easyone wrote:
> >
> > Even the thief in the night leaves a scrap of toilet paper. Maha
> strips you down to the
> > bones. so he probably is not the second coming.
> >
--- In [email protected], "rudra_joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote
> >
> > ---Sometimes the second coming uses the last scrap of toilet paper.
>
> This is so profoundly true on so many levels, it could be the
perfect
> sutra of the Dark Night of the Soul. <snip>
Easyone appears to be beautifully describing the classic symptoms of
the Dark Night of the Soul -- that which strips us down to the bones,
pared of all attachments, left utterly Alone.
Whether the One who strips us is seen as the Guru, the Christ, or the
blinding sun of our own I AM, is immaterial. Our own I AM light
becomes too much to bear. In fact, an earlier post of easyone's
experience points this out too: The Dark Night of the Soul is
triggered when we suddenly realize what we see in the Guru is in fact
nothing but our own Self. This piercing of the glamors of the old
projective nature may well bring up intense feelings of rage,
betrayal, hurt, confusion, distress and suffering in our old "ego",
our old belief in "me vs. not-me" which now confronts its own psychic
mortality and the loss of control of its old neatly-dissected world.
Everything dies, everything falls apart, everything gets torn away; we
are stripped bare of all meaning (actually, all attachments) and left
suspended in the greyness of suffering and uncertainty. And all of
this is triggered when we see that the Self of the Guru and our own
Self are one: that in fact, there is only one Ego, only one "I AM."
When we see that the Self of the Guru and our own Self are one, we
also begin to see the all-too-human side of the Guru, and the feeling
of being conned intensifies. This is what Dr. Pete has referred to as
the paradox of Brahman. Life is calling us to cease dividing Life into
absolute-vs.-relative, light-vs.-dark, good-vs.-bad, divine-vs.-human
(and even divine-vs.-demonic), me-vs.-not-me, inside-vs-outside, and
so on. All opposites are melted and eventually resolved into a chaotic
paradox: THAT, or the Indescribable. What we are being called to do at
this point, is to cease judging -- cease judging others, but primarily
to cease judging our own "flawed" human self. We have grown up,
matured, realized that THAT alone IS.
Once we cease struggling against the process, cease resisting it, the
suffering ceases, for the suffering is only a symptom of our clinging
to our old attachments, an attempt to remain in the womb when the
birthing contractions are forcing us out into a seemingly bare, cold,
empty New World. But this "emptiness" appears only by virtue of our
comparing it to all we have "lost" -- our old attachments; our old
ignorance, our old identification with the small self. In truth, it is
emptiFULL -- lively with Love and appreciation. We ARE the New World
into which we are born, and it is rich and beautiful. How then can we
lament the loss of the womb, when we have been given the World? We are
twice-born; we are Brahman.
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