--- In [email protected], "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter asks: > Tom! You talk as if you're not even there...or even > here.....where are you? ;-) > > Tom T: > How should I know? Have no answer to that question that would make any > sense. Thanks for asking though. Tom > > from Adyashanti Emptiness Dancing > A Story is Just a Story > > What you are without your role is often assumed to be hidden > somewhere. And so when you let go of your role, when you look past > the character called "me" for the truth of your being, you may think > that there's a someone to find who is somehow hidden. > > If this happens, when you come into this state of openness, you may > think, "There's nobody here, but I'll look for it anyway, look for > the Self, the Truth, the enlightened me." Looking for the enlightened > self is just another role, another script. It's part of the spiritual > seeker's script. If you drop that script -- now what are you? > > Of course, the reason I ask you to inquire into what you are is > because, at this moment, you are living the answer. Nothing that I > would tell you is a substitute for that aliveness, for that living of > the answer. > > That's why it has been said many times that only the people who > don't know who they are, are the ones who are awake. Everyone else > knows who he or she is. They are their script, whatever their script > is, even if that script is, "I'm not awake." > > Awakeness is to have no script, to know that ultimately a script is > just a script, and a story is just a story.
Good stuff. Two observations on awakening: Before awakening, the self burns with the desire to awaken, every action and thought is scrutinized with regard to its relationship to awakening. Guilt and fear play large parts in the serious seeker's life, because every action and thought is judged as bringing one closer, or driving one further away, from awakening. Before awakening, analysis of states of consciousness and 'what the teacher said' become of paramount importance in the seeker's life. After awakening, everything is more easily known. Spiritual knowledge becomes more like any other knowledge. More balanced. If it requires too much effort to know, find out later. Compared to the earlier state, it almost seems as if one becomes indifferent to spiritual matters. The interest is still there, and yet finding out is more like floating down a river vs climbing a mountain. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
