There is a hidden reality that underlies all of life. Thomas Merton called it the ‘hidden wholeness’. It is the reality of who and what we are beyond the façade of our body-based personality.
This ‘hidden wholeness’ is our Christ, God or Buddha nature.
In Buddhism, it is described as ‘indestructible, unenhanceable and unsurpassable’.
It is beginningless and endless, whole and complete.
Paramahansa Yogananda
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement
When we are tuned into it, we experience our boundless, blissful and complete nature. The more we dwell in it, the less we identify with our body-based personality and its Ego-driven pursuits, roles and dramas. It is our creative reality, the very Life Force from which all things emanate.
We can experience this reality through the practice of Meditation which not only returns us to our true nature but reveals to us the emptiness of our body-based personality.
As long as we are unaware of and not identified with our true nature, we dwell in a state of what Buddhism calls our ‘fundamental ignorance’. On the contrary, when we remain aware of our true nature, we are ‘enlightened’.
Let’s Get Enlightened Today.
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