Here's a quote first. Then we can discuss anything that
"divides" us <ggg>
THE SEVEN STAGES OF LIFE
<<<In the literature of Adidam, Which is the Way that I have Revealed and Demonstrated for the sake of all and All, I have Described the seven potential stages of the progressive development of human life. Briefly, the seven stages of human life may be summarized as follows:
In the first three stages of life, the gross body-mind complex is developed and coordinated. First, the gross physical is developed, then the emotional-sexual functions are developed and coordinated with the gross physical, and (finally) the mental functions and the function of the will are developed and coordinated with the emotional-sexual and gross physical functions. Optimally, all of this is nurtured, guided, and done in the context of love, trust, and surrender in relation to the Living Divine (or the All-Pervading and All-Transcending Real God, or Truth, or Reality).
In the fourth stage of life, this now complex psycho-physical being is surrendered beyond itself, to and into the (All-Pervading and All-Transcending) Source (or Source-Condition) that Pervades (and yet Transcends) it and the total world. This surrender is done to the point of conditional union with that Source (or Source-Condition). In due course, such conditional union becomes, by Divine Grace, conditional union with the Spiritual Presence (or Spirit-Current) of that Source (or of that Source-Condition, Truth, or Reality), and this in occasions of experienced Bliss (first descending, then, in due course, ascending) that involve and (simultaneously) transcend the body-mind.
In the fifth stage of life, this process is continued, but the plane of conditional self-awareness ascends further, to become dominantly subtle (or psychic), rather than gross (or merely physical)-and the Realization of conditional union involves experiences of ascended attention that eventually go beyond physical references and (at last) even beyond mental references.
In the sixth stage of life, attention (which is the root, or base, of the mind) is inverted (or, by one or another means, surrendered), away from gross and subtle states and objects of the body-mind, and toward its own Root, even the Ultimate Root of the ego-self-Which is the Witness-Consciousness (when attention is active), and Which is also (Ultimately) Consciousness Itself (prior to objects and separate self-definition). The Ultimate result of this exercise is conditional Realization of the Transcendental Self-Condition, or the intuition of Self-Existing Transcendental Being, which intuition remains strategically (and, otherwise, tacitly) dissociated from all objects (even if, as in the case of sixth stage "Sahaj Samadhi", the natural perception and conception of phenomenal objects is freely allowed).
In the seventh stage of life, there is Native and Non-conditional (or Inherent, and Inherently Most Perfect) Identification with Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Transcendental (and Self-Evidently Divine) Being, the Ultimate (Divine) Identity of all beings (or subjects) and the Ultimate (Divine) Self-Condition of all conditions (or objects). This Native (or Inherent) and Inherently Most Perfect Identification (or Divine Self-Abiding) is directly Realized, entirely apart from any dissociative act of inversion. And, while so Abiding, if any conditions arise (or if any states of body-mind arise), they are simply (Divinely) Self-Recognized in the Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Condition of Being (as transparent, or merely apparent, and un-necessary, and inherently non-binding, modifications of Itself). Such is seventh stage Sahaj Samadhi, and It is Inherently Free of any apparent implications, limitations, or binding power of phenomenal conditions. If no conditions arise to the notice, there is simply the Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Condition of Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and Self-Evidently Divine Being. Such is Absolute (or Inherently Most Perfect) Realization of That about Which nothing sufficient can be said-and there is not Anyone, Anything, or Anywhere beyond It to be Realized.>>>
FROM: The Seven Stages Of Life
Bill, I am sure there is lots there to keep us going for a while. I actually find it very helpful to understand where you are coming from when you give me back something from CWG that relates, either in agreement or "difference"
Namaste
Jim |
