Eternity Now by Francis Lucille

Author:Francis Lucille
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

It is ironic that the progress toward consciousness is unconscious. It unfolds slowly without you knowing it.

The mind doesn’t know it, but it is not unconscious. Would you say that the fish is unconscious of being in the water?

He knows.

When he is taken out of the water he knows it as an objective perception. While being in the water, in his natural state, he isn’t objectively conscious of the presence of the water. There is no need for that, because he is one with it, and knows his happiness. How do you know that you are happy? The moment you say, “I am happy” you are no longer happy. When you are happy you know it, but you don’t know it objectively. You don’t know it as you know what you had for breakfast. You know it somehow, but through a different channel. This channel is very important. The channel through which you know that you are happy is the channel through which you know yourself. Find this channel. In other words, when you are happy, know that this happiness emanates from your true Self, not from something, not from an event, not from an object, not from a person. That is all you need. You don’t need to understand everything that is said here. There is only one thing to understand, so just take this one and you’ll be fine. That is called the path of happiness.

What is the way to get there if it isn’t meditating and finding your true self?

There are a thousand and one types of meditation. So when you ask that question, I don’t know what you mean.

I only know what I have learned here. I am new to this.

OK.

What I am learning now is just to try to release my mind. I don’t really know enough to give you an example.

There is only one way to get there. It is through desiring it. If you have no desire for it, you won’t get it, and you won’t be frustrated. However, if you desire it, it will find a way to come to you, because in this desire there is already the fulfillment of all desires. If you desire this happiness, which is causeless, which doesn’t come from any object, let this desire be your guide.

Don’t I have to read some books or find a teacher to arouse this desire? It shouldn’t just be a concept. Believing that I am not my body, my personality, or my personal history is one thing, but I want to experience it. Being around a charismatic teacher is either really going to get me there or leave me in a cult. I would like the help, but I can’t see myself going off alone with all my books, sitting in a cave, and going mad with desire.

Life may prove you wrong. To find the truth you have to move away from any exclusion. If you say, “I am not going to find it there,” think twice. The desire for the truth, being born from a glimpse of the truth, doesn’t come from the person.

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