The Embodiment of Essence

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The Embodiment of Essence

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There is an occurrence of great magnitude other than enlightenment. Enlightenment is the achievement of the 8th stage of the 10 Oxherding Pictures. The sense of doership at the 8th stage falls away along with self-pride in any achievement or attainment. One stage before, the 7th, is the point of stream-entry, when all action is automatic. This stage may be mistaken for enlightenment, as there is complete flow. At the 10th stage, there is no more action, so the sense of doing as automatic falls away as well.

The sense of automatic action can return with the occurrence of essence embodiment. This is not a stage of enlightenment. You can presumably become essence embodied at any stage on the path to enlightenment. The embodiment of essence occurs when your essence, the Source of you, enters your body-mind apparatus and operates without any sense of physical personality. It is the occurrence of the death of the personality while still in physical incarnation. The "worldview" is still present, giving the embodiment a sense of the society it inhabits, but the essence that has always been you lives 'your' life directly and fully.

As it is essence living and doing all the doing, the sense of automatic action returns.
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divine focus wrote:There is an occurrence of great magnitude other than enlightenment. Enlightenment is the achievement of the 8th stage of the 10 Oxherding Pictures. The sense of doership at the 8th stage falls away along with self-pride in any achievement or attainment. One stage before, the 7th, is the point of stream-entry, when all action is automatic. This stage may be mistaken for enlightenment, as there is complete flow. At the 10th stage, there is no more action, so the sense of doing as automatic falls away as well.

The sense of automatic action can return with the occurrence of essence embodiment. This is not a stage of enlightenment. You can presumably become essence embodied at any stage on the path to enlightenment. The embodiment of essence occurs when your essence, the Source of you, enters your body-mind apparatus and operates without any sense of physical personality. It is the occurrence of the death of the personality while still in physical incarnation. The "worldview" is still present, giving the embodiment a sense of the society it inhabits, but the essence that has always been you lives 'your' life directly and fully.

As it is essence living and doing all the doing, the sense of automatic action returns.
By automatic action, what do you mean? Describe this.

Like autopilot...where you are sitting on the toilet, where you put toast in the oven without thinking "it-just-happens" next thing you know you are at dinner table eating toast
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The automatic action of stream-entry is the realization that there is one action in all of the universe. It is complete flow. The automatic action of essence embodiment is the knowing that all action is your action, as your essence encompasses all of essence (paradoxically still individual).
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