THE ONLY WAY UP IS DOWN
The key to any progress in Advanced Dharma is the reduction of the Identity symptoms and the silencing of Identity and the Daughters of Mara.
While correct meditations upon Cognitive Dissonance reduce the justifications which reinforce Identity decisions, the Identity continues ready to launch itself into the fray once more if given the most minimal opportunity.
Identity can only be conquered by getting down to the fundamental base of the Identity desires.
For those not seeking the Truth which leads to the restoration of the true human state, destroying the Identity symptoms by means of the Eightfold Path may be sufficient, althogh constant future vigilance and meditation is required.
Those who wish to continue in the world of Samsara with Mundane happiness are advised to look deeply at the Dharma teachings and in default launch themselves into the Identity world of Psychoanalysis and disciplines that restore self-esteem.
But those with sterner stuff will wish to destroy Mara and his daughters, as others who have become men and women of Dao have done.
In order then to go up the mountain into the mists that hide the summit we must allow our mind to stretch down into the Darkness of the Identity Realm.
THE IDENTITY REALM
We know that there are four basic dominant temperaments made up of stored group networks of memory traces which may be divided into:
Visceral – Emotional – Mental – Future Fixation
But what do they seek? What they seek is Survival, but not the natural survival generated by the Feminine Principle and expressed by the Masculine Principle, but various mentally derived targets which satisfy Cognition. They are:
Existence – Confirmation that "I" exist
Permanence – Confirmation of Identity Continuance (Survival)
Order – That all is in its correct place (the way is Easily Navigated)
Peace – That there is no disturbance or threat
Significance – That there is a reason for this existence
While the four Identity complexes generate anxiety, which generates the Identity drives based upon cognitive evaluated evidence of prior events, the unlimited symptoms covering the basic disturbances of the “life stream” information suggest strongly that:
Existence is continually under attack
Things are Impermanent
There is Chaos and not Order
Conflict appears unavoidable and continual
Significance is not clear
The four Identity complexes then weight these problems on the base of Samsaric Experiences and the greatest anxiety forms around one or more of these five.
Behavior then is directed at resolving these mental stresses and consequential body tensions and Dissonance supports the Identity solutions.
Any correct solution based upon the Mindfulness of Identity, if the result is to be more than refraining from behavioral activity which is symptomatic of stress and generates external solutions, must penetrate the five root causes of the disturbance.
The five Chan Paramitas oppose this and the identities cannot accept the solutions, which negate completely the problem:
Vacuity – Shows that there is no existence
Impermanence – Shows that there is no permanence
Clear Comprehension – Shows that all is Undifferentiated without Order
Unity – Shows that there is a greater unity that includes Natural Conflict
The Life Force – Shows that there is no Reason except the Natural Force itself
THE RESOLUTION REFLECTIONS
IN CONSTRUCTION