Guest guest Report post Posted January 6, 1999 > umbada (Jerry M. Katz) > > You know what? I'm so sick of hearing about being conditioned and > reacting and our false selves and what's wrong with us, that I really > don't give a damn. SO WHAT if I'm conditioned and react and all that? So > what? To worry about it, to acknowledge it, to improve it, isn't any > better than having it. Apart from the primordial state, pure consciousness, everything can be called conditioning. Why add more to it? Of course one could reason the other way around: If there are so many conditionings already, a few more won't be much of a problem. The problem is that people suffer it. People > suffer it and then they suffer getting rid of it. And then they suffer > its absence and then they suffer their coming realizations. Suffering pertains to self. Conditioning pertains to self. Realization pertains to self. No duality without a self. > > The problem is the suffering of it. Not it. I'm sure I've done all kinds > of crazy things in my life, but one understanding has never changed > since the age of 7. I AM. That plainly shines forth. One's real nature doesn't require understanding or a name and it is spontaneously perceived as self-luminous when the mask of self is dropped. > Being there. With I AM. Everything else falls into place. Whether you > call I AM, Jesus or Guru or Your Guru, Sri (put his or her name here), > or whatever. Abide in I AM. Do that first and last and during. Who is to abide in whom? No wonder the Buddha gave up his 5 year practice, gave up self and then... the Big Flash. > Why crunch the gravel on your path, when one stone, quiet and whole, > awaits your full attention? > > Jerry Some of us, going barefoot, prefer a path on the grass without gravel and stones, not fearing the big fiery snake that many want to avoid (:> Jan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
