Walking in eternity
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:04 am
When one stands on the alpha and omega of their awareness, at the point where all thoughts begin and end, they have successfully transcended their affects of time. What does one do now that the affects of time have been left behind, and the effects of time are all there is? From where this writer sits, attachments while sense awareness is present, is inevitable. A certain food, a favourite type of music, a beloved hobby: to the man who has wisdom of subject-object separation, but does not believe in subject-object separation, these things provide comfort and a sweet touch of soul.
This is the important difference between attachments born of ignorance and attachments born of wisdom. The former produces karma, or the sense of sin, the latter, does not.
This is the important difference between attachments born of ignorance and attachments born of wisdom. The former produces karma, or the sense of sin, the latter, does not.
"I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." ~ The Christ
"What, bhikkhus, is the Nibbāna-element with residue left? Here a bhikkhu is an arahat, one whose mental fermentations is silenced, who has fulfilled the Noble life, who has done all what was to be done, who has laid down the burden, attained the goal, who has destroyed the bondages of being, who is completely released through final knowledge. However, his five sense abilities remain unimpaired. Through these he still experiences what is agreeable and disagreeable, and feels both pleasure and pain. It is the extinction of attachment, aversion, & confusion in him, that is called this Nibbāna-element with residue left."
~ The Buddha
"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
~ Lao Tzu