THE MOST HONEST SPIRITUAL STATEMENT EVER

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"But whatever you do in the direction of whatever you are after --

the pursuit or search for truth or reality -- takes you away from

your own very natural state, in which you always are. It's not

something you can acquire, attain or accomplish as a result of your

effort -- that is why I use the word `acausal'. It has no cause, but

somehow the search come to an end".

 

 

Dear Tim: You must be really be getting off of this stuff.

 

Also, Please tell UG that he should have said came instead of come.

 

Love,

Alton

 

 

, "ALTON ALTON" <lostnfoundation>

wrote:

> THE MYSTIQUE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

> People call me an 'enlightened man' -- I detest that term -- they

can't find any other word to describe the way I am functioning. At

the same time, I point out that there is no such thing as

enlightenment at all. I say that because all my life I've searched

and wanted to be an enlightened man, and I discovered that there is

no such thing as enlightenment at all, and so the question whether a

particular person is enlightened or not doesn't arise. I don't give a

hoot for a sixth-century-BC Buddha, let alone all the other claimants

we have in our midst. They are a bunch of exploiters, thriving on the

gullibility of the people. There is no power outside of man. Man has

created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

> ______________

> I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to

realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a

shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested

everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly

you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize --

and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my

life?!" That blasts you.

> _______________

> All kinds of things happened to me -- I went through that, you see.

The physical pain was unbearable -- that is why I say you really

don't want this. I wish I could give you a glimpse of it, a touch of

it -- then you wouldn't want to touch this at all. What you are

pursuing doesn't exist; it is a myth. You wouldn't want anything to

do with this.

>

>

> I am the pure awareness that illumines consciousness and its

infinite content, I think.

>

> Aloha,

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More UG: You can get a free version here.

http://www.well.com/user/jct/

 

Or his biography here.

 

http://www.well.com/user/jct/ugbio/ugbtitle.htm

 

Then so many things happened. There was one man called Sivananda

Saraswati in those days -- he was the evangelist of Hinduism. Between

the ages of fourteen and twenty- one (I am skipping many of the

unnecessary events) I used to go there and meet him very often, and I

did everything, all the austerities. I was so young, but I was

determined to find out if there was any such thing as moksha, and I

wanted that moksha for myself. I wanted to prove to myself and to

everybody that there cannot be any hypocrisy in such people -- "These

are all hypocrites" -- so I practiced yoga, I practiced meditation,

studied everything. I experienced every kind of experience that the

books talked about -- samadhi, super-samadhi, nirvikalpa samadhi,

everything. Then I said to myself "Thought can create any experience

you want -- bliss, beatitude, ecstasy, melting away into nothingness -

- all those experiences. So, this can't be the thing, because I'm the

same person, mechanically doing these things. Meditations have no

value for me. This is not leading me anywhere."

Then, you see, sex became a tremendous problem for me,

 

Goodnight,

Love

Alton