"there is nothing more to life than meets the eye? "
Even more basic than that! (from Adi Da)
<<<(42) When you are simply free, without motion in yourself, then you realize the eternal Reality, the absolute God, Who is not other than any experience at all, not other than any condition whatsoever. Reality or Bliss is the Condition of present conditions, the Reality of present conditions. It is not elsewhere, not inside in the form of a light, a sound, a voice, a vision, an idea, a place. The Realization of the Divinity does not involve the slightest subjective orientation, not even the slightest. On the contrary, the Realization of God is a matter of total, absolute freedom from recoil, contraction, and inwardness. God-Realization is not the inversion of feeling-attention-which is just a way of saying the recoil or contraction of feeling-attention-but the complete release of feeling-attention to Infinity via all of these functions, relations, conditions.
(43) Standing in a position of no recoil in the midst of all conditions, you intuit the Reality and are happy. There is tacit certainty of Happiness in that Realization. It does not necessarily carry with it any experience or any knowledge of what happens after death or what other worlds there are, gross or subtle. Such experience or knowledge may arise, but in themselves they can create no certainty or happiness or love. Quite independent of such knowledge or such experience we may be completely happy and free in any moment. When we are free of the inversion of attention, free of the recoil of feeling-attention, free of the self-directed tendency in relations and in the pattern of experience, when we are so equalized, so fully conscious, so free of reaction and recoil, then we are completely free of the argument of inwardness, of mind, of the belief that Reality is an ultimate cause to be found only through turning within. That whole automated program is lifted from us and becomes totally unnecessary.>>>
Namaste!
Jim |
