Freedom
To be free means to be completely unconscious of yourself because at the deepest level there is no self to be conscious of. You don’t know who you are. You don’t know what you’re doing. You are just doing it. You are not even doing it: it just happens. You’ll be eating and suddenly you will realize that you are eating, and then you can reflect on yourself. But most of the time that you are eating you don’t know that you are eating or that somebody is eating. There is eating; that’s all. There is an awareness of the food but there is no awareness of your mouth or anything like that. You are not seeing your image if you are completely spontaneous. No, there is just the process of eating.
Diamond Heart Book IV, p. 125 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book IV, p. 125 • discuss »
Self-realization, which is the realization of true identity, goes through regressive movements. There is a greater and greater loss of what you think you are. One after another, always a loss, and the more there is a loss of what you think you are, the more freedom there is.
Diamond Heart Book IV, p. 135 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book IV, p. 135 • discuss »
The experience of absence is complete freedom. You are completely not there, completely absent; you don't come and you don't go. You don't think of dying, for dying doesn't make sense anymore. As there's nobody there to die, there's also nobody there to live. There is awareness of the world, but that awareness of world does not belong to anybody, does not belong to a self or any kind of center. universal consciousness becomes the world, and absence is the emptiness that underlies consciousness, that is beyond consciousness without itself being anything at all.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 132 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 132 • discuss »
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