Tuesday, August 16, 2005

REALIZATION: NO self…NO Self…NO SELF, Part Three

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"There is no Supreme Individuality or Supreme Personality. There is no Supreme Body or Supreme Mind or Supreme Entity or Supreme Anything."

[Continued from 15 August 2005]
F.: “Granted, there’s a period on the so-called 'journey' when SELF-consciousness was a prerequisite for losing self-consciousness, but now the understanding has matured. I’m no longer speaking to visitors who are at the ‘wet charcoal’ or ‘dry charcoal’ level. Consciousness is speaking to consciousness, and the consciousness to which I speak should be so purified by now that it’s like gunpowder, ready for these pointers to ignite a degree of awareness that explodes the final illusions and results in full realization. As we were taking the steps, of course discussion of the ‘self’ and the ‘Self’ and the ‘Supreme Self’ had to happen, but when totally in touch with reality, no concepts are given credibility any longer. No distinctions or labels are taken to be true. [Pause] You know now that you’re beyond the 'being' and the 'non-being.' ‘Being’ implies a ‘self.’ A ‘no-self’ is implied by ‘non-being.’ You Are beyond both ‘self’ and ‘no-self,’ if you will. The ‘Supreme Self’ is a term used to point to that which is beyond both, but the Absolute—being at rest—knows neither a Self or a SELF. Only when consciousness is manifested can the I Am and the I Am That be known. That ‘non-manifested state’ is like the deep-sleep state. Consciousness is there, but consciousness is not aware of itself. Persons mistake the ‘beingness’ to be some body-mind-personality ‘self’ that is being. Recall that 'self' is defined as 'individuality' or 'personality.' There is no Supreme Individuality or Supreme Personality. There is no Supreme Body or Supreme Mind or Supreme Entity or Supreme Anything. Realized, all former imaginings of greatness give way to the reality of smallness. It is understood that the early programming to accumulate, and the years spent in endless effort to accumulate, resulted in dissatisfaction instead of satisfaction. That dissatisfaction set the stage for the seven-step journey of SELF-Inquiry that, along the way, revealed the false 'self' and the 'True Self' and the awareness of awareness. After realization, de-accumulation just happens, automatically. The fear-based and desire-based drive to work to be 'good' and to 'become better' in order to get a reward now and to insure the continuation of an imagined body-mind suddenly ends; religious and spiritual personas are seen to be 'transitional stages' rather than the 'ultimate state.' Realized, the relative existence is no longer dominated by fears and desires and emotional intoxication. The realized understand that What We Truly Are is beyond both the beingness and non-beingness…beyond 'self-ness' and even beyond 'non-selfness.' The realized know the peace which happens in the impersonal relative existence after the last identity of any kind goes, and the realized know the non-relative, impersonal Absolute as well." Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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