"The realization is accompanied with the experience that everything is being dissolved into either:
1. An ultimate Subject or
2. As mere ‘flow of phenomenality’
In whatever the case, both spells the end of separateness; experientially there is no sense of two-ness and the experience of unity can be quite overwhelming initially but eventually it will lose its grandeur and things turn quite ordinary. Nevertheless, regardless of whether the sense of Oneness is derived from the experience of ‘All as Self’ or ‘as simply just manifestation’, it is the beginning insight of “No-Self”. The former is known as One-Mind and the later, No-Mind.
In Case 1 it is usual that practitioners will continue to personify, reify and extrapolate a metaphysical essence in a very subtle way, almost unknowingly. This is because despite the non-dual realization, understanding is still orientated from a view that is based on subject-object dichotomy. As such it is hard to detect this tendency and practitioners continue their journey of building their understanding of ‘No-Self based on Self’.
For Case 2 practitioners, they are in a better position to appreciate the doctrine of anatta. When insight of Anatta arises, all experiences become implicitly non-dual. But the insight is not simply about seeing through separateness; it is about the thorough ending of reification so that there is an instant recognition that the ‘agent’ is extra, in actual experience it does not exist. It is an immediate realization that experiential reality has always been so and the existence of a center, a base, a ground, a source has always been assumed."
One-Mind is also called One-Self or One-Taste. Ken Wilber usually calls it One Taste. When a Western person like Ken Wilber uses a term that derives from an Eastern tradition, we need to ask if he is using the term correctly. If we look at the Mahamudra system from Tibetan Buddhism - associated especially with the Kagyu school - it does seem that he is using the term as they would do.
However, in Mahamudra One Taste is NOT the highest state. It is only the third out of four states. The fourth state (or 4th yoga in their terminology) is called Non-Meditation. It is called that because in this state meditation is no longer necessary or even possible. In Tibetan it is called sgom med (སྒོམ་མེད).
How is it possible that Ken Wilber thinks that the ultimate state is One Taste? I don't know. It could be that he thinks that One Taste and Non-Meditation are the same. You often hear people say that if you are everything then you are nothing. They are not the same though. Not by a long shot.
So this confirms in my mind that the so-called Enlightenment of John Yarr is not the ultimate state. When he and his 'Adepts' say that they are the only ones who can talk about Enlightenment because they are the ones who know it, the fact is they don't have a clue what true enlightenment is. There is a stage beyond what they know, something they are not aware of.
They can't say "You are not an enlightened person and yet you are trying to tell us about something you know nothing about".
They can't say "We had over 40 enlightened people in our club and now it's many more. How many enlightened people do YOU have in YOUR spiritual movement?"
John Yarr promised anyone that decided to follow him that they would have the ultimate spiritual state, the eight siddhis of Patanjali and be able to communicate with DjwhaI Khul, Morya and Koot Hoomi on the higher planes. Well Koot Hoomi doesn't seem to show up in their testimonials, they don't seem seem to be able to fly (John Yarr was arrested at Manchester Airport in 2000) and their ultimate state turns out not to be the ultimate.
Nobody has said in their testimonials that they have encountered higher levels of reality. Only this level of reality. 'Enlightenment' doesn't prove that higher levels of reality exist or that consciousness is different from how the materialists view it. So-called enlightened people have a perception that they exist everywhere but it is a false perception and can be easily explained by neurology - by altered brain functioning. Intensive meditation deprives parts of the brain of sensory stimuli so that they no longer work.
All they've got to say for themselves in their testimonials is that sometimes when they look around them everything seems to be part of them. They think that everything is part of them so therefore they must be Brahman. They are thankful to John Yarr because they think they would never have been able to get there without him - so thankful they are prepared to overlook his crimes.
People will come to my blog because they have done a Google search. They might know about John Yarr or they have yet to be told about him and his crimes. They probably know about (inner) light and sound meditation. There are three things I would like them to consider. If they can overlook the first of them then they should go to the next one on the list. If they still want to go for it then they have been warned.
- the personality and criminal history of John Yarr
- do you need him to get to his "Enlightenment"?
- is his enlightenment truly Enlightenment, the ultimate spiritual state?
Andrew, what is the "why" behind your wanting to expose John and Life Wave? I saw first hand in Australia the harm the organization did to their believers. I was one of the lucky ones. K
ReplyDeleteIt's not so much that I want to expose John Yarr and Lifewave. I want to know the truth. Ever since I was a child I wondered what Enlightenment is. Now I think I know. I also think I know what 'going beyond form' is and what the Inner Light and Sound is. I wish I knew all this 40 years ago then I wouldn't have wasted my time. They kept it secret, what Enlightenment actually is. It's not what people think it is. When you know what it is and you still want to go for it then fine, but if I had known then what I know now I would have walked away.
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