Full Stop! by Wheeler John

Author:Wheeler, John [Wheeler, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Dual Awareness
Publisher: Non-Duality Press
Published: 2012-08-28T22:00:00+00:00

These are a few ways to dismantle the false question.

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The Joyful Light of Ever-Present Being

Question: I have a few questions that have bothered me very much in my twenty-five year spiritual quest. Like you, I have precious little free time as a busy scientist and professor. I admire Swami Vivekananda, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Jean Klein, Ramesh Balsekar and others who I believe are self-realised through non-duality. I respect you because your wisdom is indirectly from Nisargadatta Maharaj. I have many times spontaneously felt that this world is but a dream and that the noumenon is distinct from this dream in a timeless, spaceless realm that can be indirectly apperceived through intuition and discernment. Meditation on my centre of being has made this more frequent and intense. Nisargadatta Maharaj, unlike anyone else, has explained the significance of noumenon versus phenomenon very well. He has also described the automatic functioning of phenomena. But still this intuition is not continuous for me.

How can I go beyond this simple perception of the phenomenal world as a dream and actually perceive the unity of all phenomena in the entire universe within my true self? The realisation of essential unity of everything is what I strive for and have not yet attained.

John: First things first. Step one is to realise your true nature as it is. Without that, any attempt to understand other pointers is only being conducted at the mental level and will remain problematic. With the nature of your true self clear, its relation to apparent other things can be seen more directly.

Q: How can I actually transcend the individuality or personality and shift my frame of reference to the absolute? Is this a sudden shift in the centre of one’s being, or does this happen gradually?

John: Again, it is a matter of clarifying what you are. Your natural being is not a separate individual, which is only a concept generated in thought. You are not a concept!

Q: While contemplation on the true self brings about stillness of mind, when in the midst of strenuous intellectual activity (for example, writing papers, reading scientific writings, preparing lectures, analyzing data, etc.), how can the cognition of the supreme self be made continuous and steady, independent of the functioning of the mind?

John: Linking self-knowledge with a still mind is a trap and an error. Recognising what we are implies no stoppage of the normal thinking and sensing function. In other words, this is a non-issue, so do not create a needless problem!

Q: How can one function effectively as an individual in this highly competitive world as an intellectual if one has, indeed, shed one’s illusory individuality and adjusted to a centre of reference that is the universality of the absolute?

John: Natural functioning is already going on without the need for a separate ‘I’ reference point. So this is also a non-issue. The notion of individuality is added onto the pure, non-dual experiencing. When this false reference point is seen through, functioning carries on as it always has. Functioning is and has always been self-less.

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