Monday, December 10, 2012

Heartbeats: Spontaneous Manifestation from the Void

I had a realization recently about Spontaneous Manifestation. I was first informed about Spontaneous Manifestation from Voidness in the early 1980s and wondered what that meant in regard to Tibetan Buddhism. Recently I had a realization that helped me understand this better. It appears that we all manifest from voidness about once every 3 seconds or so based usually upon our own heartbeats. So, I suppose death of a physical body could also be spoken of as: "Choosing to cease Spontaneously manifesting from the void regularly for one reason or another.

Today I had sound protectors on my ears while I vacuumed my house so I could hear my own heartbeats somehow because of the sound protectors both in and covering my ears. As I listened to my own heartbeats I got the rhythm of spontaneous manifestation so I could not only feel it, hear it, I could also experience more fully what it was.

I suppose my experience of it would be to imagine you were someplace in another kind of universe and so you (in Joy) manifested yourself in another universe (Earth) as long as there was enough joy in manifesting there you could or would continue to manifest there. But, when that was enough you would go back to your heaven realm from whence you came. So, from this point of view spontaneous manifestation likely is about the joy of helping others end their suffering and come to enlightenment.

So, after all these years I'm finally beginning to experience and understand the concept of Spontaneous Manifestation from Voidness that my Tibetan Lama Friends in California, Oregon, India and Nepal all talked to me about 30 years ago now.

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