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Aldous Huxley speaks of this tradition in The Perennial Philosophy, where he refers to the Divine Being by the Greek term “Logos” (or “Word”). The Logos passes out of eternity into time for no other purpose than to assist the beings, whose bodily form he takes, to pass out of time into eternity. If the Avatar’s appearance upon the stage of history is enormously important, this is due to the fact that by his teaching he points out, and by his being a channel of grace and divine power he actually is, the means by which human beings may transcend the limitations of history… . That men and women may be thus instructed and helped, the godhead assumes the form of an ordinary human being, who has to earn deliverance and enlightenment in the way that is prescribed by the divine Nature of Things—namely, by charity, by a total dying to self and a total, one-pointed awareness. Thus enlightened, the Avatar can reveal the way of enlightenment to others and help them actually to become what they already potentially are… . And, of course, the eternity which transforms us into Ourselves is not the experience of mere persistence after bodily death. There will be no experience of timeless Reality then, unless there is the same or a similar knowledge within the world of time and matter. By precept and example, the Avatar teaches that this transforming knowledge is possible, that all sentient beings are called to it, and that, sooner or later, in one way or another, all must finally come to it.1
He knew that everything was—merely, and simply—existing. There was, for now, no Deep. No Higher. No other. No distance. No past. No future. No serious suffering.
Where is the Consciousness—the Living Force of Reality—that the heart seeks to identify in the midst of the myriad personal and cultural viewpoints potential in human experience?
Below outer awareness, He was always being led by the “Bright”, responding to what He later called a “fierce, mysterious impulse” at the heart of His being. Driven by this hidden Grace, He Submitted to the Unknown and lived His unique Ordeal without any advance knowledge of what it was about or how it would turn out.
Energy Is the Radiance of Consciousness Itself. Consciousness Is the Source-Position of Radiance Itself. Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Consciousness Is Love-Bliss Itself—Unconditional Feeling, Radiance.
Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Consciousness (or Fullness of Being) Divinely Self-Recognizes all phenomena in the Context of Itself—as transparent (or merely apparent), and un-necessary, and inherently non-binding modifications of the Self-Radiance of Consciousness Itself, the Divine Conscious Light Itself. When there is this Awakening, it is obvious. In every moment, Natively, Inherently, It Is simply the Divine Conscious Light—the Infinite, Dimensionless, Uncaused, Eternal “Brightness” of Being (Itself).
When there is this Awakening, it is obvious. In every moment, Natively, Inherently, It Is simply the Divine Conscious Light—the Infinite, Dimensionless, Uncaused, Eternal “Brightness” of Being (Itself).
Divine Enlightenment, or the Realization of Conscious Light, depends on the Awakening of the most esoteric root-structure of the body-mind—a structure that has hardly even been observed, and never before fully defined in Spiritual literature.
I become your state of mind, your state of body. I experience the diseases, the neuroses, the emotional problems, the state of everyone with whom I am associated—and that includes many more people than are with Me personally. It includes thousands upon thousands of people. I Do the Sadhana of Real-God-Realization in the form of you. I Do your sadhana while Being you. I do not merely tell you the Teaching, I Become you and Enter into the process as you. No one has Worked precisely as I Do. I actually Become the limited (or un-Enlightened) being whom I Teach. This is a completely unique “Heroic” Manner of Teaching.
He has explained, is not about the spontaneous “combustion” of the body but, rather, the “Outshining” of all conditional existence, whether the body lives or dies.
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The Knee of Listening by Adi Da Samraj 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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