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Oneness
sinewaves
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I find it difficult to understand the idea of becoming one with something.
I am driving in my car, I become one with the car. How does one become one with the car?
When I carry out the action of driving, I am completely focused on driving (100% driving mind) so there is no separation between myself and the action - I become one with the action. The action is driving the car, so I become one with car?
Inside (the action) and outside (the universe) become one?
I am driving in my car, I become one with the car. How does one become one with the car?
When I carry out the action of driving, I am completely focused on driving (100% driving mind) so there is no separation between myself and the action - I become one with the action. The action is driving the car, so I become one with car?
Inside (the action) and outside (the universe) become one?
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Don't trouble yourself.
Drive the car.
"We say 'jeon il', completely become one. When you are doing an operation, you and this knife completely become one. When you are driving in your car, you and the car only become one. If you drive on a road with pebbles and you are not thinking, only driving, then you can feel these pebbles under your tires. Only become one means, you and your action completely become one; then you and the universe only become one — completely no-thinking mind. Inside and outside become one. The name for this is, 'only go straight,' or 'put it all down,' or 'don't make anything,' or 'keep clear mind.'"
Why don't you go jogging in a park, it's a good way to get you focussed on the breath? Find a nice spot and just be present there with what arises. Hey you could even send me a pic back to admire -'Sinewaves in the park'.
You might want to find a a river or a pond and reflect on the ripples on the water - always good to do that. I once spent a whole day with waders on standing in a river fly-fishing - I didn't catch a single fish but just having the water rippling around me - just made me dissolve into the scene. Nature, and especially water, is good for dissolution.
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In a sense therefore, the faculty that concludes one, two etc, cannot be trusted absolutely as a universal determination of concepts such as one, two etc.
Is this becoming one with something?
Or is the something the one thing?
Not sure.
:wave:
But personally I think cars are noisy, smelly, dangerous things so I tend to avoid them.
So, If you are looking at time and you say wow that rock just had a bunch of babies,
you can see that the entity-the little rock is just a product of two big rocks. They are not independent. They are dependently arisen. Just so, the Earth pulls on us and so does the sun. The stars also pull on us but not very much. Gravity is like that. Everything pulls on you a little and what is close pulls a lot. Like our mother pulls on us a lot. Our family, friends, nation etc. pull on us and shape who we are. So we rise dependent on the world around us. The essence of an individual is that he is separate from others. Well yes we are. We have separate views and experience and opinions and aspirations. We have separate motivations. But as a separate being-a person-we are dependent on others, just as little rocks are dependent on bigger rocks. So all of this separateness, at some point you can see-well-it sort of lacks any inherent (in from the beginning), existence. We are all sort of a part of some big pot of chunky soup. We are the potatoes, or carrots.
Now when we are looking out at all of the form in this separate seeming world we are being ourselves. This separate self has two important qualities: It has clarity or awareness, and it's essence is empty of inherent existence as a separate entity-really-
it's (you're) just part of the soup. Your existence has no meaning or function outside of the soup. Well, when you look at the universe as an element of the soup you are just part of the soup (oneness) and just like that you notice that the rest of the world is part of the soup also. In fact, what is not part of the soup? Well there is an answer and that answer is "the Dharmadathu". So we have this awareness-which is intrinsic or inherent, and we have a lot of soup. When we are looking at the other carrots and peas we are just a potato observing a fellow soup ingredient. But, when we are just aware and don't have an object to be aware of, we are not creating duality (subject-object relationship). That is the unity which is pristine cognition. That is awareness without an object. Just like that (image of snapping fingers) you experience the unity of the soup-
maybe we are just all elements of a very large soup bowl. But then the soup bowl would be empty.
This is an important experience and an even more important understanding, to realize and make part of your life. If meditation can bring you to this awareness without an object, then you can quick like a bunny rabbit, reach out and make your own, the idea of the value of others. This is the beginning of the path of the Bodhisattva.
If you experience this unity you should use it to improve your motivation. Get a good book, like the Avatamsaka Sutra-go ahead spend the extra bucks-make the commitment. Yes, you should discover a guru and he will introduce you to a school or lineage. But, You have made an important step. You are aware of being aware-without an object. P.S. This raises your appreciation of peas and corn and is also the cornerstone of Buddha Fields. So before enlightenment there is just the soup. And,
after enlightenment there is just the soup-and the bowl. So the soup does not appear without a bowl. And you never need a bowl without soup. This is the Wisdom of the 'Prajnaparamita Sutra' which includes the 'Heart Sutra'. You might also check out
Hua Yin Buddhism which goes with the Avatamsaka Sutra.
May The Good Be Yours, Dennis
Mettha
So, If you are looking at time and you say wow that rock just had a bunch of babies,
you can see that the entity-the little rock is just a product of two big rocks. They are not independent. They are dependently arisen. Just so, the Earth pulls on us and so does the sun. The stars also pull on us but not very much. Gravity is like that. Everything pulls on you a little and what is close pulls a lot. Like our mother pulls on us a lot. Our family, friends, nation etc. pull on us and shape who we are. So we rise dependent of the world around us. The essence of an individual is that he is separate from others. Well yes we are. We have separate views and experience and opinions and aspirations. We have separate motivations. But as a separate being-a person-we are dependent on others, just as little rock are dependent on bigger rocks. So all of this separateness, at some point you can see-well-it sort of lacks any inherent (in from the beginning), existence. We are all sort of all a part of some big pot of chunky soup. We are the potatoes, or carrots.
Now when we are looking out at all of the form in this separate seeming world we are being ourselves. This separate self has two important qualities: It has clarity or awareness, and it's essence is empty of inherent existence as a separate entity-really-
it's (you're) just part of the soup. Your existence has no meaning or function outside of the soup. Well, when you look at the universe as an element of the soup you are just part of the soup (oneness) and just like that you notice that the rest of the world is part of the soup also. In fact, what is not part of the soup? Well there is an answer and that answer is "the Dharmadathu". So we have this awareness-which is intrinsic or inherent, and we have a lot of soup. When we are looking at the other carrots and peas we are just a potato observing a fellow soup ingredient. But, when we are just aware and don't have an object to be aware of we are not creating duality (subject-object relationship). That is the unity which is pristine cognition. That is awareness without an object. Just like that (image of snapping fingers) you experience the unity of the soup-
maybe we are just all elements of a very large soup bowl. But then the soup bowl would be empty.
This is an important experience and an even more important understanding, to realize and make part of your life. If meditation can bring you to this awareness0without an object then you can quick like a bunny rabbit, reach out and make your own the idea of the value of others. This is the beginning of Bodhichitta. The path is the Paramitas.
If you experience this unity you should use it to improve your motivation. Get a good book, like the Avatamsaka Sutra-go ahead spend the extra bucks-make the commitment. Yes, you should discover a guru and he will introduce you to a school or lineage. But, You have made an important step. You are aware of being aware-without an object. P.S. This raises your appreciation of peas and corn and is also the cornerstone of Buddha Fields. So before enlightenment there is just the soup. And,
after enlightenment there is just the soup-and the bowl. So the soup does not appear without a bowl. And you never need a bowl without soup. This is the Wisdom of the 'Prajnaparamita Sutra' which includes the 'Heart Sutra'. You might also check out
Hua Yin Buddhism which goes with the Avatamsaka Sutra.
May The Good Be Yours, Dennis
I have appreciated your input and hope you will continue in your enlightening activities.
I like to respond to questions as that implies a desire to see new views. I just move in on that desire and the nature of the question. Best to you, Dennis
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