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11-01-2003, 07:26 PM
Self-realized one, Eckharte Tolle says:
In a sense, the state of presence could be compared to waiting. Jesus used tha
analogy of waiting in some of his parables. This is not the usual bored or
restless kind of waiting that is a denial of the present and that I spoke about
already. It is *not a waiting in which your attention is focused on some point
in the future* and the present is perceived as an undersirable obstacle that
prevents you from having what you want. There is a qualitatively different kind
of wiating, one that requires your total alertness. **Something could happen at
any moment, and if you are not absolutely awake, absolutely still, you will miss
it. This is the kind of waiting Jesus talks about.** In that state, all your
attention is in the Now. There is none left for daydreaming, thinking,
remembering, anticipating. There is no tension in it, no fear, just alert
presence. You are present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body.
In that state, the "you" that has a past and a future, the
personality if you like, is hardly there anymore. And yet nothing of value is
lost. You are still essentially yourself. In fact, you are more fully yourself
than you ever were before, or rather it is only now that you are truly yourself.
**"Be like a servant waiting for the return of the master", says Jesus. The
servant does not know at what hour the master is going to come. So he stays
awake, alert, poised, still, lest he miss the master's arrival.** In oather
parable, Jesus speaks of five careless (unconscious) women who do not have
enough oil (consciousness) to keep their lamps burning (stay present) and so
miss the bride-groom (the Now) and don't get to the wedding feast
(enlightenment). These five stand in contrast to the five wise women who have
enough oil (stay conscious).
Bk III, Session #75
The conscious work of the adept] is a matter of attention. One may be a fine
catcher of your game sphere, but if the eye is not turned as this sphere is
tossed then perchance it will pass the entity by. If it turned its eyes upon the
sphere, catching would be easy
Q'uo
...you cannot waste time as long as attention persists. Simply keep paying
attention. Pay that treasure of time and talent. Pay it without concern for
whether it seems worthwhile. Simply give of yourself as you see aright to do.
And the moment of samadhi shall take you in the midst of that sea; and never
leave it for a moment, that confusion.
Gaze at this creature who asks questions it cannot answer. How is that logically
possible? Here is the beginning of the mystery. You cannot help but know that
you are other than you think you are, for you ask questions that you simply
cannot possibly answer. You sense truths that you cannot possibly ever touch.
**The genius of living consciously in an illusion that is heavily biased toward
sleep, is in *paying attention,** for you are an ?I AM.? You are a creator
experiencing itself. Do you strive to be virtuous? Thusly does the Creator know
of hope and virtue. Do you strive to be aught else whatsoever? Thusly does the
Creator know of aught else whatsoever. Have you served in your own opinion as a
bad example? How valuable that ?I AM? is you have probably learned by your
self-perceived failures.
Would that we could teach those within an illusion to pay sufficient attention
while peaceful and happy. For then discomfort and pain would have no spiritual
use whatsoever, these being the two-by-fours which are applied to your foreheads
by your higher selves in a loving effort to get your attention.
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In a sense, the state of presence could be compared to waiting. Jesus used tha
analogy of waiting in some of his parables. This is not the usual bored or
restless kind of waiting that is a denial of the present and that I spoke about
already. It is *not a waiting in which your attention is focused on some point
in the future* and the present is perceived as an undersirable obstacle that
prevents you from having what you want. There is a qualitatively different kind
of wiating, one that requires your total alertness. **Something could happen at
any moment, and if you are not absolutely awake, absolutely still, you will miss
it. This is the kind of waiting Jesus talks about.** In that state, all your
attention is in the Now. There is none left for daydreaming, thinking,
remembering, anticipating. There is no tension in it, no fear, just alert
presence. You are present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body.
In that state, the "you" that has a past and a future, the
personality if you like, is hardly there anymore. And yet nothing of value is
lost. You are still essentially yourself. In fact, you are more fully yourself
than you ever were before, or rather it is only now that you are truly yourself.
**"Be like a servant waiting for the return of the master", says Jesus. The
servant does not know at what hour the master is going to come. So he stays
awake, alert, poised, still, lest he miss the master's arrival.** In oather
parable, Jesus speaks of five careless (unconscious) women who do not have
enough oil (consciousness) to keep their lamps burning (stay present) and so
miss the bride-groom (the Now) and don't get to the wedding feast
(enlightenment). These five stand in contrast to the five wise women who have
enough oil (stay conscious).
Bk III, Session #75
The conscious work of the adept] is a matter of attention. One may be a fine
catcher of your game sphere, but if the eye is not turned as this sphere is
tossed then perchance it will pass the entity by. If it turned its eyes upon the
sphere, catching would be easy
Q'uo
...you cannot waste time as long as attention persists. Simply keep paying
attention. Pay that treasure of time and talent. Pay it without concern for
whether it seems worthwhile. Simply give of yourself as you see aright to do.
And the moment of samadhi shall take you in the midst of that sea; and never
leave it for a moment, that confusion.
Gaze at this creature who asks questions it cannot answer. How is that logically
possible? Here is the beginning of the mystery. You cannot help but know that
you are other than you think you are, for you ask questions that you simply
cannot possibly answer. You sense truths that you cannot possibly ever touch.
**The genius of living consciously in an illusion that is heavily biased toward
sleep, is in *paying attention,** for you are an ?I AM.? You are a creator
experiencing itself. Do you strive to be virtuous? Thusly does the Creator know
of hope and virtue. Do you strive to be aught else whatsoever? Thusly does the
Creator know of aught else whatsoever. Have you served in your own opinion as a
bad example? How valuable that ?I AM? is you have probably learned by your
self-perceived failures.
Would that we could teach those within an illusion to pay sufficient attention
while peaceful and happy. For then discomfort and pain would have no spiritual
use whatsoever, these being the two-by-fours which are applied to your foreheads
by your higher selves in a loving effort to get your attention.
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