Post by teacup on Jul 9, 2012 15:29:32 GMT
Imagine yourself walking down the street. You are on your phone, maybe texting, maybe talking, when suddenly in front of you appears a large cathedral. You stop and are overtaken in a perhaps a subtle way, or perhaps a profound way by its features, the stained glass, the organization of arches and points, its various shapes and the energetic “feng-shui” or energetic motion of the structure. For me, the “feng-shui” would be rising upwards, pointing to the heavens, Acknowledging all that is. Perhaps something of this perception will resonate within you, or at least, fill your awareness for a time.
If you are at all familiar with this sort of experience, then you have experienced Drala. Sometimes, life seems too mundane to notice Drala. We aren’t attentive to our surroundings, and they become cluttered, unattractive, and perhaps seemingly dirty. In cases where the space is kept clean, or is attended to in an intentional fashion, however, it seems to create special kind of space. In some ways, it seems to be supportive of a person. This can affect different people very differently, of course. One may feel at ease in an area that feels attended to and has intention, while another may feel overwhelmed or frightened. Actually, both of these are Drala.
What Drala really is, is a sense of magic and freshness that comes from perceiving a space directly and without concept, and being quite aware of your activity of perception, too. “Drala is not a god or spirit, but fundamentally it is connecting the wisdom of your own being with the power of things as they are.” (Trungpa, pg 115)
It seems to fill you then, and you feel closer to that environment. IT is often mentioned how these Drala perceptions feel almost like entities. They are not however, as that would be dualistic; implying self and other. Instead, it is understood that they are in fact you, in the moment in which you become aware of the force of the world. “One of the key points in discovering Drala principal is realizing that your own wisdom as a human being is not separate from the power of things as they are”. (Trungpa ) I think these Drala are the magic of our awareness, and the power of the various phenomena that fills it interacting and blending powerfully.
There are many other ways to experience these Drala moments. In the book Trungpa describes stories of a child lost in the miracles of raindrops cascading down her window. I can only imagine what filled that person then, but certainly nature has a way of invoking a deep, and even primal, Drala. You could also experience Drala and the magic of the ordinary within the flames of a fire perhaps.
Another way for Drala to manifest is within. As we practice, sometimes pieces of ourselves fall away. In enough time, this creates a space inside that has a gorgeous beauty of its own. You can easily experience the magic of yourself, the flow of your inner space and “Fung-Shui” and the miracles of your movements through life. Your “self” also, it is important to remember, is nothing more and nothing less than the environment that surrounds it. Your environment includes you.
I feel like heightened awareness of Drala improves perception of the Primordial mirror. Trungpa Also mentions this in the chapter with invoking magic and Drala. Just
like the primordial soup of life’s origin, the Primordial Mirror is the formless potential of existence. It is the bare “suchness” or even beyond that, to emptiness, where seemingly paradoxically, everything springs forth, even this instant. This means that it is important to realize that Drala is not separate from anything, and it arises as impermanent form within ultimate suchness, within a deeply primal primordial mirror that we all are constantly arising out of.
Trungpa, Chogyam. Shambala the Sacred Path of the Warrior. Boston: Shambala Publications, 1984. 105-115. Print.
If you are at all familiar with this sort of experience, then you have experienced Drala. Sometimes, life seems too mundane to notice Drala. We aren’t attentive to our surroundings, and they become cluttered, unattractive, and perhaps seemingly dirty. In cases where the space is kept clean, or is attended to in an intentional fashion, however, it seems to create special kind of space. In some ways, it seems to be supportive of a person. This can affect different people very differently, of course. One may feel at ease in an area that feels attended to and has intention, while another may feel overwhelmed or frightened. Actually, both of these are Drala.
What Drala really is, is a sense of magic and freshness that comes from perceiving a space directly and without concept, and being quite aware of your activity of perception, too. “Drala is not a god or spirit, but fundamentally it is connecting the wisdom of your own being with the power of things as they are.” (Trungpa, pg 115)
It seems to fill you then, and you feel closer to that environment. IT is often mentioned how these Drala perceptions feel almost like entities. They are not however, as that would be dualistic; implying self and other. Instead, it is understood that they are in fact you, in the moment in which you become aware of the force of the world. “One of the key points in discovering Drala principal is realizing that your own wisdom as a human being is not separate from the power of things as they are”. (Trungpa ) I think these Drala are the magic of our awareness, and the power of the various phenomena that fills it interacting and blending powerfully.
There are many other ways to experience these Drala moments. In the book Trungpa describes stories of a child lost in the miracles of raindrops cascading down her window. I can only imagine what filled that person then, but certainly nature has a way of invoking a deep, and even primal, Drala. You could also experience Drala and the magic of the ordinary within the flames of a fire perhaps.
Another way for Drala to manifest is within. As we practice, sometimes pieces of ourselves fall away. In enough time, this creates a space inside that has a gorgeous beauty of its own. You can easily experience the magic of yourself, the flow of your inner space and “Fung-Shui” and the miracles of your movements through life. Your “self” also, it is important to remember, is nothing more and nothing less than the environment that surrounds it. Your environment includes you.
I feel like heightened awareness of Drala improves perception of the Primordial mirror. Trungpa Also mentions this in the chapter with invoking magic and Drala. Just
like the primordial soup of life’s origin, the Primordial Mirror is the formless potential of existence. It is the bare “suchness” or even beyond that, to emptiness, where seemingly paradoxically, everything springs forth, even this instant. This means that it is important to realize that Drala is not separate from anything, and it arises as impermanent form within ultimate suchness, within a deeply primal primordial mirror that we all are constantly arising out of.
Trungpa, Chogyam. Shambala the Sacred Path of the Warrior. Boston: Shambala Publications, 1984. 105-115. Print.
