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I have started a web site and have begun teaching Advaita.

Everything I offer is (A) free, (B) merely submitted for your

consideration ala Twilight Zone ;-).

 

Most of my teachings are " advanced " , and readiness for self-enquiry

is recommended. You are invited to drop by and take a look.

 

http://www.omkaradatta.info

 

Here is today's teaching posted on the site (this is hereby released

into the public domain). It is a poem titled " Who Am I? " :

 

Who Am I?

 

I AM the reader of this message,

 

The one reading here.

 

I am the toast on which sits the cheese of falsehood.

 

I am the bread on which the butter of delusion is spread.

 

I am the blood on which feeds the vampire of despair.

 

Without Me, UNreality is UNthinkable.

 

I am a remembering, a forgetting.

 

I will remember my True Nature, then forget, then remember, then

forget again.

 

Continually I believe I am " you " , assume the form of a " you " and

forget. Then I regain " I AM " and remember.

 

Then I assume " you " again. Then become I

AM, then assume YOU.

 

This will continue until I realize the self/other mistake.

 

* * *

 

I am an oscillating almost-reality.

 

At times I will be more real, almost completely real, almost

fulfilled. I will almost remember mySelf.

 

The " you " comes and takes me away, takes away *I*. Just reading the

word, such as " f- YOU! " - I am LOST.

 

Then somehow I remember - I work hard and am satisfied, or eat some

spicy food, or watch sports or reality TV. Suddenly I feel REAL

again. I almost AM.

 

Then my Reality goes.

 

Maybe I watch a film or read a good book, forget BOTH self/other.

Briefly, I am all the way real. Then the film ends and I have to come

back to unreality.

 

There is only one solution for me, the reader, the reader of this

message - the one who keeps *almost* coming into existence, then

fading away again.

 

This cycle has to be broken, this habit. Somehow I have to do

something different, perhaps slow down, stop chasing shadows -

chasing phantoms.

 

Time to just BE.