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Hmmm..had to rewrite that text. Bodhichild, please delete my previous comment.
When your mind is perfectly steady, as is your heart; Both unified as One and not swayed by a single arising or cessating phenomenon, the Unborns Mind´s true essence, behind all phenomena, naturally reveals itself.
This is Paravritti. The moment of the great turn-about towards the real; turning (for even a split second) away from what is empty of the real and just mere illusion and towards what is a thundering clarity of pure light and truth (Dharmadhatu – element of Truth) brings immeasurable joy and faith in the true dharma.
This is an earthshaking experience the first time it happens to any good student of the way.
Having your entire foundation of what you took for granted as truth, on a daily basis, is Spiritual awakening impossible to express in words; or through any other conceptual examination.
The last part should say;
Having your entire foundation of what you took for granted as truth on a daily basis removed under your feet , is a Spiritual awakening impossible to express in words; or through any other conceptual examination.
I’ve been quietly going along in this series for some time, not wanting to impose any views or detract from it. So what I have is a reflection, or, if you will, a doubt, and I apologize for breaking the quietude:
In meditation, the mind, which has no center, habitually seeks an object or image or concept or word or thing as the hub of self. Like a tree, once uprooted, grasps at emptiness in vain, pleading for the soil of delusion and finding nothing it can recognize, begins to fear the end of self. And thus the mind inclines toward something unreal, toward the manifestations of samsara in their infinite and enticing forms, toward suffering, seeking the pale comfort of its prison in delusion.
Time and again what I experience in meditation is to come very close to what is described here, approaching the higher stages of samadhi, coming close then falling away. It feels a bit like being suspended in air.
With this sensation suddenly I snap back to normal waking mind. It is not a sensation, exactly, but a terrific intensity of mind, something hard to describe except as overwhelming, and I pull away from it as from a precipice.
I know and understand the readers here treat meditation with seriousness, and hopefully will understand what I mean because words are rather useless in this case. I do not know how to transcend this.
It’s amazing because what you have just expressed is the natural progression that these present sutras intend, and what we’ve covered up to this point. Tomorrow’s conclusion of Book I will hopefully shed more light for you as the sutras progress beyond the boundaries of objective mentation itself…so, please stay tuned. Looking forward for some lively discussion after it’s posted.
If I’ve waited this many lifetimes I suppose I can wait until tomorrow. 🙂