The one taste of fully experiencing
My partner mentioned something earlier today which reminded me of the one taste of fully experiencing... It seems that whenever I fully experience something, there is a sense of fullness and expansiveness, and it is tinged with bliss. And this is there independent of what is fully experienced... pain, joy, sadness, longing, bliss, dullness, fear, anger, frustration, excitement...
What is experienced colors the overall experience, of course, but it is almost secondary to the fullness, expansiveness and quiet stream of bliss that is there when it is fully experienced...
It is another form of one taste.
One Taste of Buddhism
And it is not that different from the One Taste of Buddhism either, as fully experiencing allows Spirit to awaken to itself, to notice itself as the field of seeing & seen, inherently absent of boundaries, of I and Other, of any separate I. It releases attachment to resistance, and since resistance is what gives rise to the separate-self sense in the first place, the sense of a separate I falls away along with the attachment to resistance.
Real life
This doesn't mean that just being with our experiences automatically pops us into full awakening. Mainly because it is very difficult (for me at least) to fully be with my experiences. There is usually some trace of resistance... of attachment to resistance... left.
But whenever I am with my experiences, quietly, without adding more stories to it, there is certainly a taste of it. A glimpse of how it is when the separate-self sense fades into the background, and the fullness of what is comes into the foreground.
It is a way to get more familiar with it, dip our toes in the water. Until there is a more clear and stable shift.
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