Completeness

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A. H. Almaas has some very interesting material concerning spirituality

in his series of four books "Diamond Heart - Book One through Four." He

has the ability to point to that which is in a manner that clicks with

the Western Mind. Of course his point is that to understand that which

is one simply dwells in being which uncovers the Self in all its glory.

 

There is a web site at: http://www.ridhwan.org/

 

Here is a quote from Book Three:

 

 

"The perspective of completeness does not condemn pleasure. We're

not saying that pleasure is bad. When you know yourself as

complete, there will be an experience of pleasure, but it will not

perturb you, will not force you from your center. Pleasure is there

and so is pain. You are beyond both of them; they have nothing to do

with you. The pleasure and pain are of your body and mind.

 

We can also see from this perspective that ultimately, the only thing

that will work is being, is for you in time, to value Being, just

being. This doesn't mean that you're Being and you're waiting for

something. You're not sitting there meditating so that something

will happen. The being is it. If you're waiting for something

you're beleiving in the gap.

 

The action of meditation can be very simple. It is perceiving the

process of becoming, with its wanting, desiring, pushing, and

pulling. You can just be aware of all that, because it is not

Being. The more you're aware of this movement of becoming and

allow yourself the possibility that it is not working regardless of

what it's moving towards, the more you can observe and experience

the gap directly. And if you don't follow any movement, attitude,

or reaction to it, you may find yourself to be complete.

 

So completeness does not come as a result of any action or effort,

nor is it the end of a process. The personality, the construct of

the mind with which you identify most of the time, is a movement in

becoming, always wanting to be something, wanting to get something,

wanting to become something, go somewhere, move toward something.

It's an activity; it's not a stillness. If you become completely

aware of this movement, then you're not engaged in it. And when

you're not engaged in it, you are the completeness.

 

Everything we do here is designed to create space for that

completeness to happen. Our work is not oriented for acquiring

anything, although for a long time it will appear that you are

acquiring, developing, or learning something. But that is only the

perspective of the mind, the perspective of the one who is

incomplete thinking that it's getting more and more completed.

Ultimately, though, you will see that you are not getting or

acquiring anything from anyone. Becoming and getting are not the

point. If you conduct yourself as though they are, you'll be wrongly

oriented; you'll be moving away from completeness.

 

We don't come here so that we will get somewhere. We don't meditate

for a result. No, the practice is for the moment; the experience of

completeness can happen at any moment. You can just let yourself be

rather than being engaged in becoming and desiring."

 

This guy is a good writer and the four books are simply loaded with

goodies pointing to the real condition.

 

May peace and peace and peace be everywhere.

 

Victor