odysseus wrote:In this article (
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;), there is the description of the "cessation of feeling and perception". I´m interested in this experience because I believe I have a perceptual problem due to former drug use (I´ve stopped now). I´ve tried many medications but nothing helps! Maybe this can heal me?
Cessation of feeling and perception means cessation of feeling and perception as if they are something concrete, something has to be followed.
It doesn't mean you totally become a robot. If you eat you can't taste, if someone poke you, you don't have any feeling. It is not like that.
If you see your feeling, for example your example want to eat drug.
Can you know when your desire want to eat drug appear?
You can't know. It just appear suddenly.
Can you know when your desire want to eat drug disappear?
You also can't know. It may also just appear suddenly.
Same thing, your desire, your feeling, your perception are always changing and changing and changing again. It changes so much until you can ask this question to yourself- Actually what is the true feeling, what is the true perception, which is real and unchange?
Nothing. THere is really nothing real there. Always changing, and they never show you - This is me, this is my real feeling, this is my real perception.
We just don't have it.
If you can see here, everything is automatic appear, automatic disappear. You don't even need to do anything.
This is amazing.
Because by doing nothing, everything just come and go automatically.
So, what bind you? You ask yourself, actually what are binding you?
If you need to do something to free you, you can say something is binding you. But, if everything comes and goes by itself or automatically, you are actually already free right now.
You are free. None of feeling and perception can bind you. So, whether this feeling appear or that feeling appear, this perception appear or that perception appear, it doesn't matter.
It wants to appear, no problem.
It wants to hide, also no problem.
Because whether they appear or not, they are same - just coming and going automatically.
We do not to do anything. Really nothing.
If before feeling and perception can affect you because you thing they have to be followed, because you don't know that actually they just appear and going, in this case you are fully affected by it.
But if you already know their nature, you should be already free from them - regardless they are appear or not, because at the end - they feeling and perception are just automatically appear and cease.
You are free from influence of feeling and perception.
THat is the cessation of feeling and perception.