Not Madness, but Freedom!

by jacksokol ~ April 27, 2008

Recently I’ve been reading a fascinating book called “Buddhahood Without Meditation, by Dudjom Lingpa (about 1895) This book de-constructs the notion that we have a separate Self in a series of visions, dreamings. It uses a number of logical arguments to perform the deconstruction process. It’s different than anything else I’ve read so far. The approach is called Nang-Jang or t’hreg-chhod (cutting through solidity).

Simply put if you look at anything long enough and hard enough, it will disappear, not literally of course, but it will be sublty altered, luminous and perhaps even sacred!

This idea of using insight to rearrange our description of the world is part and parcel to the Toltec way of Carlos Castaneda as well. We have this notion that we exist in one form, when our reality is something entirely different.

You can see how this dichotomy creates a kind of madness in average humans!
Resolving the dichotomy is “Stopping the World”. “Stopping the World” is the term Toltecs would use to describe cutting the root of our Self-Identification (or the Foreign Installation, in Castaneda’s parlance.)

We have to attack the root of the problem first, the root of the problem is Self-Identification.
Whatever we get from solving this puzzle is not madness, but Freedom.