After meditation, it’s important not to give in to our tendency to solidify the way we perceive things.
When you do re-enter everyday life, let the wisdom, insight, compassion, humor, fluidity, spaciousness, and detachment that meditation brought you pervade your day-to-day experience. Meditation awakens in you the realization of how the nature of everything is illusory and dreamlike. Maintain that awareness even in the thick of samsara.
One great master has said: ‘After meditation practice, one should become a child of illusion.’
– Soygal Rinpoche
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LOVE that!
it’s just one of those juuuuuuicy Tibetan ‘deva-driya’ (Divine Insight) moments that just make you want to triple pace your Ascent up the Spiritual Path, don’t it?
if not, you might be in the wrong Tribe, cuz i promise you, any genuine Warrior of this Path gets all worked up over such a great quote.
see, Words that are issued from a great Teacher are like that. you can just FEEL the years and years of Abhyasa that had to be put in before such Dharma could be channeled.
STRANDED BY THE (RINPOCHE’s) LIGHT
a coach ilg commentary on Rinpoche’s Light:
RE: After meditation, it’s important not to give in to our tendency to solidify the way we perceive things.
after we abide in the exquisite spaciousness which is a training effect from meditation, don’t be too quick
to cave into the contractile forces of the Outer World (society, ‘our’ family life, etc.). we must be diligent to anchor our Awareness within the Inner so the Outer doesn’t run away with the whole show.
RE: Meditation awakens in you the realization of…
when we can sustain our concentration (Dharana) we begin to find out the ‘real lie’ of our mental fabrications and emotionally relied upon constructs…
RE: how the nature of everything is illusory and dreamlike.
ask a Bricklayer to define a brick and he would say, “It’s just a brick, you know, solid matter…stuff used to build upon.”
ask a Quantum Physics professor to de-Fine a brick and she would probably not de-Fine it all…she would start talking about bijillion mile an hour flying particles and elusive to the microscope wavicles and basically tell you that the brick is 99.99% space and how at some point the Observed cannot not be influenced by the Observer; they are one. suddenly the meaning of ‘Namaste’ and the Buddha’s Teaching; ‘Emptiness is Form, Form is Emptiness,’ is beginning to make sense to (y)our UnAwakened Heart and Mind!
RE: Maintain that awareness even in the thick of samsara.
attend to WF Lifestyle Principle #1 (Breath and Posture) during daily life in order to keep Shiva (static, unchanging nature) with Shakti (dynamic, fluid nature). In this sense, Shiva is our Inner Pranas and Shakti is the whirling vociferousness of the Outer World and our accumulated and chronic attachments to it.
RE: One great master has said: ‘After meditation practice, one should become a child of illusion.’
sorry, i ain’t gonna commentate on THAT line…no way! i don’t deserve to. my feeble Practice has not yet allowed me
such honor. c’mon…”a child of illusion”???!??! from what Realm is He exactly pulling this shit from!?!??! i want to abide in THAT Realm, dude!!!!!!!!
om so ti,
coach ilg
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