Is there a soul / true nature? The popular discourses in non-duality, American-eastern spiritual, American-Zen-Mahayana Buddhism, Finished works Christianity, etc. assert a pure nature (True Self). Admittedly it was the idea of a pure nature that provoked my spiritual path into its eccentric course of exploration. Here are my (rudimentary) thoughts on the subject. I have looked deeply within on this matter and what I keep finding neither protests or confirms the idea of a pure nature. Its as if Im looking into a mirror. If I bring before it any object (possibility) it will embody (reflect) that potential. If I change the object, it too, will mirror the change. It is as if I stand before a mass of infinite potential that can embody anything it desires and the I am of me is a spark or light shed of its possibility. However, every form of realized potential (taking the infinite and making it finite) comes with stress. No matter what subject that it reflects it is stressful. Even the most sublime of possibility still comes with subtle forms of stress. I cannot help but ask what is beyond this mirror? And yet when I look I see nothing. Im not entirely convinced in the true self discourses, surely every mind is infinitely capable of great and terrible things. Perhaps I am mistaking this mirror of sorts as something it is not, but the inherent nature of things seems to me to be of an infinite capability. I cannot help ponder the question, what occurs of infinite potential left unrealized? Empty, yet full. Remaining as something, yet nothing. The question if there is a true self is undetermined, almost irrelevant, yet somehow distracting. The endless possibilities leading to endless fabrications.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:10:40 +0000
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