Direct experience ~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche justdharma/s/deso9 We awaken to enlightenment by recognizing and fully realizing the primordially pure essence already present as our nature. Thats how to be an awakened buddha. Even though the enlightened state is actually already present, imagining or forming a thought-construct of enlightenment doesnt make you enlightened. Its the same as when you are really hungry and you look at a plate of food and try to imagine what it taste like. Does it work to then imagine, “Mmmmm, Im eating the food, Im no longer hungry.” You can think this for a very long time – forever, in fact – but it still doesnt dispel your hunger. Once you actually put the food in your mouth, it tastes delicious, and your hunger is satiated. Its the same with experience. Experience only occurs in a direct way, in practical reality, not through a theory about taste. If your meditation practice is merely an exercise in imagining and keeping something in mind, it is only a theory, and not direct experience. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche from the book As It Is, Vol. 2
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:06:12 +0000
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