All experience comes and goes, no matter how sublime, but the source of these experiences, the Awareness, doesn't come and go.
By going nowhere, continue to experience having arrived. By not taking one step in any direction, you arrive instantly. You arrive by not going anywhere. Just stay there. Just see that you are always That, even if the mind creates a story line telling you that you are other than That. Adyashanti (Stephen Gray) --- >From Consciousness -- What Always Is? Most people fret about losing this state or that state. They get caught up in what's not present anymore. That which comes and goes is not real; quit chasing it. It doesn't matter. What haven't you lost? That is what's important. What always is? What is there in bliss and in misery? Who you are is always present and is always the same. That which doesn't come and go is real. That is where Freedom is found -- nowhere else. Adyashanti (Stephen Gray) on 12/28/05 3:08 PM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>>>> How can this guy have experiences of realization and not >>>>>>> be the least bit aware of his addiction to being a >>>>>>> dishonest, pompous, self-important asshole? >> >> Because he is having 'experiences of realization', plural. >> >> Realization is not something that comes and goes. All the other >> stuff is sign posts pointing the way to it. Realization, when the >> experience comes, stays. > > For the period it stays. :-) > > If it's stayed a while for you, maybe it will > continue to do so. Then again, maybe it will > be gone tomorrow and you'll feel like a > consummate ass for claiming to know how the > universe works, eh? :-) > >> There is no sometimes its there and sometimes its not. It is the >> culmination of a process of culturing the nervous system to be >> able to exist in any state and continue to have the experience of >> Realization, simultaneously (just like everyone says...). > > Well, that's a nice theory. Me, I don't believe > that the state of one's nervous system has anything > whatsover to do with realization. Nothing in the > state of the nervous system can prevent realization, > and nothing in it can 'cause' realization. Reali- > zation just is. Sometimes it is clearly, sometimes > it's not. :-) > >> So, if we are just having periods of lucidity, alternating with >> periods of mud, we are not Realized, and can still be enslaved to >> our small e ego. > > Cool. If you're claiming to be "Realized," that > can be your definition of what you're claiming to > be, eh? I'm not claiming to be anything... > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
