Love it, Xeno, thanks for posting. Heat wave here today, up to 45. Then Arctic Vortex III tonight. Opportunity to be flexible, ha!
On Sunday, January 26, 2014 9:58 AM, "anartax...@yahoo.com" <anartax...@yahoo.com> wrote: In regards to this, a few weeks ago I was listening to videos on YouTube from various spiritual teachers, and someone had posted a short video of Adyashanti which was titled 'When Self Obsession Falls Away', although from the talk posted itself I would have called the segment 'The Day of Awakening'. It is a very succinct description of how unspectacular it is. I thought it was such a clear description, I have transcribed it here, with a few edits to remove the uhs etc., of speech. [The Day of Awakening] > > >It's not a mysterious thing, it's not a spiritually knowable thing. It's not a >high state. It's actually almost the opposite of all that. It's so normalized >and simple and unadorned. It's something that self couldn't actually possibly >want. > > >Because at that moment, you didn't end up being something better. There was no >prize at the end of the line. There is nothing that you could have said about >it - you wouldn't have much to tell anybody about that day. > > >It wouldn't be like you have a big insight, like sometimes you do have >insights, that can be quite transforming too. But this is of a different >character - its something of a totally different character. It's not really an >insight necessarily, it's not coming upon a more preferable experience, >although you could evenly imagine that your body may experience a certain kind >of relaxation, which is nice, but it wouldn't be, an achievement - it'd just >be simple. Everything would be the way it was before that day. > > >Nothing would have been solved on that day, nothing. There would be no >guarantee that your life would end up a certain way - that it would be easy, >or without any trial or difficulty. There would be no resolution - to anything >- which, strangely enough, would the resolution to darn near everything. It >would almost be - this is not true, but - it would almost be as if something >walked off the stage without there being any resolution to anything. > > >But only then did you realize that the problem was that you had been waiting >for resolution, your whole life, for certain things - Why am I this way? Why >do I think that? Why am I so screwed up in this way? Why do I hate my >neighbor? Why am I so angry at something that happened forever ago? > > >Imagine, nothing solved - nothing solved! > > >You have no answers to any of those questions. Except you can just feel they >would not be a problem any more. Not because they have been solved, but >because you're not trying to solve them anymore. There wouldn't be that >constant sort of contraction or insistance on life going a particular way. It >would be just life would go the way it actually goes.
