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The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira:
Imagine a room filled with people conversing. In this metaphor the space of the room is this conscious, witnessing Presence that we call ‘I’.
The people are thoughts and images, bodily sensations and world perceptions.
There are all sorts of people in the room: large, small, kind, unkind, intelligent, unintelligent, loud, quiet, friendly, unfriendly… a complex diversity of characters, moving, changing, interacting, appearing and disappearing, each doing their own thing.
What does the behaviour of these people matter to the space of the room?
Does the space have anything to gain or lose by trying to change any of the people?
Is the space itself changed when one of the people changes?
The space is independent of the people, although the people are dependent on the space.
The space is present before the people arrive, it is present during their stay and it is present when they depart.
In fact, it is present before the building was constructed and it will be present after it is demolished.
It is always present.
The same is true of Consciousness.
Whatever is being experienced in this moment is taking place within Consciousness, and Consciousness itself remains as it is at all times, unmodified, unchanged, unconcerned.
Consciousness is what we are, and to be as we are is the highest form of meditation.
All other meditations are simply a modulation of this meditation of abidance as we are.
To begin with, meditation may seem to be something that we do, but later we discover that it is simply what we are.
It is the natural condition of all beings.
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Posted by Vic on October 5, 2019 at 6:42 pm
It appears my consciousness is in disarray yesterday afternoon and still today. My PTSD in full stress, with limited ability so far to meditate and breathe through it.
Yesterday morning I mediated and felt at peace. I went to my volunteer gig to transport some waste to be recycled. During my travel a skateboarder decided he should stand in the middle of the road blocking traffic. I asked if he could move to the side. He became belligerent, cursing at me after i passed. At the next light he continued his assault, punched the side of my truck, then ran past my window breaking my side mirror as he ran off. I felt violated. I wish i could have run him off the road, or sprayed him with mace, or got out of my truck to smash his head against my bumper. But instead, i stood helpless, feeling old and just drove off.
I continue to torment myself for not taking action. My fear of legal ramifications on top of my cowardly feelings haunt me.
The room is the same, but my happy calm is lost in there somewhere.
Posted by Marty on October 5, 2019 at 7:07 pm
Again thanks for sharing
We practice in times of calm so we build strength and focus
If you can breathe, inhale, pause, exhale, pause
Well breathing happens whether we focus or not or we wood be dead
With my past, this scenario would trigger many of the same emotions
Can you tolerate, taking a step back
Look at how pissed your ego is, he feels violated, he feels responding violently was the one true action
He feels the torment
Wait torment is a big judgment
Skateboarder is just another inconsiderate ass in life
Many many more out there
To have to stand in the middle of the street in a skateboard to gain power or attention seems juvenile and worthy of pity in my book
He probably did not even own a car
Look at the power and time you have invested already
The skateboard would enjoy what he did more if he knew he got to you this deeply
Cowardly
Not really but the Ego feigns amazing importance
Can you see who is in control when you accept feeling cowardly and helpless
This scenario will probably never happen again
Or if it does think of responses for you
Laughing and putting your car in park
Ignore him
Go around
Calm and happiness are still there
No one can take our inner power
Look where your placing your attention
You are living yesterday over and over
Skateboarder could give a shit
He has moved on to aggravate the next person