Lessons Enlightenment. Elena SidelnikovaЧитать онлайн книгу.
say. But can you take them all in at once?
If I take them all in at once, I won’t be able to distinguish one from another. It’s like some kind of cocktail.
Yes, but it will be a unique flavor you can’t even imagine. When you speak of bliss, it is the state of being connected to unity. When you embrace all possible sensations, experiences, states, and opportunities, it gives a special state of consciousness where you dwell in the bliss of your grandeur.
Are the oceans of Love and Wisdom, as I understand, not mixing together, but rather existing in the Ocean of Consciousness like layers of salinity in our world ocean?
No, not like that. In reality, it is the same ocean, not different currents within it. Different perspectives of the ocean, if you will. How can I explain it? You pour water into a green vessel, and it seems to take on a green color. Then you pour the same water into a blue vessel, and it becomes blue. Or another example: Light, refracting through the ocean’s depth, shines one color of the rainbow. But refracting differently, it shows another color of the rainbow.
But this means that someone has to illuminate this ocean. Are you talking about the light of Christ’s consciousness and the light of your own consciousness?
Yes. But ultimately, they are one and the same. Because both the light of Christ’s consciousness and the light of Buddha’s consciousness are one light of consciousness.
There is the light of consciousness and the ocean of consciousness. How do they relate?
The light of consciousness is a fragment of the ocean of consciousness, rising to the surface of the ocean and then returning to it.
Are there others, besides Jesus and Buddha, who have reached the Ocean of Consciousness?
Yes, of course. But to varying degrees of proximity. Many still wander in other, more complex labyrinths of illusion. Having left one illusion, they enter other worlds, which captivate and allure with their brightness.
Are you referring to Nirvana, the realm of high spirits?
Yes, because any world is an illusion, a painted hearth. Essentially, there is nothing that can be observed or contemplated.
Don’t you observe anything? Does God not contemplate anything?
Understand this: I simply am. It is consciousness of presence, nothing more.
Presence of whom? An observer?
All-encompassing presence. Presence of everything. Of the observer. Of the observed. Of the act of observation. And the absence of all of it. Of the observer. Of the observed. Of the observation.
This is hard to grasp. Theoretically, I understand, but somehow it doesn’t quite fit within me.
That’s because there is no emptiness within you, or very little of it.
No emptiness?
Yes. How can you take everything in if you have no space for it? When you are filled with various knowledge, paradigms, beliefs, criteria, and so on. Discard all of that and become emptiness.
It’s easy to say: «become emptiness’…
It’s actually not difficult. You just need to discard everything at once.
But how? Should I stop eating and drinking, stop interacting with people, talking, meeting with them, lock myself in a dark retreat and thus discard everything?
There are such methods. But if you are not ready for them from the start, all this will pass in vain. And will only revive your thirst to regain everything once again.
You talk about thirst. How can it be quenched? How can I understand that I no longer need any of this?
Become the water itself, and then you won’t need to drink it. You will already be it.
I understand, but all of this feels like beautiful words and ideas to ponder. How do I do it?
Simply by not doing.
Not doing?
When you strive for something, you always strive outside of yourself. Discard all striving. Just be.
But then it turns out that I will simply be an observer of everything.
Yes. At first. That’s how I started. First – as the observer of everything. But then I realized there is no distinction between the observer and the observed. That all of it is one. After all, everything happening around you is your reflection. Therefore, you and what is happening around you are one. The observer and the observed are one. You must become such that you do not cast any reflections.
Like clear glass, through which light passes without even refracting. You’ve been given this analogy many times. You are clear glass. And you have no preferences other than to reflect Divine light. But you don’t reflect it; you let it flow through you, without holding onto it, not even for a second. You give it all, and you receive it all. And then you will see how life, like light, flows through you. But at the same time, you express no relation to this flow. In this way, you accept everything that flows through you. And then you come to the remarkable conclusion that to observe anything, there is no need to look outward. You can look within yourself. Because both outside and inside you, there is simply the dazzling Divine Light, which flows through you without refracting. Moreover, you will understand that if you become a pure prism, allowing the Divine flow of Light, the true purity of the Light is inside you. Because you do not refract it. And it’s easier for you to find and observe everything within yourself, for He is always near and always within you.
And then you withdraw from the external. From external reflections. You no longer care whether you reflect the light or not. You no longer care about anything, but simply immerse yourself in this Light, passing through you, and you become the Light itself. At first, you simply continue to observe the flashes of consciousness, the sparks and shimmering of this light within you. But then this Light expands within you, grows, and gradually fills all of your empty consciousness. And you become it. More precisely, you were always it; you just hadn’t accepted it in its original purity and power until now. And now – you’ve accepted it.
And then you stop interacting with the illusion around you. And it dissolves around and within you. You simply exist as an ocean of consciousness.
Many yogis describe such practices. Immersions within and observing the world of energies. I will become an ocean of light, and what will happen to me then?
Nothing. You will eternally remain the ocean of Light. And nothing will happen to you. You will eternally flow like an ocean of Light within yourself, shimmer, and someone will observe your shimmer. Among those who have not yet left the labyrinth of illusions.
So, it turns out that all my questions are in vain. Because knowledge is also an illusion?
You are simply returning to your Divinity by stepping away from your true self. And you are already on the path to yourself.
I thank you for the opportunity to know myself. And for the lesson.
I dwell within you. You dwell within me. We are one. And you are me, discovering the buddha within yourself.
Lesson 4. The Thirst for Perfection
Hello, Buddha. Speak with me.
I am with you.
After our conversations, people started sending questions for you. Will you answer?
Of course, if you ask, I will answer. I too was once like that and went through this stage of learning. I had many questions and doubts about the perfection of the world. Therefore, I will answer.
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