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Very beautiful meditation 🙏♥️🙏

Dear Bill, I’m sorry that we are not communicating well with each other. Basically, I’m reacting to your continuing focus on how you feel and how you are searching as a separate individual mind. This includes the consideration of a possible balance in the universe of good and evil, [which actually only applies to human relationships, not to the rest of the Universe, which simply functions according to the physical laws of nature (indeed, most of the Universe consists of hard vacuum, which is non-existence of matter and energy)].

I react to all this sharing of your personal struggle to understand because I see it as a story of seeking and limitation. We all have these stories. But we are all here in this fellowship and series of meetings because we are learning about our true nature as Consciousness Itself. We are learning that our stories can never resolve, can never be a tool for growth, because they are rooted in our conditioning, our firm beliefs that resulted from growing up in a stressed world and family.

That is why I keep trying to point to pure awareness. It alone is the real solution to all our questions and seeking. It is both God and Self. It is the observer, and indeed is the only conscious observer that there is. All else, humans, animals, objects, events, space, and time, are all apparent happenings inside the unchanging Awareness, the one and only consciousness that exists.

If you want to make progress, stop focusing on stories and analysis. Listen to Mooji’s Invitations to Freedom and see for yourself how simple and freeing is our pure awareness. And listen to the first session of any of Rupert’s retreats to hear clear pointing to this same truth. Drop the mind and discover the field of freedom from problems, which is also peace/awareness/joy, accessible in any moment of noticing.

I say all of this in love, hoping to be heard.

I don’t relate much to Christianity or the Bible, since I was not raised as a Christian. I do appreciate that, like other religions, the nondual Truth can be found in Christianity, as was firmly held by Swami Vivekananda at the end of the nineteenth century, and by the Ramakrishna Order ever since. I do agree that the truth of reality is universal.

Rupert has said that meditation is what we are, not what we do. I assume that probably refers to what a fully realized person is. But I think this passage expresses that well (if we don’t let our many mental constructs and prejudices get in the way).

Holger this is the third request to have you unsubscribe me from receiving comment updates. I’m not interested in receiving an email every time someone comments here. Please, no more personal emails appealing for me to reconsider, I’d just appreciate you do this. I can read the comments on my own time, at my own leisure. As you may not have considered, I must monitor my phone for work purposes, for responding to emergencies. The less I am interrupted with excess notifications the better. If I could turn these notifications off myself, I would do so. Thank-you.

There seems to be no published book with the name similar to “The Search for Enlightenment: Is Death…”.

Nice parallel.

Some kinds of philosophy are about intellectual progress, such as the Philosophy of Science and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Some are about religion, such as Christian Philosophy (including Scholasticism, Epistemology, Theology, and Thomism). Some are practical philosophies of life, such as the six major schools of Vedic philosophy–Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Sankhya, Yoga, Mimansa, and Advaita Vedanta.

I don’t think you see the whole picture here, David. It’s easy to pick things apart without ever discovering what someone means. I try to say throughout my discussion that the True Self is never out of balance, only the separate self.
Our zoom meetings throw my separate self “out of balance,” but in considering this issue, I realized that it only applies to the separate self; and I believe the Tao is saying that (“See the world as your self/ Have faith in the way things are”). The Tao exposes duality as an illusion. I say, “The true self never requires balance.” I also say “the Tao leads us back to the one source.” Balance requires “two-ness,” and only appearances are out of balance.
I definitely may not have been clear or explicit enough, now that I read it again. But also, you may not have read it with a desire to understand (as opposed to critique).
I would really like to be your friend, David, but I don’t find it easy. But I admit that most of my friendships in life have not been easy, so it’s probably about me.