From a site visitor: Just found your site and have been going through the archives. Several questions…Why do you not require regular, even daily, meditation of people you advise? Also, I still don’t get today’s deal [a reference to the 10 November 2006 entry] why you don’t think the spiritual is the top stage. And I agree with the person who wrote in saying that staying in that stage forever is best. I think I’m Realized and I know clearly what THAT is.
F.: Before your other thoughts are addressed, be informed that you are not Realized. You provide more evidence of the validity of the pointer offered yesterday: those who have adopted religious or spiritual personas to replace other personas think they have arrived. They mistake the dawn for the noon. So it is. You also provide further evidence of not having Realized. Post-Realization, lucidity prevails as pure consciousness speaks. A state of ambiguity cannot co-exist with non-duality. Precision and clarity cannot be compartmentalized so that sometimes your words express non-duality while at other times they are steeped in duality. Post-Realization, no thinking happens. WHO would remain to think? WHOSE “mind” would remain to do such thinking? Look at your words for evidence.
If you were truly awake, you would not announce that you have “several questions” and then ask only one. Your use of words such as “top” and “best” reveal that you have a “mind” that believes in dualities (“top vs. bottom” and “best vs. worst"). To know “what THAT is” means nothing. Evidence of Full Realization includes abidance as the pure consciousness (which expresses itself with unwavering impeccability) as well as abidance as the Absolute.
“As far as “not requiring regular, even daily, meditation of people…advised,” there are no people being advised on this site. Why? (1) There are no people and (2) there is no advice being offered. Pointers are offered as consciousness speaks. The pointers point toward the Absolute Reality and are adumbrations of the Original Understanding. That Original Understanding preceded “minds” so it obviously preceded "thoughts." It also preceded words and bells and holy smoke. It happened prior to belief in any religious concepts and before the use of spiritual accoutrements. The Original Understanding was prior to roles and, thus, prior to assumption of roles as identities.
Next, to ask what you ask about meditation shows that you obviously haven’t finished going through the archives or you’d have found a thorough explanation regarding the original use of meditation as opposed to the bastardized version that is so popular nowadays. You can use the search engine at the top of the page to find the explanations already provided; otherwise, let this suffice: your comment suggests that you are attached to your "regular, even daily" meditation practices. That attachment suggests that your practice provides a temporary "vacation" of sorts, as is the case with many who are playing certain roles. If, while on an actual vacation, you were to find the perfect place to abide, why would you not move there permanently? If fixated at level three, you are still either searching or still working at maintaining your spiritual identity. That continued searching or working reveals that you have not found that which you seek. Why? Because at the point of Full Realization, all seeking ends, and all role-playing ends, and all assumption of false identities (including the false identity of “The Religious One” and the false identity of “The Spiritual Giant”) also end.
The egotism that accompanies religious and spiritual ego-states will assure you that what you are doing on a “daily” basis is “good” and is “effective,” but if any of those beliefs were the truth, then your work and effort and seeking would have ended. The use of all sorts of spiritual accouterments would have ended. You would understand that the sound of a bowl being struck is totally insignificant. Instead of finding that sound every morning, you are invited to find where the sound goes when it can be heard no more. Then, abide therein. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
F.: Before your other thoughts are addressed, be informed that you are not Realized. You provide more evidence of the validity of the pointer offered yesterday: those who have adopted religious or spiritual personas to replace other personas think they have arrived. They mistake the dawn for the noon. So it is. You also provide further evidence of not having Realized. Post-Realization, lucidity prevails as pure consciousness speaks. A state of ambiguity cannot co-exist with non-duality. Precision and clarity cannot be compartmentalized so that sometimes your words express non-duality while at other times they are steeped in duality. Post-Realization, no thinking happens. WHO would remain to think? WHOSE “mind” would remain to do such thinking? Look at your words for evidence.
If you were truly awake, you would not announce that you have “several questions” and then ask only one. Your use of words such as “top” and “best” reveal that you have a “mind” that believes in dualities (“top vs. bottom” and “best vs. worst"). To know “what THAT is” means nothing. Evidence of Full Realization includes abidance as the pure consciousness (which expresses itself with unwavering impeccability) as well as abidance as the Absolute.
“As far as “not requiring regular, even daily, meditation of people…advised,” there are no people being advised on this site. Why? (1) There are no people and (2) there is no advice being offered. Pointers are offered as consciousness speaks. The pointers point toward the Absolute Reality and are adumbrations of the Original Understanding. That Original Understanding preceded “minds” so it obviously preceded "thoughts." It also preceded words and bells and holy smoke. It happened prior to belief in any religious concepts and before the use of spiritual accoutrements. The Original Understanding was prior to roles and, thus, prior to assumption of roles as identities.
Next, to ask what you ask about meditation shows that you obviously haven’t finished going through the archives or you’d have found a thorough explanation regarding the original use of meditation as opposed to the bastardized version that is so popular nowadays. You can use the search engine at the top of the page to find the explanations already provided; otherwise, let this suffice: your comment suggests that you are attached to your "regular, even daily" meditation practices. That attachment suggests that your practice provides a temporary "vacation" of sorts, as is the case with many who are playing certain roles. If, while on an actual vacation, you were to find the perfect place to abide, why would you not move there permanently? If fixated at level three, you are still either searching or still working at maintaining your spiritual identity. That continued searching or working reveals that you have not found that which you seek. Why? Because at the point of Full Realization, all seeking ends, and all role-playing ends, and all assumption of false identities (including the false identity of “The Religious One” and the false identity of “The Spiritual Giant”) also end.
The egotism that accompanies religious and spiritual ego-states will assure you that what you are doing on a “daily” basis is “good” and is “effective,” but if any of those beliefs were the truth, then your work and effort and seeking would have ended. The use of all sorts of spiritual accouterments would have ended. You would understand that the sound of a bowl being struck is totally insignificant. Instead of finding that sound every morning, you are invited to find where the sound goes when it can be heard no more. Then, abide therein. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
