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The basic mystical discipline is to let go of attachment to, and identification with, both cravings and aversions. The bodhisattva witnesses the good and the bad in his life with non-discriminating attention. Only when his consciousness is cleaned of any personal awareness can he open to the being-consciousness-bliss underlying normal egoic awareness. Needless to say, becoming a bodhisattva is a tough gig.
Yes, it is. But what could be more satisfying? I do admit to being a mystic. I found the materialistic, literalist view of religion to be dead. When the myths and dogmas and creeds are all stripped away, we are left with the essential mystical or spiritual understanding that is the same whether it is Jesus, Paul, Buddah, or Krishna speaking. I am not there yet, but I have had glimpses, or as Paul would say, I see through a glass darkly. The ego dies hard.
