ENLIGHTENMENT IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK by Liquorman Wayne

Author:Liquorman, Wayne [Liquorman, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780929448220
Publisher: Advaita Press
Published: 2011-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

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THE LIVING TEACHING

AIM OF THE TEACHING

Q: If everything is as it is and nothing is wrong, then to what degree is the Living Teaching helping anyone?

Wayne: The Living Teaching is simply a collection of tools. The outcome of the application of those tools is varied. There isn’t a promise that by applying these tools you’ll be helped. I’ve seen two people sit in the same talk, read the same books, be exposed to the same teaching, and while one person gets a deep, intuitive understanding that brings a real peace to her life, the other gets depressed, gets frustrated, gets nihilistic and dark. Same teaching, same tools; in one case it brings about peace, and in the other it brings misery.

Q: So the understanding of these tools is liberation of sorts, which is the full acceptance?

Wayne: No, it is not the understanding of the tools; it is what we’ll call the positive effect of the tools. It is not the student’s grasp of the concepts that brings about success. It is the application of the tools in such a way that there is an epiphany, an intuitive knowing.

Q: But in that intuitive knowing, there is what?

Wayne: There is nothing!—in the most profound sense. There was a book many years ago, by Robert Heinlein, called Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein used the term “grok” to describe a moment of deep and total understanding, but it was not an understanding of anything. Wei Wu Wei uses the word “apperception” to point to the same thing; this sudden deep intuitive knowing, which is not objective in nature. Apperception means perception without a perceiver or a perceived object. It’s a non-dualistic state. Even to use the word “state” is too gross a term, because what it is pointing to is a Totality of identification, transcendent of dualistic understanding.

Q: Is this what others may say is like Pure Being?

Wayne: Enlightenment, Pure Being, Unity with What Is. There are a variety of very beautiful, poetic descriptions of this undescribable “state” which is not a state.

CHANGING MY PROGRAMMING

Q: You say that the programming is built into the mind-body organism. Would one who follows the Living Teaching find himself able to change the programming? If a person was predisposed to anti-social behavior, might that person, through the study of the Living Teaching, use the teaching to reprogram himself so that he would no longer have the predisposition towards anti-social behavior?

Wayne: The effect of exposure to this Living Teaching is variable and limitless. Some people are affected positively, and others negatively. For example, a person comes here and is exposed to the Living Teaching; after this exposure, his programming changes and as a secondary result, his life changes. In one particular case, certain anti-social behaviors may fall away. In another case, these same anti-social behaviors may begin. The point in all this is that it is the teaching that can be said to bring about the change in the programming. It is not the individual who authors the change in the programming.

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