Advaita Post 09-02

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Advaita Post 09-02, January 31, 2008

-------Everyone is already over the abyss.  What happens there?------

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The fluid becomes frozen,

the frozen melts back to fluidity,

they are not different from one another


Satsang on January 17, 2007 (Part 3): Activity and Awareness

This spinning around in circles seems to be endless.

Endless it is not, because sooner or later you suddenly shoot into infinity. The finiteness you experience disappears. There is an awareness and an alert energy.

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A few years ago in the Advaita Post there was a cartoon with Osho at the edge of a large ravine. On that edge he had a painting of  an idyllic landscape standing in the road that runs into the gorge. Before the traveler a sign appeared, the text read: 'Here it is."  So you see someone running on the path and through the canvas. Osho had a piece of paper hanging beside it on which he kept a tally ...
From within duality you have to interact with objects. Some of them are very attractive. If something is announced as 'Here it is' – the ‘I’ is immediately attracted, with the quality ‘I must go there’.  Then you run to it, as quickly as you can. If it is a full run, and if the item acts as a doorway to infinity, you fly through the painting while the ‘I’ with its circles disappear. That’s how it goes.

What happens as you leave the path through the painting?  There appears a large space and consciousness comes into being.

You often want to stick to what you see.

That is the point to be aware of your own situation, what is really happening, what you really are and what you are not. As you recognize your true nature, you think to yourself  'I have never seen that before."

The ‘I’ will always maintain itself.  How can liberation still occur?

In your own experience, the self has a layering of different levels.  There is the egocentricity, the ego which wants to maintain itself, but there is also a different level of self that says: 'Fantastic, here there is space. "

Is it from the level of the self, not from the ‘I’?

The ego is also a form of self, but it is a limited form. On the level of insight you have a much wider sphere of being.  From the insight you might say: ‘OK, let it all happen. Let the demolition take place, because I experience it as an expansion.’   That’s how it goes.

So that self has, in your own experience, a variety of different levels that are more or less limited. If you are experiencing different levels, then you can no longer stay on the limited levels, because that is pure suffering. On the level of insight it is more spacious and so you let the clean up happen.

That falling apart therefore does not come from me?

Of course not, because only from out of the insight level do you see that the ego self is merely a piece of tension.

For as long as you remain in your ego, the mechanism of 'Here it is,' and 'run' is necessary, otherwise you will never move. Of course, you must do your utmost – desire more strongly and run harder - but during this run something else might happen, which is that you become aware of your own situation. Something happens in a vertical sense, principally an opening on the level of insight. While the run is still continuing, it becomes increasingly clear how it is. Suddenly, there is a view of the whole situation, like a painting, as a place to which you run - and you run into yourself.  That situation suddenly breaks open.

On the one hand you must do your utmost, wherever there is an 'I'. Otherwise you remain dull.  The awareness remains limited and nothing or very little happens.  On the other hand, it is hoped that soon you will understand that there is absolutely nothing to be done. You can do nothing. As long as you stay fixed on 'you', you think that ‘you’ in the world can do something for your liberation. If you run to the painting with the idea 'There it is', you remain in the ‘I’. If it stays like that as you fly through the painting, you will crash. Then you will not make progress with your running.

Everybody is already above the abyss. What happens? Some people are not aware of it, others say 'nothing to do, life is finite, we must live with it.’  Some keep trying and  stampede very hard , like in a cartoon ... Some break open in the consciousness: I am the wind, I am the birds, I am the sunlight, I am the space ...


Er is geen tweeheid

als je ontspannen bent
in zelf-bewustzijn
is dat duidelijk.


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