The First Thing Bubba Free John (Adi Da Samraj) December 23, 1973 edited and adapted by Beezone   The usual man or woman begins to include spirituality as a possibility within his or her search through the medium of his or her experience. They may start to meditate or begin reading uplifting religious and spiritual literature. This is fine, but this has nothing to do with Spiritual life. These methods just become part of their search, their quest for change. The usual methods of spirituality may provide temporary consolation, but in themselves do not provide real consolation, but only a preoccupation to be consoled, to be fascinated, to be fulfilled. This satisfaction, fulfillment sought by these means, is never forthcoming. The motivation for this search remains at the deepest levels of the psyche, the fundamental condition being lived from moment to moment. Such a life is fundamentally disturbed. Fundamentally, the seeker is unconscious, he does not know the motivation of his search, it's principle. He is always in pursuit of it, and so it is always at the deepest levels of the psyche fitted with this sense of suffering, dis-ease, disharmony, separation, doubt, conflict. Whenever the instruments that may distract or fascinate the seeker are temporarily removed, whenever the instruments that serve the capacity to be fascinated and consoled are temporarily removed, he gets uptight. We have spiritual teachers and psychiatrists and all the rest, who want to help you not have these experiences so you can carry on the business of being consoled and fascinated. You can go on being unconscious, essentially not knowing what it is that is truly motivating your search.. The usual approach of all teaching, spiritual and social or whatever, is to prevent your falling into that condition in which you already are living, to prevent that sense of suffering that comes over you whenever you are not distracted. And so the search continues motivated unconscious and consciously. So people think the first thing they are supposed to do is to become spiritual or psychologically aware. This is absurd. People who are full of suffering and fundamental ignorance about themselves one day are yogis and psychologists the next. What is required of an individual is not to become psychological or spiritual, but to become human. The individual lives in a subhuman dimension limited by his own subconscious and unconscious processes, which have been locked in by the structure and psyche of society and allowed to control his conscious life from hour to hour. The combinations of what is locked away in his psyche, subconscious, and unconscious, and their apparently random external influences or effects produce the usual adventure. The beginning of the life of understanding is not a matter of starting to have grand psychic experiences and powers, but of undoing that bondage to limitation, that subconscious and unconscious trap. more >>>   In true sadhana you are dealing simply and directly with your state, your atmosphere, your ordinariness. It is truly perceptive to see that in your actual state, your very presence, is disturbance, completely independent of qualities that condition you are obviously disturbed. But your very presence is that disturbance. You can see that there is no genuine rest in you, except a mediocre experience of no disturbance which comes from without or within. When those gross disturbances are removed, you begin to see that your actual state, your very presence, is disturbance, completely independent of qualities that may appear to you. It is always this contraction. You begin to see that. You see it in your ordinary moments of relative ease and happiness, not just in your neurotic highs and lows, but in this neutral state in which there is no peculiar event. When you begin to see it then, understanding has begun. But people buy out at that point. Instead of truly becoming perceptive and carrying on the real activity of consciousness, they just enjoy that neutral time until the next disturbance arises or the next high arises. The highs and the lows are too baroque, they are not fundamental, they are extraordinary. This ordinariness is an omnipresent quality against which all other qualities play. The secret of understanding is in recognizing that. more >>>

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