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The Indestructible Drop
Posted on Mar 5th, 2007
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Venita
Venita
photo by George Jisho Robertson
According to Tibetan Buddhism/book of the dead..... The Indestructible drop resides in the center of the chest. It is like a drop of nectar that is the seed of your soul and it migrates from lifetime to lifetime and is connected to the All. When one drops into this "drop" of nectar, this place through which the eternal stream asserts itself, words become like honey, sweet, easy and fluid. Paradox finds its Union in this Beloved Temple called Home. Love, Life and Light reside Here and no where.
In this "surrender" is where we "rest" in the knowledge and experience that there is no control and no self. Only the Mercy of the Universe, shining through "our" Wondering, "our" Being and "our" Doing.
On page 180 of The Eye of Spirit, Wilber explains the Tibetan Buddhist model as follows:
"In the heart center of every human, there is an empty essence of consciousness, divided into two layers or drops: 1) the "lifetime indestructible drop," which develops during a particular lifetime, but perishes upon bilogical death, and 2), within or interior to the lifetime indestructible drop, the "eternal indestructible drop," which lasts until Buddhahood and thus transmigrates from life to life until radical Enlightenment."
He continues: "In general....the higher level of stable evolution reached in any given life permeates the eternal indestructible drop and thus is carried, not usually as specific memories but as a mood of adaptation, to the next life. .....the more evolved the soul is, the less involved it is (i.e., the less it forgets its higher source and suchness), and this continues until radical Enlightenment, whereupon the soul is completely subsumed or superseded in prior Unborn Spirit or radical Emptiness, which is simply the luminous transparency of this and every moment."
According to Tibetan Buddhism/book of the dead..... The Indestructible drop resides in the center of the chest. It is like a drop of nectar that is the seed of your soul and it migrates from lifetime to lifetime and is connected to the All. When one drops into this "drop" of nectar, this place through which the eternal stream asserts itself, words become like honey, sweet, easy and fluid. Paradox finds its Union in this Beloved Temple called Home. Love, Life and Light reside Here and no where.
In this "surrender" is where we "rest" in the knowledge and experience that there is no control and no self. Only the Mercy of the Universe, shining through "our" Wondering, "our" Being and "our" Doing.
On page 180 of The Eye of Spirit, Wilber explains the Tibetan Buddhist model as follows:
"In the heart center of every human, there is an empty essence of consciousness, divided into two layers or drops: 1) the "lifetime indestructible drop," which develops during a particular lifetime, but perishes upon bilogical death, and 2), within or interior to the lifetime indestructible drop, the "eternal indestructible drop," which lasts until Buddhahood and thus transmigrates from life to life until radical Enlightenment."
He continues: "In general....the higher level of stable evolution reached in any given life permeates the eternal indestructible drop and thus is carried, not usually as specific memories but as a mood of adaptation, to the next life. .....the more evolved the soul is, the less involved it is (i.e., the less it forgets its higher source and suchness), and this continues until radical Enlightenment, whereupon the soul is completely subsumed or superseded in prior Unborn Spirit or radical Emptiness, which is simply the luminous transparency of this and every moment."
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