Q:  I just can't seem to figure it out.  How did you come to find the answers?


A:  Speaking of this "story" here, a couple of months were spent in emails with Gilbert Schultz.  Then a few phone calls to Bob Adamson. 

And what was discovered?  It was discovered that the intellect that was intent on figuring out Advaita Vedanta through analysis was exactly THAT which was being identified with.  So the falsely identified intellect, the idea of a separate individual, couldn't figure it out - it was THAT which was itself the illusion.  Can an illusion figure out all the answers on the spiritual path?

Left without the ability to figure it out, what remains?  Pure mystery.  Not-knowing.  Right this very instant, knowledge is a bundle of concepts and assumptions.  That's it.  And that knowledge is where the assumption of separation lies.  That knowledge is where the "I AM the intellect" lies.  Learned knowledge.  Gathered concepts.  Acquired assumptions.

Without these, what remains?  Pure nonconceptual existence.  And is there a ME in this?  No.  The ME comes later along with knowledge.  Yet what you are must be prior to this knowledge.  What received the knowledge?  What is presently aware of the passing concepts and assumptions, in which the idea of ME is generated?

What was discovered?  It was discovered only in letting the analysis fall away that the intellect itself was being identified with.  Who identified?  Only Consciousness itself was identifying with a dream character.


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randall