Spirituality
"Spirituality is a particular term, which actually means, our dealing with intuition. In the theosophy tradition there's a notion of clinging into a word. A certain act is regarded as displeasing to divine principals and certain act is regarded as pleasing for the divine... whatever.
In the tradition of non-theosophism, however, it is very direct that the case history [sic] are not particularly important. What is actually important is the "Here" and "Now".
"Now" is definitely now. We try to experience what is available there, on the spot. There's no point in thinking that the past that exists, that we could have now.
This is "Now".
This very moment.
Nothing mystical, just "Now", very simple straightforward.... and from that "nowness" however, arises a sense of intelligence, always, that you are constantly interacting with the reality, one by one, spot by spot, constantly. We actually experience fantastic precision, always.
But, we are threatened by the "Now" so, we jump to the past or the future. Paying attention to the materials that exist in our life; such a rich life that we lead.
All these choices take place all the time but none of them are regarded as 'bad' or 'good per se. Everything we experience are unconditional experience(s). They don't come along with a label by saying "this is regarded as 'bad', this is 'good' but, we experience them but, we don't actually pay heed to them, properly. We don't actually regard that as we're going somewhere. We regard them as a hassle, waiting to be dead.
So that's the problem.
And that (problem) is not trusting the 'nowness', probably, but is actually experienced. "Now" possesses a lot of powerful things. It is so powerful that we can't face it therefore, we have to borrow from the past and invite the future all the time.
Maybe that's why we seek religion. Maybe that's why we march in the street. Maybe that's why we complain to society. Maybe that's why we vote for the presidents'. It's quite ironic though and very funny indeed."
- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Lecture in Los Angeles (1983)
"Spirituality is a particular term, which actually means, our dealing with intuition. In the theosophy tradition there's a notion of clinging into a word. A certain act is regarded as displeasing to divine principals and certain act is regarded as pleasing for the divine... whatever.
In the tradition of non-theosophism, however, it is very direct that the case history [sic] are not particularly important. What is actually important is the "Here" and "Now".
"Now" is definitely now. We try to experience what is available there, on the spot. There's no point in thinking that the past that exists, that we could have now.
This is "Now".
This very moment.
Nothing mystical, just "Now", very simple straightforward.... and from that "nowness" however, arises a sense of intelligence, always, that you are constantly interacting with the reality, one by one, spot by spot, constantly. We actually experience fantastic precision, always.
But, we are threatened by the "Now" so, we jump to the past or the future. Paying attention to the materials that exist in our life; such a rich life that we lead.
All these choices take place all the time but none of them are regarded as 'bad' or 'good per se. Everything we experience are unconditional experience(s). They don't come along with a label by saying "this is regarded as 'bad', this is 'good' but, we experience them but, we don't actually pay heed to them, properly. We don't actually regard that as we're going somewhere. We regard them as a hassle, waiting to be dead.
So that's the problem.
And that (problem) is not trusting the 'nowness', probably, but is actually experienced. "Now" possesses a lot of powerful things. It is so powerful that we can't face it therefore, we have to borrow from the past and invite the future all the time.
Maybe that's why we seek religion. Maybe that's why we march in the street. Maybe that's why we complain to society. Maybe that's why we vote for the presidents'. It's quite ironic though and very funny indeed."
- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Lecture in Los Angeles (1983)
Very interesting stuff about the notion of "Here and Now". But i have some concerns man.
ReplyDeleteHow can the here and now have anything to do with the intuition? Intuition is considered is not anything concrete like the information we receive through our 5 senses(smell,vision,hearing,touching,tasting)
Intuition is about cumulative experience and how that interrelates to future possibilities for growth or change, whether it be business, academia,lifestyle, investments etc
Also if we dont analyze the past and think of the future how do you suppose the world will move forward in order to be sustainable? For example we have a scarcity of natural recources. Someone has to come up with the right ideas that will face this problem in order for civiliaztion to survive. If that person/team does not learn from the past experience and does not use his/their intuition to make the necessary interelation and also use extreme imaginative thinking how will he/they come up with next innovation that will allow the planet to survive?
I suppose what i am examining here is that here and now philosophy sounds great but it has not been tested through the mainstream societies but only in monasteries in Thibet or Agio Oros and the like.
Of course one could say. Who cares about whether this planet will survive and let him self to live the here and now without putting much thought about the past and the future, but he has to be very rich or a marginalized crazy artist in order to survive in our society, because is society is living organism that is constantly changing and people should adapt to those changes in order to survive.
What do you think ?
".........pay heed to them, properly."
ReplyDeleteWhat does that mean to you?