What it is shared here is a completely radical and uncompromising message. It has no prescriptions and does not suggest anything to do at all. It does not ask you to be a particular way, but rather that you are not required to be at all.
It speaks about what has always been present and is right now but it was and is completely overlooked. It tries to describe a paradox.
When we are born the sense of separation between the body and whatever surrounds it is not present, then after a few years the identity arises and everyone around you will confirm to you that you are a real person, with free will and choice, that you have to work hard to become worthy, satisfied… you have to make your life work. A feeling of contraction is present and it becomes the centre by which all thoughts, emotions and actions seems to arise from.You are now someone and life is happening to you, you have to defend yourself with threats, you seek pleasure and avoid pain. You really believe that you can do all of these things. We become seekers, looking for something that can fullfill a subtle dissatisfaction, a subtle but deep sense of lack. What this message describes is that the belief of having an identity, a separate me amongst separate others in a separate world is an illusion. There is no one and there never was. Everything just happens and there is no one ever in control of anything.
There is no one right now reading this even if something there is strongly convinced that this is not the case. There is just THIS and it is NOTHING appearing as THIS. This cannot be understood or grasped by the me, but something can resonate there as this is the real nature of what is. In THIS ALL-NESS everything can arise, even the sense that separation is real, and that sense can fall away. There is no need or cause for that to happen. The illusion can remain until death or it can collapse right now.
When this is seen (by no-one) it becomes clear that what we were longing for all along has never gone away. There is just everything and nothing. THIS is pure joy, love and freedom.
Emotions, thoughts, feelings can still arise then in This, but they are not owned by a separate someone. There is no personal suffering any-more, there is just a flow of energy.
The seeing of THIS is not an experience that you can make happen by doing, because in this seeing you won’t be there. THIS does not belong to anyone.
The seeing of THIS, the so called awakening, liberation or enlightenment, can or cannot happen. There is no direction or purpose in LIFE. There is no-one there that can do anything about it. Even when an imagined you feels hopeless and helpless there is only hopelessness and helplessness happening.
Sannyas
Leaves go Where the wind blows, Where the breath of the Divine Carries them. To be One with Life itself All that is required Is that we have no anchors And dance freely. There is no dancer, There is only the dance, All are caught in The Breath that arises Out of the Stillness Of Being. Sometimes two or more leaves Are blown together Down the same street In the same direction For a time together And then they part. It is possible that they will meet again When the same breeze that guides them And separates them Joins them in its swirling. This is how we meet and depart in Life We are caught up in the flow Of the Divine’s breath. To be let go in this Is to be rested in the hands Of the Divine. THIS is SANYAS, Allowing, Going, coming, Observing without interfering, Just Being, Knowing all the while All is the will of existence And ultimately one’s own.
Avasa
This poetry can be found on the CD “Running on Empty” where there are poems read by Avasa with the music of Anando. Info on the CD