Chapter 7: What Is Wisdom? The Transcendence of Negativity and
Unlove When we experience the world in and of itself, we
inevitably find justification for recoil, negativity,
despair, and degenerative self-exploitation. The roots of
both asceticism and a faithless ordinary life are in this
confrontation with the bare facts of experiential existence.
But even if the self-contraction is justified by the
conventions of mortal experience, it is immediately
undermined by intuitive Realization of the Condition of the
world and all experience. The problem is that our attention tends to be fixed on
the world or experience in itself – as a bare fact of
awareness. We must resort to a deeper or more direct and
intuitive awareness of arising phenomena. The world of
experiential fact may appear to be threatening and
ultimately futile (and self-contraction is itself nothing
more than a reflection or emotional imitation of that
appearance), but we are always already in a Condition that
transcends mere experience. We are always already or priorly
in a transcendental (or experience-transcending and
self-transcending) relationship to the factual conventions
of experience. That is to say, whatever the limiting facts
of present experience, we are primarily and priorly related
not to experience but to the Condition in which all
experience is arising. We may tend to recoil from the world of experience and
toward the self, but that tendency is, in effect, not merely
a rejection of experience but a rejection of the Condition
in which experience (or the world and the self) inheres.
Thus, if that Condition itself (rather than experience in
itself) becomes the primary focus of awareness, then the
world is transcended and the tendency of recoil is
transcended. And, in this manner, the quality of the
individual being ceases to be self-bound and becomes one of
ecstasy and love. We are rightly related to the world and all beings only
if we are able to transcend the habit of recoil from the
world and all beings. Therefore, we are obliged-as a Law of
our born existence -t o remain awake to the Living Radiance
or Mysterious Reality that pervades all phenomena and lives
every individual being. Then, as a matter of moment to
moment practice, we must transcend that habit of emotional
and general psycho-physical recoil from events and others by
intuitively Remembering the Radiant One that is alive as the
world and that lives as every being in the world. In this
manner, we will find an emotional, mental, and physical cure
in every moment of experience. By constantly Remembering and
surrendering into the Radiant Reality or Condition or God of
the world, we will naturally transcend the specific,
limiting, and frequently negative quality of experiences,
other beings, and events. Therefore, by such
self-transcending or ecstatic Remembrance and surrender we
will abide as free attention and love in the world. All our dissociative emotion relative to experience and
other human beings and the world itself is cured by moment
to moment resort to the intuitive base of existence, wherein
we directly confront the Living Condition or Radiant
Transcendental Being wherein all conditions and beings arise
and inhere. Thus, by such intuitive Remembrance and ecstatic
surrender we become capable of love, or self-transcending
and Life-positive participation in the events and encounters
of a lifetime. It is neither necessary nor appropriate to
love the world in and for itself-or other beings in and for
themselves. The qualities of the world and other beings are
generally forms of limitation and they are often profoundly
negative. But the link between each of us and the world (as
well as all other beings) is our native or prior love of the
Radiant Condition in which the world and every being are
arising, changing, and passing beyond our grasp. Thus, in
each moment, we must Realize the One Who is Alive as the
conditions and encounters of the present moment, and in
every moment of such Realization (or ecstatic Remembrance)
we will remain free in love, or free feeling-attention,
relative to whatever aspect of the world or other beings is
presently before us. And by remaining thus Life-positive,
free, and feeling in our response to the world and to
others, we will be able to participate creatively in the
school of this world. Then, whatever arises in any moment,
we will remain happy in the single eternal Encounter that is
our only ultimate Destiny.
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