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a Divine response to the most ancient prayers and longings of human beings to know the Truth of existence and to live in conformity with that Truth.
Both seemed to me mere ideas, possible reactions to a more fundamental (if unconscious) fact. I sought Reality, to be Reality—What is, not what is asserted in the face of What is. —The Knee of Listening
I observed this deep sensation of conflict and endlessly multiplied contradictions, such that I was surrendered to its very shape, as if to experience it perfectly and to be it. Then, quite suddenly, in a moment, I experienced a total revolution in my body-mind, and (altogether) in my humanly-born conscious awareness.
was by means of the breakthrough of the “Bright” Itself, in the midst of that stress of seeking, that the bondage to problem was transcended. It became inherently obvious that what is otherwise sought is That Which Is Always Already the Case. You cannot seek It. Seeking does not achieve It—because to seek It you must presume that It is not the case. So what was necessary, then, simply was to understand the search itself—not pursue it, but understand it. —January 5, 1996
Day after day, wherever He was, Avatar Adi Da would carry a clipboard and a pad of yellow paper, of the kind that could be cheaply bought in stationery stores. On these pages, He would write down all that occurred in His awareness. When He wandered alone on the beach below the remote cottage where He lived, He wrote down every thought and mind-form that arose with each step on the sand, and even His perception of the very action of stepping itself. He was placing His awareness under a powerful microscope, so that its inmost mechanics would stand out and its secret patterning would be revealed.
No longer could there be any doubt about the origin of the impulse to seek. It stood out to Avatar Adi Da that the root of all seeking is the “self”-identity—the presumption of being a separate entity adrift in a threatening world.
happenings, rather than intuitions of major events. Thus, it was becoming evident to Him that the apparently internal and apparently external dimensions of experience are not really separate domains, but are part of one continuum of conscious awareness.
But Real God is simply the Shining, Conscious Being That Is your Nature at all times and under all circumstances.
The perpetual psycho-physical revolutions of My Life had drawn Me, by Means of the “Thumbs”, into a sense of the Perfect Presence. There was simply the sense of being in and of the Transcendental Spiritual Presence That was both Truth Itself and Reality Itself. It was a Perfectly Absorbing, Heartening, and Illuminating Force, That Contained Me, “Lived” Me, and Guided Me. —The Gnosticon
On September 9, 1970, as He sat alone in the temple, Avatar Adi Da fell into a state where He knew Himself only as pure Consciousness, without form. Then, pressing against Him with immense polarized force, He experienced the familiar Spiritual Presence that had been guiding Him, and which He felt to be the Energy, or Power, or Light of all conditionally manifested existence. In the midst of that utterly overwhelming process, all polarity, all separation, all difference resolved in an unspeakable singularity of Love-Bliss.
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The Avatar of What Is by Carolyn Lee presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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