Neo-Advaitist movement - escape from real life?

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Neo-Advaitist movement - escape from real life?

 

http://www.wie.org/j18/wilber.asp

 

Given that more balanced and comprehensive approach, Andrew's criticism

then applies to those paths that err to one side or the other. For those

paths that get so involved in relative practices that they forget the

absolute Goal and Ground (and that can include approaches from ITP to

vipassana), Andrew said, "Radical liberation just isn't in the picture at

all, and without it, the all-important evolutionary tension that makes all

things possible obviously isn't there either." On the other hand, there are

the approaches that center only on the absolute, such as the

"neo-Advaitist" movement. "With the neo-Advaitist explosion that we seem to

be in the midst of, I almost always take the opposite position. Their

insistence that only consciousness is real usually results not in genuine

liberation, but rather tends to provide the easiest (and scariest) escape

from real life and the ever-challenging real implications of being a fully

human being.

 

"In fact," Andrew continued, "this was what led to the dissolution of my

relationship with Poonja. Anyway, it becomes such a subtle matter in the

end—the relationship between enlightenment and human development and

evolution. So simple on one hand, so complex and delicate on the other."

 

Indeed, so simple yet so complex. What I find so encouraging about this is

that all of us—all of us teachers and students of enlightenment—are at this

time in history involved in a truly grand experiment. Never have all of the

world's "growth technologies" been fully available to a single culture: we

have access not only to all of the forms of Western psychotherapy and human

potential techniques, we have access to virtually all of the world's great

wisdom traditions as well. And we are all now engaged in this "simple yet

complex" experiment in how best to balance all of these approaches,

including the relative and absolute, and thus find the best ways to both

awaken to our ever-present Self—awaken to the absolute—and then skillfully

and compassionately express that ultimate Reality in the relative world,

balancing nirvana and samsara in each and every gesture we make. We are

involved in this grand experiment, this gesture of balance, this graceful

acknowledgment that we are both the One and the Many in every move we make.

 

And when you acknowledge that simple recognition, then you will indeed be

in the world but not of it, because the world will be in you. Your ego is

in the world, but the world is in your Self. Abide as the Self right here

and now, and notice: The clouds float by in your awareness, and you are all

of that. The sun is shining in your consciousness, and you are all of that.

The birds are flying through your Big Mind, and you are all of that. The

earth arises in your awareness, and you are all of that. You—the real

you—is not in the world at all, but the world flows through you, within

you, and you embrace it all. Within your being the world arises, and you

are one with its every inhabitant, fiercely with compassion and gently with

one gesture, this single Self that is only you, timelessly and forever. You

are that Self, here and now, watching the world arise within you, radiant

to infinity. It has always been so, and you have always known this. It is

so even now, and even now you already know it.

 

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