The Two Paths Of Discrimination And Love

Today’s theme was Embodied Enlightenment described by RS as the luminous space of Awareness in which our essential nature is not just understood and felt as the witnessing presence of Awareness in the background of all experience, but is known and felt as the light of pure knowing that pervades all experience, that is all experience.

 

In common everyday life, RS said this corresponded to everyone’s experience of love and beauty. When you love someone, the barriers and dualities between you collapse. When you look at something beautiful, the separateness of the subject—object dichotomy evaporates and you are left in the middle of luminous Awareness—peaceful, blissful, calm, collected and joyous.

 

It was a long tape of 43:09 but it gave us all the opportunity to be with our own experience as we listened—no matter what came up. Some felt a bit of irritation, some felt sleepy, some mentally aroused—but we all noticed our own reactions and that noticing gave us power, awareness—power. It was noted that awareness has a pull once you get used to going there and that pull moves us into a space of peace and well-being—both inside and out.  As K would say, this gave us the real opportunity to experience the reality that, the observer is the observed.

 

Some group members shared moments of beauty where their whole inner universe vibrated with energy and time-warped speed, either hiking in nature or deep into meditation practice. Those earth—shattering vibrations were a glimpse into the eternality of Reality.

 

It was mentioned that RS talks a lot about beauty and says that the task of any real artist is to reveal the true nature of reality to any perceiver such that they are moved, touched and inspired.

 

We started the meeting on time with a short session of silence, had a break at the mid—point to taste some lovely refreshments, and ended our session at approximately 4 pm.