Henry
David Thoreau (1817-62),
U.S.
philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden, "Economy"
(1854).
Some one comes to you and says, "Heal
me, I'm in pain."
Who is this person? This person is the one
awareness being all there is, this person is you, this person
is God. It's not just their pain that is the illusion, the appearance
of being separate from them is an illusion. The Truth is you
are totally one and the same infinite being, there is no separation
between the "two" of you whatsoever.
Where does the illusion of pain come from?
From the belief in duality. You cannot view you and "someone
else" as someone apart from you and expect their illusion
of pain to go away, because the origin of the illusion is the
belief that there is anything apart from you. When you realize
duality is not true, then you are all there is. If there is only
one, YOU must be that one. Not any beliefs about yourself or
any of the illusions about yourself that originate from those
beliefs, but the awareness in back and behind those beliefs that
remains the same ability to be aware no matter what it is aware
of. Your awareness is the ONLY thing about you that is all there
is. EVERYTHING else about you is an illusion. You being God's
awareness, aware of yourself as infinite awareness is the only
thing about you that is all there is. EVERYTHING else about you
is an illusion.
The appearance of a person separate and apart
from you coming to you for help is merely an illusionary echo
of your belief in duality. So you realize that the appearance
of separation between you is absolutely nothing and you see this
person as yourself, the one infinite awareness being totally
aware of its infinite perfection, God. You simultaneously intend
to see this and are receptive to seeing it at the same time,
you simultaneously intend to know God and are receptive to receiving
God (the still small voice, the Word of God, the Holy Spirit,
Enlightenment, Bliss, Rapture, Ecstasy, Illumination, Light)
at the same time. You are simultaneously masculine and feminine
at the same time. You fuse into one the human duality of male
and female, being and knowing, existence and awareness, giving
and receiving, intending and accepting.
Your male side, so to speak, actively knows
the truth: "This person is one with me, all there is is
God, and this person and I are one as God, this person and I
are the one and the same infinite awareness being all there is,
and all appearances to the contrary are nothing whatsoever."
At the same time, your feminine side, so to speak, is receptive,
open, dilating awareness to "receive" enlightenment.
God is the oneness of what the belief in masculinity and femininity
has split into two. And so within your own self you move towards
that oneness, joining back together within yourself what man
has put asunder. With every fiber of all your masculine potency
you KNOW God is all there is, and at the same time, in exquisitely
feminine, delicate and tender openness you relax your emotional
armor, you relax your resistances, desires, aversions and fears
and allow your awareness to dilate and surrender to being enraptured
by God.
But you have to do both at the same time.
As long as you experience yourself as something less than God,
you have fragmented yourself into male and female, and you experience
TWO dynamics within yourself instead of ONE. So you will only
be supporting the idea of duality if you engage only in one or
the other of the two dynamics. You must discover how the two
dynamics are in fact ONE. You may start off alternating between
the two, THINKING/ KNOWING God is all there is with all your
masculine potency, and then FEELING/ LISTENING in feminine dilated
openness. The Truth is they are not two, but one. So engage in
them as one dynamic, rather than as two.
So you simultaneously know and feel the truth
about you and this person coming to you for help. If you have
to alternate between knowing and feeling the truth for a while
that's fine. In actuality, you cannot know the truth without
feeling it, nor can you feel the truth without knowing it. What
does the oneness of you and the "other" person feel
like? Love. What is it that you know about you and this "other"
person? Oneness. You really cannot feel love without knowing
oneness, nor can you know oneness without feeling love. So you
really cannot engage in the masculine dynamic of knowing oneness
without at the same time engaging in the feminine dynamic of
feeling love. The appearance of the masculine and feminine dynamics
being dual is an illusion, a lie about the truth that they are
one. So the more you alternate between what starts off as feeling
like two different things, knowing the truth and feeling the
truth, the more you start to experience them as the "Act
of Truth" itself, a oneness of knowing/feeling/loving/being
the most delicate power of all -- God.
It is all a question of sensitiveness.
Brute
force and overbearing may make a terrific effect.
But
in the end, that which lives lives by delicate sensitiveness.
If
it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby
would
survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most
frail
of all things, that supports all life all the time.
But
for the green grass, no empire would rise,
no
man would eat bread: for grain is grass;
and
Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford
would
alike be denied existence.
D.
H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author.
Etruscan
Places, ch. 2 (1932).
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