Module II. Unity in Duality Personal Development
U.D. Personal Development is deeply interconnected with the U.D. Science of Mind and Phenomena. In personal development the universal knowledge of the interrelated nature of all that is is applied concretely to oneself and one's life, thereby actualizing this knowledge in one's own experience, i.e. making it a living knowledge. Personal development and the subsequent spiritual application are in a relationship of an open continuum. Tarab Rinpoche was of the opinion that without previous basic personal development no spiritual development is possible.
Tarab Tulku Rinpoche has extracted the essence of the ancient Tantric transformation practices that are based on the knowledge of deeper levels of mind, and is presenting them to us in an integral system of U.D. Personal Development. This includes their application through dealing with everyday life situations, as well as dreams, the dream state and the death process, through mandala and essential energies, taking us through dual and non-dual transformational processes. Tarab Tulku's personal living experience of these practices constitutes the source of his approach.
Within personal development one can basically speak of two streams: In general, when starting out on our personal development, we are in a condition where our experience of ourselves and of reality is mainly conceptually determined. Based on our respective self-reference, we add a conceptual interpretation on top of our sense perception, which determines the way we experience reality conceptually. In this way conceptual mental activity normally sets the frame in which a vulnerable self-referential identification can arise and to a great extent dominate our life experiences. If an individual is strongly dominated by conceptual mind, the first step is therefore to create a balance between the conceptual mental activity and a direct, more natural contact both with oneself and with the object. The body-sense is of fundamental importance in this respect. If the subject's feeling of "self" is firmly rooted in the body-sense or even better, in the body-energy-sense, it becomes firmly grounded in a self-referential identity that does not need outer support to maintain itself. From this position the vulnerable self-references and the corresponding reality experiences no longer have the same impact on the subject's life.
In the second stream of personal development one works directly with the vulnerable self-references and the connected emotional situations. After the power of the emotions over the individual has been reduced through establishing and stabilizing the subject in the body sense mind, the mental structure at the base of the emotion, the vulnerable self-reference, can be transformed.
Thus, the applications of personal and spiritual development rest fundamentally on the understanding and the implementation of the three inter-related unities of subject-object, mind-body and energy-matter, which are at the very basis of UNITY IN DUALITY. Only because these pairs are interrelated can the individual, by changing the way it experiences itself as the subject, directly change its experience of reality, the object.
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