Living Dharma

Living Dharma is whatever we are going through every day, at every moment. There are two aspects to our experience; one is the pure raw exposure of being consciously aware, and the second is the way in which we habitually clutter this with preconceived ideas.

When facing a situation or person, the old habitual responses come to the surface; these are either pointless or harmful, as we know not what we do.

If we are trained, we can step back and take another look.

Two people may ask the same question, but the answer might be different depending on the situation or the person. The response to “Is there a self?” depends on what that person can understand – or misunderstand.

In the Vedanta, there is self and Self. In Buddhism there is no self; we don’t call pure consciousness ‘self’ as that creates an identity which limits clear vision, but Self and pure consciousness are the same. Consciousness is self when it (we) identifies with the products of the mind, and pure consciousness is our supreme being when empty of contaminates. It’s surprising how we stay so divided. 🙂

Living Dharma is adaptive; it isn’t fossilised, or something “dug up”.
Fossil: from Latin fossilis ‘dug up’ … not living:-)

A fossil is the form in a book.
Living Dharma is happening now, observed by consciousness.

Fossilised Dharma is pyjama dharma – a sleeping suit.
Naked Dharma is total exposure.
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