biography of a buddha

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Dear friends

 

i have been on this list now for several months and i enjoyed your postings

immensely, although i sometimes didn't have the time to read them all or in

their entirety.

i want to thank you all for your contributions.

Especially i like the warm and friendly tone of conversation and i think the

same is also true for my wife Rahasya.

i have posted close to nothing and i will switch to eGroup server only mode

soon because we will be going to India in less than a week to spend the

summer, or better the monsoon there.

>From the few enlightened beings we've met so far two stand out, one is

Ramesh Balsekar, whom we met in Bombay two years ago and the other is

Maitreya Ishwara with whom we meditated on his Satsangs and whom we followed

through India from Pune all the way up to Manali and to Leh in Ladakh and

even to Srinagar, Kashmir last year for a period of a month and a half.

He has written, or better, his biography was written through him lately and

is now available on www.ishwara.com.

i'll give a short excerpt here.

 

greetings from the sunny side of the Alps, which is a bit too sunny now for

weeks already with no rain...

 

Love

firak

 

 

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Facticity

 

Religion is a vague science. Its province is the subtle realms

of subjective experience in every seeker's inner world.

Truth is often made to sound holy by serious teachers, as if it

is something far away.

Truth just means: what's so. The important truth for seekers

is their own experience, as it happens moment to moment.

Reality is multidimensional and can only be explored by

rigorously staying with your own experience of what is.

Teachers often talk about truths that you cannot yet verify

with your experience. Take their insights as a hypothesis

only, never adopt any belief system without experiential

verification, and always question anything they say that

doesn't make sense to you. Even enlightened teachings are

not always rational and experientially based.

For example, the belief that you are already enlightened

because you are part of the consciousness of the Whole, is

irrational and contrary to your own experience.

Enlightenment is experiential verification of the hypothesis:

Consciousness is all there is; not just a belief that you collect

from an unskilled teacher.

 

Facticity is not in the dictionary yet. But its meaning is

obvious: Recognising the facts as they are. And as you

penetrate deeper and deeper into the reality of your inner

world many mysterious facts become your truth.

Truth cannot be known by belief, only by your experience

herenow. Stick to your experience and take the words of

teachers as a provocation to look into yourself more deeply.

As the investigation of your multidimensional reality opens to

more subtle and refined states of consciousness, eventually

you disappear and the ultimate truth of non-Being is

revealed.

The ultimate truth cannot be spoken, that realm is too far

beyond all trace of subtle concepts. It can only be known by

dissolving and disappearing into the Mystery, and then there

is no one left to claim: I am That.

Beware of unverified beliefs, even if they happen to be true.

Authentic seekers need skilful teachers to help them avoid

the idealistic traps that decorate the spiritual journey in the

form of unverified truth.

Have a close look at your teacher's suggestions and be

aware of subtle embedded 'shoulds'. Any 'should' gives your

ego its escape route as it recreates an idealised spiritual

identity.

 

You are perfect as you are now for the needs of the divine

leela. And all growth really happens by grace, not by

adopting subtle idealistic spiritual 'shoulds' from your teacher.

Just understand that you are already helpless and totally

vulnerable to Life's agenda. And trust that the intelligence of

the Whole is managing your life and growth perfectly. Only

then are you free from the neurosis of your spiritual ego

always trying to get it right.

Advaita understanding is helpful as a hypothesis to support

your enquiry, not as a cheap belief about truth.

Only in silence, beyond all trace of subtle thought, is truth

fully revealed. And that silence is only given by grace.

 

from Biography of a Buddha - My unconscious past

Maitreya Ishwara

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