Advaita Post 09-16 - You confirm it for yourself

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Year No. 9 16 (November 03, 2008)

--- You confirm it for yourself: there are no separations, period. ---
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A talk in Gouda, 13 Feb., 2008 - The direct confirmation

Become aware once again of your attention towards things. Then turn your attention back into yourself as the source of that attention. It’s a return of yourself into yourself as silence. This return goes by itself. If you're aware of yourself and you let yourself relax, then there is a limitless fall into the depths of self being. So you really turn back. Then you see: I have no form in which to hold myself. If you don’t maintain forms with all your might, as you let the tension go, you notice how deep you can sink into the relaxation - within which all forms disappear. All borders disappear. There is no difference any more between self-being and everything else that is. The form of yourself disappears while simultaneously the demarcated forms of the things you originally posited as external to you also disappear. In this returning, there is an endless relaxation, a total falling away of the borders.

What manifests itself then is the great being, self-being, conscious-being. That continues to exist, also when the eyes are open and perceive forms. The being-experience of unity continues to exist. The forms that show themselves remain relative therein, the forms that your senses experience and the forms that you create in your mind. All forms remain extremely relative and transparent in that great being-self-being.

In the return to yourself from your attention towards external things, you will certainly experience something of self-being in yourself. The more concrete the experience is, the better. The first concrete experience is your own bodily feeling. Returning to yourself you come into the sensitive atmosphere of your own bodily feeling, your own felt-body. Then there is already a direct confirmation: here I am at home with myself. That can be a very clear felt confirmation of self-being.

You can go still further, further to your core. Then there is an even stronger experience: “here I am totally myself. Here I can relax even more and experience that the relaxation continues quite radically.” Then the forms of the body disappear as well as the ideas about yourself.

The forms disappear and with them the borders and the grasping. The deeper you go in, the more open your own sphere becomes. In clarity you confirm that there are no borders, that there are no divisions. Your own self-being comes together with the whole of reality. With the return to the essential in yourself, the essential of yourself appears to be the essential of everything and everyone. There is one essential, without separations. You merge with the Self of everything and everyone.

Can you verify that? Go looking from inside out; then you experience it and you confirm it. In the confirmation, be honest with yourself. You confirm: that’s how it is. That’s a direct confirmation, without all the thinking processes that cloud experience. You confirm things directly: that's how it is, period. You are the Self of all, no problem.

Do you get that? Can you confirm that for yourself?

In the direct experience sure, but ...

Period. Why: "comma, but ..."? If you experience it directly, isn’t that it? Period. As you see the candle there now you confirm it: there is a candle. Then all sorts of thoughts can certainly play a role, for example, "It may well be an illusion." Then look more precisely and you confirm it even more clearly to yourself - period.

Yes, period, and then thinking returns again.

When you’ve thoroughly seen it, it's clear to you: I have nothing to do with that thinking. I immediately see that this strange whispering is nonsense. You confirm something directly and unambiguously. Isn’t that the principal means to determine what really is? If someone comes with stories of miraculous things, you say: there is for me but one criterion to determine if it’s true or not – I’ll have to see it for myself. If you do then see it, there may even be a reaction: I can’t believe my eyes. But the evidence wins it: it appears to be true. That’s the point of a clear confirmation. If you continue investigating things in a very clear and sober way, you may come to such clear findings that the distrust disappears. When thoughts arise, they no longer appear to be relevant, because the verification is so clear: this! Is that clear?

Sometimes feelings are linked to certain expectations that ...

Yes, feelings are always linked to dreams. But is that a reason to say to yourself in the morning: “I am really awake now, but that dream with those feelings was even more real than this world where I'm now awake.” Isn’t that crazy? As you are awake, there is an immediate internal confirmation that you're awake, that your consciousness is brighter than it is in the dream. You don’t have to think about it, you confirm it directly. That this is a greater clarity, there’s no doubt about it. So that’s how it is. Internally you experience that there are no separations. This self-being merges with the self-being of everything and everyone - period. That’s clear! And it's also very joyful, it’s very loving, it’s the most beautiful thing that there is.


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