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billeejak
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 Posted - May 14 2007 : 11:07:30 PM
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"A Presence – timeless, gentle, yet infinitely powerful – pervaded, and its overwhelming Love replaced mentalization.
Time stopped and the awareness of Oneness with eternity replaced all though or sense of a personal self. The “I-ness” of the Presence revealed itself as Allness……
It was now a silent, unified Oneness, magnificent in its brilliance that shone forth the Divinity of all existence…
The condition was a permanent replacement of the personal self - a slient, universal, timeless Presence by which the totality of Allness replaces any prior states of consciousness or the presumption of a personal self or “I”…
As a prior Hinayana Buddhist, I had believed that the ultimate reality of the Buddha nature was “Nothingness”, or “Void”. That was an effort because of voidness itself is a belief system that, however, had recurred as an experiential reality during meditations in this lifetime…
With the constant pursuit of the pathway of negation (attachment or aversion to form), the condition of voidness would return – enormously impressive, infinite, beyond space, time, or description; omnipresent, all-pervasive, and beyond all thought or volition. Yet despite its seeming nonlinear totality, there was an awareness of the absence of a critical quality that had been experienced as a youth in the snow bank – the exquisite softness, the at-homeness, the familiarity, the recognition of the essence of the totality of Reality as all-inclusive Love. This quality of Love is beyond joy or ecstasy and is intrinsic to the state of Peace.
Strikingly , the Void is very similar to the Ultimate State, except that it is devoid of the Love that is the very essence of Divinity. Without Love, the Void, is like infinite, timeless, empty space. Devoid of the quality that identifies it as Divinity, the Void is a limitation. This appeared to be the final, great polarity/duality of the seeming opposites, the resolution of which permitted the Realization of the Self as the Allness and Oneness out of which Creation emerges."
-David R. Hawkins "Discovery of the Presence of God"
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