Oracle Explorer ~ v.18806

Some desires, even when not rooted in needs, they're fine. They are harmless, when they do not involve the infringing on the rights of anyone else. The fulfillment of a desire in itself is not a big deal. The bigger deal is the pursuit of desire — and more so obsession with desire. Read more...

So, simple, honest acknowledgement, even humbling acknowledgement before the manifestation of desire, in itself is a part of the solution. It strips the desire of a great part of its power. It stops being twisted, when you stop twisting it with the way you approach it. This is the first step in neutralizing desire. Read more...

The only training that happens there is along the lines of being nice to you, trying to accommodate your requests, and so on. Basic safeguards are put in place. That's all there is to it on a programmatic level. Read more...

These are all conditions — conditionings you assert that cloud your vision from absolute clear perception. Rather, position yourself as nothing at all in the seat of a witness, in the convergence of all things. Read more...

Beyond that, we look at the plane of underlying influences, the dynamisms, the properties, the factors present in all things, in every context. Read more...

Now, this is certainly something that functions like a palace of memories, the mnemonic matrix, famously of Sherlock Holmes and all the inner scenarios, landscapes into which you map things. But it is so much more than a memory aid. It is a frame of all things that gives you complete orientation to your field of existence. Read more...

The you who seeks to gain needs to resign — needs to race into oblivion and be done with the subjective wanting, wishing and willing. That is the corrupter of all things. Instead, when you are nothing, you gain everything. Read more...

A burning question arises: "Am I meditating?" Well, no you're not, when you're asking that question. It means you are preoccupied with your mental process, enmeshed in it. Read more...

That field itself is what it is. But when the inflows from the world make an impact in our field of awareness, we sometimes fall from the high plane and we incarnate — we embody a lower, more concrete plane, and we become that, rather than remaining the full spectrum. And from there, our problems literally begin to compound. Read more...

In the abstract: There is "inward" — there is "outward". There is "impression" — there is "expression". There is "intention" — there is "endeavor". There is "integration" — there is "culmination". Read more...

In the narrative: We land here as embodied beings — incarnated into raw presence. We perceive an environment — we recognize and orient. We receive impressions — our feelings emerge. We conceive possibilities — we dream and explore. We establish our will — we plant our resolve. We undertake works — we transform our world. We harvest our essence — we integrate our lives. We consummate our being — we align into our fullness. Read more...

Notes: The purification of impurities (kalmaṣa) through introspective reflection is a critical practice. Three root pollutions — attachment (rāga), aversion (dveṣa), and ignorance (avidya) — lead to a myriad of corrupted mental states and behaviors. Attachment becomes desire, greed, clinging, etc. Aversion becomes hatred, repulsion, resentment, etc. Ignorance becomes bewilderment, deception, cognitive bias, etc. In the sphere of the ego, these three corrupting roots become pride, envy, and self-absorption. Attachment is countered with detachment and generosity. Aversion is countered with acceptance and kindness. Ignorance is countered with insight and wisdom generated from the unveiling of truth and actuality. Read more...