The Marriage of Spirit: Enlightened Living in Today's World by Leslie Temple-Thurston

Author:Leslie Temple-Thurston [Temple-Thurston Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby

Samadhi awakens in us when we are fairly clear of the limiting beliefs associated with the personality programming and when we are able to witness most aspects of ego.

We experience samadhi as the consequence of a quiet mind and of profound states of inner and outer balance and centeredness in our energy. The centeredness experienced in the state of samadhi means having a field of awareness large enough to encompass both sides of all polarities. We are not stuck on one side of a polarity, but are neutral and in the center of them all. Samadhi is a particular kind of balance and alignment of the attention field which allows knowing higher truth from our own luminous core, the Divine within.

The experience of samadhi will come intermittently at first. It is felt as a vast stillness or expansion into an indescribable internal silence—the end of the spin. It is what the Christian church calls the peace which passeth all understanding. Don Juan, the Toltec sorcerer in the books by Carlos Castaneda, calls it stopping the world. Eventually it brings us a direct perceptual experience of the pure undifferentiated state of unity. As we gain it more frequently, we live in ever-increasing coherence with our outer world. Samadhi is the precursor to enlightenment and as it becomes evermore present within us, we will begin to experience states of enlightenment. Eventually an experience of complete inner fulfillment manifests.

CHAPTER SUMMARY

Here are some of the main points we have introduced so far:

Existence is not real in the way we have been taught to see it.

The material world is transitory and ephemeral, and life is like a hologram.

The witness watches the personality act from its patterned conditioning.

To begin developing and strengthening the witness, it is enough simply to ask inwardly for this to happen. It develops as a natural by-product of doing the processing.

The witness is a neutral observer.

The rule of thumb for the yogi is to be neither attracted nor repulsed.

Witnessing does not mean that we never experience pain or pleasure; it is like adding a third channel of awareness.

The neutral witness adopts the position of balance between the two sides of a polarity. It becomes the fulcrum and is outside the turbulence, turmoil and subjectivity of life.

The neutral witness is actually our connection to the higher self and to the absolute Self.

The witness is an opening from the limited personal mind into the universal mind.

The biased witness is often an internalized parent.

Detachment increases our capacity to love.

Detachment is not suppression or denial or avoidance.

It is a common error of perception to think that favoring the polarized system at the expense of the superconscious will enrich our experience.

We fear detachment because we fear the potential of loss.

In a world of variables, the witness is a changeless state.

When we give up identification with the personality and identify instead with the witness, then we will see that the witness is the Self.

We are pure awareness, through which thoughts and states of personality pass.

It is in the space between the thoughts that we first find ourselves being pure awareness—just being.

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