RE : special splinter

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--- Bill Rishel <illusyn a écrit :

 

 

 

On 5/17/06, OConnor Patricia <gdtige wrote:

>

> Clearly or not, the Supreme is the easiest thing to

> reach, clearly it is nestled in the fiber of my very

> own being.

> It is enough to stop thinking and desiring it,

> Then one just falls back in its own Nature.

>

> ...and if I stop thinking or desiring the Supreme,

> I am as good as dead.

> So how do I keep the silver thread when alive?

>

> it seems that there is,

> other than the one that creates all those questions,

> something like a special splinter,

> keeping longing very real,

> Calling when my voice is hoarse,

> Never asleep, struggling for breath.

>

> What do you say?

>

> Patricia

 

On reading this I am struck by something about

the way you speak of your spiritual path:

That your approach is more akin to that of Sufism

than it is to Advaita. Yours is not a yoga of

detachment, but a yoga of immersion. Yours is not

a path of dispassionateness, but one of passion.

 

> ...and if I stop thinking or desiring the Supreme,

> I am as good as dead.

> So how do I keep the silver thread when alive?

I am unsure how to read your words here. What do you

mean by " as good as dead " ? Dead in what sense?

Either I am dead, and therefore the Supreme,

or alive and striving : The last part clearly resonate

with my life.

I see desire, but it seems to be stemming from other

than <me>, as I don`t care for something for <myself>.

 

But I will venture a guess: It is related to what

I say above about your path being one of passion.

You are interested in a very *living* spirituality.

You are not interested in the " little nirvana " of

peace and quiesence. And so your dilemma is one of

maintaining the passion of the " quest " even in the

midst of complete acceptance and resolution into

" the Supreme " .

 

Your first comments:

> Clearly or not, the Supreme is the easiest thing to

> reach, clearly it is nestled in the fiber of my very

> own being.

> It is enough to stop thinking and desiring it,

> Then one just falls back in its own Nature.

make complete sense to me. What you are speaking of

here is the ease of not-doing... whatever action

arising of its own nature, and subsiding of its own

nature. That nothing is *managed*, that all unfolds

of its own.

 

When all unfolds of its own accord within the sphere

of such non-action... whatever transpires is seen as

not what *you* do, but as what comes forth as

expression

of What Is (or, apparently, what you call the

Supreme).

 

Hence, by relaxing into the True Nature, the True

Nature relaxes into you, and there is no relationship

*between* you and True Nature. That distinction has

dissolved in the very " relaxing into " .

 

So then your comment:

> ...and if I stop thinking or desiring the Supreme,

> I am as good as dead.

can seem strange... because there is then no separate

" I " to be thinking/desiring the Supreme (True Nature).

 

But what if the continual longing you speak of, the

continual desiring, is not of a separate " you " , but

a natural expression of " the Supreme " itself as it

seeks ever to expand, ever to transcend. [advaitins

here might have trouble with these notions ]

 

When the tip of the flame comes close to the point

of its own emergence... ever hotter, more intense,

waxes the flame. It never " settles in " , but expands

ever-again into greater and greater resplendence.

 

I see your notion of " splinter " , then, as simply that

" touching of love into love " , the fire fueling its

own intensity, and the resplendent gaze of truth

shining ever-brighter, ever-deeper.

 

And there is no end to that ever-deepening.

 

So you *can* relax... knowing that it is not *you*

that is efforting, but is " the Supreme " itself that

is touching its own light with ever-greater

brightness.

the wonder and unpredictability of Longing..

 

And you can relax because there is *no way* you

-- of all individuals -- could ever be satisfied with

a mini-nirvana of peace and quietude.

 

In other words, Fear Not!

and...

 

Shine On You Crazy Diamond!

 

Bill

 

 

Note: re mention above of " the tip of the flame

comes close to the point of its own emergence... " ,

this can be viewed in terms of Shiva/Shakti... where

Shakti is the point of emergence, and Shiva the tip

of the flame. So when Shiva, in devotion to Shakti,

" re-enters " the very origination of the source of

unfolding power and light, merging again and again

with Shakti... Cosmic Shivers!

 

The notion of Shiva/Shakti can seem so very *dual*

to a nondualist. But then so is the comment by

Nisargadatta:

 

I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of

attention, I become the very thing I look at, and

experience the kind of consciousness it has; I

become the inner witness of the thing. I call this

capacity of entering other focal points of

consciousness, love; you may give it any name you

like. Love says " I am everything " . Wisdom says " I

am nothing " . Between the two, my life flows.

 

Shiva/Shakti, Everything/Nothing... just different

ways of saying the same thing.

 

True non-dualism is not an obliteration of all

distinctions. It is a realization of unity in all

distinctions. Huge difference.

 

Note 2: the mention of Shiva/Shakti above is within

the paradigm of kundalini yoga. The notion of

kundalini is not much discussed on this list. I do

not recommend kundalini as a " practice " , but it does

have profound explanatory power for the not-of-this-

world experiences that naturally emerge once egoic

consciousness is transcended.

................................................

 

This is what I call a generous answer.

It hit the spot. it illustrates how we don`t write for

ourselves that but to share openess toward This

background.

I can see that miserie arises as soon as I <think>

myself separate from Essence.

 

 

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