Satsang with Oliver - questions and answers 21-25
You say:"The seeker disappears. What remains is oneness. It's THIS what you are and always have been." Does this mean that I am not a human being?
The divine game, the illusion of being a human being is arising out of Being. What you really are, the ONE, is the keynote of the eternal symphony and a human being is one among myriads of melodies. Sometimes harmonious, sometimes dissonant, but always inseparably connected with the keynote.
Do you believe that you are (only) this body/mind-organism belonging to the species human being or are you defining yourself by the pure formless and nameless consciousness?
There isn't anything left which has to identify with something or has to define something. There is only impersonal knowing. Unquestionable clarity. Awareness. Being. Everything that appears is THIS. No matter if it's the body of Oliver or let's say a glass of beer. It's the ONE. Like the flower in Buddhas hand which is recognised as the ONE by Mahkassapa when Buddha held it up wordlessly. Buddha could have held up anything. Mahakassepa would have understood.
Do you recognize yourself also in the waves (person) appearing IN the ocean?
Let me explain it that way: the waves are like always. They are realized but not by the ocean and not by a person (wave). The ocean doesn't recognize the waves being a part of it because this is only a concept and the waves are not different from the ocean. The waves are recognized by "no one" so to speak. You can say that absolute perception is occurring. Perception which doesn't need any subject and object.
Look: The world of dualism (= waves including the human body and the thought of separation) arising from the ONE (ocean) according to this concept is perfect in each moment. It can't help being perfect. There is no one who could have an influence what happens to whom. The world of dualism simply happens. If a wave defines itself as a person or not is completely irrelevant. There is therefore no person with a free will. Only the thought of separation beliefs it and separates the wave from the other waves by personifying it. The ocean doesn't identify with the waves. It let them be waves and simply IS. So nothing ever happened. The illusion is over because it never started.
What do you recommend to a person who has a turbulent consciousness?
By a "turbulent consciousness" I suppose you mean that the person thinks and dreams a lot and perhaps has strong so-called "negative" emotions like anger, inferiority complexes, fear, feelings of guilt etc. To such a person I would tell the following:
Because you ask what to do, it seems that you want to get rid of the "turbulent consciousness", isn't it? Otherwise, you wouldn't ask. It bothers you being like that. You would like to be different. Perhaps you consider a "calm consciousness" (or even better: a calm character/conditioning) as better in some way. Perhaps you believe to be more happy if you dream and think less or if you are emotionally calm and controlled. You automatically associate happiness with certain conditions which have to occur. But I tell you that endless bliss and freedom are here, now is this moment! They are not hidden and not clouded. They are not somewhere deep "inside you". They are EXACTLY WHAT IS HERE NOW. Nothing will ever be different.
A dualistically teaching spiritual teacher would probably tell you:"You should meditate to calm your thoughts. You shoud affirmate and create your world as you like it. You should think positive, send out love, strongly believe in the good, strongly believe that you are the creator of the universe." That's fine. May be your conditioning is going to heed this advice, may be not. If you like it you probably are going to do all these things. They are funny games in the world of separation which help a lot this psycho-biologic maschine called human being to survive. You can join the game or not. If you join or not isn't in your hand. Nobody has an influence on it because the film of life is already shot. What YOU ARE remains unchanged anyway. What you REALLY ARE, Being which isn't separated from the "turbulent consciousness" and the thought "I have to do something to get rid of my turbulent consciousness" is ALWAYS here. Unbelievable bliss and endless peace means to accept that nothing has to be done. That the gift is always here. It means, if you want, to fall in love with the person who is looking for happyness and thinks to have to do something to make it happen. The person is like this because he/she can't help. The person IS what you are looking for all the time and will disappear simultaneously with the acceptance of this fact. Then there won't be anybody who is bothered by the "turbulent consciousness". It turns into unbelievable bliss and endless peace, like it was always before.
If only consciousness exists, I'm asking myself to which "Self" talks for example Karl Renz to?
If only the ONE (the Self, the Being) exists then of course Karl Renz, his talks, your question, your confusion about it and my answer are the ONE too. This question-answer-situation appears as one space- and timeless event in the ONE. That's of course another concept but the concept is the ONE too. It is like a mirror at the hairdressers which reflects your head endlessly. Ultimately everything falls back into the ONE. And the falling back is the ONE too...
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