May 7, 2010
- One last bit of wisdom from Daniel Ingram -
The huge temptation when walking the spiritual path is to try desperately to find a way to get the simple ease of the sambhogakaya and the indestructible, transcendent and deathless luminosity of the dharmakaya while secretly hoping that the down to earth, mundane, intimate, visceral, vulnerable, and often embarrassing nirmanakaya will just sort of crawl away and die or at least radically reform itself. The nirmanakaya is often treated as though it were the bastard stepchild of the fully enlightened condition, but you can’t have one without the others. Intimacy with reality is bought at the price of attaining transcendence beyond reality. Transcendence is bought at the price of attaining intimacy with reality. These inescapable facts should not be forgotten.
emphasis mine, though I’m not sure if its necessarily an “inescapable fact”. Finally finished MTCB. All I have to say is Daniel has done a great service with his openness, attention to detail, and illumination of his journey. If we could all report back as well as he has, we might finally be bale to start understanding this thing.
