Notes to Self
First of all I want to say that I think that the mindfulness thing is great and I think they are totally barking at the right trees. Or tree. Which is like, now. For those who don't know what mindfulness is here's the Wikipedia of it.
Now that mindfulness has established it's foothold like that in the Western world I think it should go further. It needs to expand and go deeper into it's subject matter. What is the subject matter of mindfulness? It is the body of the practitioner. You say they already do that. Yes, that seems to be the case. What they lack is a clear focus and emphasis on the pleasurable blissful sensation in the body that never goes away. I think the next level focus in mindfulness is to find this endless pleasant sensation in the body and keep that in your focused meditative attention, so that eventually you can keep the focus at all times and it becomes a part of you forever.
What is this bliss like? It's like a constant gentle heat of Love that has no object. It dissolves your emotional baggage by making you go through your shit. At the same time it is like a cork that always keeps you dignified and afloat above the waters so to speak, yet you won't dehydrate.
Still everything is new all the time. What the pleasure of this moment is cannot be contained to descriptions. There are myriad of different states and phases and the only common denominator is that they are now and they are pleasurable somehow. Except when you go through your emotional baggage or experience a life crisis or are ill or something. Still, at all times the pleasurable ananda - bliss can be found through mindfulness, always somewhere in your body. And when you pay attention to it it grows like a dog that's being fed. Don't try to evade your pain, try to face it and dissolve it via consciously focusing on the endless pure alchemical energy - sensation in your sensory body of the Tantric Flesh.
Beyond this, there is no Secret Now, you know the Real Now, to find. It is a process, not an unchanging essence. It's just the fact: everything known to phycics is now. There is no matter in the future, no matter in the past, only matter in the now. You have to only become conscious that you were always already only in the now and never somewhere else.
What is the next phase after this? And this is where you truly strike gold. Hear me: look through the pleasurable sensation and feel and experience and be one with the SpaceVoid. I call it SpaceVoid so that you'll dig that it is not 'nothing' as in 'infinitesimally small' but as something VAST. It is (as occult coordinates go) more like the Nothing in which the Everything exists. Like space beyond space if you will. And the Being of existence exists within it like planets are in space. This is the equivalent thing with what the Tibetan buddhists call Shunyata or Nothing. Or what is called the Master Consciousness. There are many quite unnecessary and dogmatic forms to Tibetan buddhism and you have to also understand that they have had lots of secret stuff not told publicly. Especially now that they are under Chinese tyranny they like to emphasise certain aspects of their culture more than others. I personally like the Mahamudra of Vajrayana lineage best, especially the teachings of Naropa and Tilopa. This lineage of Drukpa Buddhism is btw the state religion of Bhutan, one of the world's most closed up countries. I wonder what the Hell they're up to and would like to pay a visit to their country some day. Unless the Chinese invade them first, like they are doing right now by just walking right into their country and moving the border by starting settlements. Yo fuck that.
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