The Notion of the Illusionary Self
In your present,
individual state of consciousness you identify with the thoughts and emotions
that appear in your mind, so you believe that you are a separate, illusionary
person, an Ego. Living as an Ego in this world, you attempt to stabilize your
illusionary sense of self. You believe that the more (knowledge, material
wealth) you add to your Ego, the stronger and more permanent it will be.
Passing time
will, however, prove you wrong, since the illusionary self is just a shape and as
such is subordinate to the eternal law of the world of shapes and forms. The
law is that of the law of change which stipulates that in that world, the world
of shapes and forms, it is not possible to stabilize anything, as everything is
in the process of constant changes. Your thoughts and emotions keep changing,
and so does their centre, the Ego, with them.
Your sufferings are cause by the fact that you attempt to stabilize something that cannot be stabilized by nature. But you fail to recognize that, since you fully identified with the Ego, and forgot that you are in fact pure Consciousness, free of identifications.
An Unchanging Factor
There is,
however, one factor that remains unchanged in your life through the years, and
that is the sense that ”I am.” As a result of the identification with your mind
and its functions, the emphasis shifts from ”I am” to ”I am this and that” (I
am a man, I am American, I am a doctor, I am a father etc.).
The concept of
”I am this and that” is in constant change, as they are all bound to the
objects of the forms and shapes. The only
thing not subject to change, what is beyond ”I am,” is the formless Consciousness.
You must wake up
from the deep stupor of identification, you need to become alert, because that
is the only way for you to abandon your identification with the thoughts, the
works of the mind, and that is how you are able to shake off your illusionary
existence.
If you are alert,
only the here and now exist for you, and you may discover the quiet Presence
behind the illusionary and constantly changing small Ego, the ”I am” which in
turn you may recognize as your real and unchanging Self.
This state of
consciousness is characterized by deep silence and tranquility. When you
submerge into this quietness, the duality between you and the world ceases to
exist, and in that Presence you are amalgamated into one unity with the
universe. That is how the emphasis is shifted from ”I am this and that,” that
is, from the forms and shapes to ”I am,” that is, to the existence free of
forms and shapes. Alertness thus becomes a form of existence for you.
If you identify
with your thoughts and continue to live as an Ego, dreaming that you are
already awake, then you will be content with the outermost dimension of Alertness.
In this way, you will feel no urge to become fully awake, to be introduced into
the deeper dimensions of Alertness. Consequently, you will find the fact that I
see you sleeping utterly absurd, since you think that you are awake.
In that case,
only a completely radical event that shakes your life all the way down to the foundations
may alarm you from the dream of your identifications.
The Signs of Awakening
In these days it
seems that identification with the forms and shapes becomes more and more superficial
at an increasing number of people. In these people something from the deeper
dimensions of Alertness appears to emerge.
With the
appearance of the deeper dimensions of Alertness, a gap is generated in you
between the world of forms and shapes and the world without these, that is
between ”I am this and that” and ”I am.” One of the signs that you are on the way towards awakening
is when you begin to feel your current, limited existence, bound to your Ego is
of very poor quality, and you begin to suspect that there are deeper, more
profound mysteries behind your life.
Another sign of your awakening is the permanent
restlessness, rooted in an unconscious desire. This desire comes from an
ancient, long forgotten centre of your soul, from the deeper dimensions of
Alertness.
The Ego lends a form to that unconscious desire by
directing it towards an external objective in the world of forms and shapes.
The objective is to become as perfect as possible within the limits of your
external circumstances. You wish to include the stabilized, allegedly permanent
Ego in that perfection as well. Naturally, you intend to achieve that goal some
time in the future.
The mind, with
which you currently identify, is full of currents and streams: thoughts and
emotions come and go all the time. This is your present state of existence. The
first signs of the deeper dimensions of Alertness loosen the glue of your
identification with the mind, so you will be able to gain more and more
experience of the free spaces of the Consciousness, and you recognize that you
are not an isolated, small self, but the Consciousness itself.
Recognizing
yourself as Consciousness is independent of all the activities of the mind. This
recognition will only come if you have had some experience of the deeper
dimensions of Alertness.
Exit from Your
Personal History
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When you experience
the deeper dimensions of Alertness you stop and at the same time you exit from
your personal history and give up searching. It means that you divert your
attention from the world of forms and shapes, and you no longer wish to find
yourself in the world of forms.
Stopping is the
consequence of a shift of attention within your Consciousness. Stopping does
not mean the stoppage of your mind, as you have assumed previously. Some of the
spiritual teachings suggest that stoppage is equal to emptying the mind,
usually through various, forced exercises. The mind will, naturally, stop, but
you will not need to impose it on yourself by spiritual exercises, as it will
be the consequence of the shift of attention in your consciousness.
How does this
shift take place? It is not
something one is able to force or impose upon them; no effort is capable of
achieving that. It is an experience that simply happens to you. That is
when you experience something from the deeper dimensions of Alertness.
This is not something that may only occur to the
chosen few. It has happened to almost every human being, including you, a few
times. You were not alert enough, that is why you failed to realize what was
happening to you. At the moment when the shift of attention is taking place
Alertness emerges. A space appears in you, you have the ability of seeing, and
you may contemplate what is happening to you as an external observer.
Then, like in a flashlight, you see and recognize the
reality of your existence, that is, you are not an illusionary small self, but
a Consciousness free of forms. That recognition is not the result of the
analytical work of the mind, but of a series of realizations inspired by the
inner quiet. These realizations can be best compared to seeing (that is why
various spiritual teachings refer to such people as Seers) and it works like a
revelation. That is what I call the power
of Sight.
The moments of Sight are, however, brief because of
the lack of your Alertness and the restarting activities of the Mind. Sight brings you the experience that stoppage is an
inactive moment of the mind, silence between thoughts. In that silence you
experience consciousness without forms, and you may recognize that you are in
fact a Presence without thoughts. In the moments of Sight you recognize the activities
of mind, and you no longer follow them. You
recognize the simple fact that with the help of the mind you are not able to
reach beyond the mind.
By experiencing the deeper dimensions of Alertness,
the capability of Sight, you also recognize that you are fully independent of
the mind, you are but a witness of what is happening in and around you. Once
you have ceased to identify with your mind, you immediately experience that
fact. That is why you should detach yourself from the mind, and stay in the
position of the eyewitness. That is the state of spatial consciousness, in
which the light of Consciousness, Presence shines out bright.
The Ability to See
The capability of Sight, however, cannot be obtained, practiced,
you cannot make it the brightest gem of your spiritual Ego. The capability of
Sight is now at your disposal, since it is identical with your original Self. But
thick clouds of thoughts obscure your chances of recognizing that, they prevent
you from seeing clearly.
There is, however, some good news to you: I can
explain how to dispel the fog and the clouds, how you are able to release the
deeper dimensions of Alertness in yourself.
In the following
we shall see how you are able to experience the deeper dimensions of Alertness.
Are you Awake?
All you have to do is to complete the following Conscious Alertness Quiz.
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