Subtle Realisation

Correct meditation – realisation that comes from dropping the meditation – allows us to become more sensitive to the world, and more sensitive to the machinations and plotting of the mind. We become spiritual engineers, able to diagnose internal problems and look behind the scenes.

Unless we practise properly without an attitude, we merely clog up the works without knowing the consequences of what we are doing. Maintenance workers merely keep the machine polished, while an engineer can take it apart.

Why should we bother?

If we cannot engineer ourself – take it apart –
others are already engineering us.

The subtlety of realisation is knowing when we are being engineered.
And that is the practical teaching,
when heaven and hell become a unity.
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Yesterday’s pointing out instruction reveals how easily consciousness can fall into drowsiness and vacancy. With subtle seeing, however, clarity dispels darkness.