[0:00]liberation is a deep commitment. It's uh ongoing commitment to be fully available. to the totality of what is every moment. is full availability. in the midst of any conditions. It's ungurded, radical non-referential openness in the midst of any situation.
[1:02]So at some point it just, it's kind of like a done deal. This whole thing with awakening. It's like your life belongs to it. If, if that's the way you are wired, if that's the way you are kind of built, if that's the way you are inclined. More and more people these days have have deep awakenings, and have deep realizations, so that just seems to be characteristic to our time. It's not like that for everyone and there's really nothing special about this. Like if you're built this way, you have the capacity for this, and you, will discover that that, yeah, there's no way to, kind of, uh, imagine what that means. But you know that there's nothing rather you would do with your life and there comes this point of uh unconditional commitment.
[2:22]It's kind of like you get your feet into the doorway of the absolute. And that's after that you, it's very dynamic this uh play or realization.It's ongoing.It's ongoing. It's, because at the same time the absolute gets the foothold in you.So it's like mutual interlocking. You know and after that this uh dance begins. which is the dance of realization. The dance of undoing of you.
[3:16]And, the key moment, one of the key moments is when you, when you say yes to it, so because it is kind of like a hero's journey in that sense. You may have a lot of hesitation about it, you may find yourself on the path but not really fully committed, maybe trying different things out, maybe being interested and fascinated, but then being also interested about a lot of other things in life, but at some point it just may happen whether you want it or not, whether you planned it or not, that this moment dawns. And you make this decision, after which there's no going back ever.You make this decision, this commitment is born. This conviction. It's like a very powerful intention that is going to actualize itself. And you don't know what that means, but you also know there's nothing that can stand away from it, on on away from it.It's it's so, um,
[4:44]Yeah, like deep reverential commitment. So it's kind of like a marriage, but uh on a totally different level than what what a human marriage would would mean. Even at the deepest level of uh of connection, it's not comparable for this type of union. You know for this type of uh self-giving that happens when we fully enter the path of liberation.
[5:32]And Ramana once described it that it's like being taken by a tremendous flood. You know the absolute or Brahman.
[5:54]So you know when or if this happens, you kind of cannot question it at the same time there will be doubt for sure. That's just part of the journey. But there's something in you that almost like against your will compels you to just take another step, take another step, take another step to the unknown, to the unknown, to the unknown.There's no guarantee.You just keep on going.
[9:19]So yeah it's liberation but it's, it's not for you.It's, it's not for the person that falls away. It tells the nature of uh reality when it is seen. From this uh unhindered clarity.You know that either rises as self-liberation, either rises as enlightenment.It's not for you, it's just the nature of phenomena. that everything is inherently perfect, inherently clear. Everything has that taste of the absolute.Everything has that immaculate nature.
[11:48]And when that happens, then there is no more absolute, there is no more realization.It's, it disappears into the ordinary life. And suddenly there's just the relative.You are kind of back where all of this started, but the relative is the absolute.It is the absolute. There's no distinction whatsoever and there is only that.There is only appearance, and appearance arises as enlightenment.That's all there is. That's all there ever was. There is only this ordinary experience, which is by its nature enlightenment.If you look at it like this, like a like a hologram, it looks like samsara. Then you look at a little bit different way.It looks like nirvana, but it's exactly the same thing and it's all the time in front of your eyes. And whatever this is, this basic nature, this basic fundamental nature, it doesn't have a preference. Doesn't have a bias towards samsara or towards nirvana because itself evident and self-obvious that it's all, this is all grounded on this.
