When you go and listen to a Mooji talk—to name just one very capable new age teacher—he will likely be able to catapult you into the “being, consciousness, bliss” state. You might be able to remain in that blessed state of silence, love and abundance all through your stay at the seminar, but eventually the state of duality comes back. What to do then?
You cannot catapult us consciously in that state of “no self” for the simple reason that there is a “you” feeling separate who aspires to be part of the whole. Yet, moment by moment we can fall back into it by letting go of whatever the “I” clings to at that moment. Peace is not ours, yet, but we can always return home.
The dilemma of spirituality is perfectly summed up in verse 1 of the Tao Te Ching: “Free from desire you realize the mystery. Caught in desire you see the manifestations.” We toggle back and forth between the two states, and we are mostly free in the sense that we can always turn the car around once again.
Is there a state when silence prevails 24/7 and the world of duality, temptations and distractions no longer get a hold on us? Possibly. But here now it doesn’t help much to belabor on it, or worse, escape into the fantasy of it. We have work to do moment by moment. As Nisargadatta Maharaj put it, the fruit falls when it is ripe.
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