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| The Path to Enlightenment. | |
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| crow | Jan 6 2016, 01:17 AM Post #1 |
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The Path to Enlightenment is, as has often been said, narrow, straight, and long. It may be taken by anyone, there is no fee, no prior qualifications necessary. It begins with a yearning that is not desire, but something purer, lighter, lacking urgency. A certainty that there must be more to life than what goes on around one. Investigation begins. Difficult to start, in its utter simplicity. Breathing. Become aware of every breath. That's the key. Without that, you go no further. Beyond that, to keep walking that narrow path. You'll stumble, overbalance, overreact to overbalance, wander off, wander back. Yet all the time, you'll keep moving. It is the direction that you move in that determines the destination. You may zig-zag, but that's fine. As long as your course is roughly centered on that path. One day, you'll realize that you never veer off it, any more, even when you do, because you never stop moving. And when you've moved far enough, and arrived at a certain point, you'll stop, and sit. Or kneel. And really, really, STOP. When you've stopped so completely that nothing else is going on, you'll find you've arrived. You'll find you're everywhere, everything, always. It's very, very simple. But few will manage it. All have the choice. |
| "Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space. | |
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| David | Jun 30 2016, 03:34 AM Post #2 |
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"Become aware of every breath. " can you please elaborate on this crow. |
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| crow | Jun 30 2016, 09:06 AM Post #3 |
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It means what it says. Pay attention to every in, every out. A necessary step. When you get it right, for long enough, you'll become aware of being-breathed, rather than you doing the breathing. All by itself, that's an unearthly experience. |
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