There may be a sense of lightness and understanding that you are not this limited character, and that you are not obliged to follow the script that has been set out for your life. This knowing, once recognized and established in the mind, may give the ego a feeling of relative freedom from its own conditioning a sort of loosening of the chains. When one awakens, one realizes with a direct knowing that “I am not this limited mind/body”. Hell is identification with the limited self, which is the creation or coming into being of the duality of self and other. Whenever there is any kind of distinguishing between self and other, then one is in hell, which is nothing but the cycle of egoic activity (craving and aversion). Jean-Paul Sartre famously said “Hell is other people.” When this statement is examined deeply, a profound truth is revealed. In Christian terms you could say that when one is identified with the limited self it is hell, and when one is free of the limited self, it is heaven. The world of one who is suffering in Samsara is identical to the world of one who is awakened, except that the former is mediated by the false self. The illusion of separation falls away revealing that everything has always been that one primordial consciousness. Even that is not entirely true nothing actually merges because nothing was really separate. Samadhi is when the world that is constantly changing merges or unites with the changeless. The pathless path is to realize an ever-deepening development process within the self structure, and to simultaneously realize our true nature, which is the primordial awareness beyond name and form. The ground of your being is perfect in its nondual empty-fullness, eternal in its dynamic stillness, unbound as it exists everywhere and nowhere. The two aspects of existence are that which changes, and that which does not change. There is no Yin without Yang, just as there is no cup without the emptiness inside. Yin and Yang together form an inseparable unified totality. From the perspective of the dual world, there are two parts or two paths to Samadhi. Turn awareness away from the illusion towards awareness itself and allow everything to be as it is until you have realized the true Self or God, which is the awakened consciousness that does not come and go. Simply cease valuing and chasing illusions, and the source will reveal itself. Liberation is the end of seeking, and the realization of the false self that is trying to attain something.ĭo not seek enlightenment or extraordinary states of being, since all seeking is the activity of the ego. If you are not careful, the mind can lead you down a path of endless seeking in an attempt to add more to yourself. Prajna or wisdom of the truth is waking up to what is always already present. The mind might ask “how can I realize myself as this pure awareness?” The desire to capture the truth always comes from the egoic mind which wants to acquire awareness, but it can never acquire it because it is the very thing that has to surrender for it to be realized. It is always aware and yet is not separate from what is observed. In Vedanta it is called turiya, the fourth state, the ground of your existence. Primordial awareness is aware of the coming and going of these states, but it does not come and go. In so-called “normal” life we are aware of three states of consciousness waking, dreaming and deep sleep, and these states come and go. Primordial awareness is not what we normally refer to as consciousness it is what is aware of consciousness as it changes from one state to another. The ancient mystics, yogis and seers have said that everything is primordial awareness, or non-dual consciousness which is simultaneously emptiness and form (all that is ). The path is a stripping away of illusion, a letting go of identification with a limited self, so that one wakes up exactly where one is. The path to Samadhi is not the sort of path where one puts one foot in front of another in order to get to some destination.
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