In part I am pointing directly at an change in ones essential nature (being). I described an exercise a bit ago "Doors" it seems very likely to me that despite years and thousands of hours of seated practice that everyone who attempts this exercise will fail at the effort.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
I also wish to make clear how much your work and generosity are appreciated by me. Interesting that so many people rated your post. Can you do the work they should do? Next post sums the dilemma I see it. The last line.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
The trail is cold. trailblazers having become dust, the Masters of the way dead, long past even the blood trail discarded in favor of the easier way.
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Can one's essential nature actually change, though? Through contemplative practice (Doors included), one chips away at and dissolves the layers of sedimentation that have formed around the essential nature so that what was there all along may be discovered, uncovered, recovered.
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Replying to @NoaidiX
The nature perhaps only slightly. What can change is ones being which I will tentatively define for this discussion as "sustained strength of presence". The exercise "Doors" point directly at my definition.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
1/2 It of course depends on how we're approaching and conceiving of the terms. But many contemplative traditions suggest our original nature is more a thing to be uncovered, always already there, and realized when we step out from under the impress of "adventitious defilements."
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2/2 Zen teacher Mazu: "The Way does not require cultivation — just don't contrive."
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Replying to @bodhidave3 @NoaidiX
If only we were pure in intent reflecting only what is seen. Unfortunately we have allowed the mirror to be dirtied which now requires cleaning. Respectfully
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Replying to @memeristor @bodhidave3
"Originally, there was no Bodhi tree, Nor a mirror stand, bright. From the beginning, there was not a single thing, So where can dust alight?" Huineng
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Replying to @NoaidiX @memeristor
I sense both perspectives have merit. It reminds me of the somewhat coy Zen suggestion that awakening is an accident — and that our spiritual practice makes us accident prone.

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May we be blessed with auspicious accidents. 
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