namasate , ...
on reading the article this point of attraction or repulsion is worth reflecting upon , ....
''Usually we are dazzled, repelled or just bound by the thoughts and emotions; we go from one thing to another -- trying to get rid of them or reacting, controlling and manipulating them. So we never have any perspective in our lives, we just become obsessed with repression and indulgence; we are caught in those two extremes.''
Buddhism to me is very much about the attainment of the state Equanimity , ..in this state one becomes all knowing , ....the paragraph above clearly outlines the futility of attatchment and the role attatchment plays in our becoming stuck in a state of ignorance which is the cause of human suffering , ...
we close our minds to all external things beyond our comprehension , he touches on this earlier in the article talking about narrow minds , ...
if we are to gain a true perspective of reality we need to go beyond this tendancy to cling to what perpetuates this narrow veiw , ...we need to go beyond the 'Me' who is experiencing , the 'Me' who is defending its own position , ...as all this 'me' dose is ensnare it self in ignorance , ....
he says later that the idea of letting go can be ''another ego problem that you have created.'' .....thus the purpose of meditation becomes just observing , ....therefore if whilst in meditiation one can simply become aware of space one realises its all pervasive nature , ....that the seemingly seperate 'Me' is actualy pervaded by space and that when this 'Me' desolves all that is left is space , thus we trancend the mundane or material consciousness and become aware of what some describe as Buddha nature , the all pervasive consciousness that is the all knowingness of a Buddha .
on the subject of letting go , ...if we try to force it upon ourselves it wont happen , but if we gently contemplate what it is that we are holding on to ??? ....we are more likely to outgrow the narrow confines of 'Me' and become a little curious to look beyond .
