"As
stupid
as it sounds, it's true there's a sense of joy with simply being with
what's there."
...
"If you don't take it out into
the world,
you didn't get it in the first place."
...
"Today really is a day for
miracles.
And it's nothing that I'm going to do. It's that I've really gotten to
know you. Man, I really know you! And I am absolutely completely and
totally blown away by who you are. I am so deeply and completely
in love with you
that it's put me into a space of ecstasy, and it's all I want to do is
to
share
that experience with you today."
The Hindu descriptor for the material from which
the Self
is crafted, is uttered in the Sanskrit language in an amalgam of three
words, as "satchitananda" ("sat": absolute; "chit":
consciousness; "ananda": bliss) - absolute bliss consciousness.
And that's from five thousand years ago, if not more. So chit and its
ananda-nature isn't a new distinction. Truth and wisdom have ways of
repeating themselves across many disciplines, in spite of its subject
material's age.
Werner's
work is authenticated and validated by your experience of it.
"Sez who?" you ask, skeptically. Just
participate.
You'll know. I'm not going to be
trapped
into
voting for
or comparing it to other schools or disciplines, or them to it.
Instead, let's touch on an idea running through many of those schools
and disciplines which distinguish who we really are, and notice their
recurring themes of joy, ecstasy, bliss etc. It's just possible that
the naked experience of who we really are, is that of joy, ecstasy,
bliss (which begs the question: is it not
paradoxical
to seek out joy
in the world
when joy is our true nature?).
The subtext to consider is this: in
sharing yourself
(and by that I mean
in
sharing
who you are really - like the possibility of being for
human being) is an experience of joy.
The Self
by itself is a joyful experience. Some things are worth explaining.
Others aren't. This may be one of those experiences wherein explaining
it may only get in its way, and even damage it. Don't explain
the Self:
share it.
That's an audaciously good mantra to
meditate by.
It's very
Zen.
It's useful noting nothing's needed from you and me to condition the
experience of
the presence of Self
to be joyful. We don't need to be taught or shown, for it be joyful.
The nature of satchitananda, of absolute bliss consciousness is joy, a
joy which when
shared
is its own authenticity in the matter. When you
share yourself
authentically, there's joy. It's not because you've done something
right or even something good, and yes it may be one or
both of those also (just in case you're
wondering,
the experience doesn't require you to be
happy
first). No, there's joy because that's the manifestation of
the Self
in action.
Graduates
of
Werner's work
speak of the enormous,
transformative
value of
sharing it
with others.
To share it
with others, is to be joyful.
To share it
is
to share joy.
That's its true nature. The nature of satchitananda, of absolute bliss
consciousness, is joy, the
presence
of which confirms your authenticity in the matter of being transformed.
Graduates
of
Werner's work
speak of when they share themselves authentically, there is joy -
because joy goeswith (as
Alan Watts
may have said)
the Self
in action. You could say joy is proof of
the presence
of transformation in your life. And it can't be outwitted. Look: you
can't outwit
the Self.
Paradoxically,
attempting to outwit
the Self
does bring forth a new quality. But soon you'll
discover
the new quality isn't joy: it's significance.
Here's a
news flash:
no matter what you've heard about the pressure to enroll, no matter
what you've heard people say about it, no
graduate
of
Werner's work
ever won a toaster for
sharing
it with people.
Sharing
the experience of it is its own reward. You've had a great experience
(like maybe you've seen
a great movie)
and you just have to
share it.
You want others to experience it also. It's natural. It's joyful for
us, and (get this): it's joyful for others that it's joyful for
us. Even if I can articulate
Self
in a clear and accurate way,
Self
is worth more when experienced than when known. And there's one more
thing I notice about it with near 1,000% certainty, which is: if you're
up for
sharingSelf
authentically and it's not a joyful experience? then that
probably ain't it.
