--- 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."
And they're terrified to drop the script and just improvise. :-) It's true. Some people, in my experience often including people who are right on the "cusp" of realization, "get" their proximity to no-self intuitively and, in their fear of losing that which they have identified with so long and so hare, switch into "clinging mode," in which they try to hold on to any shred of self as long as possible, to keep the full realization of Self-ness away. Believing that your self has a "role" and that this role is fixed and immutable and "you" is one of the best (and most entertaining for bystanders) ways of doing this. Trying to "understand" everything rather than simply experiencing it is another. There are as many ways to keep from realizing Self as there are selves. :-) > Awakeness is to have no script, to know that ultimately a script is > just a script, and a story is just a story. And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. :-) 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/
