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Oneness Temple Opening.

sakshi | General | Sunday, 25 May 2008

I have recently returned from India, where I was blessed to attend a deepening of the oneness process at Golden City, and was present during the time of the consecration of the temple. I am deeply grateful to once again have experienced the phenomenal grace of AmmaBagavhan & the dasas at the Oneness University.

Because of the scheduled temple opening, there were around three hundred people from all over the world at the deepening! What an amazing experience!

Thousands more gathered for the consecration of the temple. The celebrations were scheduled to take place over six days, but within the first few hours of the first day almost half a million people from all over India had arrived at the temple. The roads leading into Golden City were jammed with upwards of three times that number! It became very clear that in spite of the loving and detailed planning for the event, there was no way that the safety of such vast numbers of people could be guaranteed.
AmmaBagavhan made the decision to bring the event to a close and most of us westerners did not get to enter the temple.

Intially I felt quite disappointed and sad that the longed for visit to that beautiful, now consecrated,temple was not going to happen! Gracious as always, Anadagiriji, the Director of the University,visited us at the campus and spent some time describing what had unfolded. Any disappointment and sadness soon turned to gratitude that AmmaBagavan, the dasas & all the people at the temple were safe.

As the realization sank in, of the sheer number of beings that are now part of this amazing phenomenon, this movement towards oneness,this sense of gratitude, of awe was almost overwhelming. There is such a drive for unity now on this planet,and in India at the temple opening this was so apparent.

Thank you AmmaBagavan, beloved dasaji’s and all oneness friends.

A little bit of nothing goes a long way!

sakshi | General | Wednesday, 14 November 2007

This excerpt from a recent talk by Adyashanti, in Pacific Grove, California, was sent to me by a dear friend. I include it here for contemplation! What a tangled web we create when we take our thoughts too seriously!!

In love and compassion,

Sakshi.

Everything Comes Back to Nothing

BY ADYASHANTI Inexplicably it comes. When you least expect it. For a reason you can never know. One moment you are striving, figuring, imagining, and then, in the blink of an eye, it all disappears. The struggle disappears. The striving ­disappears. The person disappears. The world disappears. Everything disappears, and the person is like a pinpoint of light, just receding until it disappears. And there’s nobody there to witness it. The person is gone. Only, only awareness remains. Nothing else. No one to be aware. Nothing to be aware of. Only that remains itself. Then it’s understood, finally and simply. Then everything all the struggle, all the striving, all the thinking, all the figuring, all the surrendering, all the letting go, all the grabbing hold of, all the praying, all the begging, all the cursing, too was just a distraction. And only then is it seen that the person was, is, and ever will be no more than a thought. With a single thought, the person seems to re-emerge. With more thoughts, the world seems to re-emerge right out of nothing. But now you know.

The incarnation is nothing more than a thought. A thousand incarnations are but a thousand thoughts. And this amazing miracle of a mirage we call the world reappears as it was before, but now you know. That’s why you usually have a good laugh, because you realize that all your struggles were made up. You conjured them up out of nothing with a thought that was linked to another thought, that was then believed, that linked to another thought that was then believed. But never could it have been true, not for a second could it have actually existed. Not ever could you have actually suffered for a reason that was true only through an imagination, good, bad, indifferent. The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness. And so at times we talk, and I pretend to take your struggles seriously, just as I pretended to take my own seriously. You may pretend to take your own struggles seriously from time to time, and although we pretend, we really shouldn’t forget that we are pretending, that we are making up the content of our experience; we are making up the little dramas of our lives. We are making up whether we need to hold on or surrender or figure it out or pray to God or be purified or have karma cleansed it’s all a thought. We just collude in this ridiculous charade of an illusion pretending that it’s real, only to reveal that it’s not. There is no karma. There is nothing really to purify. There’s no problem. There is only what you create and believe to be so. And if you like it that way, have at it!

But we cannot continue this absolute farce indefinitely. We cannot continue to pretend this game we play, indefinitely. It’s impossible. Everything comes back to nothing. And then it’s a bit harder to hold a straight face consistently for the rest of your life.