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Facticity
A new message from Maitreya Ishwara.
http://www.ishwara.com/
Facticity is the quality or condition of being a fact. As you penetrate deeper and deeper into your inner reality many mysterious facts become your truth. Spiritual truth cannot be known by belief, but only by direct experience . Stay with your direct experience and take the words of teachers as a invitation to look more deeply into yourself; self-enquiry is a subjective science whose province lies in the secret realms of every seeker's inner world.
Truth is often made to sound holy by teachers, as if it were something far away. Truth is a mystery that has a thousand veils shrouding its ultimate reality. Truth also means ‘what's so’.
The important and verifiable truth for you is your direct experience. This truth is not the mental chatter of your mind's comments and judgements. Most minds indulge in fantasy and projection and fabricate stories that are out of sync with reality. Your truth is the direct experience of life-as-God in you, as it is witnessed each moment with silent awareness and equanimity.
The Japanese word ‘honto’ means ‘is that so’. If you need to make any comment on your experience, ‘honto’ is one simple word that will often suffice; it helps to keep your comments brief. The mind then returns to a state of silent awareness and continues watching all inner and outer experience with equanimity.
Reality is multidimensional and can be explored only by staying with the awareness of what’s so. Spiritual knowledge is revealed through self-observation; silent wisdom does not require your mind to interpret, analyse or make lengthy comments. It is more prudent and fruitful to note the facticity of direct experience consciously, with as little comment as possible.
Teachers often talk about truths that you cannot verify with your experience. Take their insights as a hypothesis, never adopt any belief without experiential verification and always question anything that doesn’t make sense. Reason and religion need not be incompatible.
Not all enlightened teachings are rational and experientially based. For example, the assertion that you are already enlightened because you are part of the one consciousness of the Whole, is irrational and contrary to your own experience.
Enlightenment occurs with the experiential verification of advaita’s hypothesis, consciousness is all there is, not through collecting beliefs from well-meaning but unskilled teachers.
Advaita’s understanding is very helpful as a hypothesis to support your existential enquiry, not as an unverified belief about truth. Beware of unverified beliefs - even if they happen to be true.
Authentic seekers require skilful teachers to help them avoid the idealistic traps that decorate the spiritual journey in the form of unverified truth.
Have a close look at your teacher's suggestions and be aware of subtle embedded ‘shoulds’. Any subtle ‘should’ will allow your ego an escape route as it unconsciously recreates an idealized spiritual identity.
You are perfect as you are now for the complex needs of the divine play. All growth happens by grace, through the power of the One, not by adopting subtle idealistic spiritual ‘shoulds’ from your teacher.
Understand that you are already helpless and vulnerable to life's agenda. Trust that the intelligence of the Whole is managing your life and growth perfectly. Only with deep trust in life are you free from the burden of your spiritual ego’s constant effort to get it right.
As the investigation of your multidimensional reality opens to more subtle, refined states of consciousness, eventually you disappear and the ultimate truth of non-Being is revealed.
The ultimate truth cannot be described accurately; that arcane realm is far beyond all trace of concepts. Ultimate truth can be known only by dissolving and disappearing into its Mystery, and then there is no one left to claim: 'I am That'.
Truth is fully revealed in deep silent awareness, beyond the last vestige of subtle thought. And that sublime and liberating revelation is given by the power and grace of God.
Love
Maitreya
http://www.ishwara.com/
Facticity is the quality or condition of being a fact. As you penetrate deeper and deeper into your inner reality many mysterious facts become your truth. Spiritual truth cannot be known by belief, but only by direct experience . Stay with your direct experience and take the words of teachers as a invitation to look more deeply into yourself; self-enquiry is a subjective science whose province lies in the secret realms of every seeker's inner world.
Truth is often made to sound holy by teachers, as if it were something far away. Truth is a mystery that has a thousand veils shrouding its ultimate reality. Truth also means ‘what's so’.
The important and verifiable truth for you is your direct experience. This truth is not the mental chatter of your mind's comments and judgements. Most minds indulge in fantasy and projection and fabricate stories that are out of sync with reality. Your truth is the direct experience of life-as-God in you, as it is witnessed each moment with silent awareness and equanimity.
The Japanese word ‘honto’ means ‘is that so’. If you need to make any comment on your experience, ‘honto’ is one simple word that will often suffice; it helps to keep your comments brief. The mind then returns to a state of silent awareness and continues watching all inner and outer experience with equanimity.
Reality is multidimensional and can be explored only by staying with the awareness of what’s so. Spiritual knowledge is revealed through self-observation; silent wisdom does not require your mind to interpret, analyse or make lengthy comments. It is more prudent and fruitful to note the facticity of direct experience consciously, with as little comment as possible.
Teachers often talk about truths that you cannot verify with your experience. Take their insights as a hypothesis, never adopt any belief without experiential verification and always question anything that doesn’t make sense. Reason and religion need not be incompatible.
Not all enlightened teachings are rational and experientially based. For example, the assertion that you are already enlightened because you are part of the one consciousness of the Whole, is irrational and contrary to your own experience.
Enlightenment occurs with the experiential verification of advaita’s hypothesis, consciousness is all there is, not through collecting beliefs from well-meaning but unskilled teachers.
Advaita’s understanding is very helpful as a hypothesis to support your existential enquiry, not as an unverified belief about truth. Beware of unverified beliefs - even if they happen to be true.
Authentic seekers require skilful teachers to help them avoid the idealistic traps that decorate the spiritual journey in the form of unverified truth.
Have a close look at your teacher's suggestions and be aware of subtle embedded ‘shoulds’. Any subtle ‘should’ will allow your ego an escape route as it unconsciously recreates an idealized spiritual identity.
You are perfect as you are now for the complex needs of the divine play. All growth happens by grace, through the power of the One, not by adopting subtle idealistic spiritual ‘shoulds’ from your teacher.
Understand that you are already helpless and vulnerable to life's agenda. Trust that the intelligence of the Whole is managing your life and growth perfectly. Only with deep trust in life are you free from the burden of your spiritual ego’s constant effort to get it right.
As the investigation of your multidimensional reality opens to more subtle, refined states of consciousness, eventually you disappear and the ultimate truth of non-Being is revealed.
The ultimate truth cannot be described accurately; that arcane realm is far beyond all trace of concepts. Ultimate truth can be known only by dissolving and disappearing into its Mystery, and then there is no one left to claim: 'I am That'.
Truth is fully revealed in deep silent awareness, beyond the last vestige of subtle thought. And that sublime and liberating revelation is given by the power and grace of God.
Love
Maitreya
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