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Nondual Highlights Issue #2754, Saturday, March 10, 2007, Editor: mark
hi darlin's!
We have often spoken of how our True Self is like the ocean and
our thoughts like its waves - no difference in bein' water, just
the latter a bunch of splashin' around. ok.
Our meditation instructions tell us that when all that wavin'
starts doin' its thing, we just watch it - take no action, just
do some Seeing. But i got a little idea the other day... instead
of watchin' the waves, how about we watch the ocean... wave
watchin' may open door to that tricky little dickens the Great
Separator: ah, yes, m'dear, me here, thoughts there fine
division... and ego gets all happy jumpin' up and down like it
just got a new xbox.
what would happen if we let the waves do their thing... didn't
bother even a glance their way.. just dove gently under the waves
into the cool, still water... if we don't thrash around we can't
help but sink down down into the very depths... and discover who
we are - the boundaryless, birthless, deathless See...
something like that...
let's do it today, darlin's! let's drop all the controls.. take
off our wet suits... plunge together... ahhhh... now we're
cookin'!
love to all,
dg, posted to DailyDharma
Let this that has always been running your life have you. This
complete cliff dive in every moment into "I don’t
know." I don’t know where I am, I don’t know who I
am, I don’t know what I am, I don’t know what I’m
here for. Let yourself be nothing. Just here. Offered. Ahhhh,
what a relief.
- Jeannie Zandi
C: Tell me a little about your spiritual history. How did you get
to where you are now?
A: It started when I was 19 or 20. I got the enlightenment bug.
Then I found a Zen teacher that I studied with for the next 15
years. I did a lot of seeking, which in my case was a tremendous
amount of meditation. Over the next 10 or 12 years I basically
worked and meditated. That’s pretty much all I did. I like
to point out that there is not a cause and effect relationship,
or that all the meditation or seeking paid off in awakening. It
was actually kind of the opposite. Seeking really didn’t pay
off except that I just burned it out. When we actually burn our
seeking out, when it extinguishes itself, its much easier for the
truth to be seen. Seeking actually gets in the way.
C: Is that the same as surrender or hitting bottom from 12-step
traditions?
A: Yes, I guess so. You hit your bottom or for me, I hit the
limitation of my personal will. That’s when we actually
become available. For some reason a lot of us have to get to that
place. We have to be brought to our knees. Most of us are not so
evolved that we just surrender out of divine intelligence.
C: I read in your book that your awakening came when you were
sitting in meditation.
A: Yes, that was the culmination. Parts of that same experience
had presented itself over the years before. These were sort of
like glimpses of awakening and were pretty cathartic. In the
experience you mentioned it happened without any emotional
bi-product. It was just sort of a scene of the truth which
allowed me to grasp "This is the truth. This is really what
I am. This is what we are." Finally, I didn’t fool
myself into being seduced by the emotional bi-product.
- excerpt from interview with Adyashanti, rest of which is here:
http://www.newconnexion.net/article/05-05/adyashanti.html
Surrender to your own Self, of which everything is an expression.
- Nisargadatta
Our surrender then ought to be an entire leaving of ourselves in
the hands of God, both in respect of the outward and inward
state, forgetting ourselves in a great measure, and thinking on
God only: by this means the heart remains always free, contented,
and disengaged.
- Madame Guyon