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Nirvana transcends all modes of relativity
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's Relativity." - Albert Einstein
Zen requires the attainment of ultimate reality, which is the emptiness or the absolute. The latter transcends all modes of relativity.
"Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word causes fear."
Apply your self to the work to be done as if nothing particular were taking place at the moment.
Zen requires the attainment of ultimate reality, which is the emptiness or the absolute. The latter transcends all modes of relativity.
"Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word causes fear."
Apply your self to the work to be done as if nothing particular were taking place at the moment.
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To elaborate on my point, a sit with the pretty girl will feel fast because of the pleasant or positive label given to the experience. A hand on the stove will go slow because it is dreaded, it is dreaded because it is identified as unpleasant. The one who makes an unpleasant identification is impatient for the future, the one who makes a pleasant identification holds on to the past. Both identifications distort how fast or slow the passing time feels.
Watch, but don't stop and interpret, to stop and interpret is to live in a memory of something that has gone. To understand and live now, everything of yesterday must die.
@federica
Perhaps, that technique is not Nirvana itself, but it is another way of explaining how one can become closer to the essence of the mind; Nirvana.
They liberate themselves.
Just sounds.
Why make the duality in the first place?
this is what one has to try and see
if one will successful one will be able to reach the turning point
I don't mean to say that no longer labeling things will make you free from all fear and suffering.
I mean to say that the ideas attached to the titles we give things are often if not always illusions.
It is not, "I don't want to do this I would rather..." - that sort of thought comes from a person who has desires and likes and dislikes, their likes and dislikes lead them to evaluate the now 'favorable or unfavorable' situation, naming it attractive, ugly.. etc, etc.. (pleasant, or unpleasant).
The ideas attached to these identifications cut 'what is' to pieces.
Apply your self to the work to be done as if nothing particular were taking place at the moment.
"Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality."
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You will never have complete freedom until you have rooted out your fears, fear only has power if you act or react. If a state moves you to a thought, action, or emotion, then it has power over you.
@Jeffrey
The hand on the stove was more of an analogy in this case to what some might call an unpleasant situation. Which in this case, is not a situation that can be instantly avoided by lifting up ones hand.
@Upekka
Yes, I am questioning the reader on their ability to do such a thing.
No!
rather than run from labels I have found it easier to engage silence
I don't think that conceptual thinking is bad at all, in fact it's necessary to develop the logic and understanding to penetrate into deeper meanings. I think that concepts, however, are actually really slow compared to intrinsic awareness/wisdom -- if you ask me how many numbers there are from one to one million I can tell you, or I can spend a few hours (days?) counting from one to one million.
Nonconceptual understanding is much faster, if you're looking for a practical reason. At least that's the way I look at it. I have heard the Einstein quote before but had not come to the idea of pleasant/painful identification, that really cleared it up for me, thanks
Words.
They liberate themselves.
Just sounds.
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It's true isn't it.
If I am sitting opposite a foreigner speaking loudly on a phone on the train in a language I can't understand I am not bothered.
If I am sitting opposite an English speaker speaking loudly on the phone on a train it does bother me.
Why?
But its always just one sound. Like a note on a song. One note. Then another note. And with all the notes you have a song. But in the instant it is always only one note. Just going really fast! One note, gone, one note, gone, etc.
After the meeting or contact with senses and arising of sound consciousness.
Feeling arises. Pleasurable, unpleasurable, neutral.
Then clinging. I like this, I don't like this, I am neutral about this.
Then craving. I like this because ( insert story here), etc.
Then becoming (action in the form of body, speech, mind.)
This is a short chain of dependent arising of suffering.
Here this is a better reference for you if you want to learn to deconstruct your experience and practically work on a way to reduce your suffering: