Consideration

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the Talking-School Approach to

Advaita Vedanta

 

Clinging to a belief in and experience of the concept of Non-Duality,

the intellectualizing Advaitin tends to presume a shield of

invulnerability, thereby imaginatively separating Truth from Life.

All the while, the chest emblem on the costume of knowing becomes a

glaring bullseye for the arrow of Love that is irrevocably speeding

towards its target.

The fear of this Love is the only fear greater than the fear of death.

It is the fear of intimate vulnerability from which all the carefully

constructed "non-dual" identity armor would protect one. This Love

indeed is an immanent threat to the image that would be defended at

all costs – the image of a non-self that is the clever bulwark of

resistance to surrender, resistance to Life, resistance to Love. Such

resistance stands as a refusal of the very Truth that the concept of

detached indifference will not allow in – the Truth that is

synchronous with Love. Without being anchored in this Love, Truth

becomes an abstraction – cool, analytical – disconnected from

relationship.It has never been about "getting it right", but about

getting it "real". Nor can the sense of a separate self be offended

into non-existence by the arrogance of mind that presumes itself

beyond the body. There is something that wants to get down below the

neck, but the last thing allowed into heaven is our human-ness, our

self. If it’s not connected to the body, it is not true surrender,

but just a switching of allegiances in mind.

Attachment to a mental "enlightenment" ultimately does not even

satisfy the mind that was assumed to have been transcended, any more

than reliance on the words of spiritual authorities finally satisfies

the secret yearning fervor of the religious fundamentalist.

Nevertheless, both strategies of recoil from Life tend to persist

until interrupted by Grace.

There is a laser of Light, a beam of un-stoppable Love, and it is

homing even now on that emblem that would shield the heart from

piercing. All hearts are speared at last by that lance of Light, the

mysterious Transmission of Love, and so it is and was and always

shall be. The fire of Truth goes where’s there’s fuel, even to the

caves of the fro-zen.

Jai to That!

Jai to That!

 

"The most one can do is to make oneself grace-prone."

~ Adyashanti

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

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