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- It Is As It Is - By Nobody (a.k.a. Jon Mundy)
It Is As It Is - By Nobody (a.k.a. Jon Mundy)
- By Wan Ibrahim
- Published 10/24/2008
- Spiritual Development
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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.
This is the last part of article entitled, “The Importance of Being Nobody”.
"The Soul is tied to no individual, no culture, no tradition, but rises fresh in every person, beyond every person, and grounds itself in a truth and glory that bows to nothing in the world of time and place and history. We all must be, and can only be, "a light unto ourselves." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Who are we beneath, below, or prior to this pseudo-self? If we succeed in finding release from the prison of individuality what then? There follows in time another second, and yet another second. What do we find in that second? We find Supreme Identity with the All, with Universal Spirit. What we find is the Soul, the Self, unhampered by the ego. This Self is pure witness. It exists prior to time – prior to the big bang. It is not born. It does not die.
Meister Eckhart used words like desert and barren to describe his experience of illumination. St. Theresa speaks of the still wilderness or the lonely desert of the Deity. Yet this is the true country of the soul, a space free from desiring, where the ego does not reign. While Ultimate Reality constitutes the true nature of everything, in itself it is nothing.
"You can call it the void. It wasn't just a void. It was this pure awareness I always talk about. I was aware that I AM THAT I AM. I was aware of the whole universe." - Robert Adams.
"Emptiness is the ultimate nature of everything that exists." – Lama Yeshe (1935-1984, Tibet).
"There
are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only. It is beyond qualities. If there is unity, there will also be duality. The numerical one gives rise to other numbers. There truth is neither one nor two. It is as it is." - Ramana Maharshi.
To be nothing is to discover peace, expansion, and freedom from boundaries. You are nothing and nothing is full, whole, infinite. It is everything and it is everywhere. Being nobody is wonderfully refreshing. It takes away worry.
"The self you made is not the Son of God. Therefore, this self does not exist at all. And anything it seems to do and think means nothing. It is neither bad nor good. It is unreal, and nothing more than that." - A Course in Miracles.
So who are we, if we are not this neurotic body thing, which seems trapped in a story, in time. We are soul, we are spirit. We are eternity. We are love. We are all the wonderful things we can name and more. I have a friend who regularly participates in a spiritual practice where you work in dyads with other people. You sit facing your partner and the partner asks, "Who are you?" People then respond in the usual way by identifying themselves with their name and there occupation. They start talking about their family and where they live. After they stop, the partner asks again, "Who are you?" Other material may appear. "I'm so and so's wife or husband," etc. Eventually the person comes to realize that none of the definitions will do. None of it explains who they are in truth. Who they are in truth then must be something that transcends all of these limitations.
"The Soul is tied to no individual, no culture, no tradition, but rises fresh in every person, beyond every person, and grounds itself in a truth and glory that bows to nothing in the world of time and place and history. We all must be, and can only be, "a light unto ourselves." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Who are we beneath, below, or prior to this pseudo-self? If we succeed in finding release from the prison of individuality what then? There follows in time another second, and yet another second. What do we find in that second? We find Supreme Identity with the All, with Universal Spirit. What we find is the Soul, the Self, unhampered by the ego. This Self is pure witness. It exists prior to time – prior to the big bang. It is not born. It does not die.
Meister Eckhart used words like desert and barren to describe his experience of illumination. St. Theresa speaks of the still wilderness or the lonely desert of the Deity. Yet this is the true country of the soul, a space free from desiring, where the ego does not reign. While Ultimate Reality constitutes the true nature of everything, in itself it is nothing.
"You can call it the void. It wasn't just a void. It was this pure awareness I always talk about. I was aware that I AM THAT I AM. I was aware of the whole universe." - Robert Adams.
"Emptiness is the ultimate nature of everything that exists." – Lama Yeshe (1935-1984, Tibet).
"There
To be nothing is to discover peace, expansion, and freedom from boundaries. You are nothing and nothing is full, whole, infinite. It is everything and it is everywhere. Being nobody is wonderfully refreshing. It takes away worry.
"The self you made is not the Son of God. Therefore, this self does not exist at all. And anything it seems to do and think means nothing. It is neither bad nor good. It is unreal, and nothing more than that." - A Course in Miracles.
So who are we, if we are not this neurotic body thing, which seems trapped in a story, in time. We are soul, we are spirit. We are eternity. We are love. We are all the wonderful things we can name and more. I have a friend who regularly participates in a spiritual practice where you work in dyads with other people. You sit facing your partner and the partner asks, "Who are you?" People then respond in the usual way by identifying themselves with their name and there occupation. They start talking about their family and where they live. After they stop, the partner asks again, "Who are you?" Other material may appear. "I'm so and so's wife or husband," etc. Eventually the person comes to realize that none of the definitions will do. None of it explains who they are in truth. Who they are in truth then must be something that transcends all of these limitations.
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.
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