tools for the real and the unreal

[Guest guest]

Noble Assembly,

yesterday i proposed samadhi and death to introduce the two precious

tools i am working with: aloneness and the fuzziness of border

between dual concepts.

Aloneness: because when one works with vichara or considers one's

life from the point of view "I alone am Brahman", "i alone exist", it

is not possible to take into account the opinion of other people

saying "you were deeply asleep and you didn't feel anything".

Aloneness because it is absurd to rely on anyone's opinion about the

status of the world, real or unreal.

Aloneness because the 'true' unreal is someone else's voice telling

me "i am real", be it Shiva Himself, or any declaration that any life

apart of myself ever was declared as a life apart of myself.

Now we work at the coincidence of Brahman and myself; how do i dare

declare that myself am Brahman?

Especially, when noticing all the imperfections or obstacles or

uncontrolable events that are obvious in my life.

There's the rub, this 'noticing' cannot be trusted, the obvious is

born out of blindness like when a kid who has trouble putting on his

shoe gets upset with it and talks to it as an ennemy.

so the question is not "how do i dare..." but on the contrary "how

did I ever lose sight of 'I', blissfull, content and timeless?".

Bliss means smootheness of dealing with events, when obstacles are

abolished, when the shoe ceases to "gather consciousness" :-), when i

don't make my environment realler than it is by applying a stake on

every event and stop antagonizing with objects and people; bliss,

when time is abolished, when the excitement/torpor swing stabilizes

in the middle, when we don't expect so hard the next entertaining

activity.

Bliss that i am content with myself/this/now.

(that is it for aloneness)

eric