| Leo Hartong, Fragen und Antworten |
Nichtduale Highlights # 32b 30. November 2006 Editor: Hans Schulz |
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oder Awakening to the Dream ist eine umfangreiche Website von Leo
Hartong. Es lohnt sich immer wieder mal, den Newsletter der Site zu
lesen. Leo verzichtet nicht auf graphische und humoristische Beigaben
und die machen den Newsletter zu einer speziellen spirituellen
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Question: I have been practising mainly soto zen meditation for over
10yrs and have had no so called awakenings. For the last year I have
become interested in advaita and have read a number of books including
your own.Im not expecting a great awakening to happen anymore but Im still waiting for the penny to drop. Have you any suggestions? Answer: My suggestion is to re-read the book, especially the last chapter and the chapter "Blinded by the light". Not to get IT, but perhaps to 'get' that there really is nothing to get, nor anyone to get it. You see 'awakening' is sort of a disillusionment; the end of illusion - including the illusion of awakening as something to 'get' later on. Full Awakeness is present here and now. It is not an experience for some one; IT is the impersonal Now-Present-Experiencing. It 'not being an experience' may sound 'mystical' but it is as simple as the realization that sight -while clearly present- is not something that can be seen. At this moment there is reading. Perhaps thoughts come up in response to the reading. 'Something' which is not a thing -nor a thought- knows the reading and the thoughts as they appear. This 'some-thing' is the light in which all that is known is lit up. Even the ideas of 'awakening' and the 'you that waits for the penny to drop' are known 'appearances' in this light. There is nothing this 'you-object' can or has to do for this; IT is always already so of it's own accord and without any effort. And even when there is the appearance of effort, it is effortlessly 'known' by -and in- THIS. Whether the thought "Aha, I've got it" or the thought "I'm still waiting for the penny to drop" drifts by, makes no difference to THIS. A full blown mystical experience, or doing the dishes, are both like reflections which do not affect the mirror wherein they appear. The simplicity of this ever present Mirror-like Awareness may be overlooked and dismissed as too simple and ordinary to be the 'holy grail' of all seekers, yet it is the mystery of mysteries and cannot be captured in a net of concepts and ideas; all such attempts are known in this indescribable Awareness. What-You-Are is not limited to this I-dea of the waiting character. You are the All-Inclusive-Silent-Background in which the meditation, this reading, the thoughts and this whole universe appear. Just like this, a sigh of relief, you are already home. |
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Fragen und Antworten Frage:
Ich habe hauptsächlich Soto Zenmeditation über mehr als zehn Jahre
praktiziert und hatte keine sogenannten Erweckungen. Im letzten Jahr
fing ich an, mich für Advaita zu interessieren, habe eine Reihe von
Büchern und auch Ihres gelesen.
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