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One who is beginning to understand first recognizes that he (she) is suffering, fundamentally unhappy, unsatisfied, and chronically in double-bind that cannot finally be consoled. This recognition puts a qualification on the ordinary force of seeking and life indulgence. On this basis a person begins an approach to his experience, habits, thoughts and actions that would perceive the root of his dilemma and at last he will come to see that all of this, his dilemma, his suffering is his own. It is not the product of some process outside himself or his control It is not hidden in the events of the world or in the events of his internal or non-volitional life. It is in fact the evidence of a process that is always occupation of his very existence. His entire dilemma, manifested now in all all the conscious, unconscious, internal, external and transcendental events of existence is in fact dependent on the action of the avoidance of relationship, to which he is utterly, presently committed. When he sees this action directly he finds that it is a radical action, one that is reinforced but not dependent upon any effect or manifestation of his dilemma. This action, presently enforced apart from any other cause, is in fact the source and fundamental experience that is his dilemma. This perception is the first great relief that is understanding. It is an extraordinary form of cognition that relieves the whole force of dilemma and search of its awesome necessity. Consciousness acquires a form, energy and intensity that is already prior to the force of dilemma, search and suffering. It takes on the form of understanding, which is degrees of enquiry into the moment to moment events of conscious life. As this enquiry itself becomes radical in its force (just as the activity of avoidance was formally the radical action of existence) the form of life and experience appears in the light of a new cognition. Then the man sees that reality is itself relationship, actual and unqualified, as the always prior condition. In the beginning he knew he was suffering, in dilemma then he saw that all his suffering was caused by his own action, was in fact his own action. And this awareness gave him great relief. But now he sees that the nature of reality, of existence itself, is relationship, always and already. Against this the activity of avoidance appears not only unnecessary but impossible. Then he sees that the adventure to which he was committed is in fact a schism in reality an impossible, insoluble effort that must always be experienced as suffering, dilemma and present unhappiness. The force of this degree of cognition is such that, whenever it arises, the whole dilemma and search is dissolved in a direct, present, unqualified peace. As such a one continues to enquire,
his understanding becomes more and more radial, fundamental,
dependent on nothing whatsoever. And soon he becomes present
as the force of reality itself, unmoved, untouched, without
trouble, already full, unqualified relationship itself. This
is radial understanding, the independent "cognition" that is
reality itself.
1971 - Franklin Jones (Adi Da
Samraj)
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