Nobody can be transcended forever.

[Guest guest]

SM: Many seekers are aspiring toward having a sustained transcendent

experience. Can an STE be prepared for?

 

Byron Katie: If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened…' it

implies a future. And there isn't any. And then we attach to…one by

one, by one, by one… I call it 'they get married and have babies.'

It's reincarnation. You start with the…the I arises, and if you don't

notice, then it has a baby and a baby and a baby and it splits, it's a

cellular… [laughs] thing… it's like the atoms splitting… I call it

instantaneous unenlightenment.But if you'll notice, then it ends.

There's no more reincarnation. So if you don't notice, it continues.

And that's time and space and place. It's an illusion. Like an

internal optical illusion.

 

 

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended

forever. That's why I say, 'who cares if you're enlightened forever?

Can you just get it in this moment, now?'

 

And that's what the investigation's about. I mean, that's all there

is. I mean we're so attached to the concept we're in, that we

really…it's such a vivid movie that it would imply a past and future

with it all in it. It's just a concept now.

 

So it is just in the moment now. There's no division point in it.

There's nowhere where you know where it differentiates. It is so good.

It, this transcendence thing is just a beginning. Until it comes back

for itself and claims it, transcendence is just a beginning. It's just

a concept. And that's what you were saying. It's a concept that people

aspire to and they don't re-enter. And I don't know why people don't

speak of it. But transcendence, there's nothing in it. When It comes

back for Itself, the mere image of Itself… It's intoxicated. Couldn't

have anything else. It's a matter of total greed.

 

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