Tuesday, June 01, 2010

THE NON-EXISTENCE OF SELF – ONE SIDE OF THE COIN; AND THE TRUE MEANING OF SELF-LESS-NESS. CONCLUSION– SITE CO-HOST: LOUISE STERLING

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Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.

This world is filled up with selfishness due to your association with the body. Once you know what these principles are, then you dissolve the personality, and in the process that selfishness vanishes because you are no more an individual.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Seekers who are veterans at the seeking “game” tend to covet and acquire the experiences, behaviours and concepts which typically describe the “journey” to Self-understanding or the Realized State. Often, this is a point of bondage, as the concepts are so “precious” and “true” that the seeker is unable to let go. In some instances, the seeker will prefer to cling to a notion of selflessness, or an experience of emptiness, then apply the techniques of self-enquiry and relinquish what is so valued.

If Who You Are cannot be spoken, described, or experienced then surely you can see that any concepts and experiences, however true, will ultimately have to be abandoned? Any identification creates the abyss of separation, just like a grain of powder on black paper. While your identification may not be with an egoic self as an individual, it may be with an understanding or a state of consciousness – perceived as rarified, authentic and true.

The Unchanging Reality has no levels or degrees – there is only the appearance of “movement” in the mind as false layers are removed. What is Changeless remains Unchanged. So what are You clinging to? It can only be some ideas and concepts that you have picked up somewhere or other; or some experiences that you have determined are more special/spiritual/advanced than other experiences. When You acquire the dispassionate view that everything perceived is like a stick floating in a clear lake, you will be able to identify these last few sparse sticks floating by and toss them, just as you tossed the false notions of being a separate individual with attributes. Let them all go.

Floyd explains:

If all identification has been forfeited (first, “I AM nothing” and then eventually, even the nothingness as an identity falls away), then all that is left during the manifestation that is understood is...Love. What is that You? Love. Therefore, bliss is knowing I am everything...knowing the unicity...and then not knowing Love but being Love.

See -- your notions of selflessness are like children’s drawings in the sand. Until this complete abandonment, there is no possibility of selfless action. Wherever there is a centre – conceptual and limited – that acts or decides, this being Love, natural and effortless, the true selflessness, is not known. Agenda-less action means no agenda is required. Self-less action means no self is required.

Eventually, You will tire of clinging to your concepts and ideas of right action. Understand, there is no issue with whether an action is kind or cruel, or whether the self is full or empty. Rather, for the advanced seeker, the invitation is to see these final attachments.

That transparency – that sense of no-self – is a “marker” that can become its own imprisonment. Remember – until the final dissolution, all that is experienced is the removal of layer after layer of false understanding. This no-self sense is true when uncovered, but is not your final identity. Can you relinquish this precious sense of non-existence? As long as there is any identification, the layers of separation have not all been removed.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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