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Date Posted: 18:02:09 04/29/02 Mon
In reply to:
Cassandra
's message, "Re: More Stuff" on 14:24:23 04/29/02 Mon
"There is a simultaneity of absolute and relative in this awakening that is unprecedented. This paradox cannot really be grasped or understood until it is actually your own experience."
Well expressed, Cassie.
I'll add some:
I expected expanded states of consciousness to be associated with this simultaneity, and that is not the case at all, but if they ever occur at all and when they appear at all, they come unstrived for and unbidden, and like before, they go; they are temporary and they are certainly no "wonderful" distraction like they were prior to this simultaneity; samadhis are no longer yearned for.
Before this simultaneity appears, you expect it to something other than the way you are now, and in one way (the "fusedness") it is, but in another way, it's unexpectable: it's exactly the way you are now - and this can't be emphasized enough - it is so ordinary as to be almost - but not quite! - unnoticed (else why would we be trying to describe it).
This simultaneity is experienced without a thought, but you are free to think as much as you want.
This simultaneity is known by you (You) and is unshakable,
but situations in your life may present themselves with
greater intensity like an earthquake to you because you can no longer "run away" from them.
In this simultaneity, you can no longer dissociate from anything, nor would you even bother to try, because such dissociation is a feature of life prior to this simultaneity.
This simultaneity is your (Your) natural state and This is great relief, but at times the greater intensity can feel - and I mean feel - like no relief.
In this simultaneity, mutuality, especially in person, increases the intensity so that it cannot be almost unnoticed.
This simultaneity is known without a doubt, but you can
have doubts within it, but not about it.
I could continue to prattle on but how much compost does my guava plant really need at any one time.
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