Change is Our Ally

-- from Rama's tapes

You will never attain enlightenment. Neither will I. That is true. The self who you are, and who I am in this moment will change again and again. We will shed the layers of the self, and if eternity smiles on us, and if we accept the opportunities along the path, then change can lead to a self, or lack of self that is enlightenment.

Ram Dass once said that "enlightenment is the biggest disappointment to the ego."

We know that change is a certainty of life and a condition of the universe.

As mystics, who have our vision set on enlightenment, we open our awareness to those moments that provide us with doorways to "self" destruction. True? Well sure, if you understand that the self must be destroyed many many many times on the way to God Realization.

I say this tongue in cheek, but for those of you who have a morbid sense of life and death, don't take this literally. It is through the process of destruction of our concepts of self that we reach higher levels of consciousness. This form of self destruction is totally divorced from the common human pastimes that harm body, mind or spirit. You understand.

Change, then, is our ally, if we keep our focus on enlightenment.

I have been going through a change, I think. But . . . (Sometimes it feels like I am stuck in time and space, like a bruised CD that keeps repeating the same three words over and over.)

You know, same old thought patterns that are boring and limiting. Same old neuroses and doubts. Same old cycles of me.

But . . .then I put on a CD, or if I am really lucky, I attend a concert or two. I have confessed before that I am a parrot head. (Not recovering, just enjoying!)

So one night this week I wasted away in ParrotHead Nirvana, blending those concoctions that help me hang on. I danced and sang with the energy of the music, the people and the night.

The next night, and day, another concert. The music this time was played by perhaps the world's best Fiddler, Alisdair Fraser. A virtuoso who gets into the highest spaces where the violin, the player, and the audience are one.

So I was able to change, to dance through the doorway of music.

Today, back in my house, the same old me, dealing with the same old stuff. Except, I can still hear the music, and nothing will ever be the same!

Lynne of the San Diego DharmaCenter

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From Rama's Teachings

Rama presented thousands of techniques that were intended to help students along their own pathway to enlightenment. Techniques presented here may be useful for you. The teachings are meant to be used by students who are serious about their practice, and their own enlightenment.

A special thanks to
Lynne of the San Diego DharmaCenter for her writing, and the inspiration to begin this feature.