WendyDarling wrote:What does cutting through the whole ball of yarn amount to?
In order to answer this question, I'll have to address some of your and Ecmandu's subsequent posts. The short answer, though, is that I was thinking of the Tibetan term "Chöd" or "chod":
"According to Mahayana Buddhists, emptiness is the ultimate wisdom of understanding that all things lack inherent existence. [...] The chod practitioner seeks to tap the power of fear [...] in order to put their understanding of emptiness to the ultimate test." (English Wikipedia,
Chöd.)
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Ecmandu wrote:WendyDarling wrote:For me, catching reality shifts requires excellent memory, recognizing differences immediately rather than telling yourself that your memory is playing tricks on you. I haven’t been paying attention much lately though but when movies and books change, it’s hard to ignore.
How do you deal with the artificial feel of major changes, Ec?
Actually, it doesn’t require really good memory, it’s just an ‘empowerment’. When every street sign on your block changes and you’re the only one who remembers it (not hard to do) and then you realize nobody else remembers it... you’re like “fuck, that’s some scary shit!”
I’ve gotten used to it over the years.
This current world that we’re in is every bit as much of a dream world as your actually dreams.
Well, yes and no. Yes, it too is a dream world, but no, it's not as much of a dream world as
your actual dreams: for as you say, we are in this world; that is, this world is not in
us. We are part of this dream world, and our "actual" dreams are actually dreams
within dreams. So when you experience a change in every street sign on your block and nobody else seems to notice, it's probably just a change occurring in
your dream, not in the dream that is this world at large...
You continue:
To stay steady, you need an extremely solid spiritual root.
I can still talk to you, that’s because my roots are strong and deep; they extend to all the worlds.
Again, yes and no. Yes, "your" roots extend to all the worlds, in the sense of "the roots of
you—and of all other 'spirits'!" But no, in another sense they are not
your roots, but "Its" roots: the roots of the Rootless, if you see what I mean. (They are not the roots of some "tree" that is the Rootless, but they
belong to the Rootless, they are part of It, they stretch into It and end within It.)
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Ecmandu wrote:One thing is zero things.
Even one and zero are two things.
I agree with this, but for very different reasons. For I do indeed say that nothingness exists, in fact it is
all that "exists"... There is only
one thing and it is Nothing. Like I wrote only a couple of days after my awakening (
bodhi):
'It is the Nothing or nothingness which is what I've called zeroth nature—that which alone gives rise to "natures", "first natures", e.g. human "nature". Recall that thing I said [...] about being bounded by boundlessness. This is the only true necessity: the maddening lonesomeness of the One or the Nothing, which impels It to WILL Its Other, Its Opposite, the loveliest being It could possibly imagine...'
The One is Nothing and
therefore dreams up an
other One, Which is
not Nothing... The former is the Rootless, the latter the rooted—and the latter includes this current world, including all "spirits" within it. Your idea of hyperdimensional mirror realities is meant to preserve precisely what makes "spirits" flawed in the first place, namely their objective separate existence—the
illusion of their existence! Wholeness means the Whole, the Hole, the Rootless, the groundless
Ground.—
