The Life In Our Life
Meditation is understanding and appreciating the life in our life, and that is consciousness. Once we understand this, we drop the meditation on realising we are that consciousness. Looking into this consciousness and finding nothing else, we have arrived at the meaning of life – that we are pure consciousness, undistracted by appearances.
Even though our daily life is cluttered with the past, we stop adding to the clutter, and that is how karma – the result of previous actions – naturally dissipates. A residue will remain until the moment of complete disillusion, where our life is no longer an illusion or a mystery.
If we hear or read about meditation in the ‘media’, it is a watered-down version to the extent that it becomes a mockery, a pseudo-yoga accessory with scented candles and stock photo of a leotarded exponent. This has nothing – absolutely nothing – to do with the meaning of life and mental freedom.
We become disillusioned
when we realise we have adopted a collective view of life
(which never satisfied).
When we realise the meaning of life,
we realise the purpose of life.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 