You Might Be in The Dark Night
The dark night might be the most unacknowledged, unrecognized, and unappreciated phases on the path to the Divine. Yet, if we are a serious practitioner, we really have no choice about it and one way or another, we will inevitably find ourselves in the dark night.
And you might be in it right now. Or someone you know.
But we need not worry or become frightened – in fact fear is something you become quite intimate and at peace with in the dark night.
The dark night isn’t discussed much in the Buddhist tradition. Mostly we here only about the extremely blissful and shiny aspects and phases of the path. I think this is partly due to the models we hold about enlightenment, but it also has something to do with it just not being as exciting on the surface as talking about Dzogchen or Mahamudra.
The problem here is that not knowing that you’re in the dark night can lead to confusion, stalling out in practice (I didn’t really sit for 2 years straight when I entered into it), and in some cases the self-sabatoging of your life, mistakenly seeing the causes of your dark night suffering as existing “out there”. Even more painful is the lack of appreciation for how far you’ve come on the path, that what you are experiencing right now is beautiful and is indeed progress, not a step back and not an inescapable spiritual abyss.
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