transcended perspectives

Key Distinction

KEY DISTINCTION

    The common individual is quite effectively limited by the conditions of environment, of ignorance, of intellect, of karmic heredity, and of all sorts of external and internal conflicts and restrictions.  Always motivated by some desire or some dislike, for-and-against attitudes and mental sets, nobody seems to be fully satisfied or content.  All the objects and objectives of personal motivations support a condition of longing and restlessness of the mind and create situations of identification with some of these objects and events.  Thus the ego-notion becomes the basis of all fixed percepts and mental sets, all opinion, all preference, all prejudice.  But when the situations supporting the ego-identified perspectives are transcended then there is potential to recognize a higher state of being.  This higher state cannot be created or produced by some method, some technology, or some device or discipline, for it is always already the present fact.   In this higher state, all distinctions of duality disappear and the apperception is nondual. Peace comes to the fore when mental disturbances supported by the dualistic perspective are done away with, and for this a method or device or discipline can be a help.  But all helps cannot produce the beatitude that is already present.  The way to understand that subjective purity which is always present is to learn to subtract the obstructive tendencies that seem to continually hide and cover over that pure subjectivity.   The key to learning to do this is to repeatedly make the distinction in awareness of the difference between external physical objects, internal mental objects, and pure subject which is the pure consciousness that perceives all objectivity.

 

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