At The Shore of The Great Silence
Whether you are in ego consciousness or unity consciousness is not really the point. I have met many people who have easy access to advanced states of consciousness. Though for some people this may come very easily, I also notice that many of these people are no freer than anyone else. If you don’t believe that the ego can exist in very advanced states of consciousness, think again. The point isn’t the state of consciousness, even very advanced ones, but an awake mystery that is the source of all states of consciousness. It is even the source of presence and beingness. It is beyond all perception and all experience. I call it “awakeness.
~ Adyashanti, Selling Water by the River
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I laid back to meditate,
see if there was a poem.
There, one appeared.
I waited.
It drew closer.
I reached out to grasp it,
but because my feet
were not in this world,
I could not bring it down.
When my fingers
closed round it,
it dissolved like a cloud.
I waited again.
