On Apr 2, 2011, at 11:45 AM, tartbrain wrote: > Not doubting does release a lot of wound up mental energy and tends to still > the mind. OTOH, in listening to some BatGap interviews, and some posts there, > and here, it would appear to me that a little more doubting about what the > direct experience of non-duality is may be in order. > > I would venture that caring about labels to assign to the degree of the > unfoldment of Awareness is also a trap. One could argue that without such > labels, how does one know if they are on the path and advancing. I respond by > saying that I am going nowhere. I am staying right here right now. I am not > attempting to get "over there" "sometime later". And that stages of > unfoldment are somewhat self validating. Not compared to some milestone "out > there" but compared to the stage of unfoldment yesterday. Or last year. In > this framework there is little room for doubt -- or egoic hubris.
One of advantages of having an authentic experience of nonduality is that one can apply enlightenment as the path and effectively skip gradations of a path which leads to enlightenment. But really, all those gradations of a graduated path are included in taking the fruition (or enlightenment) as the path.
