Student: And during this stay there was a moment of enlightenment?
Jean Klein: Yes, it was a total switch-over from the residual conditioned state to the unconditioned state. Awareness expanded completely and I felt myself in globality.
Student: Had this ever happened before?
Jean Klein: No. There had been glimpses, but this was more than a glimpse. There was no going back. I had found my real ground.
Student: Did you know in the moment that it would be permanent or did you discover this in the days that followed?
Jean Klein: Because of the quality of the switch-over there was no doubt that I could be taken again by duality, and this was confirmed in the days and weeks that followed. I felt a rectification in my body and in my brain, as if all the parts had found their right place, their most comfortable position. I saw all events spontaneously appearing in the non-state, in my total Absence, real Presence.
Student: Could you say what were the exact conditions, physical and mental, before this moment?
Jean Klein: There had been, for two years, a retreat of all the energy commonly used in becoming, so that when some birds crossed my horizon, instead of becoming lost in them, they were lost in me and I found myself in awareness free from all objects. This time, what I admired, the birds, dissolved in my admiring, in Presence. And admiring dissolved in the Admired. Before the birds appeared, I had been in a profound and prolonged state of being open to openness. Now I found myself AS the openness, identical with the openness. Openness was my being. There was no more duality.
Student: Was there any other difference between this time and other times when you had looked at birds?
Jean Klein: Before, there was a looker looking at something. This was a moment when there was simply looking without a looker. Previously, it had been my nature to live in pure perception with objects, not living in the divided mind. I had for a long time ignored the arising of all qualifications.
Student: Ignored?
Jean Klein: It belongs to the traditional approach, and so that of my teacher, never to refuse or indulge in the coming up of qualifications, but simply to ignore, and eventually forget about them. neither to look for freedom nor avoid non-freedom. The mind simply ceased to play a role except in a purely functional way.
Student: How is life different now?
Jean Klein: There is no more identification with time and space, body, senses, and mind. All events simply happen in awareness.
Student: Did your relationships change?
Jean Klein: There was no more relationship. As there's no longer an "I", there is not another.
Student: Can this non-dual state be described at all?
Jean Klein: It is love where the mind is dissolved in love. The seeker IS the sought, and is always so very, very near.
*********** *********** *********** ***********
True detachment comes when things leave us of themselves. And they leave us as soon as we have really understood that they never keep their promises.
~ Jean Klein
*********** *********** *********** ***********
The natural state of the relaxed brain is multidimensional attention. It does not need viewpoints, data, opinions, memory to be alert. When all the directions cease, an organic, non-directed watchfulness remain.
This is the threshold of "I am."
~ Jean Klein
*********** *********** *********** ***********
"Taking oneself to be a person is a habit just like any other. It is the desire to be distinct from one's surroundings, different from others. The person exists when it is formulated as a thought, so we can see that it is nothing but a memory. Repetition gives it a hold, a locality in which to situate itself."
~ Jean Klein
*********** *********** *********** ***********
"Where there's an ego there is purpose. And when there is no sense of "I" there is no purpose. Life is purposeless. There's only beauty in living in the eternal. If you believe you are the individual "I" you are isolated from your surroundings, and this isolation brings feelings of insecurity, fear and anxiety. Then you look for goals. You worry and anticipate. Life doesn't need a reason to be. That is it's beauty."
~ Jean Klein
*********** *********** *********** ***********
"What any desire really aims at, is a state of non-desire. This non-desire is a state in which we demand absolutely nothing. Thus it is a state of extreme abundance, fullness."
~ Jean Klein
Jean Klein: Yes, it was a total switch-over from the residual conditioned state to the unconditioned state. Awareness expanded completely and I felt myself in globality.
Student: Had this ever happened before?
Jean Klein: No. There had been glimpses, but this was more than a glimpse. There was no going back. I had found my real ground.
Student: Did you know in the moment that it would be permanent or did you discover this in the days that followed?
Jean Klein: Because of the quality of the switch-over there was no doubt that I could be taken again by duality, and this was confirmed in the days and weeks that followed. I felt a rectification in my body and in my brain, as if all the parts had found their right place, their most comfortable position. I saw all events spontaneously appearing in the non-state, in my total Absence, real Presence.
Student: Could you say what were the exact conditions, physical and mental, before this moment?
Jean Klein: There had been, for two years, a retreat of all the energy commonly used in becoming, so that when some birds crossed my horizon, instead of becoming lost in them, they were lost in me and I found myself in awareness free from all objects. This time, what I admired, the birds, dissolved in my admiring, in Presence. And admiring dissolved in the Admired. Before the birds appeared, I had been in a profound and prolonged state of being open to openness. Now I found myself AS the openness, identical with the openness. Openness was my being. There was no more duality.
Student: Was there any other difference between this time and other times when you had looked at birds?
Jean Klein: Before, there was a looker looking at something. This was a moment when there was simply looking without a looker. Previously, it had been my nature to live in pure perception with objects, not living in the divided mind. I had for a long time ignored the arising of all qualifications.
Student: Ignored?
Jean Klein: It belongs to the traditional approach, and so that of my teacher, never to refuse or indulge in the coming up of qualifications, but simply to ignore, and eventually forget about them. neither to look for freedom nor avoid non-freedom. The mind simply ceased to play a role except in a purely functional way.
Student: How is life different now?
Jean Klein: There is no more identification with time and space, body, senses, and mind. All events simply happen in awareness.
Student: Did your relationships change?
Jean Klein: There was no more relationship. As there's no longer an "I", there is not another.
Student: Can this non-dual state be described at all?
Jean Klein: It is love where the mind is dissolved in love. The seeker IS the sought, and is always so very, very near.
*********** *********** *********** ***********
True detachment comes when things leave us of themselves. And they leave us as soon as we have really understood that they never keep their promises.
~ Jean Klein
*********** *********** *********** ***********
The natural state of the relaxed brain is multidimensional attention. It does not need viewpoints, data, opinions, memory to be alert. When all the directions cease, an organic, non-directed watchfulness remain.
This is the threshold of "I am."
~ Jean Klein
*********** *********** *********** ***********
"Taking oneself to be a person is a habit just like any other. It is the desire to be distinct from one's surroundings, different from others. The person exists when it is formulated as a thought, so we can see that it is nothing but a memory. Repetition gives it a hold, a locality in which to situate itself."
~ Jean Klein
*********** *********** *********** ***********
"Where there's an ego there is purpose. And when there is no sense of "I" there is no purpose. Life is purposeless. There's only beauty in living in the eternal. If you believe you are the individual "I" you are isolated from your surroundings, and this isolation brings feelings of insecurity, fear and anxiety. Then you look for goals. You worry and anticipate. Life doesn't need a reason to be. That is it's beauty."
~ Jean Klein
*********** *********** *********** ***********
"What any desire really aims at, is a state of non-desire. This non-desire is a state in which we demand absolutely nothing. Thus it is a state of extreme abundance, fullness."
~ Jean Klein
Posts
waiting for next post
ReplyDelete