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http://www.stillnessspeaks.com/ssblog/self_realization_of_endless_enlightenment/
Endless
Enlightenment
Is one
"enlightened" with the cessation of identification with
manifest form - body, mind, emotions, and all aggregates of
personal identity?
Is one "enlightened" when one feels one's self expanded
as all that is?
Is one "enlightened" when one feels one's Self to be
only "That" within which all arises?
Is one "enlightened" with the cessation of
identification even as "That"?
Is one
"enlightened" when one feels one's self to be neither
all that arises, nor "That" within which all arises?
Is one "enlightened" with the advent of ever-present,
effortlessly arising Bliss?
Is one "enlightened" with the cessation of all
grasping?
Liberation is liberation from Liberation.
There is no "enlightenment"; only Endless Enlightening.
~ ~ ~
What now?
What now?
The knowing mind is crippled by Wonder.
Like the vanished shadow of suffering, no seeking remains.
What now?
No movement here or there,
To this, from that.
Here in the Fullness and Completion,
Of the Beloved’s embrace,
I Rest.
What now for the jobless mind?
Take heart, old friend,
Curiosity and Wonder are your new delights.
What now?
Not a clue!
Laughter bursts forth, never before heard.
Huge, unbridled, Free.
How rude!
Who is this boisterous barbarian of Joy?!
Outrageous!
Not a clue!
http://www.nondualityleicester.com/?page_id=14
The storylines are seen
now.
There’s an awareness
of the apparent personality patterns that emerge and re-emerge
continuously.
So predictable.
Conditioned.
Sometimes, so heavy and
dark.
Other times, so light and
comical.
Sometimes, so chaotic and
frightening.
Other times, so joyful
and nonsensical.
There’s freedom
amidst these complex patterns and narratives that seem to play
out in this life,
And there’s nobody
here causing them to happen or in control of them.
No freewill.
And yet, complete
liberation.
Liberation ‘I’
will never know.
Liberation that is sensed
at a deeper ‘level’.
Liberation that is never
not sensed because there is only one level: THIS.
Stories and patterns
simply arise.
For no one.
Thought says, “This
shouldn’t be happening” or “What if this state
ends?”
Thoughts seem to make
these happenings so personal.
But there is no ‘personal’,
just THIS.
Every thing points to
Oneness.
Everything IS Oneness,
Even ‘my’
storylines and patterns.
- Nic
Responding to a writing
by Jeff Foster in issue #3645 - http://nonduality.com/hl3645.htm - Vemuri Ramesam says...
I have reasons to believe
that the first Question that Jeff referred to regarding the
hunger of the African girl was the one posed by me, though
understandably he did not mention names. He acknowledges it
to be a great question. And thanks for that.
And what does come out at
the end of all that long-winded blow hot blow cold response about
the hunger?
A frustration that
clearly stands out glaringly in our face as apparent from the two
interrogatives in additon to the the swearing words in the
ultimate sentence of his.
And just before venting
the frustration, he says, "Feed her."
Can anything be more
naive? Was it not our very beginning question? Is not
the "feeding" the very problem in the
world? Have we not come back to square one?!
Whether it is the roach
running to save its life from the lizard on the wall over there
or a pack of panthers chasing a bison cruelly biting into the
delicate parts of its butt in the forest, it is all about
"feeding." The prey-predator struggle, the
cunning methods of aggression of the predator, the camouflage of
the prey to save itself, the violence of the killer and the
guaranteed misery for the victim are all about
"feeding."
Humans continued this
evolutionarily ingrained nature of biological systems to appease
their dependence on food with their own covert and overt tricks
of exploitation and victimization.
The non-exclusivity or
all-inclusivity of Advaita hardly eliminates any of these
dependencies and the inevitable violence beyond numbing certain
qualia / reactions. That is why it appears to me that Advaita
eliminates the "sufferer" rather than
"suffering" per se.
When the
"sufferer" ends but the body organism continues to
live, he/she becomes a Jivanmukta. His/her body, apparent
or otherwise, needs oxygen, food, water etc., though he/she sees
a Oneness and the snake-like illusiory appearance of the
world has ceased. It should really be quite revealing if we can
investigate how the neuronal networks in the brain of a
Jivanmukta function.
thanks and regards,
v. ramesam