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. I am not saying that one form of enlightenment is superior to the other.
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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