Satsang with Nome - The Self alone is - Question 2

[Guest guest]

Another Q.: Can you define abidance?

 

N.: It signifies an absence of misidentification. It means that the

entire sense of your identity is the Self and not with what is not

the Self, such as your mind, the body, or any object of the world.

 

Where identity is posited, so are reality and happiness. When your

knowledge of happiness, its source and what it is, is steadily

inward, when your knowledge of what is real is not being cast out on

what is unreal, and when your sense of your identity is that which

the " I " truly is, and not what one assumes it to be, such is said to

be abidance.

 

Q.: So, it is to keep the knowledge of that.

 

N.: A steady, continuous, deep inquiry becomes steady abidance. The

same Knowledge that is the abidance is in motion, so to speak, in

inquiry. The end appears as the means.

 

Q.: I should consider it as that always.

 

N.: It is one Knowledge.

 

Q.: So, I should not go into delusion.

 

N.: If you inquire, within yourself to know who you are, you cut the

very root of delusion, or illusion.

 

Q.: Yes.

 

N.: Simultaneous with the disappearance of ignorance is the

revelation of true Knowledge. If a piece of cloth covers this piece

of wood (ed. note: Nome covers a portion of the wooden dais with his

shawl), the removal of the cloth and the revelation of the wood are

simultaneous. There is no delay, because the wood was always there as

the substrate, merely covered. In a similar way, your nature, the

Self, is eternal. The sign of Reality is that it is without beginning

or end, and, therefore, unchanging. It is always perfectly there. The

inquiry simply removes the illusion, the imagination, which is

represented by the cloth in this analogy.

 

Q.: Ok. Yes, it is a magic show. (laughter)

 

N.: Who is the magician?

 

Q.: What if I find out I am the rabbit, the all?

 

N.: If you find that you are the rabbit, it is your duty to

disappear. (laughter)

[Guest guest]

, " Richard Clarke " <richard

wrote:

>

> Another Q.: Can you define abidance?

>

> N.: It signifies an absence of misidentification. It means that the

> entire sense of your identity is the Self and not with what is not

> the Self, such as your mind, the body, or any object of the world.

>

> Where identity is posited, so are reality and happiness. When your

> knowledge of happiness, its source and what it is, is steadily

> inward, when your knowledge of what is real is not being cast out on

> what is unreal, and when your sense of your identity is that which

> the " I " truly is, and not what one assumes it to be, such is said to

> be abidance.

 

 

 

'inward' and 'outward', as well as 'sense

of your identity' are apparent. they are not

the undefinable and inexplicable (yet undeniable),

all-containing and timeless self, which alone is.

it is ever whole, complete and indivisible.

 

respectfully

yosy

 

 

nnb

 

 

>

> Q.: So, it is to keep the knowledge of that.

>

> N.: A steady, continuous, deep inquiry becomes steady abidance. The

> same Knowledge that is the abidance is in motion, so to speak, in

> inquiry. The end appears as the means.

>

> Q.: I should consider it as that always.

>

> N.: It is one Knowledge.

>

> Q.: So, I should not go into delusion.

>

> N.: If you inquire, within yourself to know who you are, you cut the

> very root of delusion, or illusion.

>

> Q.: Yes.

>

> N.: Simultaneous with the disappearance of ignorance is the

> revelation of true Knowledge. If a piece of cloth covers this piece

> of wood (ed. note: Nome covers a portion of the wooden dais with his

> shawl), the removal of the cloth and the revelation of the wood are

> simultaneous. There is no delay, because the wood was always there as

> the substrate, merely covered. In a similar way, your nature, the

> Self, is eternal. The sign of Reality is that it is without beginning

> or end, and, therefore, unchanging. It is always perfectly there. The

> inquiry simply removes the illusion, the imagination, which is

> represented by the cloth in this analogy.

>

> Q.: Ok. Yes, it is a magic show. (laughter)

>

> N.: Who is the magician?

>

> Q.: What if I find out I am the rabbit, the all?

>

> N.: If you find that you are the rabbit, it is your duty to

> disappear. (laughter)

>