This book is for those who want Illumination itself, not a description of it--and for those who want to know how to live it. This volume THE AWARENESS OF SELF-DISCOVERY is a companion to A GUIDE TO AWARENESS AND TRANQUILLITY. It will expand the themes presented in that book and permit a degree of insight into the not always easy, but requisite living of them...
his book is intended for those who want peace of mind and are prepared for it. Those who are prepared are those who are willing to leave old landmarks--willing to forsake ego and intellectuality. Those who do will find these words instantaneously effective.
All of us who have lived this philosophy have found that we are able to see the immediate end of much personal agony the instant we pull the rug from the under our former value judgments. It is our continual "This is good and that is bad; I love this and hate that; this is valuable and that worthless; this, dangerous, that safe, etc." that precludes either a clear perception or a full enjoyment of the Perfect NOW.
It has very often been our determination that something is "good" that would have us cherishing it, lusting after it, struggleing to own it, guard it, worship it or bemoan its loss. It is equally our value-judgement that something is bad that has had us hating it, running from it, struggleing to get rid of it or crusading against it. the very same "thing" is frequently loved by one and hated by another, so clearly the agony is not in the "thing" but in the judgemnet of it. By and large, value judgements bestow either positive or negative value to the "thing", be it a sight, sound, person, place, event, feeling or idea, and it is a value we do not need to make nor give to the image.
We have found our ability to subdue value-judgments easier said than done. It is an ingrained habit of long standing--but it is possible to break it, nonetheless, and the "results" are immediate from the moment we begin to try.
The primary "way" to see images as neither good nor bad is to percieve the absolute Fact that they are included within awarneness AS awareness, and that they are all, equally, the same "substance"--Awareness, Spirit, Mind, Isness. The "value" lies with Awareness, not the image it includes. To give the image a value that belongs here as this very Identity awareness is, is to give away the dominion that is rightfully ours and thereby yield ourselves servants to obey the image. The "value" ever resides here as the ineffable That which is being this Consciousness I Am. MsSVig
his book is intended for those who want peace of mind and are prepared for it. Those who are prepared are those who are willing to leave old landmarks--willing to forsake ego and intellectuality. Those who do will find these words instantaneously effective.
All of us who have lived this philosophy have found that we are able to see the immediate end of much personal agony the instant we pull the rug from the under our former value judgments. It is our continual "This is good and that is bad; I love this and hate that; this is valuable and that worthless; this, dangerous, that safe, etc." that precludes either a clear perception or a full enjoyment of the Perfect NOW.
It has very often been our determination that something is "good" that would have us cherishing it, lusting after it, struggleing to own it, guard it, worship it or bemoan its loss. It is equally our value-judgement that something is bad that has had us hating it, running from it, struggleing to get rid of it or crusading against it. the very same "thing" is frequently loved by one and hated by another, so clearly the agony is not in the "thing" but in the judgemnet of it. By and large, value judgements bestow either positive or negative value to the "thing", be it a sight, sound, person, place, event, feeling or idea, and it is a value we do not need to make nor give to the image.
We have found our ability to subdue value-judgments easier said than done. It is an ingrained habit of long standing--but it is possible to break it, nonetheless, and the "results" are immediate from the moment we begin to try.
The primary "way" to see images as neither good nor bad is to percieve the absolute Fact that they are included within awarneness AS awareness, and that they are all, equally, the same "substance"--Awareness, Spirit, Mind, Isness. The "value" lies with Awareness, not the image it includes. To give the image a value that belongs here as this very Identity awareness is, is to give away the dominion that is rightfully ours and thereby yield ourselves servants to obey the image. The "value" ever resides here as the ineffable That which is being this Consciousness I Am. MsSVig