👍🏼 resonates. I’ve never engaged in any practice but have been graced by a series of awakenings which continues smoothly, blissfully, unendingly and magically. My view on practice is that it is self-limiting, in fact even interfering with the process underway. Thanks for sharing, Chris.
Thank you so much for this. What practices would help remind, stabilize, this glorious state, specifically. Does it help to remember or try to recreate?
"Insight is the sole cause of liberation". Yes and no. I think you are only speaking of one level of liberation here, there are many. Many many epiphanies or insights occur on the path , giving many such mini liberations. Yet, there is the knowing of higher realities which you are missing out on, which is the zenith of Tantra. Not philosophical higher realities, no. This is so hard to explain.... pffftt... I have this analogy. Imagine engaging with the smartest 9 year old in the world. Teach him everything in the literature about an orgasm. He/she is probably pursuing a PHD so will know the biology and neuroscience involved well. But do they know what an orgasm is truly? They cant know. Until the body attains puberty ( not speaking of precocious kids here). They will never truly know until orgasm happens in the body. They might even accuse you of exxagerating, being deluded because they never had the experience you have had. You can at best use metaphors to describe the experience to them and fail miserably. They might think you have 'GOD realm delusion' like you put it. I think you are stoppiing well before the ultimate, the peak of tantra.
It's not me who is speaking here, but rather Abhinavagupta. In this episode, I'm just the translator. I advise you to keep listening and not form conclusions prematurely.
