Le problème du chercheur c’est qu’il y a le chercheur de l’illumination et l’illumination comme 2 objets séparés.
As-tu remarqué qu’à chaque fois que tu as un problème, ‘tu’ es là ? ‘j’ai besoin d’argent’, ‘je veux être plus puissant’, …
L’illumination est la conscience de l’Unité et donc il n’y a pas de dualité illumination/chercheur. Il n’y a qu’une seule chose. Il n’y a pas Ton égo pour dire : “Je suis illuminé”. L’illumination veut dire que tu cesses de t’identifier au bavardage mental de l’égo. C’est la reconnaissance de l’Absolu
“Ce que vous cherchez est déjà l’endroit depuis lequel vous cherchez”. — Saint François d’Assise
Il n’y a personne qui atteint l’illumination. L’illumination est la réalisation qu’il n’y a personne de réel. C’est Ton égo qui rend cette quête possible et c’est lui qui empêche aussi cette quête de se terminer. Il n’y a rien à atteindre. Il n’y a même pas de quête ! Il suffit de réaliser que tu es déjà la Présence, et que tu l’as toujous été.
Tu veux l’illumination parceque tu veux que les choses soient d’une autre façon. Tu l’obtiens parce que tu te moques que les choses soient d’une façon plutôt qu’une autre.
C’est juste ton regard sur les choses et ton point de vue qui t’empêche de le voir, car ton Attention est accaparée par l’Identité de l’égo. En lâchant cette Identité, tout retrouve sa place.
Liens : Questions de lâcher-prise
Sources : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTlLSuvVKH4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5NFgN-djJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPGF1aatNcE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M_DPlqsRIA
Il y a 4 clowns dans ton esprit qui t’empêchent de réaliser qui tu es
Sur le chemin de l’Identité spirituelle, tu vas rencontrer ces 4 clowns qui mentent.
L’égo spirituel
L’ego spirituel, c’est l’ego qui se prend pour spirituel. C’est quand l’ego, au lieu de disparaître, se déguise en quêteur de vérité, en être éveillé, en disciple du divin.
Au lieu de dire « Je veux être riche et puissant », il dit « Je veux être pur et éveillé ».
Au lieu de vouloir être quelqu’un d’important dans le monde, il veut être quelqu’un d’important spirituellement.
Mais à la fin, c’est toujours la même chose :
- Une identité à défendre
- Une comparaison avec les autre
- Une course vers un but imaginaire
Comment l’ego spirituel fonctionne-t-il ?
- L’illusion de la supériorité : « J’ai compris des choses que les autres ignorent. »
- L’illusion de la pureté : « Moi, je suis au-delà du mental et du désir. »
- L’illusion de l’éveil comme un objectif : « Un jour, je serai totalement libéré. »
- L’illusion du rejet du monde : « Tout ça n’a pas d’importance, seule la spiritualité compte. »
- L’illusion de la non-illusion : « Moi, je n’ai plus d’ego. » ( la blague ultime)
Le piège ultime : se croire au-delà de l’ego
L’ego ne veut pas disparaître. Alors il se spiritualise et te fait croire que tu es en train d’échapper à l’illusion, alors qu’en réalité, tu es juste en train de la raffiner.
Il veut se prendre pour quelqu’un d’éveillé, il veut se raconter une belle histoire de transcendance.
Mais voilà le plot twist final :
Dès l’instant où tu te prends pour quelqu’un, c’est DÉJÀ l’ego.
Alors que faire ? RIEN.
Juste voir le jeu, en rire, et ne plus y croire.
C’est pour ça qu’au lieu de combattre l’ego spirituel… on peut le célébrer. Parce qu’en le voyant pour ce qu’il est, il se dissout tout seul.
Et ce qui reste après ça… c’est juste ce qui a toujours été là.
Selon Erick Emmanuel Mbassi
Jean Klein : mettre fin à la recherche c’est reconnaître l’illusion de l’égo et ainsi dévoiler ce qui reste vrai.
There may come a moment in life when the world no longer stimulates us and we feel deeply apathetic, even abandoned. This can motivate us towards the search for our real nature beyond appearances. When we no longer find interest in activities and states, when we no longer feel much pleasure in objects and human relationships, we may find ourselves asking: “Is there something wrong with this world or with my attitude towards it?” This serious doubt can lead us to ask: “What is the meaning of existence? What is life? Who am I? What is my true nature?” Sooner or later any intelligent person asks these questions.
As we live with these questions, look at them closely, we become aware that the “me” always seems to be at the center of things playing several roles: “I am cold. I am tired. I am working.” With a more open-minded alertness it becomes apparent that the body feels cold, tired, or is working, not “I.” In the same way when we look at states: “I wish. I am depressed. I remember. I am bored,” we see that we have identified ourselves with the thought or feeling. In looking at this relation between the “I” and its qualifications it becomes obvious that we have taken it for granted and believe ourselves to be this “me.”
This “me” has therefore no continual reality. It is a false appropriation. It lives only in relation to its qualifications, its objects. It is fundamentally unstable. But because we have mistaken our real self for this imposter we feel an insecurity, a doubt, a lack, a sensation of isolation. The “me” can only live in relation to objects so we spend all our energy trying to fulfill the insatiable insecurity of this me. We live in anxiety, fear and desire trying at one and the same time to be as individualistic as possible and to overcome this separateness. The “me” which appears occasionally is taken as a continuum. Actually it is only a crystallization of data and experience held together by memory. Being fractional, its viewpoint is fractional functioning through like and dislike. Its contact with its surroundings is based on this arbitrary choosing. Living in this way is miserable. The loneliness of such an existence may be temporarily camouflaged by compensatory activity but sooner or later, as we said, our real nature will make itself felt and our questioning will become more urgent. We will begin to feel that what we take for the body and mind is not the actual state of things. In deeper inquiry we feel a certain distancing between the inquirer and his environment, activities and opinions. For a time we may feel like an observer of our life, the spectator of the spectacle. Our body and mind are instruments to be used. We observe the changes of the psychosomatic structure as we grow older. We become aware that many, if not most, of our actions are mechanical reactions. All these happenings are seen from the impersonal observer. We begin to feel closer to the knower of these changes and less identified, lost in, the changing. In the end, the seeker is found to be what was sought.
Q: “What do you mean by that last statement, “the seeker is found to be what was sought?”
A: You are seeking your real nature. What you are looking for is what you are, not what you will become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is reality, a present actual fact. Looking for something to become is completely conceptual, on the level of ideas. It has no reality and no effective power. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and what he seeks is the source of the inquiry.
Q: It seems to me that not everyone who is a seeker has experienced this deep feeling of unfulfillment or abandonment that you talk about.”
A: It’s true. There are those who, because of their past, sense the divine anchored deep within them. In these cases there is no motivation. As Meister Eckhart said, “God is seeking himself.”
-Jean Klein
From I Am, pp.67-68
Extra: Robert Adams talk about seeking
There are three types of people who are ready to practice Advaita Vedanta, or atma-vichara or self-realization. The three types of people are the seekers, disciples and the devotees. We have discussed this before but this is a little different. The three types of people are equivalent to the three Guna’s. Tamas, Rajahs and Satvic.
Tamas means dullness, inertia and this refers to the seeker.
Rajahs is action and this refers to the disciple.
Satvic means purity and this refers to the devotee.
Now when I say a seeker is dull and that’s the tamas quality, this is from the standpoint of Advaita Vedanta. But a seeker is a very advanced soul compared to the billions of people on this earth who are wandering around in total delusion and they have not as yet become seekers. So a seeker is really an advanced stage. Yet a seeker has a tremendous ego. They run around from teacher to teacher, read tons of books, always looking to find something for themselves. Their concern is only me, me and mine. I want to become enlightened, what can I get in this class, what’s in it for me.
Their attention is on the personal self. They go to one teacher, they hear about another teacher they go to that teacher, they hear about somebody else they go there, but at least they’re seeking. They don’t really go anywhere. They can go through thousands of incarnations. Thousands upon thousands of incarnations as a seeker always looking to themselves. Involved only with themselves. They cannot keep the mind off themselves. They find fault. They always find something wrong with the class. They compare one class to the next class. One teacher to the next teacher, trying to pull out all of the information they can get from the teacher and couldn’t care less about anything else. Yet if the seeker becomes sincere they evolve to the point where they become a disciple.
A disciple begins to settle down and this is the rajahs quality, action. They begin to act upon what they see. They have an affinity for one teacher and they go to that teacher more than anybody else. They act upon what the teacher says but they’re still external. They read certain books pertaining to the teachers direction but they’re still not true to the teacher, they’re still interested in themselves but they stay mostly with one teacher. Then if someone real good comes along and they hear the word they go to listen to this other person yet they always come back to the one teacher.
They’re still concerned of themselves. They also become sometimes trouble makers, they gossip a lot, they’re craving excitement. So when things are smooth in the class they look for a way to make a little problem through gossip but they really mean well. If they keep on being sincere they will evolve into a devotee.
Now the devotee has come a long way. The devotee no longer thinks about themselves, they have forgotten about themselves. They don’t even care about becoming self realized. They have no desire to become liberated. They have no desires whatsoever. They act spontaneously and take one day at a time. They surrender completely to the Sage. They have no life of their own. They think of the Sage day and night. There is no room in their minds for anything negative.
A devotee never judges. A devotee understands that the Sage is coming from a different consciousness from theirs. So what the Sage does they may not understand too well but they don’t care. The devotees are the people who maintain and sustain the Sage. They look at the Sage as themselves. What they do for themselves they do for the Sage. The devotees are the life blood of the Sage and it’s the devotees that become liberated.
In every movement of a high nature. Ramana Maharshi, Rama Krishna, Shankara, many others too numerous to mention, it is only the devotees who become liberated because they don’t care about it. Their personal I is gone. They have surrendered the personal I to the Sage. There is noone left to quarrel. There is noone left to think something is wrong. There is noone left to judge.
Why do I share this with you? Because it’s time that most of you understood this truth and remember it. What are you really here for? You’re here to realize that you are not the body or mind. That you’re absolute reality, that you are pure awareness.
How can you realize this if you have other things in your mind? If you’re thinking about the world and worldly conditions. The world has always been here and the things that the world is going through, it has gone through again and again and again in previous ages.
Everyone’s excited about Russia becoming a capitalistic society as if this really matters in the long run. Things like this have happened thousands of years ago. There have been civilizations on this earth for billions of years that have surpassed where we are now. They’ve all been wiped out.
A person is a fool who becomes involved in the world.
Think of these things, what do you really want? What are you really looking for? What is your true motivation?
You and I both know there are many seekers and disciples who have simply come here to improve their humanhood. When their humanhood is improved that is all they care about and they’re gone. But this is a mystical teaching. This is a teaching of utter delight and harmony. The delight and harmony is your real nature. You are not the phenomenal mind that keeps thinking about these things. Thinking about becoming enlightened will not do it. But surrendering the mind that thinks about becoming enlightened will do it.
There has to be a total surrender of your ego, of your mind, of your body and of your life. The surrender must be to your Self, the real Self. The Self is all-pervading and omnipresent. There is only one Self and you are that. Therefore when I speak of surrendering or focussing on the Sage the way devotees do, I’m not speaking of the Sage as a person. Most disciples and seekers always think I’m talking about a person.
The Sage is not a personality. The Sage is omnipresence, absolute reality. The Sage is your true nature. The real Self is the Sage. There is only one Sage, there is not this Sage and that Sage. That’s why when most seekers and disciples talk about various Sages I don’t say anything but I smile. They’re speaking of various Sages as if they are individuals but the word Sage means transcendence, all-pervading therefore there is one Sage only.
If you are still seeing the Sage as a human being you will have problems because you will judge the human being according to your standards. You will create the human being in your image. And if the human being Sage does not fulfill your expectations you will be very disappointed and even upset. Whereas if you surrender and let go and stop quarreling and finding fault and believing something is wrong, you will become a devotee and all will go well with you.
– Robert
Selon Erick-Emmanuel Mbassi
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