"O Unified Field, pardon me three sins. I have in contemplation clothed in form Thee who art formless. I have described [in words] Thee who art ineffable. And in visiting temples I have ignored Thy omnipresence." -Buck
--- In [email protected], "futur.musik" <futur.musik@...> wrote: > > Hi Judy, you wrote, "You do understand that Robin does not claim to be > enlightened and is not seeking enlightenment, that he thinks it's a snare and > a delusion, that he believes he was enlightened decades ago and has made a > huge effort since then to "de-enlighten" himself." > > After reading a lot of what Robin writes about enlightenment and his > experience being enlightened, he says he was witnessing the whole time. That > stuck out when I read it. Enlightenment as it grows, and it always grows if > it is real, eats up and integrates witnessing. > > There is a period following waking up or the stabilizing of Self Realization, > where witnessing everything, seeing the frictionless flow of life and your > silent place in it, dominates perception. Freedom! Absence of fear! A great > influx of cosmic energy as the Atman or Soul becomes a permanent flame within > and shines forth. > > If you want to stay there for awhile, then others can see your light and > respond to it. I'll not go much further into Robin's experience but I think > this is where he was during his leading of an alternative spiritual movement. > It was 100% genuine regarding the Soul carrying out its function of expansion. > > As the Atman continues to shine forth, extending one's boundaries, making > them less distinct, melding one's identity with that of the Cosmos, the unity > between us and others and everything else in our experience becomes more > obvious. As the soul continues to radiate outward from deeper and deeper > within us, that cosmic energy we become permeates everything. Everything. > > At that point, the lights seem to go out! Holy shit, what happened? The light > we (the personal and Impersonal self) are radiating becomes so pervasive, > inside and out, that life is at once transformed, becoming progressively more > interesting, captivating and beautiful, while remaining exactly as it was > before. So we no longer see the contrast between the light that we are, and > the light now everywhere else. > > We are no longer witnessing, or perhaps the witness has come out to play. > There is no longer the longing for *peak* experiences that we used to want, > but instead, it is *all* very much better.:-) > > In order to witness, there has to be something distinct from something else. > There has to be the unfettered ;-) bliss of the soul, the personal Being, > distinct from everything else, and we are residing in Being, looking out as > it were on everything else. People describe witnessing as being so free! so > weightless almost, just in a big cloud of bliss, mind almost empty. > > It is an awesome feeling, but not a complete one. Even the witness has to be > transcended in order to for enlightenment to continue, and continue it will. > There is no way to put the soul back to sleep once it wakes up, and one Day > of Enlightenment lasts a very, very, very long time! :-) >
