~required listening for necessary clarity~
Why should you listen to me? Answer: hareesh.org/about
Dec 30, 2023 - Satsang notes (NOT complete, and NOT a replacement for watching the video)
The number one quality that you need is vigilance.
“keep vigilantly paying attention to the difference between being with direct experience and suddenly getting lost in the mind world.”
Vikalpa-saṃskāra is about refining understanding, not installing new beliefs.
From the standpoint of the spiritual path, if you are trying to figure something out you are just spinning your wheels in the mind world. Instead, look deeper into your direct experience, where revelation is possible, but there is nothing to figure out.
Re: spiritual experiences, the mind is concerned with “what does it mean?” The answer is always “nothing”. Experiences (per se) are irrelevant to the process of awakening.
Truth cannot be found by referencing thoughts; when something arises do not try to conceptualize it but rather feel into it.
The mind compulsively looks to thoughts to find truths. What if you saw the intrinsic value of those movements in the heart and didn’t need them justified by thoughts?
Thoughts are tools, not truths, they can be useful but not true.
Giving yourself permission not to know makes space for intuition.
The mind makes emotions into a problem you need to understand. Be vigilant in recognizing this - discern between emotion and the thoughts it generates.
Refining your understanding sows the seeds of awakening - the practice is not wasted. understanding the View but not directly experiencing it can make the First Step possible.
practice without pure motive is never wasted, it brings you to pure motive. Hareesh started all over again with beginner's mind, after 15 years of studying and practices. There was a fervent desire to open to transmission.
Relationship between relative truths and absolute truths? “It is best to treat them as foreign to each other.” Why?... It causes confusion if you think relative truth has a bit of absolute truth.
Example: There are relative truths that contribute to harmonious relationships but “there is nothing written in the stars that harmonious relationships are inherently better.”
But cultivated awareness on relative truths can contribute to awareness on absolute truth.
The mind will make this awakening process seem inadvisable. The mind does not want to be deposed from the throne of selfhood.
Beginner’s mind - look where the instructions are pointing rather than comparing it or connecting it to what you previously learned.
"How should one choose the method(s) to cultivate vikalpa-samskara?"
-- a great starting place is the Contemplation chapter in Adyashanti's "The Way of Liberation" (and the sutras that follow) PLUS reading my blog posts on Tantrasāra chapter 4 and applying Adya's contemplation method to select sentences from that translation.
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