moment of realization

[Guest guest]

" The moment you have the experience of self-realization, if it

happens completely, you are automatically catapulted into this

experience of unity. Then you realize, not just that, " I am free and

I am a simple sense of being; " no, everything is this being. This

chair is the same thing as I am; in fact, it is me just as I am it. I

mean this in the simplest, most fundamental sense, that we are

actually the same thing, actually made out of the same consciousness,

the same kind of existence. What you see as differences are just a

kind of surface paint, as if there is just one thing painted over

with different things. There is a cream color there, blue color

there; it looks like all kinds of things, but it is really one thing.

So the experience of unity is a matter of recognizing the presence

that is the nature of everything. "

 

" Also, the experience of oneness is not a good experience which you

have once in a while. No, you realize that it is a fact. It is

reality, not just a passing experience. What is actually transitory

is our usual experience. It is not that you are a person who

experiences oneness. No, you are a oneness, and at some point you

will wake up to this reality. When you do, you realize, " All this

time I had this strange idea in my mind that I exist as a person,

that I am an individual separate from other individuals, and I have

my own things and they have there own things. "