SoonHei

For those who know not what they seek - please read! Rest, please also ready and let me know what you think This is something I have thought about writing before. This is still a quick one but I think this can give many a shake-up and may reveal what it is they are seeking... That which they already have and isn't lost... was NEVER lost. Below is a story about Jim and the Enlightened One ============================================================== Jim and the Enlightened One Jim was a typical spiritual seeker. Having learned of enlightenment and after a few mystical experiences under his belt he was fully engrossed in his search to attain self-realization. With daily meditation practices, yoga and week-long retreats few times a year, it had now been 5 years since he had fist stumbled upon the discovery which began his path. Jim shared his experiences with a few close friends and his immediate family, most of whom were as supportive as one would expect. Life was moving slowly but full of change. Jim had started to approach life with an open mind taking in all the possible variety of experiences to learn and grow. It was summertime and Jim was very excited because after years of trying, he was finally able to secure himself a one-on-one meeting with a highly regarded spiritual teacher. The teacher was known by the name Tukmo and had developed a reputation for being able to awaken many seekers. This was one of the main reasons why Jim was very excited and looking forward to meeting him. Jim sat outside Tukmo’s office, awaiting his arrival at their scheduled time. Tukmo’s assistant had checked him in and informed that he’s just about finished his session with another client. Jim sat quietly outside in a meditative state, trying to clear his mind to be better prepared for the meeting. Jim knew all the basics of spirituality. “I’m not the body… I’m not the mind” he would recite as part of his mantra meditation. “I’m not Jim, but the one who is aware of Jim.” he would often remind himself. Various breathing techniques, observing the thoughts, watching the watcher were all parts of his daily routines. The door opened and out came Tukmo accompanied by an older woman. “Thank you… thank you so much” she cried as she kissed his hand. Tukmo simply placed his hand on her head and smiled. Jim stared at the woman and she beamed back. Jim returned a smile and then looked at Tukmo awaiting his invitation. Tukmo looked an Jim, smiled and nodded. They went inside his office. It was quite a modern setup. Jim thought he had walked into his accountant’s office with the only difference being that there were books about spirituality instead of tax book charters. Tukmo asked Jim to have a seat and walked towards the window in the room. He looked outside of the window and took a deep breath. Jim sat in the chair quietly waiting for his much anticipated session to start. “So, what can I do for you?” Tukmo asked finally, still looking out of the window. Jim felt blank. This was the moment he had looked forward to for a long time. To be in the presence of an enlightened one, and here he was now lost for words. “Help me awaken. I want to be self-realized” he said quickly to end the long silence. “well, I’m sure you know this already, but who wants to awaken?” asked Tukmo. “I am not Jim, I’m not my thoughts, I’m not this body… but I feel like I am, I am choosing these words to speak, I’m forming this sentence, I came here today to see you to be free. What then am I doing wrong? Jim asked hopefully. Tukmo waited before he spoke again. “You say that you’re not Jim, but are aware of Jim… his body" “Yes.” “and the mind also, you're not Jim's thoughts either?” “yes, I’m not” “if you’re not the body then who came here today?” “well, Jim did” “and who is answering me?” “Jim” “And are you him?” “No” “who is answering me? “again Jim” “There you go. You say that you know that you’re not the body yet you are very much identified with it. Same with the mind. That mind and body belong to Jim. The message is not for Jim, the message is for YOU!” “but I can’t seem to dis-identify from Jim. I feel the body as mine, I think my thoughts, how do I become free?” “by paying deep alert attention to what I am about to tell you… YOU… YOU are ALREADY Free. As the one who is aware of Jim, you are anything but Jim. To be aware of something, you must stand aloof from it and not be it. Once again, hear me out… This message is not for Jim, it NEVER was! When you ask for a ‘how to be free’ you put yourself in a locked cage that very moment and then await for a key to be given to you in the form of an answer to your question. The fish in the ocean can never find the water IF it is looking for it.” “hmmm, wow. You’re right and I have understood that before… I’m already enlightened. I’m already free. I’m free right this very moment! But then why does it not seem to be the case!?” “The Fish in the ocean can NEVER find the water if it is looking for it… again, you may know that you’re not Jim… who then, are you? Who knows that he is not Jim? “ I do” “And who is this I?” “I am” “No, that’s again Jim answering… who KNOWS that he is NOT Jim right this moment? The One who KNOWS that he is not Jim, that is who YOU are! NOT the One who is answering me, for YOU also see the one who answers. Jim answers, and the Enlightened One sees him answer.” Jim became very quite. Jim looked at Tukmo but something was suddenly different. Very different. Almost like something had finally clicked. Jim tried to speak but no words came. There was a deep silence. Tukmo was smiling and waiting. “I… I need to… I think I… I am already free… ? “ Tukmo started, smiling more deeply. Nothing mattered anymore. Trying to understand or explain it to himself did not matter… Everything became very comical. Jim tried to speak but his mouth only knew laughter. It felt right. It finally struck him and he roared! He laughed in Joy “I am already free! I! I am ALREADY FREE! I… I always have been! I as the one who KNOWS was always free!” Tukmo smiled silently, leaving the stage all for Jim. “Jim can never be free! Jim is just a story! I am the enlightened one! I am borrowing Jim’s mouth to speak with you Tukmo, but that’s all! I AM NOT JIM OR HIS JIMMY MIND!” “and let's see... Who is not Jim?” Tukmo asked with a smile. “The One who knows that this, right now, is Jim who is answering your question. That One is not Jim! That One, who knows, is who I am. I am out of this world! I am out of Jim's world... out of your world Tukmo!” Jim said. Tukmo smiled. “The freedom lies in your lived understanding of the teaching, that you’re not the body or the mind, but are the one who is aware of them. That’s all which is needed. Any inquiry after that point to further clarify is simply the failure to understand the teaching. Jim had been trying to escape himself, which is impossible. Jim cannot be free. For there is no Jim to be free. Jim is a puppet and the puppeteer had mistaken himself to be the puppet. The puppet is not real, the puppet is only real in his world, and thus, the puppet’s world is also not real.” “I don’t think this is necessary, but Thank You Tukmo” Jim said “You’re welcome Jim “ Jim got up, shook Tukmo’s hand and left his office with a smile. Looking out in front of him, without a care or worry, into the infinite possibilities the world he currently was in. ================================================================= The Story of Jim is like many of us on here. We are seeking to find that which is not lost. The one who searches for his glasses while wearing them is ignorant to the fact that he already has that which he seeks. and Now to really understand what took place above and what maybe happening for you in your spiritual search... Read the above story with this MASTER KEY: Tukmo in the story above is not speaking to Jim at any given point. Tukmo is speaking to YOU, the reader! Read it again with this knowledge and be free of your own Jim!

@nightrider1435 yes. i know of that. i myself have been in similar states... it's a whole different ball game at that time the forgetting of the fact that you've taken a drug - this can be very shaky indeed.

YES MAA'AM! <3 I will only use the language of Love from now on. but don't hold me to it!

the paper and the drawing on it are ONE you can say: look at my drawing! or you can also say, look at my paper! paper = drawing = paper = prawing = daper same way brahman/God = world/maya all you're doing here is picking your labels and which POV to look at it from.

@Preetom hopefull that aint against forum rules? and no... i was talking in Urdu, not Hindi

@Inliytened1 brahman = sand on the beach world = drawings in the sand on that beach ====================================== brahman = paper world = words on that paper ====================================== brahman = legos world = structure made out of legos

@Aakash meri jaan you're back already! welcome

<3 love it. @ajasatya

and YOUR gaze also is breathing life into this very sentence above. do YOU think that it is YOU who is articulating/thinking this and talking about it? no... that is still Shaun, speaking from a place he thinks is the real him... YOU will see it when YOU do... in due time.

@nightrider1435 the same YOU which is watching nightrider1435 report on the trip was watching nightrider1435 freak out and face fear YOU were/are just watching. like a horror movie. you get afraid when you're totally engrossed in it. then you can also back out instantly - knowing you're always free from it. You would have seen that the one who is freaking out and is facing the fear is nightrider1435 and not YOU. for you're sitting in the couch watching nightrider1435's movie

@winterknight why the blank face bro smile takes effort i guess lol? so that's total relaxation there? face/cheek dropping? smile mere yaar <3

@Shaun of course! if you have a book that is sitting on the shelf... is the story that's written in it being played out or happening? or is it just words on paper... or heck... just symbols/markings on papers... and what are even symbols/markings? point being. that it is only when there is a reader of the book does it come to life. YOU the reader. You the consciousness/awareness breathe life into the universe. YOUR presence brings it to life. but then is there really any difference between the reader and the book if all there is, is just the story? the reader in the scale of reality is not separate from Life. It is Life itself. Not Two things. Non-Dual. Oneness. Nothing-Everything as ONE-THING. Paper and Words on the Paper, intimately One - but the paper can exist without the words and is not dependent on the words. The words however depend on the paper to exist. They are the modulation of the paper itself... made out of paper. Building blocks. Sand Castles made out of Sand. xoxo

@Natasha nice chuneee there Tasha

@theking00 all the best. return anytime. come and go as you please. just like your thoughts - they don't announce to you when they are stopping and how long they will be gone for... be like your thoughts... just flow. without a "should be this way or that way"

this is true for me as well so who is correct? @Shaun or @SoonHei or both? or are @Shaun and @SoonHei parts of the greater singluar ONE WHOLE? and only if knowing-speaking as that WHOLE can one truly say that there is no me or others here. Shaun cannot say that... that's like Shaun saying e=mc^2 without understanding what it fully means. you're just saying it

@Aakash if i may ask/suggest try to leave/return undeclared. observe this need for reporting your departure and then likely returning or not returning this time... point is, who knows get this worry off ur head by not choosing to report about your comings and goings all the best

@Conrad you the real MVP

Lucid Life >

@Mikael89 @Telepresent hmm. in that case. i dance between the two places. the clarity increases. i know what I am not and that's all which is required to be known. but there is also nothing which i am not, for I am all. short version: not seeking. ever integrating and enhancing of course any talking about it cannot ever show/convince if one is "enlightened" afterall, Jim before and after his enlightenment is the same Jim

and for you @Telepresent focus on who it is that wants to know from which point of view SoonHei was writing? are you that who wants to know? or are YOU the ONE who is aware of one wanting to know

@Telepresent hmmm. i am trying to understand what you're asking... i wrote initially with Jim talking/knowing with a spirtual ego initially - not knowing his true self and coming to Tukmo (who is enlightened ) to ask for help tukmo, being enlightened speaks from TRUTH after his quick dance with Jim - "jim" then finally gets it and is also enlightened when he confirms: “The One who knows that this, right now, is Jim who is answering your question. That One is not Jim! That One, who knows, is who I am. I am out of this world! I am out of Jim's world... out of your world Tukmo!” Jim said. - illustrating which POV he is speaking from. he's speaking as awareness or in the context of the story; at that point he is speaking as the reader who is reading the story

@Telepresent hey I (soonhei) was not in that narrative it is just like any story you would read. except Tumko is speaking to the reader (telepresent) not Jim. Sure, he is speaking with Jim... but Jim cannot be enlightened, the enlightened one does not exist in Jim's world. just like there is nobody enlightened in the world of duality ("real life") you as awareness is enlightened/awake - which is aware of this world but not of this world that was illustrated with awareness substituted as the reader of the story... the reader of the story is aware of the story-world but not of the story-world. this should click in a felt-understanding sort of way if you're really grasping the whole awakening/enlightenement is beyond telepresent... it is for YOU (awareness/reader) which is out of this world but intimately one with / in it.

@Dimi you're welcome Dimi. God Bless you <3 xo

@electroBeam we are all crazy But yes. I have had this too. It seems to look like a video game or more fluid. Like watching a 30FPS video vs a 60FPS video. You notion of what your "normal" Experience is, is changing. But that's just it, there is no "normal" You're moving towards a new normal or an ever-changing Normal. Also, about ur last question, "is this what you're experiencing?" Keep in mind not everyone will have/share the same Experience. Just like right now, i am sitting in the AC and feeling cool air on my face vs if ur outside, ur not feeling cool AC air on ur face.

@ivankiss ♥️?