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The Spiritual Wisdom Seat
Cognition (to
wit, arousal or awakening) of the Basic Operating System of life and death
prior to relative application (i.e. to selective interpretation) is true, therefore
whole and complete Spiritual Wisdom. Since it presents prior to (relative)
application, it is empty (of form, name, extension and so on, in other words,
it is non-relative). Because Whole
Spiritual Wisdom is empty, so the Spiritual Wisdom (or Bodhi Seat1)
is empty (Sanskrit: sunja). Because the
Spiritual Wisdom Seat - that is to
say, Spiritual Wisdom - is (always) empty anyone can sit on, i.e. activate
it, wholly or partially. The fact is that everyone
actually uses (i.e. passes through) whole Spiritual Wisdom (i.e. returns to
original ‘factory settings’ or the Basic Operating System of life/death) from
moment to moment, but abides there for a moment only. Consequently the Whole
Spiritual Wisdom affect is momentary and minute, hence barely conscious.
Meditation (or a trauma, for instance a near death experience that produces
@1 mental concentration) can raise the affect of Spiritual Wisdom into full
everyday consciousness. To actualise,
i.e. give real form to the slice of unlimited wisdom decided on whilst
sitting on the Spiritual Wisdom Seat, the sitter must quit the seat (i.e.
sacrifice whole Spiritual Wisdom) and return to his or her particular (hence
relative) world. If for a
moment the sitter forgets the personal self (as relative position) then he or
she can merge with the essence of the Wisdom Seat (i.e. of the non-position
(or non-discrimination) of non relativised wisdom) and full awakening (Pali:
samma-sambodhi) with or without content and awakening may happen. Returning
to the everyday world with the wisdom of full awakening and applying the
chosen slice of it there, (self-) realization may happen and be experienced
and enjoyed as sublime bliss. Since the
actual content of Spiritual Wisdom is relative to the self that selects it,
therefore a personal fiction, it is empty (Sanskrit: sunja) of wholeness,
completeness and absolute certainty (See the Heart Sutra).
However, the experiences of awakening (read: arousal) and enlightenment
(read: energy or capacity release), if achieved @100%, are wholly fulfilling
(indeed, overflowing). 1 … In early
Buddhism, the empty seat symbolised the Buddha
(later named the Buddha). The seat was empty because the Buddh, having ‘gone
thus’ (i.e. quit ‘this’), ‘took no position’. Taking no (or the Zero)
position, he refused to contend. In short, he either said ‘Yes’ or remained
silent, thus abiding in sameness (Sanskrit: sama). By refusing to say NO –
and which arouses or awakens, he ceased to sustain or contribute to the (the
fire of the) life process, thus returning to (i.e. extinguishing in) Nirvana.
The word ‘NO’ (compare the Zen ‘MU’, the Vedanta ‘Neti’, the IT symbol 1), by
blocking or stopping ‘Yes’, forces action, i.e. turbulence and heat, in order
to create fullness. |
