As a species and as individuals, we've aspired to so much, and we've
accomplished so much - some of it terrible, some of it wonderful. Yet
so many of our efforts and resources are jaw-droppingly mis-allocated,
given what's wanted and needed (not to mention what's possible) on
our planet.
In this
conversation,
it's worth examining how much we seek to accomplish,
driven
by ie expecting that once we've accomplished it (whatever it is)
then we'll enjoy
wholeness and completion
and satisfaction.
Many of you have already cottoned on to the
cosmic joke
which has been
played
on
humanity
for hundreds of millennia: no matter what we aspire to, no matter what
we accomplish, there is
nothing
we'll ever do, the
accomplishing of which will give us the experience of being
whole and complete
and satisfied.
Nothing.
On the other hand, there's
a way
of experiencing our alreadywholeness and completion
and satisfaction that's here to
begin
with, so the
wholeness and completion
and satisfaction that is already
present
with us, bursts forth in all that we then do.
Congruently
all that we then do is an explicit expression of being
whole and complete
and satisfied.
Transformation
is the
state
of ie is the onset of ie is the access to experiencing being
whole and complete
and satisfied to
begin
with. Then
wholeness and completion
and satisfaction is
present
for us, and it bursts forth in all that we do ... and ...
all that we do is no longer done in order to become
whole and complete
and satisfied. Experiencing being
whole and complete
and satisfied is already available in simply being ie in being the
being we are prior to doing all that we do - said another
way,
it's already available in simply being with. "Wait! It's already
available in simply being ... with what,
Laurence?"
you may ask. I say it's already available in simply being with
what's there. Simply being with what's there, comes impregnated
with the sense of
wholeness and completion
and satisfaction (and joy - sometimes called bliss).
The ancient Hindu
mystics
and Vedic pundits had a name for this. They called it
"satchitananda" which roughly translates from the Sanskrit
to "the bliss (ananda) of being conscious of
(chit) the absolute (sat)" - in other
words
"absolute bliss consciousness" (it is the so-called
absolute component of which refers of course to just
what's there). And whereas the ancient Hindu
mystics
and Vedic pundits invested a lot of
time
and energy and practicing trying to realize this
state
they called absolute bliss consciousness,
in noticing the absolute is just what's there,
Wernershares
there's a sense of joy (ie bliss) simply being with it (ie being
conscious of it). That said, it's really important to notice there's
nothing
significant in this (just look
how
careful he is to ensure that: by pre-qualifying his share with "As
stupid
as it sounds ...").
