Dirty Enlightenment is a stripped-down, radical presentation of the Nature of Reality and your spiritual place in it.
In actuality, you are a miraculously present infinite field of transcendental being presenting itself to itself as subtle radiant energy of pure intelligence. This truth is consonant with the view of Dzogchen, Kashmir Shaivism, Advaita Vedanta, Kundalini Yoga, primal Buddhism, and with all radical spiritual traditions. Since this is already and eternally the sole condition, the spiritual challenge is merely to recognize that this is the case, with no special conditions or abilities needing to be cultivated, nothing in one's life needing to be changed or improved in the slightest.
With the simple recognition of the nature of your actual condition, you are freed from the confused implications of any misinterpretations of what your condition is, that you may have been laboring under. This recognition is available since it is clearly displayed by every aspect of your experience, and will be discovered by direct investigation without preconceptions. In actuality the only "spiritual" problem possible is misinterpretation, which can give rise to beliefs in separate existence, dependency, vulnerability, inadequacy, failure, death, etc., etc., whereas in fact none of these imagined conditions actually exist at all.
The apparent "imperfection" that you may believe your life to be, is in fact already and inherently an entirely transcendental, miraculous eternal perfection, and it can be easy to discover this fact with self-verifying certainty.
Peter Brown presents this understanding from several perspectives, as direct description, meditative aphorisms, and question-and-answer discussion, with a personal retelling of his own path of discovery.
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"Leave the realm of the describable! It doesn't exist! You define your problems into existence, as well as their hoped-for solutions, thus creating an apparent difficult, limited reality, where none exists whatsoever.
This actual, present condition is absolutely inconceivable; ANY way you hold it to be with your descriptions and ideas does not actually exist, and cannot in actuality limit or entrap you.
Your imagined unrealization, confusion, spiritual obscuration, as well as the imagined enlightenment that you hope for as its solution, DO NOT EXIST! They are defined into apparent existence by your imagination.
This actual condition can be clearly known as it is, but not if it is held to be this or that in imagination.
Let go of all descriptions, and then what is this? You cannot say...but it is not nothing, and is wonderful beyond imagination."
The actuality of your experience is in fact entirely pure, transcendental radiance existing miraculously. This fact is the basis of Dzogchen, Kashmir Shaivism, Kundalini Yoga, and all primal spiritual traditions.
Nothing other than this fact is, and has always been, known by you as your experience, and recognizing it as it is gives access to full appreciation of its properties, which constitutes Liberation, Enlightenment.
The only thing that impedes this recognition is belief in the actuality of the imaginary misinterpretations of what this present condition consists of.
By simply noticing the naked quality of experience as it is that is always present outside the context of imagined interpretations, the apprehending intelligence can recognize its true nature of Transcendence.
Author: Peter Brown (TheOpenDoorway.org)
Genre: Spirituality / Mysticism
Language: English
Release: 2007
Size: ~1.3 MB
Format: PDF
Pages: 242
