This original appears on this week’s Psiplex blog also.
Had the joy of getting an invitation from Chicago Author and Spiritual Teacher Prakash http://enterthenew.com/index1.htm about his new e-book called the Little Book of Silence. http://enterthenew.com/downloads.htm At the time of receiving this most welcome invitation, I had been meditating on the idea of our True Nature, the True Self which is not the role we take our selves to be, but the I-Self we find in stillness and the present moment.
This I-Self, which is the witness of consciousness is changeless, timeless and non-personal, connected to all life and is aware of all that arises in consciousness. The past few days has brought more of a focus into the True Self and the self inquiry, ‘Who Am I? that leads to discovering what you are not. Since Prakash had sent the link to The Little Book of Silence, I was smiling at the synchronicity of the universe which allowed a more delightful study of and furtherance of the self inquiry.
Prakash has eloquently stated that as we seek knowledge we are confirming and feeding the ego; knowledge and ego being the same. All this to the exclusion of Silence, the Source of direct knowledge and liberating experiential connection with the Absolute which we are seeking, but we may not know it. Prakash has laid out the condition of our desire and striving for a better ‘me’ through knowledge in a clear and easily assimilated series of points that show how one’s relation to their ego, their acquired conditioned knowledge directly impacts their life and relation to other aspects of their life.
Subsequently, our connection with Silence, of which all consciousness springs, the fathomless eternal Source, is examined in a series of pointers that lead to a powerful self inquiry for the reader. There is not ‘test answer’ that is right, rather the act of examining one’s relationship to Silence and their concept of their own knowledge can lead to finding out about the I-Self.
As Prakash states on enterthenew site:
Knowledge drawing from Silence and
Silence enveloping knowledge.
This, my dear, is the play of the Cosmos.
Why then don’t you play along
and let "your" knowledge sink
back into its own infinite Source?
Download a copy http://enterthenew.com/downloads.htm of ‘The Little Book of Silence’ for yourself and explore of what you can find about your True Self.
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