Here are some extracts from his book "The Impact of
Awakening".
Introduction
When you come to the point in life where you are ready to inquire
directly into the unknown core of your being, you are ripe to
awaken from the dream of separation. The direct path of spiritual
inquiry begins not with seeking something that you yearn for, but
with seeking the seeker, the essential "I".
In order for inquiry to be powerful and liberating, it needs to be
understood that spiritual inquiry is not something to be performed
by the mind. Inquiry is a tool that points you directly back to
your own being, to experience before the mind. If you read this
book with your mind only, you are wasting your time. But if you
read it with your whole being - if you listen to it, feel it, sense
it, resonate with it, and digest it slowly, you may find that it is
worthwhile after all.
I am not speaking to who you think you are, I am speaking to You,
the Awareness behind the mask called "me". This book is for You.
You will see your Self celebrated in every page.
WHO ARE YOU?
You are...
beyond the body-mind and personality,
beyond all experience and the experiencer thereof,
beyond the world and its perceiver,
beyond existence and its absence,
beyond all assertions and denials.
Be still and awaken to the realization of who you Are.
In this realization of no separate self,
the Supreme Reality which you Are shines unobscured
in all things, as all things, and beyond all things.
Having returned to the formless Source
and transcended all separateness,
do not stop or cling even to this Source,
but go beyond the Supreme Realization
which transcends all dualities,
yet does not deny even a speck of dust.
Having abandoned all concepts and ideas,
the enlightened sage lives as ever-present consciousness,
manifested and manifesting in the world of time and space
That which is eternal, ever new, and whole.
Chapter One
The Evolutionary Impulse to be Free
Do not seek after what you yearn
for,
seek the source of the yearning itself.
The impulse to be free is an evolutionary spark within
consciousness which originates from beyond the ego. It is an
impulse toward the divine, unity, and wholeness. It is an impulse
originating from the Truth itself. This impulse to evolve is often
co-opted by the ego, which then creates the illusion of the
spiritual seeker. This impulse which is inherently innocent, is
something that, in and of itself, has nothing to do with seeking to
attain. It is only when the ego co-opts the impulse and then tries
to attain something, that the seeker is born. This impulse, this
spark of evolution, becomes almost instantly corrupted by a wanting
which gives birth to the seeker.
Quest: So then how does one not move away from that impulse, into
striving and seeking? How do you stay in the impulse?
Answer: You stay in the impulse by seeing it as an impulse and not
interpreting it as coming from a lack. A sense of lack is the ego's
interpretation of the impulse which intantly gives rise to the
separate, lost seeker. The impulse is an inner pressure to evolve,
to become whole, to be free. It comes from your true nature, your
already present divinity.
Quest: So the pressure to evolve is interpreted as a lack.
Answer: Yes. Actually the impulse comes not from a lack, but from
the spark of evolution. In that sense it comes from fullness. It
comes from that which already is. The impulse to be free is
actually coming directly from a freedom that is already starting to
break into consciousness. The evolution is going from
misunderstanding, which is ignorance, to Wisdom, which is Self
realization. The impulse to be free comes from Wisdom.
Quest: I would like clarification. Isn't the spiritual seeker just
an innocent expression of the impulse to be free?
Answer: It starts out as an innocent seeking, curiosity, or
yearning, then the ego quickly corrupts it into a form of seeking
for something outside of oneself. This is the birth of the seeker.
There is only seeking without a seeker. Ask yourself: From where
does the impulse, the yearning to be free, arise? Go to it's
source, to the fullness before the yearning.
