Advaita Post 10-06 - Let yourself fall...

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Volume 10 No 6 (April 6, 2009)

--- Let yourself fall, then there is surrender ---
10_06
Spring
You confirm: it is the one life that awakens


Introduction and talk on March 15, 2009 Bruges  - Part 2
Notes by Danny

How was it with yourself during the midday break? To what extent did the expansion remain? To what extent was there once again a limitation? In clarity you determine how it is with yourself. In clarity it's clear when the relaxation stops, then you descend into your automatic processes. In clarity you can return to the openness in yourself. Ask yourself to what extent the expansion continues. In clarity you also confirm that the relaxation becomes infinite, without restriction.

In relaxation, there is a release of what you have grasped. You firmly hold on to yourself, primarily, as first person. As first person, let yourself fall, then there is surrender.

If the relaxation becomes infinite, the "I"-activity stops. This surrender in an aware sphere is decisive for liberation.

The trust that is necessary for the surrender, is there. You have infinite trust that when you go to sleep at night, that you will awaken in the morning. When you sit, you have an infinite trust in the chair; you have no fear that you will fall through it. You can totally let go into this infinite trust.

For liberation to realize itself, then surrender is important. In surrender nothing is grasped any longer. Let the release work through in a lucid way on all levels. Let the worry about yourself go. You no longer hold on to yourself.

In the clarity everything comes open and no restriction needs to come. You are aware of the unlimited openness. This is a different kind of consciousness than the awareness of something. It is an internal knowledge of the unboundedness.

In the infinite relaxation there is an infinite rest. Be infinitely relaxed in being-awareness. As the witness-consciousness is released, you, as being-awareness, become completely open. The duality of observer and observed disappears. Simultaneously, you are all and nothing. Even the quality of infinite being-awareness dissolves in the absolute, without qualities. In clarity you have knowledge of it.

You can recognize your original openness, your own openness. A teacher can help you with that. He will ask you: are you aware of yourself? To what extent are there any restrictions? To what degree are you open?

The ultimate release means the death of the personal life. You are eternal being. Self-being is not subject to birth or death. In the unlimited self-being everything is complete.

Remain yourself and therein let everything come open. Liberation is not staying in the seventh heaven, however beautiful it may be. This seventh heaven should also break open.

The stronger you hold on to that which you resist releasing, the darker is the night of the soul. When you can release easily and go in the direction of the light of God, there doesn't need to be a dark night of the soul. It's a total release.

With the emergence of fear, be aware of the greater area of self-being. Stay with the highest understanding that you are a part of the larger whole. Know that you are you the whole space. Then the fear dissolves as if by itself.

If everything is open, time and space do not exist. By staying clear, everything can remain open. By not being clear, the openness will disappear for you, but let everything remain open as much as possible and stay clear.


Er is geen tweeheid

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


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