[iam] I'm sick of it

[Guest guest]

> umbada (Jerry M. Katz)

>

> You know what? I'm so sick of hearing about being conditioned and

> reacting and our false selves and what's wrong with us, that I really

> don't give a damn. SO WHAT if I'm conditioned and react and all that? So

> what? To worry about it, to acknowledge it, to improve it, isn't any

> better than having it.

 

Apart from the primordial state, pure consciousness, everything can be

called conditioning. Why add more to it? Of course one could reason the

other way around: If there are so many conditionings already, a few more

won't be much of a problem.

 

The problem is that people suffer it. People

> suffer it and then they suffer getting rid of it. And then they suffer

> its absence and then they suffer their coming realizations.

 

Suffering pertains to self. Conditioning pertains to self. Realization

pertains to self. No duality without a self.

>

> The problem is the suffering of it. Not it. I'm sure I've done all kinds

> of crazy things in my life, but one understanding has never changed

> since the age of 7. I AM. That plainly shines forth.

 

One's real nature doesn't require understanding or a name and it is

spontaneously perceived as self-luminous when the mask of self is dropped.

> Being there. With I AM. Everything else falls into place. Whether you

> call I AM, Jesus or Guru or Your Guru, Sri (put his or her name here),

> or whatever. Abide in I AM. Do that first and last and during.

 

Who is to abide in whom? No wonder the Buddha gave up his 5 year practice,

gave up self and then... the Big Flash.

> Why crunch the gravel on your path, when one stone, quiet and whole,

> awaits your full attention?

>

> Jerry

 

Some of us, going barefoot, prefer a path on the grass without gravel and

stones, not fearing the big fiery snake that many want to avoid (:>

 

Jan