A response to Bill R's Post about humongous blank - emptiness gliding, e

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Nisargadatta , " Adamson " <adamson wrote:

>

>

> < Notice the allowing of whatever arises to be fully

> < experienced. Some think that nondual realization is about

> < becoming a humongous blank... nothing affecting because

> < *no attachment*... a vast silent emptiness gliding

> < through timeless non-being...

>

> < ahhh!......

>

> < But I see it differently altogether. I suppose at one

> < time I did see things in terms of such a " gliding

> < emptiness " . I attribute that to my Buddhist origins.

> < But that is not my viewpoint now at all.

>

> < In my view the " emptiness " , the freedom from attachments,

> < is precisely what enables the full allowing of what

> < arises to manifest fully and completely. The impetus

> < to fully *be* in an authentic and complete way is

> < spontaneous, comes as from within (or so it may seem),

> < responding in the moment to whatever is " up " dynamically

> < and full of life.

>

> The way I currently see it is to be unreservedly present and open as

> possible so as to allow as much sensitivity to develop to everything as

> possible. It is not a matter of becoming " immune " , " detached " , and

> " unbothered " . If anything it is to become so vulnerable that one is

> affected by everything, every nuance, nook, and cranny of life. Not

just

> the " big " things but all things without exception. Every sensation,

> thought, image, idea, vibration, energy, urge, pulsation, etc. It is to

> allow oneself to be *bothered* to smithereens but in such a way that

one

> isn't " bothered " by being " bothered " . So open and vulnerable that

> there's *no-thing* there to hold anything out or at bay so that the

> so-called *container* and *contents* merge and reveal *themselves* as

> the unicity they always already ever presently and and have been except

> in one's imagination. As T.S. Eliot said (which may not be a verbatim

> quote), " We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all of

> exploring will be to return to where we started and know it again as if

> for the first time. " Thus the never-ending and never-starting journey

> of infinite and zero distance. Go figure!

>

> Michael

>

 

I can relate to what you say here.

 

While I have no doubt you know what it is to " be unreservedly open

and present " ... some on this list most likely will misapprehend

and take your words as a statement of " how " ... which is not what

your words are.

 

As I see it, what you give here is an account of how it is for

you. Which is very valuable. Too few here have the courage to

give such an account.

 

 

Bill