The correct answer to yesterday’s unsolved WF Test Challenge:
Five Canadian Geese (Branta canadensis)
and
a Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
Glimpses of undifferentiated Reality…what the Japanese spiritual seeker might call, Sartori, and what i have historically termed, ‘shards of Awakening’ are like finding the huge Deer in yesterday’s photo.
look again at my photo.
this time; hit up WF Lifestyle Principle #1: take an Ujjayi Breath, adjust your posture, soften your eyes as if in meditation…as if in asana practice.
look softer…you’ll soon be greeted by our beautiful Deer Being
and you’ll be shocked, “Why, how the hec could i have missed THAT?!”
when we happen to rip through a layer of Avidya…spiritual ignorance.
like water; Mind is clear.
like muddy water, Avidya makes murky that which is by nature quite Clear.
when i composed that photo,
i purposely framed Sister Deer within her natural camouflage; the dogwood and elder bushes along the river bank…
like Sister Deer in my photo;
modern American culture thwarts the context or framework in which to comprehend transpersonal insight and Truth. Worse still, rather than encouraging us to explore Truth and spiritual penetration more deeply and discover where they spring from, we are taught and basically brainwashed in both obvious and subtle ways to make more murkier our Clear mind nature; each time we plug into an iPod, watch TV, gossip…
that’s what freaks us out when we reach a certain depth of understanding in WF:
we arrive at the frightening station that what we call our ‘selves’ is really just an accumulated mish-mash of second-handed opinion and unEnlightened trivia.
as Rinpoche Soygal says, “This is perhaps the darkest and most disturbing aspect of modern civilization—its ignorance and repression of who we really are.”
Today’s WF Assignment:
Look Softer, Not Harder.
i’m turning over my DL Test Challenge to the iDL Sangha…let’s see how well they can hunt…
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