From a site visitor: "(1) Seems like being Realized (and I know I am not there) is best enjoyed when you don‘t have to work or do. (2) Guess it would be great to have been Realized all along, but it wasn‘t to be. (3) By the way, I saw something by Tolle the other day, who speaks almost your same words, that said ‘acceptance means even accepting the fact that you can‘t accept things as they are.’ Guess that means just move on and live or be."
1. Seems like being Realized (and I know I am not there) is best enjoyed when you don‘t have to work or do.
F.: Not true. Some Realized have to work; some don't. Work continued for three years after Realization, but the shift was from (a) assuming the false identity of "Super Teacher" and thinking that there was an "I" who was doing (that I was “teaching”) to (b) the acceptance that on any given day, teaching might happen...or not. Then, no doing was involved. There was only the beingness and the witnessing of teaching as it happened...or as it did not happen. The Realized can be at peace if work is happening or can be at peace if work is not happening. Or, when challenges arise as happen with many jobs, the Realized can feel whatever feelings that rise and fall as they witness those, too, but no emotional intoxication results because there are no false, assumed identities that generate such intoxication. As for persons, by way of contrast, they can like work one day and hate it the next. Some persons can find it impossible to sit in the quiet if not working while others find it impossible to keep up with the pace of a job.
2. Guess it would be great to have been Realized all along, but it wasn‘t to be.
F.: Again, Realization does not guarantee that all feelings that are felt/witnessed are what persons would call "positive" or "good" feelings.
3. By the way, saw something by Tolle the other day, who speaks almost your same words, that said ‘acceptance means even accepting the fact that you can‘t accept things as they are.’ Guess that means just move on and live or be.
F.: Right. For example, 50% of the U.S. population from the beginning did not find the bombing of Iraqis to be acceptable conduct. It can be accepted without any emotional intoxication that the bombing of people is insane behavior and is unacceptable to sane people in the relative existence. AS IF living allows some of the Realized to work to alleviate suffering in the relative existence by addressing issues like war and poverty and disease and protection of the environment; it allows the consciousness to speak via some of the Realized and to point proteges along the "path"; and it also allows some of the Realized to not work and to not address anything. So it is. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
