No Requirement for What Already Is
Ningún Requisito para Lo Que Ya Es
A question about whether any prerequisite or condition is needed for recognition, prompted by something the student had heard elsewhere.
No Requirement for What Already Is
A question about whether any prerequisite or condition is needed for recognition, prompted by something the student had heard elsewhere.
Being ill and very uncomfortable, having no control over what's happening. It's just something happening and I'm feeling it, but I can't make it happen or not happen.
The thing is, being ill is something we're very used to. Unless it's a very new and dramatic illness, it's something familiar, and it won't challenge these underlying beliefs.
The appeal of expansion
If you look at what feels good, or what a hobby is, or what somebody who is a high performer in some profession experiences, it will all be related to some sense of a temporary expansion, a temporary putting aside of these beliefs. For example, a professional cellist: when she is performing and it is experienced as a great performance, it's because something is very expanded. There's a blurring of the sense of "I am doing this," and there's a sense of something much vaster that is, in a sense, coming through you. You're dancing with that which is much vaster.
Right. Just intuitively, there can't be a requirement, because what is, is. You can't put anything in front of "is." I get that. But I was wondering, because I had heard someone say otherwise, and I just wanted to be clear.
There is no requirement. There is no thing that is required, no barrier. It's just whatever causes us to stop believing something that's not true.
Simple. Lovely. Thanks.