Click here to go to the next issue
Highlights Home Page | Receive the Nondual Highlights each day
#2149 -
This issue features a few excerpts from a
very good book called Dancing with the Void, by Sunyata. Edited
by Betty Camhi and Gurubaksh Rai.
Ordering info: http://www.bluedove.com/new_repr/descrip/DanWit.html
Chapter 3. Pilgrimage to
Selection
The whole of my day can be lived in the
noisy myriad life. I may move among degrading poverty and
disease. I may work among the prostitution of bodies, of emotions
and of minds. I may see the pathetic strutting and assertive
egos, the physical, emotional, psychic and mental bullying. I may
see death and suffering in the streets and in the hospitals with
all their pangs and pities. Yet there is a ray of light, a flash
of rightness, a meaningful rhythm in all these movements and
noises in the cities. It is like the surging silence of nature in
the sea. All is forgiven and it seems strange not to forgive. In
that awareness I have known my truest reality. In it I have found
my richest freedom in life. How lovely it is to wander quietly
and freely in new places and among strange faces until they are
no longer strange and new, until Life is recognized and the smile
of Life exchanged.
So a simple Viking pilgrim may be greeted
and accepted by royalty or poets, by scholars or artists and he
may find them interesting. There is much royalty even in slums
and wondrous beauty in simple ignorant fellow-beings.
What a direct recognition I had from lovable
common folks and fellow workers in
In truth, nothing is ugly or dull if we can
open our eyes and see. Things open out and nothing is
inarticulate to us if we can be still, open and free (from
ego-consciousness), if we can live with Life and listen.
Chapter 36. The Wisdom of Sunyata
Selections
It is the immature who shout, assert or even
try to awaken other fellow pilgrims in consciousness. It is all
Bhagwan's business. As Ramana Maharshi states, "There are
not others." It is necessary to drop the conceit of agency
or ego. Place trust in your destiny. Guidance will come in
self-controlled spontaneity.
~ ~ ~
If anyone says, "I have realized! I am
a Mahatmaji," do not trust him. It cannot be truly said in
ego terms. We are all Mahatmajis when "we" are not; but
only a few are aware of this death and live it. "We are such
stuff as dreams are made on, and our brief life is rounded by a
sleep." (Shakespeare)
~ ~ ~
At one level of consciousness, the ego mind,
sex and duality -- with their desires, lusts and fears -- reign
supreme. At another level of awareness, they appear unimportant
and cease to matter. In a third mode of "Being
awareness," they cease to exist.
~ ~ ~
Although a Guru is perhaps more enlightened
and more mature, he or she is, nevertheless, a personality as you
and I. When we aware the infinite wisdom, then we no longer need
a mediator. The Real Guru is ever within ouselves. It is our
Self.
Chapter 31. There is Only the One
A Christian missionary asked a Zen Master,
"Is not the end point of man's journey the union with
God?" The Master replied, "No, the end point of a man's
journey is not union, because there was never any
separation." The Source and I are a non-dual One. Awakening
into Christ- consciousness, we aware the oceanic existence and,
awarely be the non-dual experiencing in Grace. It is
"Self-experiencing," dear egoji. Thou art thy Self, the
object of thy search, says Wuji. Wu!
All that is needed is an intuitive flash
within you, which reveals Reality -- Grace Awareness, the
Vastness, the Wholeness and the All Rightness. Wake up from your
duality dream and aware that All is one, a non-dual One. The
Source and I are One. "We are always aware, Sunyata."
We have always been one with Existence, Love, Light, God, Self,
Truth and Reality.
Synchronicity happens. All happens by
itself, spontaneously and providentially. The ultimate prayer is
a monologue, not a dialogue between Thou and I. ... The Source
and I are a non-dual One. In the intuitive Light, all your
distinctions, fragmentations and divisions disappear. The
"thou" and the "me" also vanish. The
enlightened person is no longer there. Egoji has vanished like a
shadow in the Self Sun; Samsara is Nirvana. You cannot
know your Self, God, Reality. You can only be. Beauty is
always of the beyond. It is in the eye and the consciousness of
the beholder, who is open and clear to aware and to reflect it
purely. Wu!
To know God is to be God. To aware a Buddha,
a Christ or a Christ conscious Being, there is That within you
which reflects purely, which re-cognizes its Self. There is Self
radiance in the oceanic Existence. Distinctions of Time and Death
disappear in the intuitive light of wholeness and Grace
awareness.
God is happening all the eternal while yet
no-thing is happening. God is not a thing and not even a sexy She
or Ma. It is divine no-thing-ness, no ego, no mind -- "anatta
[non-self]." God happens ego-freely, cause-freely,
providentially and Self radiantly. Wu! Dear egoji, let God happen
and be at joyous, graceful and grateful ease. That is my
advice in the invisible Real, in plenum void, in sunyata,
in wu-ness.
Desiring a state of freedom from desire will
not set you free. Nothing can set you free, because you are not
free. Aware your Self with desire-free clarity -- that's all.
Delve within and aware what is Real in you. Even if I tell you
that you are the witness, the silent watcher, it will mean
nothing to you unless you aware the way to your true being. Give
up all questions except one, "What or who am I?" After
all, the only fact you are sure of is, that you Are. The "I
am" is certain; the "I am this" is not. Seek find,
aware and experience what you are in Reality. The "I
am" itself is God. Seeking Self is to seek God.
Ordering info: http://www.bluedove.com/new_repr/descrip/DanWit.html