Thank you, dear Amoda, you bring subtlety followed by clarity that most often is overlooked.
You say, "When the veils start to thin, we begin to experience this awareness as the foundation of all experience—not apart from sensation or thought, but prior to it", very well said and later you say "You simply need to be willing to see clearly. And to allow everything that is false to fall away".
It seems being aware / intimate with what you refer to is "the mechanism" is key here... Nothing is established, interpretation is seen for what it is and thus "relaxed", yet awake intelligence is operable yet without an "operator". Am I on track with where you are pointing?
Yes this is a good interpretation David. "Nothing is established, interpretation is seen for what it is and thus "relaxed", yet awake intelligence is operable yet without an "operator".
You have pointed out that "What you truly are is the clear, open space in which all these come and go". Some problems have come into the lives of my close relatives, but they have not gone for 30 years. or 40 years. Suffering is happening during their entire lifetime. How does one handle such problems (example a child born with serious brain defect and no improvement whatsoever for 30 years or so; entire life has been spent on maintaining that vegetable like child)
Your question touches a deep sorrow—the kind that doesn’t pass, that remains for years, even a lifetime. There is no easy answer to such suffering. It must be met with great tenderness.
Awakening is not about changing life’s painful circumstances. It is about discovering the open space within in which all of this arises. Even relentless suffering appears in that which is untouched—your true nature.
This doesn’t take the pain away, but it softens the fight against it. It allows love to enter, not as sentiment, but as presence. You may not be able to fix what has happened, but you can stop resisting it.
And in that, there is peace. Not as escape, but as grace.
Thank you, dear Amoda, you bring subtlety followed by clarity that most often is overlooked.
You say, "When the veils start to thin, we begin to experience this awareness as the foundation of all experience—not apart from sensation or thought, but prior to it", very well said and later you say "You simply need to be willing to see clearly. And to allow everything that is false to fall away".
It seems being aware / intimate with what you refer to is "the mechanism" is key here... Nothing is established, interpretation is seen for what it is and thus "relaxed", yet awake intelligence is operable yet without an "operator". Am I on track with where you are pointing?
Yes this is a good interpretation David. "Nothing is established, interpretation is seen for what it is and thus "relaxed", yet awake intelligence is operable yet without an "operator".
You have pointed out that "What you truly are is the clear, open space in which all these come and go". Some problems have come into the lives of my close relatives, but they have not gone for 30 years. or 40 years. Suffering is happening during their entire lifetime. How does one handle such problems (example a child born with serious brain defect and no improvement whatsoever for 30 years or so; entire life has been spent on maintaining that vegetable like child)
Dear friend,
Your question touches a deep sorrow—the kind that doesn’t pass, that remains for years, even a lifetime. There is no easy answer to such suffering. It must be met with great tenderness.
Awakening is not about changing life’s painful circumstances. It is about discovering the open space within in which all of this arises. Even relentless suffering appears in that which is untouched—your true nature.
This doesn’t take the pain away, but it softens the fight against it. It allows love to enter, not as sentiment, but as presence. You may not be able to fix what has happened, but you can stop resisting it.
And in that, there is peace. Not as escape, but as grace.
With love,
Amoda
Thank you 🙏