Every moment of life is filled with a constant stream of experience. Some pleasant, some unpleasant, some neutral, and we aren’t really AWARE of most of it. We just “wake up” every so often and discover a world around us that has a particular bearing on our heart. Then we struggle through that world until it changes and we repeat the process. But we DO have moments of awareness. There are brief instances in every life where experience has not stopped, but our heart is not dragged around by it.
We might call these moments Nibbana, and we might call the other moments Samsara, but since both are experiencing the same things, what’s the difference? How could Nibbana and Samsara co-exist? Perhaps neither of them are a state and both are actually actions.
Payton guided our Sangha this week as we investigated the nature of awareness and misperception. We listened to Carol Wilson discuss the topic in a recent talk from the IMS Forest Refuge.
You can hear the full talk here: https://dharmaseed.org/talks/90176/
