Transparency, Popping & Beliefs
At times when there is transparency or it has popped, I see that some beliefs are still strong and solid enough to bring it back to identification with content.
Transparency and popping
Transparency here means that our human self is mostly transparent to the Ground, yet with a vague sense of I floating around somewhere. There is partly a seamless field of what is inner and outer to the human self, yet also the remains of a habitual identification with this human self - or maybe pure awareness. There is a subtle sense of I and Other still.
And popping means that the Ground has moved from being background to the foreground. It has popped into the foreground, and it is abundantly clear that there is no I anywhere. I and Other is not inherent in anything, yet can still be used in a conventional way to navigate in the world.
Remaining beliefs
In either case, some beliefs may be strong enough to lead to blind identification with them. They appear true, real and important. Important enough to temporarily abandon the transparency or the popping and go into the blind identification.
There is a sense of having to take care of "it" - whatever the belief says is going on - exactly because it seems so real, true and important.
From seeing the field of content as seamless and with no I inherent anywhere, it becomes split into right and wrong, true and false, good and bad, I and Other.
This brings discomfort and stress, which is a reminder of attaching to thoughts we at some level know are not true.
Shifting as invitation to clarity
So it may shift between transparency and/or popping and attachment to beliefs, over and over, until the last remains of attachments to thoughts are worn out and seen through. (Or maybe more precisely the attachment to the attachments.)
Each time of shifting into attachment to beliefs is an opportunity to explore and examine what is happening. It is an invitation to getting a little more familiar with the mechanisms of samsara.
And when there is a greater familiarity with and clarity around these mechanisms of samsara, they loose their power. There is no longer any attachment to this process of delving into duality.
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