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I often meet "spiritual" people who tell me "Yes, emptiness, but..." and then try to drag me into some "positive narrative" way of thinking.
No. No narratives. You want to experience emptiness without drugs? Dump the narratives.
Do compassionate things without narratives, everything you do, do it without narratives. The taste of emptiness is right there where your thoughts completely end. It tastes half like daydream and half like vertigo. Probably don't want to be standing up the first time you turn and look inside.
That's one of the secrets, by the way, part of it: turning and looking inside. You have to turn without physically moving and shift your vision out of your physical eyes. So when hindus, buddhists etc say you must look within, that is not a metaphor, it's quite literal.
No. No narratives. You want to experience emptiness without drugs? Dump the narratives.
Do compassionate things without narratives, everything you do, do it without narratives. The taste of emptiness is right there where your thoughts completely end. It tastes half like daydream and half like vertigo. Probably don't want to be standing up the first time you turn and look inside.
That's one of the secrets, by the way, part of it: turning and looking inside. You have to turn without physically moving and shift your vision out of your physical eyes. So when hindus, buddhists etc say you must look within, that is not a metaphor, it's quite literal.
"This doctrine [of karma, that there is a law of moral cause and effect at work in the world] lies at the heart of his teaching, and forms the essence of the Triple Refuge. Put briefly, it states that action is real, effective, and the result of one's own choice. If one chooses to act skillfully and works to develop that skill, one's actions can lead to happiness, not only on the ordinary sensory level, but also on a level that transcends all the dimensions of time and the present." - Thanissaro Bhikkhu
"Imaginem um imperador que está vestindo longas calças e uma grande túnica. Ele está calçando sapatos, tem um lenço ao redor da metade inferior de sua cabeça e um chapéu na metade superior da cabeça. Não é possível vê-lo de nenhum modo porque ele está completamente coberto com cinco peças de vestuário. É o mesmo com a mente. A mente está completamente coberta pela visão, audição, olfato, paladar e tato, e assim as pessoas não a conhecem. As pessoas apenas conhecem o vestuário. Ao verem o Imperador, elas só vêm as vestimentas. Elas não sabem o que há dentro. E assim não é de admirar que estejam confusas sobre o que é a vida, o que é a mente, o que é isto aqui dentro, de onde eu vim? Por que? O que eu deveria estar fazendo com esta vida? Quando os cinco sentidos desaparecem é como tirar a roupa do Imperador e ver o que realmente há ali dentro, o que está realmente comandando o espetáculo, quem está ouvindo estas palavras, quem está vendo, quem está sentindo a vida, o que é isso. Quando os cinco sentidos desaparecem estamos nos aproximando das respostas a essas perguntas."
Ajaan Brahmavamso
Ajaan Brahmavamso
"Quando conhecemos a mente, quando vemos a mente por nós mesmos, um dos resultados será o insight de que a mente é independente do corpo. Independência significa que com a dissolução e morte do corpo, quando o corpo é cremado, ou quando é enterrado, ou de qualquer forma que seja destruído após a morte, isso não irá afetar a mente. Sabemos que é assim porque vemos a natureza da mente. Essa mente que vemos irá transcender a morte do corpo."
"O movimento da própria mente é o que determina kamma, não apenas o ato, mas a sua motivação e como teve origem."
Ajaan Brahmavamso
Ajaan Brahmavamso
"Nothing whatsoever is born or dies anywhere at any time. It is Brahman alone appearing illusorily in the form of the world."
"O Rama, there is no intellect, no nescience, no mind and no individual soul (jiva). They are all imagined in Brahman."
"Rama, there is neither one jiva nor many nor a conglomerate of jiva. Jiva is only a name! What exists is only Brahman. It is full of non-consciousness and(objectless) consciousness, It can only be indicated by negation (not this, not that). He became that which Is beyond denoscription. That state is the Void. Brahman, consciousness, the Purusha of (the Samkhya), Isvara of the yogi. Shiva, time, Atman or self, non-self and the middle etc. of the mystics holding different views."
"Even as empty, inert nothingness is known as space, mind is empty of nothingness. All creation here is the effect of that emptiness; and hence the creation is empty, too."
"There is an emptiness in the empty. Brahman pervades Brahman, the truth shines in the truth and fullness fills fullness. The wise man, though functioning in this world, does nothing, for he seeks nothing."
"If conceptualization (which gives rise to notions of being and non-being) is eliminated, then it is realized that all these jivas (the individual souls), are empty expressions."
"This Self can be attained by a hundred ways and means; yet, when It Is attained, nothing has been attained! It is the Supreme Self; yet It Is Nothing."
"The Brahman is empty within and empty without."
(From the Yoga Vasishtha).
"O Rama, there is no intellect, no nescience, no mind and no individual soul (jiva). They are all imagined in Brahman."
"Rama, there is neither one jiva nor many nor a conglomerate of jiva. Jiva is only a name! What exists is only Brahman. It is full of non-consciousness and(objectless) consciousness, It can only be indicated by negation (not this, not that). He became that which Is beyond denoscription. That state is the Void. Brahman, consciousness, the Purusha of (the Samkhya), Isvara of the yogi. Shiva, time, Atman or self, non-self and the middle etc. of the mystics holding different views."
"Even as empty, inert nothingness is known as space, mind is empty of nothingness. All creation here is the effect of that emptiness; and hence the creation is empty, too."
"There is an emptiness in the empty. Brahman pervades Brahman, the truth shines in the truth and fullness fills fullness. The wise man, though functioning in this world, does nothing, for he seeks nothing."
"If conceptualization (which gives rise to notions of being and non-being) is eliminated, then it is realized that all these jivas (the individual souls), are empty expressions."
"This Self can be attained by a hundred ways and means; yet, when It Is attained, nothing has been attained! It is the Supreme Self; yet It Is Nothing."
"The Brahman is empty within and empty without."
(From the Yoga Vasishtha).