Bodhicitta777 on Nostr: An interesting thought for sure. It depends on one's own mind though. For example ...

An interesting thought for sure. It depends on one's own mind though. For example shakyamuni Buddha had a very similar story in his path to recognizing tathagatahood. The difference was dropping all belief and identities including seeing clearly the imaginary self identity.

With no thing to rest the mind on, subject and object are dissolved and things are seen to be just as they are, an infinitely interconnected web of life.

It all depends on how one sees.

One of my teachers/ friends shared this and I find it appropriate in my response here.

A common characteristic of most Sentient Beings is a compulsion to be grounded [in the Cyclic Illusory Existence called life] which they deem to be "normal." Two feet grounded in impermanence and the mediocrity of their sensory groupthink. And because "normal" controls and indoctrinates society, anyone seeking to unground from the limitations of sentient consciousness [that in which Yang and Yin is unintegrated] is viewed as abnormal. Thus, since Higher Human Potential [Supernormal] is considered a threat to "normal," resulting in those with an urge to explore the deeper aspects of life having little authentic guidance nor acceptance in "Normal's world," some turn to various addictions (i.e, drugs, alcohol, meditation, pornography, etc) in which to smother their longings, and depress their passions with mediocre distractions to survive.

"The probability that sentient beings can see reality as it is, is zero" - Donald Hoffman.

No wonder that ... "99.9% of the World's so-called wisdom, East and West, for the purposes of awakening, is about as useful as a glass of warm spit with a hair in it." Jed McKenna

Normal, the unintegrated, know nothing about Conscious Awareness ... nor Spirituality ... Spirituality is not being in conflict with Spirit (the in-breath/Yang and out-breath/Yin of duality. Spirit ... from the Latin spiritus, the Indo-European root meaning "to breathe."

A thousand years ago the term "one foot in the physical world, one in the spiritual world" was a description of the 84 Mahasiddhas ... mostly known as the founders of Vajrayana, Dzogchen and Mahamudra.

Having "one foot in the physical world, one in the spiritual world" is both a desire and a consequence ... like the Noble Eightfold Path. Many wanted to have "one foot in the physical world, one in the spiritual world," and very few had "one foot in the physical world, one in the spiritual world."

While most view the Noble Eightfold Path (right view, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right samadhi )as a practice leading to liberation from Samsara ... for them it's merely a simulation ... like Richard Dryfus in the film Close Encounters, playing with his mashed potatoes or building a mountain from trash ... feeling something ... knowing it means something ... yet only playing with a simulation.

Actually ... the Noble Eightfold Path is a characteristic summary regarding the consequence of Conscious Awareness. In other words ... those uncovering Self-Actualization ... having realized liberation from Cyclic Illusory Existence ... conduct themselves in an Eightfold Noble manner ... which should not and cannot be defined by the non-integrated ... whom Dr Clare Graves identified as First-tier thinkers.

Those at the Self-Actualized level (2nd-tier) said Dr Clare Graves, think in an almost incredibly different manner than any other human being had thought on Earth.

In Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms, First-tier thinkers are those who have yet to fully Let Go in the Chrysalis of Chaos. "First-tier thinkers cannot recognize the Second-tier on their own, and react negatively if challenged; lashing out whenever it is threatened" - Dr Clare Graves

"One foot in the Spiritual" has absolutely nothing to do with religion ... in fact, real Spirituality isn't accessed until all beliefs are Let Go.

"The way to emptiness is to empty - to let go." Gabrielle Roth.

"When empty of certainty ... divested of the power of association with some system or teacher or profession .. .no longer bound by the beliefs. attitudes, habits, dogmas, theories, and prejudices of others..." - Gabrielle Roth.

"Why would we want to be empty? Because emptiness is in fact the key to destiny. And each of us has a destiny here on this earth" - Gabrielle Roth

Letting Go DOES NOT mean "let go and let God or the belief of your choice" ... Letting Go means Letting Go ... To no longer hold on ... Not to your beliefs, your gods, your personal truths, your Me Stories, your faith, your hopes and fears, your seeking, your learning, to anything you like best about the you that you think you are, etc. The Dance of Chaos is about Unfeigned Surrender ... not a continual regurgitation of one's Me Stories.

Alan Watts put it like this ... "You abandon completely all belief; you abandon every sort of way of hanging onto life. You accept your complete impermanence; the prospect of your death of vanishing into nothing whatsoever, you see, and of not being able to control anything, of being at the mercy of what is completely other than you, and you let go of that, you see, this means that you even get rid of any God whatsoever, to do it fully. You don't have a thing left to cling to."

Only by fully Letting Go can integration be realized. And until integration is realized, two feet remain planted in the delusion ... the Loop of Samsara.

"Once we deeply inquire into the relative truth, it becomes more and more groundless and illusory. With such insight, we begin to realize that the main source of human woes is ignorance, or blind faith in the validity of the relative truth." Anam Thubten