And of course if your aim in life is Self-Knowledge, this would provide a challenge. How could a person find peace and happiness when they lose everything: their family, friends, house and all of there possessions. That many nations in the world have come together to help is definitely a good thing, as it reflects the oneness and compassion that comes right from our own being.
Can we find an answer for this much suffering?
But in order to meditate and find a real resolve for this situation, we would have to put ourselves in the place of the people in Haiti. The question is: Can we find a place in our meditation that is deep enough to resolve this much suffering?
Our answer would have to be deeper than the person who is hungry, homeless, and in pain; and deeper than the reaction of the mind, saying ouch! That is a shift of identity from the limitations of the mind and body, to the ever-present Consciousness, which is at our core.
By resting in our being we find what is true about the world
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From here we would not have to the change the person going through the crisis. All we would have to do is rest in the still reference point that sees change. In that way we would see clearly that the “me” who lived in Haiti was not me at all, and the lost everything was never really mine. The person and the mine were just objects that I saw and not my real identity.
But the thing that made this nightmare seem so real was our own Consciousness, and by returning our Consciousness to its source, we return reality to its source, which is our being. That resolves the suffering completely.
The illustration of night's dream will make this clearer. The real resolve for the tragedy that happened was to find the reality behind the dream, which is the mind of the waking one. Working in the dream would only provide temporary relief for the suffering. But when you wake up the relief is permanent. The same is true for this waking state.
And if we were crushed under one of the houses that collapsed and died, all of these objects would pass away; but our identity would remain the same as the still Consciousness that was never born and will never die.
So we can use this destruction as a reminder that if we connect our peace to objects in the world, then as the objects change, our peace and happiness will seem to disappear. But if we look within and find peace at its source, our real identity, we will find that which can never be destroyed.
So the lesson here is rather then getting enamored in the things that we see, to continue our search until we find that which is free from limitation. It is the source of Consciousness and Bliss which, found at our center, is the truth of the universe. The real lesson of change and destruction is that we should continue our search until we find the changeless background. That is, “The peace that passes all understanding.”
Feel free to ask questions
Now I want you to experience your true identity in its full glory. So please
feel free to continue asking questions. I’m always glad to hear your
reactions and clarify my answers. Unlike the path of faith, on the path
of Self-Knowledge it is curiosity that destroys limitation and allows
you to abide in your natural freedom.
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