Thursday, July 12, 2012

Day 47 of 365: Not fabricated and non-conceptual

The third and fourth characteristics of the precise nature are "not fabricated by fabrications" and "nonconceptual".  As we move through meditation practice, all kinds of experiences arise.  Anger, happiness, blankness, busyness, feelings of upliftedness, depression.  One of the main ways in which we pigeonhole our experience is through descriptive labels such as these.  We often feel on a gut level like what we are experiencing is real.  But, beyond that, we feel that it warrants a description, a concept.  It's immediate and habitual.  The teachings are really giving us a litmus test for our experience.  Is there an overlay of concept?  How "naked" is our experience?  If we cannot say it is genuinely direct, nonconceptual, and naked, then it is not emptiness.

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