Fully realized beings

[Magical Realist]

We were talking at Meetup this week that a homeless person might, despite failing all our criteria of being a sane or successful person, nonetheless be a "fully realized being." What kind of person would this be? Well someone like a Buddha or a saint or Socrates---someone who has so come to terms with themselves and the meaning of the universe that they embody that authenticity in everything they do. Not an easy path that's for sure. This learning the lessons of universal suffering, of detachment and loss, and of believing in the Good all the more. Where are the fully realized beings today? Would you recognize them if you talked to them? Not likely. They walk like spirits of light thru a world of senseless misery and random fate. They make you more conscious by their very look, their very words, which always come out of their heart. I guess Oprah could be one of these. Maybe Bono? The Dali Lama? I don't know. But I believe they're out there, invisibly making real the deep spiritual reality of the universe.

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[C C]

"Being fully realized means to be fully present. It does not mean you become numb or sit on a mountaintop with your palms up unless that is your conscious choice. It means you are living a full and happy life. A great functional test of our realization is the extent to which we are disturbed by life events. Notice if you are reactive to what is happening to you. How often do you become overly emotional in facing decisions in your life or situations that bring challenges with them? . . . Reacting is one thing, and responding from a quiet place is entirely different. Which feels better to you? We all have an equal ability to become fully realized. It is a question of when we are ready to commit to it and live a joyous and abundant life in presence."

Rings a bit of invincibility. Of trying to be regulated by an immutable, general idea. Rising above the contingencies of life / world to a quasi-absolute, self-contained state less affected or moved by dynamic changes and the demands of habits, needs, anticipations, and regrets. Of being extricated from the erratic, relational interdependence of phenomena or particular things; especially an avoiding of the present deriving its significance from past and future concerns instead of itself.

[Magical Realist]

"Being fully realized means to be fully present. It does not mean you become numb or sit on a mountaintop with your palms up unless that is your conscious choice. It means you are living a full and happy life. A great functional test of our realization is the extent to which we are disturbed by life events. Notice if you are reactive to what is happening to you. How often do you become overly emotional in facing decisions in your life or situations that bring challenges with them? . . . Reacting is one thing, and responding from a quiet place is entirely different. Which feels better to you? We all have an equal ability to become fully realized. It is a question of when we are ready to commit to it and live a joyous and abundant life in presence."

Rings a bit of invincibility. Of trying to be regulated by an immutable, general idea. Rising above the contingencies of life / world to a quasi-absolute, self-contained state less affected or moved by dynamic changes and the demands of habits, needs, anticipations, and regrets. Of being extricated from the erratic, relational interdependence of phenomena or particular things; especially an avoiding of the present deriving its significance from past and future concerns instead of itself.

There is abit of otherworldliness in the fully realized. As if you are in the presence of a being who has transcended the exigencies of this meaningless physical world. I am ofcourse idealizing such an encounter, but it is like when the multitudes spake of Jesus: "Never a man spake as this man." Naturally we seek relation to the other, to the person we are encountering. We seek to identify and humanize. But then rarely we encounter a sense of the transcendent in the person. Of a being whose consciousness exceeds that of the material concerns of physical existence.