"My master always pointed out to me during
our life together that all perceptions need an Ultimate
Perceiver. The ultimate perceiver can never be the object of
perception. Once false identification with the body is
understood, we are led to the question 'Who am I?'--and the one
who asks is himself the vivid answer. The searcher is himself
that which is sought." (Neither This Nor That I Am, vi)
Then one morning, "between deep sleep and awakening, there was
a sudden vanishing of all the residues of 'my persons', each
having believed themselves hitherto to be a doer, a sufferer, an
enjoyer. All this vanished completely, and I was seized in full
consciousness by an all-penetrating light, without inside or
outside. This was the awakening in Reality...... In this non-state there
was a freedom, full and objectless joy." (ibid., vii)
Like all teachings that hold that our real nature
is truth, what Dr. Klein says is essentially simple:
"You are primal awareness. Life is only
primal awarenss. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are.
You know moments in your life when a thought completely
disappears into silence, but still you are." (The Ease of
Being, 13)
This primal awareness is that which underlies all
other kinds of awareness.
"At first you may experience silent
awareness only after the dissolution of perception, but later you
will be in the silence in both the presence and absence of
objects." (ibid., 15)
Dr. Klein also calls this ultimate subject, the
witness (ibid., 17) and the Self (ibid., 63). And though it may
sound very removed from ordinary life, in fact it is the opposite
because, no longer caught up in objects and therefore in desire
and fear, it is open and free. So its true nature is love.
"If you let your attention go to your ear,
you'll feel that it is constantly grasping. It is the same with
the eye, the mind and all your organs. Let the grasping go and
you will find your whole body is spontaneously an organ of
sensitivity. The ear is merely a channel for this global
sensation. It is not an end in itself. What is heard is also
felt, seen, smelled and touched. Your five senses, intelligence
and imagination are freed and come into play. You feel it is
being completely expanded in space, without centre or border. The
ego, which is a contraction, can find no hold in this presence,
and anxiety, like and dislike dissolve." (Who Am I?, 72)
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