Ending the Search by Dorothy S. Hunt

Author:Dorothy S. Hunt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sounds True

ARE YOU WILLING TO LOSE YOUR “SELF”?

Are you willing to pay the price even if it means losing your “self”? If you are, it will eventually feel like exchanging a penny to gain the whole universe. But no matter what one hears of the Buddha’s discovery of “no self,” or Jesus’s realization that “I and my Father are one,” or Ramana Maharshi’s “only the Self,” most seekers believe that there is a separate self (a “me”) who will become enlightened and live in eternal bliss and freedom. Why else are so many seekers willing to pay so much for the promise of enlightenment? For how-to books, DVDs, teachers, weekend workshops, retreats, trips to India, zafus, the correct meditation clothing, shawls, jewelry, oils, crystals, statues, candles, home altars?

Now, there is nothing wrong with your attraction to any of the above, but beware when what is being sold is eternal bliss, freedom, an end to life’s suffering, the solution to all problems, security for the mind, vast knowledge, powerful shakti, special powers available for one’s own use (for worthy causes, of course), finding your true soul mate, and whatever else minds imagine awakening will bring. Whatever a mind imagines enlightenment is, it usually includes such ideas as these: it will create an unending experience of bliss; solve all relationship dilemmas; ensure that you will forever be happy and loved and never feel alone again; create a body or a life empty of illness, pain, or a single moment’s tension; and, if one is very honest, that it will allow you to escape from life as it is to a new, improved life for the “me.” But identifying with the thought called “me” is our separation.

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