Italie 2012-03_La signification de l'éveil traditionnel

what's important to understand about this dimension of yourself and this dimension of myself and this dimension of reality itself is that there's nothing happening there and that's the whole point there's really nothing happen there's nothing happening there and nothing ever happened there that in this deepest dimension of reality this deepest dimension of the self of yourself and myself and the deepest dimension of reality itself is a place or a no place or a dimension or a domain where there's no time there's no space there's no history nothing ever happened it this place exists before creation before it's before birth and before creation before existence prior to existence that's what is some theorists believe that the that the creative process at a universal level level the universe itself uh is cyclical of course nobody actually knows for sure but some some uh some theorists and physicists believe that as the universe burst into being it will one day collapse into itself and disappear and then emerge once again and so there are many people who who have an understanding that the the creative process is cyclical and of course that's that's that's a theory nobody really knows it's not it's not part of my own conviction for certain philosophical reasons which i'll explain at another time but what i want everybody to know now and to be aware of is the fact that in this deepest dimension of the self and the deepest dimension of reality itself which we're equating with that primordial empty void from which the entire creative process sprang forth 14 billion years ago nothing's happening and that's the main thing that you all need to know so when were when we're doing spending time in this perennial practice of meditation which human beings have been engaging in for around three thousand years before about three thousand years ago human beings didn't know about this dimension of this their own self and they didn't know about this dimension of reality itself but around 3000 years ago it was discovered but what's important for all of you to know is is that there isn't that when you awaken to this part of yourself when you discover this part of yourself in this deepest dimension of reality itself you'll realize there's nothing happening there and nothing ever happened there and that's what's important to know that there's nothing happening there and nothing ever happened there and that's the whole point so as i think i've been explaining at least a little bit it's because nothing ever happened there and nothing is happening there that for those of us who have been born and have entered the stream of time and are very much identified with being born and very much identified with entering into the stream of time that birth process is burdensome because it um it compels us to um accumulate uh history and from the as i was trying to explain a little bit yesterday from the traditional from the perspective of the traditional enlightenment position the birth process and the ensuing and the life process that ensues from that is very burdensome because you you have to you accumulate experience and you accumulate obligations and you accumulate karma there's so much that you have to do there's so much you have to do there's so much you have to be responsible for and it just goes on and on that's what the traditional enlightenment position is so and life you know life is hard life is hard harder for some people than it is for others but in but we can say that life is hard so so this so there's so much happening in our lives which obligates us to be responsible so when you awaken to this deepest part of yourself that's never been born and never entered the stream of time you experience freedom from all of that you experience freedom from the burden of existence and it's not a small thing you experience freedom from the burden of existence you also experience freedom from from history so it's not so you experience freedom from your own personal history you experience freedom from all of the problems that you that you and your culture are facing today so so therefore it's only in awakening to the deepest part of your own self in the deepest part of reality that part of yourself that's never been born and never entered the stream of time that is this deepest ground of being where there's no time and no form and no history nothing ever happened which relates back to this primordial empty void from which the entire creative universe burst forth it's only when you awaken when you awaken to that deepest part of yourself the deepest part of reality itself that you will experience freedom from suffering that's the idea