Nothingness, Peace, Responsibility and Freedom - Dosti Regmi

Nothingness, Peace, Responsibility, and Freedom


Shunya:

Nothingness. Realization of the emptiness of true, eternal and separate essence in any phenomenon is what Buddha meant by sunyata. It is all dependent on the others to exist. 

Pleasure depends upon pain or the absence of it. Zen relates pleasure to shifting positions while sleeping. If you are uncomfortable lying on the right, you can shift to the left side and feel relieved. If you feel uncomfortable in that position, you can turn to the right side. Hence, comfort is not in any position but is dependent on how long you have been in that position. It relates to time. The pain nerves are not activated, and lactic acid is not compiling. The sensations do not reach the threshold of pain.


Shanti:

We seek pleasure, pleasure, pleasure. But it's not the pleasure but peace that matters much to us.


Responsibility:

Equanimity is not a passive attitude towards life and its happenings. It is a sheer sense of response-ability. You respond and do not react. Reaction means you are captive of the circumstances and conditioning from your past. Response is always anew. Always afresh. It is upeksha of all the prejudices. It is pratipaksha to all the instant gratitude seeking.

Responsibility is letting go of all the thrash amd being available fully to the action at hand. That undivided attention to the present. The people, task and time that is at your hand.

The sands of time will ultimately slip through your hand. Nothing lasts forever. But the present moment and your self are where you can hold fast to.


Freedom and joy:

Freedom and joy follow the responsibility just like the cart follows the horse. You cannot put the cart before the horse. Act, and only will you be rewarded. Reward without action or price is pain. Reward after you have paid the price is pleasure. 

There is pain and there is pleasure. Eat that frog of pain first. This is the monk mode.

Small module of this mode of living can be pomedaro technique.










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