To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/03/18 11:44
Subject: Re: [K-list] Heart of Truth
From: MadhyaNandi MadhyaNandi
On 1999/03/18 11:44, MadhyaNandi MadhyaNandi posted thus to the K-list:
>
>Many spiritual paths involve transformation of the personality. The
>assumption is that there must be a change in conditioning in order to
move
>ahead. Therefore bad habits should be discarded and good ones
cultivated.
>Certainly we should not discourage people from improving themselves.
The
>Jnana disposition, however, once gained, fundamentally undermines
this view
>by piercing the veil of delusion that there is something to be gained
by
>transforming the personality, which is not already present. Here the
>intensity of awareness shines naturally.
>
>Truly, how can one discard that which does not belong to It? And how
can one
>discard that which One Is? Once the Heart of Attention has
fundamentally
>shifted to Itself, that Itself is the fuel of the effortless effort
which
>eventually burns up leaving nothing behind. When the Ground of Being
absorbs
>all attention and all effort, what is there to discard and how and by
whom?
>Still, I am not opposed to discarding various types of conditioning
at all.
>If you are for it, I am for it.
>
>
Madhyanandi:
Harshaji's words are very wise. In my view, one would do well to
listen and allow the seed of this wisdom to grow fertile.
Talk about transformation of personality can be deceptive. Truly,
when the Light begins Her work of transformation, the transformed can
only relax and observe What is taking place. The result, he may
discover, is indeed a transformed personality. She will not think the
same, walk the same, speak or hear in the same manner.
My observation is that Awakening is a getting to where we always
already are and discovering that we are entirely transformed.
I also suggest that 'getting' to, or awakening is an 'event' that has
neither beginning nor end. Rather, It is an horizon of mystery where
the light of awareness is always The Same and yet ever Fresh and New.
My perspective is that everything belongs to Me. I am all that exists
and will ever exist. Thus, the Heart of my Truth is at once an
Arrival and a Departure.
In the view of Tantra, there is also no conditioning to discard. In
discovering the resounding Truth of One Mind, one worships the
consciousness in meditation. Discovering the Truth of Sound, one
worships the OM that is the Universal Song. Discovering the Truth of
Motion, one worships the Universal Dance of Infinite Light. The
tantric path is really one of devotion, of bhakti. To discover one's
own Heart of Truth, one needs merely fall in love with one's Self.
The Tantric life then becomes a song, a dance, a romance of Same and
Different, of ecstasy and tranquility, of mystery and certainty. It
is a very exci
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