Post by Reefs on Sept 18, 2014 10:39:03 GMT -5
"...it's not a mysterious thing. It's not a spiritually noble thing. It's not a high state. It's actually almost the opposite of all that. It's so normalized and simple and unadorned that it's something that self couldn't actually possibly want, you see. Because at that moment you notice, you didn't end up being something better. There was no prize at the end of the line. There is nothing that you quite have... could you feel how you could mysteriously.. you wouldn't really have to tell much to anybody about that day, would you? It wouldn't be like you have some big insight like sometimes you do, you know, you can have insights and those can be quite transforming too. But this is of a different character. It's something of a totally different character. It's not really an insight necessarily. It's not coming upon a more preferable experience. Although even imagining it your body may experience a certain relaxation, which is nice, but it wouldn't be an achievement. Just be simple.
Everything would be as it was before that day. Nothing would have been solved on that day. Nothing. There would be no guarantee that your life would end up a certain way, that it would be easy, or without any trials or difficulties. There would be no resolution to anything, which strangely enough would be the resolution to darn near everything. Does that make sense? It would almost be - and this is not true - as if something walked off the stage without there being any resolution to anything. But only then did you realize that the problem was that you've been waiting for resolution your whole life, to certain things, you know... "Why am I this way?"... Why do I think that?"... "Why am I all screwed up in this way?"... "Why do I hate my neighbor?"... "Why am I still angry at something that happened forever ago?"... And nothing solved, imagine! Nothing solved. You had no answers to any of those questions. Except that you can just feel that they just wouldn't be a problem anymore. Not because they're been solved, but because you're not trying to solve them anymore. There wouldn't be that constant sort of contraction or insistence on life going a particular way. It would be just, life would go the way life would go..." - Adyashanti
Everything would be as it was before that day. Nothing would have been solved on that day. Nothing. There would be no guarantee that your life would end up a certain way, that it would be easy, or without any trials or difficulties. There would be no resolution to anything, which strangely enough would be the resolution to darn near everything. Does that make sense? It would almost be - and this is not true - as if something walked off the stage without there being any resolution to anything. But only then did you realize that the problem was that you've been waiting for resolution your whole life, to certain things, you know... "Why am I this way?"... Why do I think that?"... "Why am I all screwed up in this way?"... "Why do I hate my neighbor?"... "Why am I still angry at something that happened forever ago?"... And nothing solved, imagine! Nothing solved. You had no answers to any of those questions. Except that you can just feel that they just wouldn't be a problem anymore. Not because they're been solved, but because you're not trying to solve them anymore. There wouldn't be that constant sort of contraction or insistence on life going a particular way. It would be just, life would go the way life would go..." - Adyashanti
