Spontaneous Arisal from Voidness. This way of thinking is basically not a western way of thinking. I first encountered this concept while studying Tibetan Buddhism and specifically, Padmasambhava, who was a Mahasiddha in the Buddhist tradition who was said to have spontaneously arisen from a Lotus Flower in Origen.(Some Tibetans believe Origen is Oregon or Oregon Territory)
In fact since I was born in Seattle which is a part of old Oregon Territory I sometimes wonder that since my first spiritual Teacher's spiritual name was Lotus and since I was blessed by her when I was 2 months old in Mt. Shasta that---- well you can guess the rest. Time travel-- you know. Of course that is all wishful thinking--- or is it?
I'm being playful so at this point it might be helpful if you are laughing. I have always found that Tibetan Lamas and Native American Medicine men like the old one in Thunderheart, the movie, know when to laugh. They tend to laugh when our souls need it most whether we get it or not. Laughing at existence itself is when one understands that Nothing is actually real. That is the joke they laugh about. Everything is temporary. That is the ultimate joke of the enlightened. The western mind often is offended by this ongoing inside joke.
I had an amazing experience recently. I was cross country skiing from Bunny Flats down to 7 mile curve on my favorite cross country ski route on Mt. Shasta. I was getting exhausted because I had skied downhill at the Mt. shasta lifts the day before with my daughter while she snowboarded. As I fell down from encountered frozen snowmobile tracks while being a little too tired to recover from the terrain change one of my knees was deep in the snow. I decided to just lay there a while and experience the mountain. I let the mountain in. It was like the mountain said to me, "Welcome home Fred". Tears came to my eyes as I was a mile from the nearest person and 7000 feet in elevation as I felt the full power and peace of the mountain drift into my soul. I felt this primal ancient power once again fully. For some reason I decided to go into a vipassana mode and ask "What is the source of my thoughts?" I experienced complete voidness and clarity. Out of this voidness a voice of my soul said clearly, "I am the source of my thoughts." This had never happened before in this way to me. I realized I had entered into a deeper form of enlightenment than I had touched ever before. So I asked again, "What is the source of my thoughts?" This time it was so powerful I almost passed out. A great booming voice said in my inner voice, "I am spontaneous arisal from Voidness." I went, "Wow!" It's happened!
I have thought of a way for all of you to understand this. If you imagine that when you see someone for the first time and instantly fall in love with them (often for life) that moment is "spontaneous arisal from voidness". Then if you have a child with that person that child has spontaneously arisen from voidness. This is a way for you to understand this concept. Before you met that person where was your love? Your love came from nothing one moment until it was there and then you made a child. Where did your love and that child come from? What caused this change?
Whether it is your soul spontaneously arising from Voidness or a love that spontaneously arises for a person that you have a child with it is all spontaneous arisal from voidness.
Whether your soul spontaneously arises from voidness once or a million times, each time your soul arises into being and manifestation because it wants to. All beings manifest originally in joy the first time and often millions of times after that.
Likewise, each of our attaining the different stages of enlightenment happen instantaneously like when we fall in love and have a child. It is instantaneous and relatively permanent in that sense.
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