tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post4732760145909053097..comments2024-03-18T10:07:38.422+08:00Comments on Awakening to Reality: Bewildered by LuminositySohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-58231610187511836252013-02-01T14:26:03.163+08:002013-02-01T14:26:03.163+08:00Indeed. In actual fact, every single experience is...Indeed. In actual fact, every single experience is none of than a display of luminosity. Every experience has this 'knowing' 'aware' quality, without which, nothing can manifest or appear! Nothing can be experienced without the factor of luminosity.<br><br>So in actual fact, luminosity already pervades as the essence of all experience... but realizing this luminosity isn't enough. Luminosity can be reified in wrong ways, in many cases it is reified into an ontological unchanging entity or a Self. This leads to further grasping instead of liberation.<br><br>Luminosity has always been so right from the beginningless beginning... and it is precisely because of its brilliance that it has obscured its empty nature, it has blinded us and led us into deeper delusion. Realizing this luminosity itself won't liberate us.<br><br>Awareness, knowing, is empty of a self or knower apart from the known... and every experience dependently originates, is empty of any locatable core or essence... this too must be realized.An Eternal Nowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-30897444679638695542013-02-01T12:54:57.087+08:002013-02-01T12:54:57.087+08:00Definitely, the term "illumination" or &...Definitely, the term "illumination" or "brightness" do give me the impression of some kind of physical bright light that shines on something; At least to the ignorant like me & others, we see things through physical senses.<br><br>Things would be much clearer, using more direct terms like "awareness", "knowing" or "bare awareness", which is direct knowing at this present moment; Not some kind of illumination/bright light that is projected on the outside world.<br><br>And this bare awareness we can use it now; It's always present. U don't have to wait until u have attained some kind of jhana/absorption to acquire the bright light kind of mystical experience. (I am sorry, that's what I used to understand in the past; All these look like it's a faraway thing that only a few are blessed with the talent to experience it.<br><br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com