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13. Non-Ordinary 4/10/2003
“A sudden flash of enlightenment does not need
training. It does not require an educational system. It is inborn nature, not
dependent on any kind of training at all. The whole concept of needing
training for things is a very weak approach, because it makes us feel we
cannot possess the potential in us, and that therefore we have to make
ourselves better than we are; we have to try to compete with heroes or
masters.”
Chogyam Trungpa
~~~http://OceanofDharma.com
In the early seventies during a seminar, at a Buddhist Center in Barnet, Vermont called Tail of the Tiger, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche arrived to discourse on the Abhidharma texts of Buddhism. We were gathered and waiting for Rinpoche to enter. He came in, accompanied by three of his students. He was laughing and giggling in a joyful way. He paused, looked at us and said; “I just heard your phrase for the first time, “Ignorance is Bliss.”
I have become accustom to
hearing and reading about the subject of ordinary and non-ordinary states of
mind being treated as two different things. I subjectively thought; wouldn’t
it be nice if non-ordinary states were more of a norm? I mean that feeling of
calm and love for everything. That moment when you laugh at the madness that
humanity is caught up in. Blending with everything where bird songs feel like
they are inside of you.
Then our creative flows would be in association with the intuitive resources
that surround us. If this were so, then the resulting activity would progress
our ascension, fulfilling some topographic landscape with it own true image.
The blending of the ordinary and the non-ordinary states of consciousness comes to mind as a possible tactile, unitary process. A space where we are in touch with subtle levels and can manifest, animate and present higher states with a wave of the hand or a kiss on the cheek.
My question is, can the ordinary and the non-ordinary, or as some have said the extraordinary, blend? A flowing from one state to the next as is required. An efficiency that serves us, like the perfect Kung Fu, where we slow down time as required. A non-ordinary state that has scale and we can buzz in an out of this range. Is there a free flowing exchange in our physical nature that knows it’s potential and is able to access this? Is it hesitancies that make us scale down to varying degrees of physical awkwardness?
From this entry you may understand why I like to talk about body. My feeling of being awkward in psycho-spiritual discussion is because of my brilliant contemporaries who have examined this hot potato, in such an excellent way, that I would feel happy just to hold their hand and listen.
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