“What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.”- Rumi
Cracking Relative Reality
The human experience is largely an output of a belief system created within conceptual reasoning. As each moment arises and passes faster than our conscious minds can process in real-time, aggregates of these moments are assimilated conceptually as images about a life we perceive and stories about a self with which we identify. These thoughts are passed along from moment to moment and from generation to generation.
The process of cracking conceptual reality tends to be brutal. It can be experienced as falling, then falling further, and falling again - hoping and praying that you will hit bottom soon. This is death - a destruction of one's egoic framework and everything in it, a release of attachments to the relative world and its insubstantial assets. It can be a harsh and frightening path towards the natural state of the human soul. Teachers and mentors may help or they may add to the confusion; either way, the path is traveled alone through the shadows of your own dark nights. The spirit survives and, with careful effort and good fortune, the physical body might also. And, while you may anguish in your belief that you don't deserve it, you have earned every bit of it. It is your blessing and it is your time for your descent into darkness.
Ye who enter here, abandon thy fear.
The inexorable journey doesn't have to be difficult, but it is always devastating. Some leave the relative world more easily and gracefully than others, but no one leaves intact. One relinquishes the comforts we have grown used to and the patterns that have become familiar to us - friends, family members, worldly possessions are often abandoned; self identity is striped bare. Those who are faint of heart retreat until the force of the draw is irresistible - like gravity into a black hole.
The soul sheds the strata of karmic dust - fragments of relative world constructs that pollute the mind and hide our basic nature (c.f., Revealed). Beneath it, there is corrosion to be chiseled away bit by bit and atrophy that must heal. It's a process of letting go of everything. We let go of materialism as our basis of reality. We let go of our fixations on the superficial narratives we've created - our stories, our accounts of who we are. The path to enlightenment leads the seeker through layer after layer of constructs, concepts, mental images and shadows to the dormant soul of consciousness resting within inherent divinity.
Ultimately, the seeker finds what s/he seeks - that which had been but seen in intermittent glimpses. We locate the vast, empty void within - we embrace the void, kiss the void - and dissolve into its pure, primal, unbound ocean of wisdom. The soul of Awareness pierces the veils that bind consciousness and experiences its pure fundamental nature directly - no thought, no reflection, no analysis, no strategy, no meditation. The I returns to Awareness in present appearance, the natural state. That art thou.
Disclaimer: This blog reflects the inner journey through the lens of a single perspective. The author makes no claim to knowledge or attainment. Trust your own experience - question it, but don't doubt it.
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