The One Reality By Nobody (a.k.a. Jon Mundy)
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Wan Ibrahim
Wan Ibrahim is the owner of MySpiritualSelfHelp.com, a website that was created to share the wisdom for spiritual living. He also shares his insights, tips and stories about happiness, relationship and success from a different point of view at his Blog - Detached, and in the context of spirituality at Personal Blog Section.By Wan Ibrahim
Published on 10/9/2008
"Every time I come to hear you, I notice that you seem so clear and relaxed. You radiate peaceful, loving warmth. You seem happy. Yet, I am always discontent, often stressed out. There are times when I feel quite miserable. What is the difference between us?"
This is the third part of article entitled, “The Importance of Being Nobody”.
Once at a public dialogue, a man said to the mystic Jean Klein (1916-1998, Czechoslovakia), "Every time I come to hear you, I notice that you seem so clear and relaxed. You radiate peaceful, loving warmth. You seem happy. Yet, I am always discontent, often stressed out. There are times when I feel quite miserable. What is the difference between us?" Jean looked at the man and said: "You think that you are somebody and I know that I'm not."
At seventeen, Jean Klein had an experience of what he called his own inner silence. A student of yoga and a vegetarian, Jean was a medical doctor who spent World War II in France helping people escape from Germany. In 1950, he went to India where he worked with the Vedanta Nondualistic teacher, Pandiji. Klein said that one day his individual identity disappeared and was replaced by an all-pervading light, which he recognized as "the one reality." Dr. Klein's teaching is called "impersonal." There is no such thing as an individual. Life is simply awareness without fixation on one's identity.
When I lost awareness of my body in 1976, I was surprised to see (as is anyone who dies) that consciousness continued without a body. Is the mind a "thing?" Is "love" a thing? The brain is a computer, but who runs the computer? Everyone attests to the reality of love, yet love is beyond definition and description – even poetry doesn't do it justice.
To be continued: Dropping Personal History
Once at a public dialogue, a man said to the mystic Jean Klein (1916-1998, Czechoslovakia), "Every time I come to hear you, I notice that you seem so clear and relaxed. You radiate peaceful, loving warmth. You seem happy. Yet, I am always discontent, often stressed out. There are times when I feel quite miserable. What is the difference between us?" Jean looked at the man and said: "You think that you are somebody and I know that I'm not."
At seventeen, Jean Klein had an experience of what he called his own inner silence. A student of yoga and a vegetarian, Jean was a medical doctor who spent World War II in France helping people escape from Germany. In 1950, he went to India where he worked with the Vedanta Nondualistic teacher, Pandiji. Klein said that one day his individual identity disappeared and was replaced by an all-pervading light, which he recognized as "the one reality." Dr. Klein's teaching is called "impersonal." There is no such thing as an individual. Life is simply awareness without fixation on one's identity.
When I lost awareness of my body in 1976, I was surprised to see (as is anyone who dies) that consciousness continued without a body. Is the mind a "thing?" Is "love" a thing? The brain is a computer, but who runs the computer? Everyone attests to the reality of love, yet love is beyond definition and description – even poetry doesn't do it justice.
To be continued: Dropping Personal History