{"id":229,"date":"2013-06-17T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T09:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2013-06-17T09:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T09:05:29","slug":"the-wild-mind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/?page_id=229","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Buddhist teachings, our minds are inherently pure and luminous. Sometimes, when we\u2019re struggling with the stress of uncooperative children, or feeling frazzled trying to keep up with the unrealistic expectations of our employers, this can be hard to believe. But the same teachings go on to say that our inherently pure and luminous minds are contaminated with \u201cdefilements\u201d \u2013 those very states of stress, anger, and self-doubt that plague our lives. This, perhaps, is more familiar territory<\/strong><\/em>. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

The aim of Buddhist meditation is to clear away the \u201cadventitious defilements\u201d so that we can experience ourselves \u2014 more deeply and more truly \u2013 in our primordial purity, clarity, and freedom of mind. Meditation helps us to cut through the agonizing clutter of superficial mental turmoil to allow us to experience more spacious and joyful states of mind.<\/p>\n

It is this pure and luminous state that I call your \u201cWildmind.\u201d This Wildmind, as I have said elsewhere, is not the wild mind that is disturbed by the winds of ill will, compulsive craving, or anxious restlessness, but lies beneath your wild mind like the still depths of the ocean lie beneath even the most tempestuous ocean.<\/p>\n

You have almost certainly had experiences that are close to the stillness, joy, and expansiveness that are the nature of your Wildmind. You may have experienced your Wildmind while in nature, for example. Your Wildmind is the mind that resonates with nature. It is the part of you that experiences awe and reverence. It is the childlike part of you that feels a profound wonder at the mystery that anything is, and \u2013 even more mysteriously \u2013 that you can be aware of it.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine \u2013 one of the most thoughtful people I know \u2013 once said that the reason he loved being in nature was that he would look at the vastness and power of the natural world, and know that there was no way you could \u2014 in any meaningful way \u2013 own or possess it. Nature is far vaster than we, and will outlast every one of us. It can\u2019t be owned. But it can be emulated. It is possible to look at the vastness and power of the natural world and seek to pattern ourselves after it. While nature cannot be our possession, it can be our mentor.<\/p>\n

You can strive to have a mind that is as spacious and pure as the vast dome of the heavens. You can strive to have a mind that is as clear and still as a lake at dawn, and that reflects the world undistorted. You can cultivate a heart that radiates love and compassion like the sun shines its life giving warmth and light on all, without discrimination.<\/p>\n

Your Wildmind is the mind that resonates with the elements and nature, but it is also your \u201cnatural mind\u201d in the sense that it is your own truer nature. It is the state of pure awareness that is inherent in all of us, which lies in the depths, waiting to be revealed through patient purification of the mind.<\/p>\n

In the Tibetan tradition, they call the Wildmind \u201cRigpa\u201d \u2013 the state of primordial radiant awareness. Rigpa, or Wildmind, is contrasted with \u201csems,\u201d which is the superficial, turbulent aspect of our mind that too many of us are caught up in. This sems, which I call the \u201cwild mind\u201d (using two separate words) is like the crashing waves on the surface of a vast lake during a storm. The Wildmind, or rigpa, is more like the still depths.<\/p>\n

When the lake is disturbed in this way, it is impossible to see into its depths; the surface is chopped into ever-changing facets that prevent clear vision. But when the surface waters are stilled, then the depths \u2013 which have always been still \u2014 are accessible. The goal of Buddhist practice is to let go of the disturbed mental states on the surface, so that we may live from the spontaneous, profoundly intuitive, lucid depths.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Why this is Important to\u00a0Lifestylers? \u2013<\/p>\n

Being apart of the lifestyle for some is where we achieve and find that destiny for which lays inside us called the \u201cWild Mind\u201d. For some of Us, bdsm is a release of energy for which brings us to a deeper sense of our own psyche, or self conscious. To Others, seeking such areas of the inner spirit, is what allows us to have the strength and control for which we require in order to walk the Halls of bdsm, and interact with those about us. These inner depts for which we can reach inside our own spirits, is where the spirits and power to not only Dominant, but also to submit. There inside these zones, is where the \u201c\u201dSpaces\u201d for, either Dom Space for the Doms, or sub space for the submissive\/slaves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to the \u201cWild Mind\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Buddhist teachings, our minds are inherently pure and luminous. Sometimes, when we\u2019re struggling with the stress of uncooperative children, or feeling frazzled trying to keep up with the unrealistic expectations of our employers, this can be hard to believe. But the same teachings go on to say that our inherently pure and luminous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":223,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/230"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kneelingbeforehim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}