power of inherent buddha-nature is literally your own eyes right now. It is a pity that people cannot wake up.

Eternity is just this fathomless multiplicity in a word, in a thing, in a lifetime, in a universe. It is fascinating, but so what? The secret of one's inherent transcendent nature is awakening to reality as the authentically complete acceptance of what is as is regardless of circumstances. This does not admit of fascination rooted in the particular nor the vastness of space. Fascination in one is fascination in the totality. Why? There is no end to the one fascinated nor the one fascinating. They are the same. Ultimately, there is nothing to differentiate between self and other. Acceptance of the one is acceptance of totality.

It's already you. There is no need to linger in fascinations comprising the nature and situational manifestations constituting eternity. This is the seductive quality of the killing energy of the karmic matrix. One's narcissistic relationship with its creative multiplicity cannot be rationalized romantically and emotionally as wonder because it is really paralyzing numbness compounding moment by moment.

When you see reality as yourself objectively, impersonally, you transcend both at once. There is no way to transcend one or the other since both are the essential manifestation of Suchness. So it makes sense that subsequent to seeing reality, there is nothing to linger on.

If you consider yourself awakened and you still find yourself lingering on phenomena, it would do well to reconsider your assessment of the nature of self-awakening. The habit of lusting after glinting potential in objects is the lure of one's own residual killing energy no different than the nature of creative evolution. No one has lost their aptitude for applying their tiger-eyes, but how many of us have the effective use of our buddha-eyes?

This is due to acquired energy. Acquired energy IS our tiger-eyes.

Arriving on the path of prior illuminates in actuality is in looking back to observe the aftermath of stepping over the whole of eternity. It's the description of presence being where you're at beyond the influence of karmic fascinations.

 

Eternity is creation, not your nature. Seeing reality is the perspective of Unity perpetually awaiting the timing of evolution. Yes, this is the path of prior illuminates where the nature of the gradual has transformed from effort reversing the flow of going along to a spontaneous perpetual acceptance of the incipient upwelling at the pivot of awareness: this is the aperture of the Mysterious Female. It's not a place relative to anything. Aperture is a codeword for the perspective characteristic of the nature of its seeing. Its seeing is characteristic of Unity: mysterious/yang; female/yin. In stepping over eternity one assumes the characteristic of unified awareness. It does not depend on sudden enlightenment.

In other words, the function of enlightening being is not dependent on awakening to its essential nature, which is already as it is. Even awakening isn't dependent on anything; it is just one's reaching a tipping-point in aggregating the critical mass of potential severing the root of the karmic compulsion to act.

Your nature is the nature of awareness, which is not created. That which is not created comprises the path of prior illuminates having stepped over the whole of eternity.

Eternity is about 100mm wide~ the distance between your own two eyes; it's just a trickle, really. REALLY. Just step over it. Ok, yes, easy to say, hard to do.

But it is first necessary to see it as it is. In order to do that, one must be able to see reality in the first place. How? This is made possible by the breadth of the secret brilliance of one's transcendent nature being the inherently robust and rustic capacity for impersonal acceptance of the impersonal reality of things consistent with karmically generative formal multiplicity.

It's already you, right now— forget it already— just be done with it for all time!!

Be done with fascinations forever glinting in the unfathomable depth trickling at the juxtaposition of the end of the road of universal acceptance and the timing of letting go. When you yourself become the crossroads of before, after, acceptance and release presently and perpetually arising at its creative incipience, your perspective is the impersonal subtle observation witnessing the spark of the totality of fascination by virtue of each situation in its time without attachments. The taoist alchemical term, stealing potential, is witnessing this spark, over and over and over in actual everyday ordinary situations.

This is not wonderful at all— it's just stepping over eternity— stepping over it means you do not entertain personal speculation in its multifarious permutations. In stepping over eternity, you have gathered the polluted unrefined elixir. Seal this away in secrecy void of intellectualism and rumination.

This is the visage of the all-at-once perpetually in the midst of the gradual, embodied as the function of your own enlightening being. Don't make the mistake of thinking you do this. It is simply a matter of witnessing your having passed through a situational evolution that has no power to touch you.

When the time arrives, it is not a matter of coming or going, movement or stillness. "Passing through" is just a figure of speech. When it arrives, there is already nothing left. Actually, in terms of arrival, the Unborn is refreshed. This is the spiritual power of one's subtle operation transcending yin and yang in terms of created cycles of karmic evolution. It is simply a matter of seeing the nature of sameness.

As I said above, there is no end to the one fascinated nor to fascination itself. They are the same in terms of creation, which reflects eternity, not immortality. Ultimately, there is nothing to differentiate between self and other. If one can accept the totality (of creation) within nondifferentiation (the nonpsychological), "stealing potential" becomes the spontaneous transformation of energy from its subsequent state to its primal state within you in terms of your functional abiding in the nature of selfless Unity within the evolution of times, places, situations and events. Spiritual alchemy is just a label for no mean feat. Inconceivability is our nature. Humans being is inconceivable, but conditioning dumbs it down. By necessity, it requires work to awaken to our true self.

It's a matter of seeing things as potential by not having complacent opportunistic relationships with potential as things. Ceasing to see things as objects of opportunism reverts things to potential. Not-doing in terms of potential saves energy (unrefined elixir, alchemy speaking). Energy saved as such is naturally transformed without effort (or knowledge). In taoist terms, properly transformed energy is refined elixir. Refined elixir is potential having been stolen from the Creative and restored to the Primal. This is the Real. The Creative is the storehouse of fascination, not reality. This is all accomplished by seeing potential and not doing anything with it to refine the self as opposed to seeing things to exploit (or reject) to gratify the person. Seeing is seeing before the first thought.

I'm sorry if it sounds like spiritual mumbo-jumbo, but it's just how it is and no one knows why. If you know the way it really is, then (before the first thought) you partake of the transcendent nature of the real in the knowledge that there is nothing at all to know. And that is why you do not entertain fascinations: since there is, in fact, nothing to know, why on earth act in complicity with fascinations in the first place?!!

poofs! Suddenly, it appears as it ever was, whatever it was …amounting to nothing. This is called going through endless transformations, planting lotuses in fire, entering the tao in reality.

Just step over in one stride and abide in the illuminated as you were without beginning. Until this attainment is re-enacted for all eternity and becomes the perpetual alternation of one's practice, how can one be said to be free of mundanity while in its midst?

The strange has no power over the August Way of perpetually refreshing primal Mind. That fact is not good or bad. Even so, it is by virtue of the formation of the strange that the August is manifest formlessly by the subtlety of enlightening observation. Seeing this is made possible by not tarrying over fascinations of the formal.

Seeing reality as it is without attachment to objects, people, situations and events is dispensing with fascinations relative to the formal. Again, until this attainment is re-enacted for all eternity and becomes the perpetual alternation of one's practice, how can one be said to be free of mundanity while in its midst?

Clearly, it is in fascination with the spark of strangenesses that one becomes enamored of bondage with its nature, which is karmic. See this sickness for what it is and wake up to its killing energy.

Once you wake up to reality, and maintain a consistency of subtle observation over the aperture of awareness for a long, long time, you will find that the allure of the strange has no power over the August Way of perpetually refreshing primal Mind.

What makes things seem strange and alluring is that personal ignorance of the essential nature of reality, which is neither different nor the same. Just this is already your nature. So it won't do to enact complicity with mundane fascination to personally create entanglements with objects, people, situations and events where they never existed to begin with.

[Awayfarer]

BOOM!

[deci belle]

L'homme sez Booms …(some) femme sez poofs ~haha!!

[Seraphim]

Interesting but would you like to summarize your text so we can get a better picture of your teachings?

[deci belle]

Hi Seraphim~ I apologize, but that cannot be accomplished. And it's not my teaching at all. It's just authentic teaching, in that self-refining enlightening activity isn't the person. It helps if readers of my writing are familiar with the ancient writings of Mahayana (Kashmiri/Indian) buddhism, Chan (Chinese) buddhism, Zen (Chan in Japanese) buddhism, the various Indo-European schools of transcendence through the last 2500 years, the various strains of Quanzhen (Complete Reality schools of) taoism and the lexicon of Toltec nagual shamanism.

I have been writing about the practical application of appropriating potential in real terms since about 2008. It's not a matter of energy, it come down to the nature of awareness alone. I was silent about it for fifteen years prior to 2008. For me, the process started in this lifetime in the mid-70s. You can do the math. So you see that the process cannot be rushed, yet neither can one be lackadaisical.

I don't blame you for wishing that a logical summary might be possible. If that were the case, it would not require entry into inconceivability, but it does— which is a good thing, besides no one has a choice in the matter of inconceivable knowledge.

Though it is your own mind right now, it is not apparent, which is why it is necessary to refine the self. Self-refinement is a matter of clarifying the source of discriminatory conscious pattern-awareness over a very long period of time. But it doesn't really matter how long it takes. What is most important is that one develop a singularity of intent to arrive at the flowering of one's inherent open awareness. Such flowering is discovering and coming to terms with your own enlightening function. As errant ego-function wanes, in constance by its natural relationship with enlightening function, the two functions return to their original balance of proportion in terms of the sanity you are born with, only now discovering it for the first time.

I hope your interest will grow. It's just a long process of subtle observation of mind by mind during the course of everyday ordinary situations.

Eventually, something shifts and just that is the apparent absence of the need to perpetuate self-reflecting word-constructs (self-reifying thought). Why? Because reality is patternless in its inconceivability— it's our nature. Therein is our true affinity with our inconceivable nature. Over time, the rational mind gradually ceases to be arbitrarily despotic about it's falsely construed identity issues, and the faint strains of true objectivity begin to accrue. It's like a little flame ignites, and you know what to dispense with in your day to day dealings with all manner of things. It's not that everything falls into place— it's just that everything already has its place and you see that just as it is. So one thereby enables the saving of a tremendous amount of energy. Conditioned energy that one does not waste in terms of habit-consciousness, is "saved" in terms of potential, Obviously (for some), the fact that potential is not created is evidenced by the natural affinity some have for the work involved with dealing directly with essence, which is the inconceivable nature of true reality. It does not operate "behind the scenes", it is the very scene before your eyes at all times, only true knowledge of reality is not the person's sensual perception of phenomena. Real knowledge is seeing through phenomena without denying its characteristics, while simultaneously activating the mind without dwelling on its contents. Authentic practice is two-fold in this manner of saying in terms of various common ancient teaching traditions. That helps some people; other people don't need to tarry on such arbitrary distinctions.

That's how one enables the saving of real energy. Seeing potential comes about when enough energy is saved to begin to dissolve the karmic bonds of habit energy. This isn't philosophy; it's science. Ancient science older than sin itself, which, by the way, is not a common cultural construct, to begin with. Authentic spiritual practice is a matter of using the world to refine the self instead of using the world to gratify the self. What is this self? It is the errant human mentality.

Karmic energy (Psychological momentum or gravity) and real energy (potential) gradually come to a point of critical mass (balance) in terms of a quality of awareness, and there is a parting of the ways. It's not that karmic energy and enlightening intent are different though, it's just that the conditional obscures the liberating essence of the primal, which is your real body of awareness, which is immaterial and has no location. That's your true nature.

How inconceivable is that? It is just the way it is, and nobody knows why. 

 

[deci belle]

S'body wrote:

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it is just one's reaching a tipping-point in aggregating the critical mass of potential severing the root of the karmic compulsion to act.

Yes. This is good. Thank you.

I feel that if too much karma is left not dealt with there is an inevitable descent back into personal consciousness to resume participation in the narrative of self. For me the personal consciousness became the object of meditation and the content of the narrative lost its magnetism. There was no longer much of an "I" in the events, just an impersonal stream of events unpopulated by a belief in doers. In a passive way, the consciousness contemplated the consciousness. Objects and obstacles disappeared. Things vanished and became fields of universal happening. The personal laws of cause-effect crumbled and were replaced by a holism that moved and helped further unwinding. Eventually a different critical mass was reached. A sickness took over and the personal consciousness found food with which to grow strong again. The narrative resumed with myself at the center as the thinker, schemer, doer, etc. I saw this happening and agreed with myself that a deeper integration and knowledge of the world was necessary. I had cast off the story before tying up important loose ends. Now I'm just tangled in all the loose ends and realizing there really is no tying things up without total courage, which I lack.

Taking stock of one's current state of affairs is much to be admired, dear.

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I saw this happening and agreed with myself that a deeper integration and knowledge of the world was necessary

That and the subsequent narrative are indicative of much honesty, not to mention insight, so I wouldn't give what you are referring to as courage a second thought, in my estimation. You have all you need to continue this.

I dare say one's "tying up loose ends" is simply a matter of treading the gradual path of self-refinement. There is never any finality in this regard, as the sudden and the gradual are an open-ended singularity. Before and after in terms of realization are a formality. Reality is unborn~ it is mind. Just continue as you were. There is no one to accomplish this tying up. The world is unravelling as you meet it intimately; ultimately you will realize that nothing whatsoever as your primordial resting place is where nothing left to loosen or gather is in actuality your present condition. In going on, it is only creation itself fully displayed. In terms of Unity, essential stable awareness has no coming or going whether in holding firm or releasing in the midst of ordinary affairs.

The quote I pasted from your post above is absolutely where it's at. This aspect has no end. With open hands, accept your function and take the forward step, forthwith to gather or release according to the time. Alternating thusly, is just cultivating the empty field without thought of loss or gain. Just this is going through endless transformations, sublimating the self spiritually and physically, planting lotuses in fire, entering the tao in reality.

May I be so bold as to recommend a small thin volume called Cultivating the Empty Field, by Hongzi (1091~1157). Translated by Daniel Leighton ISBN: 0-86547-475-3 (pbk); 0-86547-474-5 (hdbk).

Hongzi helped me a lot, in terms of "taking the forward step" in order to meet creation on its terms and selflessly integrate enlightenment in the aftermath of the sudden. Also, my response in some places has the unmistakable flavor of Hongzi's message. At any rate, before the sudden or after, it doesn't matter one iota in that recognizing adaption to the time is identical in terms of the application of potential. As such, enlightening activity does not depend on sudden realization. Chopping wood and gathering water is the perennial constant. All people are the same in this regard.

 

 

ed note: failed to even out typographical spacing in the last few paragraphs for some reason~ pooh!

Edited August 21, 2020 by deci belle