2012.03.20 13:00 - The Problem with any Road to Insight

 

Pema Pera: the one big problem with any approach to “insight”

Pema Pera: or “enlightenment” as it is often called

Pema Pera: is that the idea seems to be, as we hear it, that there is a kind of heroic quest

Pema Pera: hero goes out, searches here and there, finally gets enlightened

Pema Pera: that picture is highly misleading

Pema Pera: the only good part is that it gets people off their butt

Pema Pera: gets them started, a motivator

Pema Pera: the rest of the picture is nonsense

Pema Pera: a person cannot get enlightened

Pema Pera: Being is already enlightened

Pema Pera: a person can stop standing in the way of Being

Pema Pera: letting Being shine through

Pema Pera: and once we learn a bit how to do that

Pema Pera: live ain’t the same ever again

Pema Pera: it is a matter of like finding a muscle you normally don’t use

Pema Pera: a bit like toilet training you could say :)

Pema Pera: not that hard, really

Wol Euler: lol

Pema Pera: first you have to be willing to consider that this makes sense — not blind faith

Pema Pera: but faith that it *might* make sense, enough to be willing to really try

 

 

Pema Pera: in fact, PaB uses no road or path — “the goal is the path” is a phrase sometimes used
Pema Pera: in that sense like zen
Pema Pera: or dzogchen
Pema Pera: but in other ways quite different
Pema Pera: the idea is that there is no need to go anywhere
Pema Pera: we are already there
Pema Pera: but we are looking through the wrong end of the telescope
Pema Pera: normally
Pema Pera: from us to Being
Pema Pera: and if we can let Being see
Pema Pera: all is well :)

 

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