Chapter 4: The Culture of Eternal Life The Mind, the Body, and the Radiant
Transcendental Being Introversion is the anti-relational or “oriental”
subjectivist tendency toward consoling absorption in the
internal, independent, or “bodiless” conditions of mind. Extroversion is the seemingly relational but
self-possessed “occidental” tendency toward consoling
absorption in the experiential and external conventions of
the “embodied” or physically expressed mind-self. Neither introversion nor extroversion characterizes the
Way of Life in Truth, and the Mood or Posture of
Enlightenment is characterized neither by the strategic
embrace nor the strategic avoidance of the patterns of
introversion or extroversion. Rather, Enlightenment is a
matter of Transcendental Ecstasy, or self-transcending
Awakening to the Condition in which all events or
experiences or conditions (whether “subjective” or
“objective”) arise. Therefore, when there is such Awakening, the Drama of
psycho-physical experience is utterly transcended in
Ecstasy, or tacit Absorption in the Blissful Realization of
the Radiant Divine Self-Fullness. That Radiant Fullness of
Being Transfigures or Outshines all experience of mind and
body, dissolving all the seriousness or humorlessness of the
egoic psyche and its subtle and gross forms of worldly
embodiment. When such Awakening is most profound, there is native or
prior Self-Absorption-there is Liberating Dissolution of the
contracting, limiting, and self-defining power of
psycho-physical states. Such states may seem to
continue-from the viewpoint of others-but they are
“involving” to the “subject” only in a playful and
transparent sense, without binding power. And the individual
or “subject” self will seem to be rather “uninvolved,” no
matter how intense the quality of his apparent action or
experience. It is not that some internal pattern becomes absorbing,
but, rather, the Transcendental Condition of Radiant Being
has been Realized as the Condition and Truth of all events,
internal and external. Therefore, such an individual cannot
be understood or identified by his actions (which may be
either “conventional” or “unconventional” relative to common
behaviors), nor may the profundity of his Realization be
determined by analysis of his “inner” or psychic
experiences, healing powers, miraculous abilities, or any
other evidence in the body-mind. The Power of Divine or Transcendental Ecstasy simply
Liberates the body-mind from the recoiling or self-defining
tendency, thus permitting egoless existence (or
non-separation from the Radiant Divine Being). That Ecstasy
Transfigures the total body-mind with Radiant Life,
dissolving all conditional emotions in Love-Bliss, so that
world and body and mind are, in effect, forgotten or
overcome in the Whimsy of Liberation. More and more, this
Blissful Disposition conquers the problem-based, strategic,
and self-bound will to experience and accumulated knowledge
in the countless domains or worlds of body and mind.
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