/lit/ - Literature

>Nibbana or liberation is thus the degree of your self-determination, how mind-Full you can be, how much your identity can disengage with passive identifications or identity being carried away by temporal fluctuations [samsara].

>You could say original Buddhism/Vedanta is a sense-sharpening ontology; the consciousness stands back from itself to observe itself with finer and finer sense, trying to narrow down and close the gap between the differential rates of becoming, which is never achieved. Brahman signifies the infinite potential of that regressus.

>So these meditative practices are a process where that "continuity" in awareness is the least disrupted.

>It is least disrupted when the mind doesn't "stop anywhere". To "cling", to "stop" is to identify somewhere with samsara, a rupture, a gap in the continuity you are trying to close.

>This is actually what is meant in the saying my Buddha-nature is also in the dog or tree which too have their buddha-nature. Pop. buddhism is a corruption of this wisdom calling it compassion and being enlightened. Its not the Nulling of distinction between self and object per se, but not "stopping anywhere" to identify the dog as dog, and tree as tree.... this is an "abstraction"..... which ruptures the continuity of awareness.