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So, today I have discovered a level of miserable I don’t know that I’ve ever had to go through.  I thought I had strep throat, the doctor says no though, as did the test, which I guess is good, except that my throat is killing me.  Hardcore.  Talking is like a form of punishment.  Anyway, he gave me pills and hopefully it’ll wear out in a day or so.  In the down time, I decided to try a new blog trend.  After yesterday’s exposition, I decided to try something new.  Every few days or so I’ll post a meditation point, and how I see it as an evolving Buddhist.

If you are interested, I am using the site amidabuddha.org as a source for these quotes.  They offer a news feed of daily meditations as well, which can be good for a glance each day.

One of the most important realizations on the path to enlightenment is the discovery that what we imagine when we say "I" and "me" doesn’t truly exist.  As long as one believes in self, you remain attached to concepts like self-preservation.  This idea, like fear, desire, and affectivity are anchors.

The concepts that Wei Wu Wei notes are just some of many constructs we create.  Like in the movie The Matrix, you can view them like "programs" that we ourselves design to maintain an illusion to which most people are wholly attached.  Some so much, that they cannot and will not release themselves of the constructs so that they might see past self and into Truth.  Eventually, however, all entities build throught the cycle of rebirth the power to free themselves of that.

What we do, is chase solutions to those manifestations.  If you desire something, what solution do you pursue?  Do you try to get what you want?  That is a normal reaction.  The flaw is, what happens when you have what you want?  Most people’s normal reaction is to desire something else, maybe a new thing, maybe a bigger or better version of what they just got.  In effect, they have locked themselves in, rather than freeing themself.

Instead, the solution is to See beyond the manifestation.  The Truth is not that we should stop desiring, but rather that desire or other manifestations are just that, a manifestation that we use to lie to ourselves to maintain the illusion that the problem isn’t what we want or how we feel, but the fact that we ourselves don’t really exist.  We cannot free ourselves from the manifestations, we must free ourselves from ourselves.  The reason that we create the manifestations is so that through them, we build evidence to present to ourselves that lends credibility to the bigger illusions we wish to maintain.  The I.  Once we have successfully broken that routine, seen past the barrier, we see that the real illusion is actually the self-sense, and Truth is that self is the real barrier.