What Truly Remains?
January 7, 2009 by ScottyDoo
Treeleaf member Aswini posted some of my blog post on the forum and equated it to his own life. I was interested to see what the responses would be. Jundo posted a whopper of a question in response. One that I’ll be meditating on for what I imagine to be a long time.
The question is…
What truly remains when we drop all thought of “success”, “failure”, “doing”, “not doing”, “tangled”, “untangled”, “up” or “down”????
We’ll see how it goes? (or does it go?, if it does, where does it go?, or does it go nowhere at all? Or is there no IT to begin with, which means that IT can’t go anywhere? I’ve started already)
Pete on Wed, 7th Jan 2009 4:00 pm
That is a great question.
how many layers can be peeled away?
welcome back.
Pete.
ScottyDoo on Wed, 7th Jan 2009 4:44 pm
It’s good to be back. It’s been a crazy week. I’ll post more on it in another post, but my 20yo Brother-in-Law was found dead in the backseat of his car, from an apparent heroin overdose last Tuesday. We had the services yesterday.
I’ve learned a lot about myself among other things during this time. It’s interesting how my practice has affected how I handle what would normally be difficult situations.
greenfrog on Wed, 7th Jan 2009 10:10 pm
Scotty,
Nagarjuna’s Verses from the Center approaches the same question in a rather thorough fashion. I’ve been reading Stephen Batchelor’s translation these past few days. You might track down a copy from your library, if interested.