awareness in spirituality

Question:  I am understanding so much.  What you say makes a lot of sense, but I must put it into practice.  When you say that once perception is awaken the mystery of life must come, do you mean, the spiritual energy of life must come into our everyday life, without us having to do anything in particular?

Adonis:  It is very simple.  All our problems come into being because of a lack of perception.  Awaken perception and all will be clear without you doing anything.  However, you must awaken perception first and all else will be added on to you.  Do you not see how simple this is?  Understand that we must do it and not just talk about it.  Listen and observe your consciousness completely.  Just listen, observe.  Can you just look, that is all?  Simply listen and observe in the fullness of perception of every aspect of your life.  There is nothing unique about what I am saying.  When at once you awaken to that perception, the mystery of life reveals its vastness. 

Negation of the self is crucial for the sacredness to come.  The self is a false thing occupying the temple of your being.  How can the sacred enter your temple when you are occupied with noise, darkness and chaos?  There is no grey area in this.  It is one or the other.  Either one is intoxicated with God or oneself.  In the negation of the self, which is a false entity, the sacred essence comes within your very being.

Question:  When you say in the clarity of perception the self must dissolve, do you mean in the midst of dissolving the self that the self does not have a clue of this physical plane?  When you say observe myself, I am to observe my feelings, thoughts and images, yes?  I am sure we have spoken about this before, but in the path of perception, I notice the self tends to repeat the same questions repeatedly.  Can you tell me why?

Adonis:  Now, when I use the word perception I am going beyond the senses.  The totality of perception is pure awareness, awake and fully alert.  I am only concerned with the wholeness of perception beyond the limitations of the mind and no-mind.  For there to be perception there cannot be a perceiver.  When there is the perceiver then 'you' are there.  When you are there, there is division, chaos and confusion.  Observe yourself without judgment, without correction and acceptance.  Just observe.  In the clarity of perception, the self dissolves.  (It must dissolve in the totality of perception, because the lack of perception is the illusion.)  Therefore, you simply correct the crisis at the very root.  The illusion of duality came into being because of the lack of perception.  Realize, the negation of this divided outlook on life through non-dual perception is paramount.  It takes no effort at all.  You, do nothing.  Just let the listening and watching of effortless meditation take place.

Take a glimpse within the working of the mind, just for a moment.  Now, if you are intelligent and have been listening to all that we have been saying, whenever the mind is making any noise, there is this intense watchfulness of every thought, every emotion and every image without any desire to correct, accept or reject anything that comes to the mind.  If a thought comes, this intense perception watches it from the beginning, during and end.  Even the space before the thought, the space between the thought and the space at the end of the thought.  There is this aliveness of perception that does not condemn, judge, hold, accept or reject any thought or feeling.  It only witnesses the happening.  There is no 'me' doing anything.  Then without effort, the mind becomes perfectly still and quiet.  There is no perceiver, only the fullness of perception.  You may call this meditation because there is no person within the body that is meditating.  In fact, there is no one at all.  Then you discover that the essence of meditation is the chink in the psychological armor of the ego-entity that destroys all darkness. 


 

Now, since we have gone this deep, let us go even deeper.  The concepts and ideas dictated throughout the world about meditation are false.  He, who meditates, obviously knows nothing about meditation.  It is the art of meditation without a meditator.  As long as there is a person, a personality or an identifying thinker that is meditating then meditation cannot come into being.  Simply watch without resistance, observe every thought-feeling without interference.  Then you discover the perceiver is the perceived.  Then there is oneness.  In this realization, all thought-feelings dissolve and the perception that is beyond the mind and no-mind, which is composed of the perceiver and the perceived, come without admonition. That peace comes with complete understanding beyond words, theories and ideologies.  It is to end completely without a trace of you remaining.  There are no remains, a total ending of the illusion of division and darkness.  To see this is to realize that there is nothing for you to accumulate as experience or knowledge.  All you are doing is negating the false, by seeing the self for what it is, so the truth may be revealed within you. 

Without warning, the mind goes into this stillness.  Nothing, not a sound, no movement.  When there is nothing, you are spotless.  A holistic seeing into all things comes into being.  It is like the whole universe and everything in life is within you.  This clarity of perception comes into being when the mind is not. 

Like a sculptor cutting away at the harden marble until his masterpiece of creation is revealed.  It is to discover what may already be there.  It is through meditation that the darkness of the self is cast aside so the radiance of love, beauty and bliss may come forth in all its glory. 

Adonis Alexander
(Author of Secret Sayings of Adonis)

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