But its all mud and its all water, so... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or, put another way, what makes pure awareness become not > > > so pure? > > > > > > Rick Carlstrom > > It gets "lost" or muddled in the shuffle of perception, thinking, > daily life. to use a knee-jerk but experientially valid analogy, when > mud is added to water, the water is still pure, its just muddied up. > The purity is not apparrent. If the water is filtered, it is still pure. > > Pure awareness is apparently pure (as opposed to apparently not pure) > either when the mud stops flowing into the river, or the muddied water > is filtered. > > I think both are experientially analogous to what occurs in > consciousness (amongst other things). > > Stopping the mud flows to me refers to resolving / healing the > vasanas. When vasanas are lively, the mind is a chatter box of > thoughts and inner diolgue -- often concerning the past for future. > When these seeds in the storehouse of impressions (chitta) are > resolved, life goes on but the blaring boom box of monkey-mind chatter > is not there. The water is not churned up and muddied. Awareness is > more apparently pure, not muddled, muddy or whipped up in waves. > > The filter analogy to me experientially refers to a deepening of > Awareness so that even when mud is thrown into the water, the "lake" > is deep enough so that the mud quickly sinks, dissipates. The water, > Awareness is not noticably affected by the infusion of mud. its this > quality that I see lacking in many reports of so called higher states. > And in some behaviors. > > More relevant analogies come to mind -- less muddy rivers flow into > the lake (karma is purifed), ... but I will leave it with these two > for now. However, I think there are a multitude of factors that can > come into play to help keep the appearance of the water / Awareness. > (Again, I say "appearance" because the water is always pure, it just > does not appear to alwys be.) Many methods and techniques to keep mud > ot, and to filter it when it is there. Thus given the paths and > techniques one has practiced, different mechanisms may be at play in > giving rise to the common experience of Pure Awareness. And may > explain why descriptions and behaviors vary.
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