[Opinion] The Divine Woman, Anima

[Magpie]

Magpie wrote:


It is as easy as turning over your hand. Turn the light around. Your own mind, just because it is taken over by habit awareness, is one.

Remember, the "in between" isn't a thing. Reversion, or reversal, is just in this "turning the light around." The Mysterious Female is the aperture between the Absolute, and Creation's perpetual cycles of birth and death (the so-called "two extremes"). This is the meaning of the term, "Neither ordinary nor holy."

One's reversion by virtue of awareness (the light) itself, is possible because awareness isn't created. Following the light of Creation is the normal course. Turning the light around is Essence, shining back on its source. By one's own mind right now, one has direct affinity with Essence with no intermediary. This is how adepts see potential and adapt to conditions without "going along" with karmic psychological awareness. This is so, simply due to the light not shining on Creation, so they do not see karma; they only see potential. It's the same light, after all. This is not philosophy.

There is no need to expend oneself physically or psychologically. In turning the light around, chronic habituation to temperament and pattern-consciousness is interrupted. Formal meditation regimens are a remedial, reformative, provisional approach to reality. Since reality has no pattern, the most effective method is no method. As above, so below. Whatever one works with is what one ends up with. Work with the psychological apparatus to quell its arbitrary activity only amounts to temporary psychological clarity (in a perfect world). As such, effective provisional practice of any sort will eventually need to be dispensed with, as such remedial effort is still employing duality. The number one sickness of students is mistaking the temporary stillness of the human mentality for the shining mind of essential nature.

The Science of Essence, turning the light around, that is, ceasing the use of one's ego-reifying psychological apparatus to interface with conditions (delusion), cannot be taught. Why? it is already your own mind right now. Subtle continuous concentration (observation) of mind by mind in the midst of everyday ordinary situations is a gradual starting point that takes little energy and no time.

In tuning the light around, "all things resolve in the Unborn." This is a Zen reference to nonorigination, the inconceivability of Essence, the nature of your own mind right now. Nothing is different in turning the light around, excepting that one does not automatically depend on mental references relative to the person to see reality. Just this small boon is a tremendous savings of energy. In turning the light around, energy reverts to potential on the spot. When one sees potential, its absorption is the basis of the Science of Life, which can be taught.

This is why taoism says to see essence on your own, then seek a teacher.

OK, so this sounds like Ouspensky's self-remembering. Perceiving yourself as you live a normal life. Similar to Abrahamic "prayer without ceasing"... And the next step is perceiving yourself, the object you are perceiving (psychological normal stuff) and the "sun" (the Absolute in your language)... Am I making the right connection here?

And you are saying there is no practice that leads there except for everyday self-remembering itself? This actually makes sense... It is sort of contradictory to perceive something and yourself at the same time. Just as it is contradictory to be male and female at the same time. So the means to do it is anima, as you say, aperture. I need to digest that. This is just an intellectualised interpretation. I don't "feel it" yet.

Once that self-awareness is continuous, I suppose it would be possible to interject whatever one wants into the flow, without having to bother with karmic cause-effect relationship. Tell me if I am paraphrasing your thought right.