Forwarding Mail - Concluding remarks on Non-Duality

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Namaste Everyone,

 

I am forwarding a mail sent to a seeker at another

forum, that goes into more detail from the Turiya "standpoint"

for your comments...

Please disregard the first paragraph, its not applicable to this forum.

~dave

 

 

 

 

"Dave Sirjue" <Dave_Sirjue on 10/20/99 10:43:16 AM

 

Tim Gerchmez <fewtch

cc: auroconf (bcc: Dave Sirjue/EOG/Enron)

 

Concluding remarks on Non-Duality

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Tim,

 

I'm glad you decided to take a breather from the forum

since the discussion was getting nowhere or as you put it

plainly -nonsensical. Everyone appears to know, interested in

pushing their viewpoints and very few were really listening to

the other or the real issues.

I appreciated and respected your stance

 

Like you, I have been realizing more and more, how little the

mind knows about anything.

We like to fool ourselves and pretend that we know by holding on,

defending and hiding behind all sorts of layers of beliefs,

imaginations, ideas and assumptions, secondhand information that

we adopted or borrowed from others, but which which really is a

deception, drug, smoke-screen or simply a PACK OF LIES ! that lulls us

to sleep, forgetful of our basic insincerity - the fundamental lie of the

I thought ..I am this or that. (whether it is body, mind or soul.)

When shocks and crisis in our life, penetrates our defensive armour,

hopefully we start getting truthful about ourselves and our mind,and there

is a candid confession that - I (as mind) DON'T KNOW WHAT A

SINGLE THING IS or COMPLETE IGNORANCE !!, then true

wisdom begins; the mind dissolves or becomes humble,

childlike, silent, open and receptive to the revelation of Truth or

true Knowing from the Intuitive Heart - by Identity; beyond our usual

mind processes of logical reasoning, deduction, induction or inference.

 

This understanding is the true means to eradicate the ego or "I" and

cut the root identification with mind or thoughts, once an forever.

"I" (the mind) means -to know- but the ground is taken from under its

imaginary feet, when we declare.. I don't know, in reply to the inquiry

"Who am I ?". The "I" cannot stand up without knowledge.

 

So now, there is no turning back, one takes the risk, with no guarantees,

assurances or certainty and jumps into the Unknown, beyond mind,

beyond the known.

Really, what has the known, the surface life, given me but pain, sorrow,

disappointment. (admittedly with comfort and pleasure but at a minimal,

just enough to keep on the desiring and hoping game.)

 

Enough is enough. One starts trusting the Unknown and Death

- the door to the Deathless, the Timeless, the Unborn, the Eternal..

One faces one's fear of letting go, invites and surrenders to Death the

Supreme Teacher i.e. death of the (surface) known and falls helplessly

into an Unknowable Mysterious Delight.

And where is the hesitation of losing, the intelligent ones offers the limited

and transient in exchange for unlimited and permanent, with gratitude.

Once seen forever seen.

 

Yoga, for example, is skillful at using breath, sound (mantra) and light

(vision) to indirectly and temporarily quiet the disturbing symptoms of

the mind, so that one gets a brief glimpse of the underlying reality.

For example when the breath is quiet the mind is quiet, or the sound

of the mantra drowns out the noise in our head, again a glimpse of silence.

This is merely a therapeutic drug or trick, as ego remains suppressed in

seed form. Simply, one is just distracted by the object of meditation and

the ego is ready to spring back to life thereafter.

 

Now there is no longer the conditioned surface mind to act as a barrier,

distorting or clouding our vision, with its prejudices, biases, preferences

and so on, which superimposes on Reality.

Just a Clarity, an Openness or Emptiness that includes and accepts everything;

no resistance or motive for anything to be otherwise... grass is green, sky is

blue,

birds fly, dogs bark..

Things are always changing.. arising and disappearing in that Void.

Aah! the wonderful state of Suchness.. ever full of surprises !

"you" as the separate one has vanished, there is no longer any seer or seen

knower or known, subject or object.. there is just That Universal

Consciousness and YOU ARE THAT, but THAT includes the gross, subtle

and causal states, in its transparency and openness.

>From that "standpoint" , the gross world, the sun, moon, galaxies arises in

YOU, The breeze blow through YOU (not on you).

You are universally responsible and compassionate towards All which is

Your own Self (YOURSELF), just as you previously treated your liver

or kidney, in your prior ignorance..

 

Have a relaxed and surrended day!

 

Regards

~dave