Emotions Dispel Darkness

We have everything upside down. At the lower levels of information, the emotions are our enemy; we mustn’t feel desire, hatred, jealousy, pride, irritation, unhappiness, disillusionment … it’s a long list. 🙂 But what if these emotions are the key to enlightenment?

What if we have been led to pretend not to have these emotions, to put on a ‘good’ front? To pretend that certain things that we see which make us angry are not happening?

That pretence is the lock to our personal, claustrophobic dungeon of existence. This dungeon prevents us from seeing the reality – that this imprisonment of emotions does not truly exist. It’s all mental, and we are made to feel guilty for thinking – and certainly speaking – about what we see.

Pretending we are not anxious or suffering is the great illusion. We are unenlightened beings because of not knowing our true reality. This is the vacant state of indifference.

Advanced spiritual training isn’t walking-on-water or melting-snow-with-our-bodies; it is recognising this deluded state, and realising that which notices this state – pure consciousness – which is just watching the silly antics of the mind and body. Pure consciousness is what we are.

Meditation is dropping all identification with ideas and resting in the emptiness of clarity, the luminosity of pure consciousness. When this is recognised, confusion has dawned as wisdom.

What we thought of as an enemy (our emotions) is now our illuminator in the very first instant of arising, showing us whatever ideas we are holding on to. When we let go of ideas and emotions, we are empty but awake, and totally free.

It’s just habit that brings us back to the darkness of our claustrophobic dungeon. In not holding on to anything, there is nothing that can be taken from us.

A thief in a empty house has nothing to steal;
we are released from retaliation.