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Originally Posted by Iamit
Even if tendancies/dispositions remain not based on the idea of a separate self, they still do not require to be dislodged if gathered in as Oneness manifest by the resonance with "All is One". If they are not yet gathered in, resonance has not yet been consolidated, But the head is in the tigers mouth and that vulnerable position may well result in consolidation. Perhaps in satsang when the idea that All is One being totally inclusive may be reinforced.
But an important additional message is that even if such a consolidation has not yet occurred, the seeker is no less connected than if it had. In this way no additional burdens of stuff to do are loaded onto the seeker who is already burdened enough. This message is often left out and the seeler is left feeling that they are in a lesser state than those who are ""Enlightened" when the "Enlightened" are no more or less connected than the seeker.
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Yes it’s true that the seeker is no less ‘connected’ to oneness than the so-called ‘enlightened’. But unless the seeker wakes up to this truth they remain a seeker and are therefore burdened with seeking.
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This realisation is simplicity itself. But habits of mind create a wall of resistance to it. At any given moment there is simply the happening or be-ing of ‘what is’. No matter what I (as in the body-mind-personality) do or how I do it - it is always, already the happening of ‘what is’.
‘What is’ in this usage refers to this which is inescapably the case - existence, reality, life, be-ing, creation, source, oneness, tao. Many refer to it as awareness or consciousness. Those who are the most cautious simply point to THIS or thus-ness…
Whatever we call it, this realisation gives rise to the sense of a greater ordering of things beyond the confined sense of a separate self. In the moment of this insight, the sense of ‘I’ points straight through the body-mind to that which gives rise to it - the radiance of reality itself.