"I speak to you of the no-self, no-Self, no-SELF Reality…that is all. All these terms are words and concepts that are used to get you to the no-word silence and the no-concept bliss."
[Continued from 14 August 2005]
Q.: “I’m still having trouble with the point that no Supreme SELF exists.”
F.: “Who is having trouble…with anything?”
Q.: “But wait a minute. You named the personality by using the word ‘self’ and then told us it was false, so that was fairly easy to release. [F. twists lips and stares] Okay, maybe not so easy [laughter] but eventually released anyway. Now, it just seems that if the ‘condition’ or ‘state’ of ‘Supreme Self’ is named and you’re not telling us it’s false, then it’s more difficult to let go of.”
F.: “And I will never tell you that any 'Ultimate Truth' can be stated. I will tell you that any label is ultimately false. I shared a quote earlier, explaining that ‘the Tao that can be stated in not the eternal Tao.’ [Pause] Once you look at a door under an electron microscope and see the microscopic elements, you know that the door is not what it appears to be, is not at all what they told you a door is, and is not what you’ve believed all your life that a door is. So the question again is, ‘Who wants to be 'The Supreme’ instead of admitting that this food-body seated before me is just a temporary clustering of elements that for a limited time can serve as a space for the manifesting of the cycling conscious-energy that is permanent? What is permanent is real; what is temporary and what is like a door—appearing to be something that it’s not—cannot define What You Are. But once you see those sub-atomic particles that the door actually is, would you call either them or the door ‘The Supreme’ or 'The Ultimate’? [Laughter] Only an ego-state will fight for such titles. [Pause] I shared with you earlier some passages from the manuscript of a book that I’m writing. Let me read another section from that...the response to a question from my editor. [Thumbs through some pages…then reads]:
F.: “Who is having trouble…with anything?”
Q.: “But wait a minute. You named the personality by using the word ‘self’ and then told us it was false, so that was fairly easy to release. [F. twists lips and stares] Okay, maybe not so easy [laughter] but eventually released anyway. Now, it just seems that if the ‘condition’ or ‘state’ of ‘Supreme Self’ is named and you’re not telling us it’s false, then it’s more difficult to let go of.”
F.: “And I will never tell you that any 'Ultimate Truth' can be stated. I will tell you that any label is ultimately false. I shared a quote earlier, explaining that ‘the Tao that can be stated in not the eternal Tao.’ [Pause] Once you look at a door under an electron microscope and see the microscopic elements, you know that the door is not what it appears to be, is not at all what they told you a door is, and is not what you’ve believed all your life that a door is. So the question again is, ‘Who wants to be 'The Supreme’ instead of admitting that this food-body seated before me is just a temporary clustering of elements that for a limited time can serve as a space for the manifesting of the cycling conscious-energy that is permanent? What is permanent is real; what is temporary and what is like a door—appearing to be something that it’s not—cannot define What You Are. But once you see those sub-atomic particles that the door actually is, would you call either them or the door ‘The Supreme’ or 'The Ultimate’? [Laughter] Only an ego-state will fight for such titles. [Pause] I shared with you earlier some passages from the manuscript of a book that I’m writing. Let me read another section from that...the response to a question from my editor. [Thumbs through some pages…then reads]:
Editor: I know that modern science is confirming this teaching, as in the new revelations regarding the ‘Field of Consciousness,’ but is this understanding compatible with the newest teachings in physics, such as the ‘strings theory’?
F.: Absolutely. My Teacher said decades ago that science would one day catch up with the ancients’ understanding and prove that the teachings are fact. Such is happening. Since strings are reportedly the lowest common denominator of everything, smaller than atoms, smaller than electrons, smaller than the mass of protons and neutrons at the core of electrons, then the understanding of the science of strings shows us that the only thing which makes you appear to be different from me—or from a piano, or from a tree—is the vibrational pattern of the strings. And since the strings are simply energy in motion, and since the strings know automatically what to do when they are manifested in a human as opposed to in a piano as opposed to in a tree, then the teaching of strings proves this Understanding, scientifically. We are consciousness-energy. We are all That, all the same, all one, with only appearances leading us to believe we are separate or different. We are not. Physics now proves that We Are That. It has proven that We Are All One. We are the strings or the smallest element or the tiniest ‘whatever’ that exists. Use whatever name you choose to refer to that one permanent ‘thing’ from which all is composed when manifest. More recently, the strings theory had been modified by some who now claim that the ‘sparticle’ might be even more basic than the string. No matter. What is Real is whatever that most basic, singular, non-dual ‘thing’ is, period. Now, call 'That' what you want, the truth is that Easterners have known for about 40,000 years that everything in the universe that is manifested or not is nothing more nor less than a manifestation or not-manifestation of That, of the one True That-ness. Call it ‘strings’ or ‘That’ or ‘sparticle’ or ‘energy with consciousness.’ That is All, and That is All there Is. [Quoted from The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, subsequently published in 2003]
F.: "Only an ego-state wants to fight for the right to be considered 'The Supreme' or 'The Ultimate.' I speak to you of the no-self, no-Self, no-SELF Reality…that is all. All these terms are nothing more than words and concepts that are used to get you to the no-word silence and the no-concept bliss." Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued 16 August 2005]
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