Mystery of Being Awakened

SOME years ago, not many people would ever hear about The Self, even if you are a deeply religious person, you would perhaps sometimes hear about it by name. And even today, not many peoples have a chance to take a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh, Nisargadatta, or a Satsang with Nome and Russell ...

But today, we could easily find on the web many research materials or publications about the existence of the Self from famous peoples from different religions or different ( religious ) disciplines ( David Chambers Collections: Online Papers on Consciousness. Research Materials, in The Reading Corner ) ...

Clearly for many people, the Self is merely a concept while for many others, it simply does not exist because of that, or because of this ...
And from thousands of years, we are always busy with the question of being liberated from the Self ...



SO FAR, in this work and especially from Under the shadow of the Self and I am ... That ! we clearly recognised the existence of the Self as parallel processes.
That is, it does not exist as an independent, separate, fixed object or Identity ! But it does exist as a system of parallel processes manifested by Feelings and Emotions ...

It is also the culprit who defines the added values in the Dual Space : Good, bad, happiness, unhappiness, sorrow, satisfying ...

Therefore, the state of Awakened or the state of Being That could only be achieved when these processes do no longer take a significant place in our life !

Perhaps we could never totally destroy them from our life, simply because they are predefined in thinking beings, they are part of us ! ( * ). But the understanding of that is a very important step in knowning our life in light of Science !




WE COULD now look at the Awakened Event in a scientific way : It is a major step in Awakening process, underway of destroying the so-called non-predefined processes ... That is, how more processes we destroy from our life, how stronger the Awareness and how weaker the processes that create the Self ...

Furthermore, because it is a result of a realisable and observable process ( the Awakening Process ), it is the Truth. We could look at it, study it, experiment with it without any constrainst in any discipline of doctrines or religions just like the famous Pythagoras Theorem for right triangle !
It is no longer a myth from the thinking mind !

So what is then the problem ?
Why is the state of Being That still very mysterious today ?




ONE possible answer is that : until today it is not possible to invent a fixed procedure to be awakened ! Clearly there are many different ways to be happy right now with our life : Meditation, Full Awareness, Self-Realisation or Self-Inquiry as called by many today ... But attain something more than just being happy with our life today is another question : It depends on so many factors !

How more we are busy with reasoning and the thinking mind ( exactly what we usually are today) , how more difficult we are to be liberated from it ! Further more, by the Interdependency relation for example, our state of Being today is the result of Chains of Inheritance from (perhaps hundreds of) thousands of years ( Well, not The Inheritance in Object Programming from Computer Science then ), not to mention whether or not the existence of Reincarnation ( Perhaps, it is just another Chain of Inheritance ! )...

That is, the Awakening Process is probably extended far beyond the limit of One life time !
And the seeds of Enlightenment is perhaps begon thousands of generations ago ...



EVEN if we could go very far in destroying the processes, there are still many almost unsolvable problems in understanding that : we would then usually be confined in certain disciplines to find the Answer ! That is , we would then try to find some explanations in the light of religions, or philosophys, or ...

And when doing that, perhaps we could only see some aspects of the happening, but never find the ultimate Truth because, although there are always many different ways to be at the other side of the River...

On the contrary, The Truth could never be confined on any disciplines, just like Pythagoras Theorem ! That is, no matter what for doctrines or religions we are, Pythagoras Theorem for right triangle is the same !
So it should be, for the state of Being That !.



THEREFORE , before we could in someway analyse and understand the state of Awakened in scientific way, we have to be liberated from ... everything : doctrines, religions, philosophys ...

The recognition of mental states as processes is therefore, in some way, a revolutionary step in understanding our behavior ...

So what ?

WHAT is then the state of Being That,
or the state of Being Awakened ?

We could not have a clear answer now because we still are not That far ( Not me, at least !)...



BUT one thing we do understand today : When we somehow destroy every non-predefined processes for a long time, our body-and-mind would then be very powerful, full of mental energy !

Because we are no longer busy with anything other then the Reality, the usual predefined operations in our brain such as searching, saving, retrieving Information, pattern matching, computing, problem solving ,checking the activities in our physical body ... are working at full speed !
That is, Knowledge is the dominant factor in our brain ...

And we are in Peace ! Like a child of One busy with his toy in the morning, or an old man of hundeds of years seeing Space and Time ...




IN THAT Silence Space, many processes in the Inner Space would then become visible ! Perhaps many unknown senses could also be revealed from under the shadow of the Self ! And perhaps many new and yet unknown processes could be created by some unknown mechanisms, in that peaceful state ...

In their famous works, Narada Thera, Thich Nhat Hanh ... and many others talk about the happenings of "The Buddha attained insight into everyone's minds no matter where they were ..." , or " He attained to the states of devine sight, devine hearing ...".




WHETHER a humain body could achieve such a performance, we do not know ! But we also could not simply rule out anything, because we still could not fully understand the miracle of our own body-and-mind ...

But as humain being, what we could ultimately attain in our spiritual life is clearly not really important, more important today is how to enjoy our magnificent life in the Right Way , and at the same time contribute something wonderful to the Tree of Inheritance ...





AND ALL THAT is not a myth, neither supernatural phenomenons but the fruits of Chains of Processes from perhaps thousands of years, while our existence today is merely One step within the (infinite) Interdependence of Being ...

© August, 2002 .
Nguyen Sau Rieng


NOTES:

IN SOME WAYS, The Buddha recognised the non-existence of the Self as a fixed object , and He also recognised the impermanent nature of Feelings and Emotions ... but He did not recognise the process-ness nature of them, perhaps because the understanding of Parallel Processing systems did never exist twenty five hundreds years ago, as I stated in The science of Awakening.

It seems to me, my understanding of this process-ness nature is until today unique, that is, I found nowhere in litterature and scientific publications something alike, since my Awakening in 1996 ...

If someone somehow find somewhere something alike, I would like very much to know, please tell me ...

CLEARLY , if someone is still busy with money, nice cars, pretty girls, splendid houses, beautiful clothes, expensive make-up, big names or much power ... then we surely know that perhaps except some nice talkings, The Self is still ruling over his life and he is stlll very mundane as us ...
That is, He is certainly not Awakened !

EVEN AS our physical body and level of intelligence, our spirituel life is clearly also the result of Multiple Inheritance, that spans far beyond the limit of a life time today ...

More clearly, Chains of Inheritance is infinite from the Infinite Interdependence of Being.

IN SOME WAYS, the Buddha recognised the Interdependence of Being and it is also one of His famous discoveries !
Whether we could totally eliminate the system of processes that creates the Self, is for me a big open question ! Perhaps ultimately it is possible ... but we do not have a clear answer now.

OBSERVE THAT Sex is also a predefined process, and when we wake up in Full Power of Awareness, our mind is totally empty, and the desire or the intention of Sex is also disappeared ! That is, in the Silence of Nondual Space, Sex is also temporarily ceased to exist !.

The problem is that, for mundane peoples like us, after a periode of Silence, it appears again in our life !. That is, it is not easy to be eliminated once and for all from our life as Smoking, Drinking or even Killing ...

ALTHOUGH we do not formally show anything here, but it is very interesting to see our body-and-mind showing some characteristics of a ( perfect ) computer system : a Hierarchically Parallel Distributed Processing System !

It is amazing ...

FURTHERMORE, because Processes are continuously created and destroyed along our life, it is also a ( true ) Dynamic System !

AND what makes each of us unique and so different of each other is exactly that : The power within each of us to create and destroy processes dynamically, within the context of Time and Space ... And again, this is uniquely defined by the Infinite Interdependence of Being ...