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#4212 -
The Nonduality Highlights -
Nonduality Street Interview with
James Waite
“I show little interest in cooking up a
‘story’ and add only so much sweetening in words as it
takes to wash down a nourishing content. This content is more
than ideas and ideals; it’s our wordless Resonate Knowing or
Divine Awareness…Reality, Truth, God.” James Waite
James Waite talks about his life and
awakening in an interview with Jerry Katz. Listen here:
http://nonduality.org/2011/04/06/nonduality-street-interview-with-james-waite/
Waite’s blog is Nonduality Living:
Access all the
http://nonduality.com/street.htm
Introducing Robert Saltzman
Often, the beginning of spiritual awareness
is compared to waking from a dream, but in my case the first
signs of awakening happened in a dream. One night after having
spent the entire day in the dark anyway making prints in my
darkroom, I dreamt that I was rowing a small boat on a vast
ocean. The sky and the sea appeared almost the same shade of grey
so that I saw no definite horizon line. It was like being inside
a vast, featureless, infinite globe. In the paradoxical dream
language, I was facing not backwards the way one normally rows,
but out to sea, looking into infinity.
I felt compelled to turn my head to see what
was behind me. There, not so far away, but rapidly receding, was
a headland, a tall, crumbling cliff with an old building standing
on the edge of it. That structure was vast, enormous, and it was
mouldering away. The floor, walls, and roofs were in a state of
collapse, and the building was only standing at all due to a
complex system of buttresses and supports that had been arranged
all over it, and which extended onto the eroding cliffs.
Still in the dream, I knew immediately that
I was looking at the ego, a structure always in imminent danger
of collapse, and that I was leaving it behind. No more
maintenance work--just let it go and row away into the vastness.
I awoke absolutely stupefied. The whole experience had been so
graphic, so unmistakably both a message and a statement of my
actual situation. I'd never had a dream like that before, and
never again since. Later that day, Catanya, my wife, returned
home to find me sitting naked on the kitchen floor, eyes closed,
laughing uncontrollably.
Soon after, in Walter (Chappell)'s company, I realized with
sudden clarity what I am, what all of us are--everything which is
not ego. My seeking stopped, the false duality of self/other
disappeared, and I saw things as they are for the first time in
my life--or for the first time since early childhood anyway. My
gratitude for Walter's help is beyond measure. A spiritual
teacher is a friend, yes, but more than a friend. Walter, you
will live forever in my heart.
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Read much more at
http://www.dr-robert.com/Awakening%20Never%20Ends.html