Addressing Zaddar and others who have had visions

Now the mind is the creater of the world. We look at the world and think that our minds and senses allows us to see it, but it's more true to understand that our mind and senses create it.

This comes with the risk of creating things that aren't there. Especially as you get closer to the original mind.

Shinzen Young talks about seeing Giant Insects in his Book "The Science of Enlightenment".

In my own experience, after I’d been meditating for about five or six years, I started to have visionary material, very intensely. One of the interesting things about visionary material is that once it gets going it’s not necessarily limited to when you’re sitting in formal practice. That’s something that people that go through this phenomenon discover to their chagrin.

Once it gets going it’s there all your waking hours often. So that means when you’re just walking around or whatever you’re seeing stuff all day. And in my case it was mostly, but not exclusively, giant insects. And they were very realistic. It’s not like seeing a static image. ... These things, they move and they were extremely vivid. We say visionary material but I should say you can touch and hear and smell it too. ... In any event, that went on for a good year.

Well, what did I do? Nothing special. I just treated it like any other phenomenon.

If one greets the phenomena that come up in this intermediate realm with mindfulness and equanimity, because the intermediate realm phenomena are closer to the Source than consensual reality, one has a wonderful opportunity to get a deep insight into the creative process — how it is that mind creates.

The reason that the Zen people talk about hitting the deities when they come is that they don’t want students to miss that opportunity. They don’t want students to get tripped out on the content of that intermediate realm, and therefore, miss their golden opportunity to get an insight into the nature of consciousness — the nature of Nature.

If you stumble upon these things, and make no mistake - many of you will - Don't get stuck there.

Submitted November 14, 2018 at 01:28PM by Dao_Now https://ift.tt/2zQTrI3