1/30/09

Message from a friend

I'll pass on to you what I would pass on to the "39 year old Michael". Please feel free to ignore.

Awareness of Being is the portal that leads to the understanding of Reality.

Sit and rest Awareness on the sense of Being, the sense of I AM, letting all phenomena come and go; do this at times with your eyes open, and at times with your eyes closed. Rest in Awareness of Being, and watch as phenomena (thoughts, sensations, i.e. anything but Awareness of Being) occur - and let them occur. Notice them rising and falling in Awareness and let them go as "not you".

What ever can be experienced (watched) is "not you".Just be Aware. Expect nothing, want nothing. Floating in the Awareness of Being.

Let the Current take you where it will.

Rest in the sense of "I AM", expect nothing, want nothing.

At first that sense of Being, "I AM", seems very local, associated with the body.

Then there may be a shift - all of a sudden, the sense of Being is nonlocal and expands to include All That Is. The first time this happens a sudden pulling back may be experienced because it can be very disconcerting.

The second time it happens, perhaps you've prepared for it, and you might start to laugh at the simplicity of it.

According to Aziz Kristof the transformation entails - the initial "shift", the "stabilization" and ultimately the "integration". It might last a few minutes, a few days, weeks or forever. Who knows, it's different for everyone.

Pass it on.