TRY NOTHING?

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It occurred to me at that spiritual hour between waking and sleeping when the traditional wisdoms’ say our brains receive our clearest communication with Reality, that all the Enlightened require here on earth is two litres of water, and two handfuls of food a day, plus shelter from the elements. Spiritually, the rest is Nothing.

So my sad lesson this morning is that the human condition is clearly nowhere near this stage of development.

We are crippled by mind and mind’s lust, anger, greed, envy, myriad attachments, and ego. Yet none of these will go with us when we waft through death. Existentially they’re nothing.

However, the more cheery part of the lesson is, ‘Well, at least Reality is aware of the situation. There will be corrective consequences.’

There always are corrective consequences, whether we know, it or not, see it or not, like it or not. Reality’s time is not our time.

All Is Well.

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Reblog these posts as much as you like. No copyright is imposed. About the author: Keith is a "pratyeka" mystic according to Buddhism because his Mystical Experiences of Reality (MER) were spontaneous. (He is not a Buddhist or member of any religion). He had MERs every year from the age of 15 to 35 years of age. Pratyeka mystics don't teach, preach, evangelise, or prosletise what they know. However, when Keith recognises those who are chosen and driven to seek Ultimate Reality he does reach out to them, cautiously, to help them stop floundering and recognise themselves, know what is happening to them. Then his inclination is to remove himself unless called upon. All Is Well.

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  1. “We are crippled by mind and mind’s lust, anger, greed, envy, myriad attachments, and ego.”

    I suspect the human world has always and will always be thus. Our needs, as you so rightly say are so simple.

    And yet Putin must dominate the Ukraine and vice versa, the Israelis and Arabs must have each others’ land. And so it goes.

    Its sad and pathetic that humanity has never been able to shrug off its evolved nastiness and only continues to increase it. As a race, we deserve extinction and will probably get it.

    In a sense I can see why the Buddhists and others have always believed in re-incarnation. That we are doomed to repeat our miserable existence here on earth until we finally abandon the “mind’s lust, anger, greed, envy, myriad attachments, and ego”.

    I find my best hour for meditation is shortly after I wake in the morning and after my caffeine intake.

    There are indeed some wonderful moments on the verge of sleep in the evening but by that time sleep usually overcomes any attempt of mine at meditation! Perhaps I am a reincarnated sloth.

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  2. Sloth!? I don’t think so. One Master just told his followers not to meditate at the end of the day. He gave no reason. And he was demonstrably not used to the western way of being asked why …

    Keith.

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