Right Understanding
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Right Understanding! This is what suddenly uplifts or empowers an
individual in an instant.
With Right Understanding, shadows vanish instantly in the illuminated
presence of truthful insights.
Right Understanding is a deliverer of the bondage born of
ignorance.
Right Understanding is a personal revelation where clarity demystifies the painful ways of the human condition.
'Osmosis' is a good metaphor for the experience of Right Understanding. When
this eventually happens, osmosis, or the merging of the intellect and the Self,
accurately illustrates this experience of revelation.
Often, I could be said...
"I become more-and-more confused, the more I
learn."
Witness all these experiences to
rise above these things such as confusion. Witnessing needs to be extended into
everyday life activities, and should not be reserved for the formal periods of
Meditation. To say I am confused, is to say "I am confusion!" It is
TO OWN IT, and identify with it. But to witness confusion, is to rise above
confusion to a space of clarity. Just like one who is caught in a fog, that
person can also rise above the fog and see clearly far and beyond. Being adept
at Witnessing, will allow your consciousness to stay above the fog of Human
Emotions.
The Mind, which develops its skill through building a reference library from
a lifetime of experiences and perceptions, shall often encounter obstacles to
understanding spiritual principles, since it has nothing to draw from out of
its library of reference material. This entire pool of material is essentially
filed under the category of "Mundane Human Experience". This is where
confusion stems from, as the Mind tries to scrutinise and rationalise
information or knowledge that is missing a point of reference.
What is UP if you don't know DOWN? What is SWEET if you've never tasted
BITTER?
But when there is Right Understanding, there your confusion will disappear.
Not only will it disappear, but you will feel a beautiful and peaceful exhilaration
as the source of your pain is removed. The ignorance which binds
you in cyclic tendencies, melts away as you suddenly UNDERSTAND.
After all this--What IS our confusion when compared to TRUTH? In the moment
of revelation, confusion vanishes because it never really existed in the first
place.
You say you have a shadow, but a shadow does not exist. It's just an absence
of light in one particular area. It's Negative Space and does not exist.
Confusion is the same, and to possess right understanding is to acknowledge the
light and not the darkness. Witnessing is forcing the Mind into a higher consciousness,
thereby developing and nurturing spiritual insight and vision; for this is
where your true power resides.
All the many spiritual philosophies eventually lead us to the understanding
or revelatory experience that we are all "already Whole," that we are
all "Divine," that we are the mysterious source and goal of our
yearnings.
Be Peaceful,
Adrian
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