A Beezone study of ‘Klik-Klak’ in
the teaching of Adi Da Samraj
The following material in this
study of the term ‘Klik-Klak’, comes from many different
materials (talks, books, etc) by Adi Da, spoken and written
over a number of years. Most of the material is exactly as
he said or wrote it. But there are other parts of this study
that are additions by Beezone. Much of what Beezone has
added has been put in parenthesis {()}, but not all. So, if
you’re reading with ‘an exacto knife’ then you will be
disappointed.
What follows is Beezone
understanding. You can read (and study) as you wish, but I
firmly believe this to be a very useful tool in
understanding the term ‘Klik-Klak’ and how Adi Da uses
it.
“To mistake our perceptions
(particularly our sensory perceptions) of things for the
thing itself is an unjustifiable assumption about reality.
This is of course reminiscent of Kant’s warning and all
forms of phenomenalism about the difference between reality
and our perceptions of it.
The fallacy of misplaced
concreteness is largely responsible for the modern worlds
and modern sciences denial of the reality of time, of
experience and of mind and the perception. That such
“hard core common sense intuitions” which we all
utilize in practice (even if we deny them in theory) are
mere illusions. That the world as represented by science is
“the real world” rather than a partial and
incomplete picture of a world which has aspects and features
which can not be captured by objective observation, sensory
perception or quantified by measurement.” –
Philosophical
Forums, Prothero
Study
“The situation in the world is
dreadful, but why? Because of what has traditionally been
called sin or ignorance, the absence of response to the
Living Reality. Where there is no such response, where in
fact there is only this contraction, there also are all
kinds of problems, all kinds of limitations, all kinds of
cause and effect motions established by contraction and
thereby creating limitation and suffering. We can observe
what causes suffering – the actions of contracted people but
the ultimate and fundamental cause, which often so does not
influence conditions directly in a play of cause and effect,
the ultimate and fundamental cause is the lack of surrender
to the Divine. The force of contraction moves and causes
effects of all kinds. in its bewilderment finding itself
trapped in a great machine in which everything and everyone
are similarly reacting rather than responding, contracting
rather than surrendering.”
The
Law is Absolute – A
Talk by Da Free John (Adi Da Samraj) – 1982
Klik-Klak – Part One –
Contents
The
Call to the Divine, not Religion
————————————-
True religion must retire to
Light!!
The heart must be permitted to
achieve a universal feeling-ecstasy!
And Beauty is not in the
matter-world of thing and death—but only in the singled
universe of the True Loved-One!
Where everything that lives will be
dog-withered by the pack of time, fear arises—at the
crown and bowel, where time’s orderly extinctions twist the
heart between the North-and-South!
And sorrow fills the mind, between
the eyes—and feels the belly suck the danger of all the
unwanted changes made by time!
And anger burns a laser-breath of
all-destroying speeches—helpless in the klik-klak
dark’s resistance to all wanted change of time’s unwanted
changes!
Therefore, the Cosmic universe of
temporal and all-destroying Nature must be Transfigured by
undying Love!
Undying Love Is the universal
Principle of re-“Connect”, in the rush-to-dying
world of Natural heaps of yes-and-no!
The world of Man is an eternal shift
of necks—a shuttle of Love’s own faces, floating in a
drown of moments—until the “He” and
“She” of Me, like the fingertips of lovers, Touch,
through the infinite transparency of a single tear’s True
Water—and Touch away, Together, at the Single of
Infinity, Where “We” were so deeply
Torn!
I Am the Icon of Unity
– Adi Da Samraj
study of ‘Klik-Klak’
in the teaching of Adi Da Samraj
Avatar Adi Da uses key expression
in His Wisdom-Teaching, Klik-Klak, which He uses to describe
the mass of conditions that are only constantly shifting and
replicating patterns, that never manifest any fixed
“objects” or “entities”. He explains
that the fundamental error of the presumed separate self is
the attempt to superimpose the characteristics of
Consciousness Itself onto the Klik-Klak realm. Ultimately,
we must Realize That Which is Always Already the Case, Prior
to the illusion of Klik-Klak.
Spontaneously (Avatarically and
Divinely) Appeared.
And, just as you do what you do by
tendency,
(habit, karma and
conditionality)
I Do What I Do In Truth
—As Reality
Itself—
Self-Manifested
in this conditional
realm,
(shinning from and through all
manifestions, all planes, all sheaths)
and Utterly Free of
“point-of-view” bondage.
In Appearing here,
I am surrounded by the
checkerboard
—shifted around in this
maze
of squares, of stops, of
limits
in time and space.
(appearing in mind as a
grid)
(The grid of attention is
the mechanism for the
perception
of conditional existence.
)
Repetition,
(motion)
appearance,
shift,
change.
Shift, shift, shift
—but always the
same.
Attention itself is that
fracturing.
The objects are
representations
of the results
of that fracturing,
worked out
in every possibility of
duality.
Attention is the feeling of
relatedness.
Attention is the fundamental gesture
of self-contraction,
or
of the torque
(the twist or turning
force)
(tendency of a force to
rotate an object about an axis)
The ultimate form
of my Teaching Work is
Transmission –
the awakening of devotees to
the
Current of Love-Bliss
or Happiness
Prior
upon which the body-mind is
set
(as a wheel is set upon its
hub).
I Teach understanding
so that people will become
serious
about the Lesson of life
)
and
the lessons
of
Klik-Klak.
I Am
the Hole in the universe,
Perfectly Prior
to all this mummery.
I Am here,
to Break the spell,
to Make Right Life
and the Real Reality-Way possible,
in an otherwise
deluded context
of “world”-happening.
However,
the ego’s impulse
is to avoid My Divine Imposition,
to casually “play around”
in this infinite
apparent
field of the grid
of conditional
appearances
—un-Illumined,
not “Bright”,
“Thumb”-less,
without a clue.
“Klik-klak” is a term
which I am using
to somehow
give you a symbol
for the sound
that is there
in the whirring core,
the replicate-shift-change
cycle
that is constantly
happening.
That cycle literally makes a sound
like “klik-klak”.
The Whirling core
(gone mad
without regard)
(Ocean of Motion)
(lawful in its chaos)
and
Transcendent
In its Source
of its own
conditionality
Which when seen
are
the results
of
Torque
or
attention itself
that
makes the prism,
the refracting gesture
that displays the colored
lights
of pattern
(and patterning)
in their discreet
sectors,
planes,
or worlds. )
That time-and-space
domain
of klik-klak is
(itself)
conditional,
with all kinds of
limitations.
Nevertheless,
time-and-space
is a domain
in which,
paradoxically,
My Free
Divine Avataric
Appearance
can be Self-Manifested.
Checkerboard
Shifted around
In this maze of squares
of stop
in time and space
repetition
appearance
shift
change
Shift
shift
shift
“to divide, change,
separate,”
I have Visited
the “tower
room”
where klik-klak
is happening.
I am Telling you
that is what is
happening.
It is dreadful.
It is hell.
Klik-klak,
klik-klak
—shift,
shift,
shift.
(endless)
(and beginningless)
In and of itself,
it is dark,
and deadly—
and you are caught
in it,
as if drifting along
in some giant intestine,
waiting to be crapped
out.
In the meantime,
what are you doing?
You are “hanging
out”
in that dark
“shit-pipe”.
That is all you are doing
here
—because you will not
accept
the Prior Principle
That Is Reality Itself.
You will not bend the
knee
—and subordinate separate
“self”
(or the presumed
“shadow-self”,
or
“knowing-self”)
to What is Perfectly
Great.
The klik-klak
checkerboard
is the actual nature
of the conditional
apparition
of the all-and-All
-Reflecting Reality.
The Bright
is the intuition
of the uncreated
Consciousness-Light of
God.
Prior to Fracture
Perhaps various phenomenal
manifestations
of this Light may be associated
with this intuition,
as I have described.
In the Highest Planes
The God-Light is the reflection of
Real-God.
The Bright is the reflection of the
Heart.
It is all a duplication of the
ultimate structure.
Bright is described
in terms of the whole mechanism of
the intuition
(not visualization)
of the God-Light,
the reflected Light
or Creative
Consciousness-Force,
Radiance
as it appears
in the various functions
of the descending
and ascending mechanisms of
man.
When you get up close,
(in Klik-Klak)
then you can see the
checkerboard,
the field of repetition,
the field of appearance
-shift
-change.
The black and white squares of the
checkerboard
just shift into different
patterns,
making pictures.
When you stand far back,
you see the pictures
—but when you get up
close,
all there is is the
checkerboard
(or the “grid”, as I have
also called it).
There is a grid
in the Energy-Field
That Is Consciousness
Itself
—and all of this
appearance
of universe
is merely bits on that
grid.
In and of itself,
the grid is a terrible
illusion,
a mere reflection.
The question is not
“What is being
reflected?”
The question is
“What is reflecting
it?”,
or
“What is the Condition in Which
the reflected image is appearing?”
The Mirror Is Reality
Itself,
Which Is Acausal.
As the ego-“I”,
you function
as the body does
with reference to Consciousness
Itself
—in ignorance of the
Consciousness-Position.
It is as if the cells of the
physical body
“meet” together
in order to determine
how they are going to
“dictate”
—in an entirely insubordinate
manner
—the pattern of
existence
for Consciousness Itself!
Then, Consciousness,
without direct
and intuitive
understanding
of Its Own Condition,
“goes along”
with these
“demands”
—as if the body
were,
in fact,
the Identity of Consciousness
Itself.
Such is the essence of
egoity.
The Mirror
Reality Itself
does not
“cause”
what appears reflected on Its
surface.
The Mirror Is Perfectly
Prior
to what appears reflected on Its
surface.
Before you look in the
Mirror,
you Are the Mirror—
not a “thing”
appeared as separate
“knowing-self”.
(there is no need to clean the
surface of the mirror)
you remain fascinated
by a little reflection on the Mirror
surface.
The Mirror does not
change
what is reflected on Its
surface,
and It does not
“causatively” originate
what is reflected on Its
surface.
The klik-klak
checkerboard
is the actual nature
of the conditional
apparition
of the all-and-All-Reflecting
Reality.
In and of itself, it is dark, and
deadly
When you get up close,
then you can see the
checkerboard,
the field of repetition,
the field of appearance
-shift-change.
The black and white squares
of the checkerboard
just shift into different
patterns,
making pictures.
When you stand far back,
you see the pictures
—but when you get up
close,
all there is is the
checkerboard
(or the “grid”, as I have
also called it).
There is a grid in the
Energy-Field
That Is Consciousness
Itself
—and all of this appearance of
universe
is merely bits on that
grid.
In and of itself,
the grid is a terrible
illusion,
a mere reflection.
The checkerboard
(in and of itself)
is limitation,
confinement,
non-Reality,
bondage,
stress,
search,
and mortality.
The checkerboard
—in and of itself
—is intolerable.
You are supposed to notice this!
You are supposed to
notice
—with every breath,
every morning,
every day
—that this orderly universe,
in and of itself,
is hell!
This,
in and of itself,
is bondage.
The checkerboard does not have
good intentions
—and neither does it
have bad intentions.
The checkerboard has no intentions.
The checkerboard is simply
a pattern replicating,
generating
seed-forms
that are totally arbitrary,
non-necessary,
and merely
apparent modifications
of the all-and-All
-Reflecting
(or Acausal) Condition
That Is Reality Itself.
If you remain
in the checkerboard pattern,
it inevitably becomes
more and more complex
—because the checkerboard
is an infinite field,
without center
or bounds.
There is always
more
and more
and more
and more
and more.
As “Narcissus”,
you live in the checkerboard field,
where everyone is gaming,
seeking,
looking for a goal
at one end of the checkerboard
or the other,
or even just “messing
around”.
You are not even working toward
getting out to the edge of the
field
—and, in fact,
there is no edge of the field.
There is no center
on the checkerboard.
You simply move around
within it.
Thus,
there is no separate
“self”
—but there is also no edge.
The Sphere of the Mirror
Is Centerless
and Boundless.
The Mirror has no
edges—
and, therefore,
the Mirror has no center.
You are “Narcissus”.
You project
all kinds of things
onto klik-klak
to make it
desirable to you,
and thereby
fail to notice
all kinds of things
about klik-klak.
This Temple of Laughing
Mama
is a means
for Me
to remind you
of something
very fundamental
which you forget
in your “Narcissistic”
(and religious)
superimposition
of the heart-presumption
onto conditions.
You think
klik klak
loves you
somehow,
or you expect it
to love you,
or care about
you,
or care about
anything.
You like the notion
of the parent deity.
(Secretly)
The conditional domain,
klik-klak,
does not care
in the slightest
about ego.
There is
no real
ego.
Klik-klak
just deals with the
pattern.
(Form
and Process).
The ego
is just
an action
in the pattern,
from patterns
point of view,
it is just
more
pattern.
It is not
(a)
something,
to be allowed
to be enshrined
in permanence.
You are
superimposing
your sense
(of yourself)
and seeking
(all kinds of things)
in klik-klak.
(Seeking)
(is) not
klik-klaks
business.
It doesn’t care
about the
concern
of yours.
You
don’t belong there
You are from
Consciousness-land.
This is klik-klak-land.
Klik-klak-land
doesn’t care
about the illusions
of those
who wander
from Consciousness-land,
because all klik-klak deals
with
is the material
of klik-klak.
Consciousness is not
the material of
klik-klak.
Your illusion
about klik-klak
is not material.
Klik-klak has
no notion
of permanence,
So your desire to be
loved,
to be permanent,
to have your desires
satisfied
that’s your interest.
Klik-klak doesn’t give a
shit
about egos.
Your complaints
are of no interest.
They are not
registered
in the pattern.
It keeps klik-klakking
regardless of your pleas
and your complaints.
Where is the Freedom from this
intolerable bondage?
If you look at your actual
situation
in this
“world”,
and truly observe
and understand
what it is,
how could you possibly
be naively enthusiastic about
it?
In and of itself,
your situation
in this “world” is
hell.
In and of itself,
your situation
in this “world” is
terrible.
If there is anything
potentially
beautiful about your
situation
in this
“world”,
you must be (apparently)
associated
with the
“world”
from a different position
—the Truth-Position,
the Reality-Position,
the Intrinsic
Self-Position
That Is (Always Already)
Free of the implications
of the machine of
klik-klak-happening.
If this “world”
is only repetitive
activities
and replication
—perhaps with a little
shift,
a minor change,
accompanying each
gesture,
and with the inevitable ending in
death—
how can that be accepted,
except that it is imposed
on you by force?
What is there of delight in
that?
You will not be able to
take
My Words from this
“world”.
Either you will Realize
Me
or you will not.
Either you will remain
bound up in your patterning of
words
-and live and die on that
basis,
constantly drawn through the
conditional robotic mix
of the universal program of
klik-klak,
mere pattern patterning-
or you will Realize Me.
It is one or the other.
There is no “objective” paradise
after death.
There is klik-klak,
pattern patterning-
and it is utterly
non-necessary,
and can be perfectly
transcended.
If you Find Me,
and practice devotion to
Me,
then devotional Communion with
Me
becomes your destiny.
And you will notice
—if you haven’t noticed
already
—that it doesn’t take long to
live a life.
And you shouldn’t waste
it.
You should be here to duplicate My
Pattern
(Which is God-Realizing),
rather than to replicate your
own
(which is about
ego-bondage
and perpetuation,
the illusions of waking,
dreaming
and sleeping
in the realm of
opposites,
of klik-klak
which ultimately,
and in its laws,
is utterly indifferent
to your concerns
and objections about anything at
all).
(Your struggle
With all the righteous
demands
of ego
Do not hold water
(In the face of
Klik-Klak)
There is never any fixed
anything.
It is all “klik-klak”.
It is constantly
shifting.
If you observe,
examine,
the body,
the body-mind,
all conditions,
you find no such fixed identity,
fixed anything,
fixed person in the form of anything
psycho-physical
-never.
It is nowhere.
There is never
any “object” so-called,
any complex of objects,
any pattern in time and
space.
You find no permanence,
just “klik-klak”,
just shift-replication and
shift-
and many different kinds of apparent
timings and so forth.
How it appears,
how you judge it and so
forth,
depends on point of view,
or how it seems from some point of
view.
That is not the nature of the
organism.
The organism is all change-shift,
shift, shift, replicating.
It’s shift, klik-klak.
Consciousness Itself,
Feeling-Awareness, has no relation to time.
It neither begins nor
ends.
It is Prior, Constant.
It has no content.
It has no “itself”,
no object,
no center,
no bounds.
It is not in the context of the
body-mind,
or of objects,
because everything else
is constant replicate and shift,
klik-klak.
Consciousness is none of
that.
So there is this mechanism of
attention
which lies as if it were
in a grid.
But it never moves.
It can appear at any point in that
grid,
but it cannot go from place to
place.
But it is the point of
association
with the domain of
klik-klak,
with replicate and shift, pattern
patterning.
All processes and everything
changing,
nothing permanent,
modifications ad
infinitum,
complexity,
but without
comprehension.
Over time you grant it the
characteristic of
the feeling of
perpetuity,
of Consciousness,
of Being.
But it does not have
that,
itself,
if you inspect it.
Where is it, then?
It is in the domain of the
knower.
But it is not any kind of
knowing,
because that’s object,
too-
constantly changing,
klik-klak.
So its the one who knows the
knowing, it seems.
But it is not the act of
knowing.
It is just that awareness
itself,
in which there is perhaps
the apparent process of knowledge
and knowing.
So in the awareness that is
aware
of the button of attention
itself,
to grant or superimpose presumptions
that are about your own Nature-
yet unexplored-
onto objects,
is to generate an illusion
immediately, inherently.
if you examine the body or the
body-mind,
there is no “I” about it.
It is all replicate and shift,
klik-klak,
no “point of view” in which to
affirm “I”.
So “I” means the
body-mind,
but the body-mind has no “the” about
it,
ultimately.
It is process.
It is shift
-not an “I”.
But that’s what it means in the
ego-consciousness,
or body-identified
consciousness.
It is a meaning that is,
at the same time, an
illusion,
because there is no such
“I”,
no singleness,
no changeless anything
there.
Its “Narcissus”.
Through the gaze of
attention,
you superimpose your own
characteristic on klik-klak,
and it becomes interesting to
you,
desirable to you-
like the image of Narcissus in the
pond.
But you don’t know that it is
you.
You don’t know or notice
(the) pattern there
which you are regarding to be full
of desirability,
being,
and so forth
-is just klik-klak.
And you are superimposing
the feeling of your own
Nature,
uninspected,
on it.
That which you are seeing to be
attractive
is actually your own characteristic
presumed to be there.
But what is truly attractive is only
in the Being-Position,
the “you” looking at
everything.
The ” it “,
the everything,
is klik-klak.
You find it desirable
because
it is your own
reflection.
In other words,
your characteristic,
your presumption is being
superimposed on it.
But its not just some kind of “out
here in the world” illusion.
It is a fundamental
illusion.
It covers everything,
every moment of existence
is this illusion of the
desirability,
continuity,
fullness,
all the rest of it,
of klik-klak.
Whereas you are just reflected in
it,
by virtue of your own viewing of
it.
Consciousness becoming
attention
superimposes the sense of its own
characteristic on klik-klak.
And then you become bound in
it
because it is desirable-bound in
it
like Brer Rabbit gets stuck in the
Tar Baby,
or Narcissus at the pond.
That’s you.
That’s the attitude of conditional
experiencing,
the attitude of illusion,
the attitude of egoity,
the attitude of
attention.
But you are always looking for it
anyway,
because,
at the root of it,
you’ve become attention
“moving into” the
plastic,
so to speak,
then left the Domain of
Satisfaction,
superimposed its heart-remembered
quality on the plastic,
klik-klak domain.
But having “left it
behind”,
so to speak,
and projected it
onto the world
unconsciously,
you are always chasing the pattern
for it.
Whereas it is in the Always Already
Existing Position,
not in klik-klak.
Klik-klak.
is not
a vision
of evil.
(there is
no evil).
There is
the heart-disposition
associated with
klik-klak.
The Heart
is benign.
and also
ego-based
until
utterly
Illuminated,
It doesn’t see
(fully)
it is gesturing toward
a kind of deification
of klik-klak.
If you don’t
watch out,
if you don’t
wake up,
if you don’t
find the Wise Man,
you don’t find
the Way.
Then
You’ll be worshipping
not the God
Who is ultimately
Beyond the world,
but the God
who is
the world,
the God
you can’t have
without having
(I, you
and
the world).
That is klik-klak.
That God is just
a teddy-bear
to console you
in the world.
So all that is
Attractive,
all that is Beautiful,
all that is Full,
all that is Satisfactory,
all that is Constant,
not threatened,
all that is Love-Bliss,
all that is Radiant,
is Always Already the
Case.
It is presumed to be in
klik-klak.
But it is a false
superimposition
of the Feeling
of your own Nature,
an illusion generated
by the heart-
not noticing
its own Nature,
but projecting itself
into the domain of
changes.
Understand this,
notice this-
then the illusion of
Narcissus,
and all the search built on
it,
disappears.
It is not struggled with.
The illusion is gone.
And there is no longer
the pursuit of attention
and result,
but the Native Stand
Prior to attention.
There is no longer
this game of
unconsciously
superimposing the
dualities
of the Consciousness
Domain
onto klik-klak,
via attention.
If you were
to get
to the pattern level,
(beyond the patterning)
there’s a possibility
(very real possibilities)
of confusions
and illusions.
Because
you’re reaching
ego-based,
from the gross position,
toward it.
(the string is still
attached).
That Which is the Truth
is beyond the pattern.
So in all your
gesturing toward,
(unpurified)
self-“guruing”)
will only get you
more
klik-klak-land.
Mummery is life.
Life is a mummery
unless you make it
not so.
Life is klik-klak,
‘the machine’
(it is a dark vision)
unless you magnify
the heart-principle.
There is just
this pattern patterning
with
many paradoxical levels,
everything is happening
simultaneously.
You can be anywhere
you like,
but you can’t get there
from anywhere
rules.
(because)
(You are never
ever
in one place
It’s just pattern.
There are infinities
upon infinities
of infinite numbers
of infinities of worlds.
And,
of course,
there is only
one world.
There is only klik-klak,
and it is all
one.
And because of klik-klak,
there are potential
variations,
or patternings
within the pattern
that is patterning,
they can become so
various,
there is no end to
possibilities.
As soon as there is
torque,
there is everything.
(Make the slightest
distinction
and heaven and earth
are set infinitely apart)
You can’t have
torque
and only get
what you want.
Torque makes
everything.
Torque makes
klik-klak.
There are two things
That can’t be taken
into account
in
klik-klak.
Consciousness
and
Energy
They can not be
reduced
to anything
further.
They seem
to be
separate
because (of) torque,
two-ness in klik-klak.
You can examine
anything,
any object –
break it down
to all it’s parts,
getting deeper
and deeper
behind it all,
going from sheer,
grossest of gross
to molecular and atomic,
break everything
down to all
of it’s
different parts
and levels –
eventually
you get to
Energy,
or Light.
And you can’t
get any further.
There’s
no further anything
to break It
down into.
Light Itself
doesn’t break down
into anything next,
and there’s nothing
on the other side
of It.
Well,
the same thing
with examining anything
associated with
Consciousness,
any so-called
“subjective” matter.
there’s the body,
but the mind
is aware
of the body.
Behind
the mind
there is
discriminative
intelligence.
You go back farther
and farther,
there’s
attention,
then attention
is arising
in the view of
Consciousness Itself.
You can’t
break It down
to any
parts.
There’s nothing
behind It.
So by investigating
the subjective,
you get
to its irreducible base,
which is
Consciousness.
By “considering”
or analyzing the
objective,
you come
to it’s irreducible base
or constant,
which is
Light,
or
Energy-Shakti,
So there are these
two fundamental
elementals
evident in klik-klak.
However,
another aspect
of klik-klak
is that
these two
are always
different,
it seems,
somehow.
You’re unable
to find
an irreducible
“something”
that is both
of those,
because
then
there would be
no difference
between
Consciousness
and Light,
between
subject
and object.
There would be
no torque left.
So
Consciousness
and Light
can only be
Identical,
Non-“Different”,
Prior to torque,
Prior to attention.
One day,
Raymond Darling,
in The Mummery,
is sitting in his room.
He gazes about.
He looks at it all.
What does he notice?
There is no Consciousness in the
room.
He saw klik-klak.
Consciousness is on the Raymond
side,
not on the object side.
It requires Quandra-
Energy is on the Consciousness
side,
not on the object side.
Energy is not known on the object
side.
It is known on the Consciousness
side.
In other words,
Union,
Oneness with Energy,
is there.
Whereas the pursuit of
Energy,
the experiencing of It as
object
in the form of changes,
is on the conditional,
or psycho-physical, side.
But Energy,
as is not different from
Consciousness,
is on the Consciousness
side.
Truth is the Consciousness
side.
Klik-klak is the object
side.
DEVOTEE: But then, about half way
through The Mummery , there’s a point where
Meridian Smith walks off into the woods,
and that’s it. And then it seems that he moves
more into the Witness, and just having that simple knot
which is then totally exemplified with the death of his
beloved Quandra, observing her in the casket.
AVATARA ADI DA: And what is that a
reference to? This is something else profound to
understand. That’s why I’ve added a
quote at the beginning of The Mummery .
DEVOTEE: “This Maya is such . .
.”
AVATARA ADI DA: Yes. That this, in
so many words, this great Shakti Manifesting as the world
reveals the Truth by dying, or by being sacrificed to the
Divine Source-Condition – the Vedanta Temple Event. But that
quote, not only is that a foreward or reference to the
ultimate Vedanta Temple Event, but it is also a clue to the
meaning of the dead Quandra. It is the Radiance, the
Shakti-Force, turning in on Itself, dying so to speak,
turning back in on Its Source instead of being just oriented
toward the production of modifications.
That’s the dead Quandra. But
then there are visions and such that follow, staring in the
door, into the egg. So this death relinquishes the body, but
the mind also, and there are subtle dimensions to the
purification. But ultimately the egg is dropped. The ego is
relinquished. The knot is smashed, the knot is
broken.
So its the secret of the Vedanta
Temple, the Submission of the Divine Power into the
Source-Position, Outshining all illusion, all mere
objectivity.
The
Call to the Divine not Religion
A Call to the Divine
is a Call Beyond
(to Consciousness)
Not a
justification
for klik-klak-land.
But that’s how
religion gets used
in the common form.
Ultimately
all it is
is a justification
for klik-klak-land.
right away
you start bringing in the
requests.
There’s no
Santa-Claus God.
There is the Divine,
Santa Claus
God ideas
are your
own invention.
(When) you
depend
on klik-klak,
then
no matter how hopeful
you are,
sooner or later
you’re going to get
klakked.
Because that’s how
the machine works.
It’s not
that (it) amounts
to being punished
It’s just
that nobody,
knows
what the hell
is happening
(no body)
is just
“all right”.
(you are excusing
this maddness
by saying
“it’s all cool”.)
(and letting
yourself
off the hook)
All this pattern
patterning
and patterning
within
and among
human beings
– inevitably
they’re going to be
spirals
rotating separate
from one another.
Patterns
start intruding
upon one another
and creating
disturbances.
That’s the nature
of patterning
existence.
It never
looks like unity in the
world,
between individuals
or between groups
of individuals
or so-called
nations
– all these different
spirals
and patterns.
There’s no unity
in that.
And when
klik-klak
is used
to such advantage,
it is just pattern,
it will show signs
that overall
you would say
are positive
– Pleasure-Dome signs.
It doesn’t mean
you stay there,
it means
this (Way)
is the process
moment to moment
in which,
ultimately,
all this is
transcended.
But
if you don’t introduce
the heart-disposition,
the going-beyond
disposition,
the Pleasure-Dome
disposition,
into klik-klak,
then you’re just
going to see
klik-klak,
klik-klak,
klik-klak.
In the Domain of
the “Perfect Practice”,
it’s not
subject-object,
(I and Thou)
it’s the practice
of Non-“Difference”.
And there’s no
“difference”,
between Shakti and
Awareness,
Energy and Awareness,
Consciousness and Energy,
there’s no attention
No split
there at all.
Attention is what makes
the division to begin
with.
(the first stroke).
Because there is
attention,
everything in klik-klak
is in twos,
or multiples beyond that.
So
an explanation
for Consciousness,
and whatever else,
may yet come about.
(in the Religion of
Science)
(or rationality)
That accounts for it,
will be in the context
of klik-klak.
You can’t reduce
Consciousness
to klik-klak,
you can examine it,
account for it,
in the context of
klik-klak.
and
explain it.
But
it will be in the context
of klik-klak
It will not be
the Truth.
It will just
be true.
True,
in other words,
with reference
to the characteristics
of klik-klak.
But it will not
satisfy,
or be
the end
of the “consideration”
of Consciousness.
Understanding
(without the
heart-disposition)
is divorced
from
a fundamental element
that cannot be
investigated
or affirmed.
And so
it is reductionistic
in it’s communication.
It makes everything seem
Everything is klik-klak.
It’s not true
that everything is
klik-klak.
Everything objective,
everything conditional
-that’s klik-klak,
That’s not all
there is.
But if you
believe
Consciousness
is nothing but
klik-klak
end of the investigation.
This becomes the “Perfect
Practice”.
When the “Perfect
Practice”
itself becomes Most
Perfect
or Realizes Most Perfect
Realization,
klik-klak is Recognized,
Divinely Recognized,
Recognized in the Divine
-founded in
hearing
in the Divine,
in that sense.
Because of that,
it loses all power of
bondage,
bondage-making.
(Maya)
(The power of MAYA
conceals
the distinction
between the
perceiver
and the perceived objects
which are cognised within the
body
as well as the
distinction
between Brahman
and the phenomenal
universe
which is perceived
outside
(one’s own body).
This power (shakti)
is the cause of the phenomenal
universe.
It is only “Bright”,
therefore,
rather than dark,
as it is
on the attention side.
(the energy side)
(the object side)
(the split)
(of this into that)
(duality).
In the seventh stage
of
Open-Eyed Awakening,
the domain of attention
is allowed.
It is not refused.
It is Radiated into.
‘from’ Consciousness.
Manifestation
It is not entered.
It is not sought.
It is not clung to.
It is not refused.
It is not run away from.
It is simply Recognized
in every apparent moment of
arising.
It has no power to bind.
It is simply Self-Radiant
Consciousness Itself.
And in any moment
of apparent associations,
then,
it is clear
what any thing is
and what every thing is
-and What Is ,
therefore.
That Which was called
“I”-
which turned out not to be the
body-mind,
but Consciousness Itself-
has Realized Its Nature,
and thereby,
Realized the Nature of
objects,
conditions,
processes,
patterns
-all patterns
-at last.
Just that.
You don’t have to be at any point in
the pattern
to be in a position to Recognize
it.
You need to be in “the”
Position
in order to Recognize
any point
in the pattern
-the Position
in Which it is arising,
as it appears.
If you do not Recognize
it,
you become attention
and project the illusions
that klik-klak has
the characteristics of
What
is Prior to it
-Consciousness,
Self-Existing
and Self-Radiant.
But Stand as
Consciousness,
Self-Existing
and Self-Radiant,
and Realize attention
fully
-you are What Is .
Conditions allowed,
you know what any thing is
,
then.
You know what every thing is
.
It is “you”
-not by you
superimposing
your characteristics on
it,
from the position of
contraction,
not knowing its Ultimate
Nature,
your own Ultimate Nature,
but (rather)
Prior to any such conditional
identifications.
Everything is simply
Recognized,
even attention
in its first moment,
then everything that
follows
-all the same.
No klik-klak power.
Examine the world –
it is patterns,
klik-klak.
Replicate, and change,
shift.
Just that.
Ultimately,
no more purpose
in it than a wad of silly
putty.
Yet within it,
any purpose can be
conceived.
A drama is always
purposed,
the persona is played.
Whereas if you Realize
Happiness,
it just plays the pattern
of klik-klak
until the local theatre
closes.
And what you like about
it,
what you like about life,
and are concerned about,
is this constant Self that you
presume.
Then it’s “Wake up,
Narcissus!”
What you presume to be desiring is
really klik-klak.
That Which is Constant,
That Which is Self,
is Consciousness
-not klik-klak,
not the objects.
Up until the “Perfect
Practice”,
this is basically the
“consideration”.
It is a process,
though also a sadhana,
enacted in the pattern,
always finding the Pleasure
Dome
in each moment of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti
Yoga.
But that itself
is just a process
of being relieved
of the burden
of the effects
of the illusion
you are constantly
generating
-the self-contraction,
you see.
It is generating a constant
illusion.
Ultimately,
it is simply
the spontaneous
renunciation of
klik-klak.
You renounce it
spontaneously.
You are not that.
You have superimposed
your characteristic on
it,
and then sought yourself
within it on top of that.
And this quality
that is constant
is you .
Hm?
This Delight you seek,
by superimposing it on
klik-klak,
is Inherent.
But it is found only
in the Yoga and Domain of
Inherence,
(Consciousness)
rather than movement of
attention,
(Energy)
a kind of movement of
attention,
and submission to change.
It is by Inhering,
(surrender)
not by moving
and changing,
that
That Which is Constant,
or
Always Already the Case,
is Realized.
When this is understood most
profoundly,
such that there is a
relinquishment,
a spontaneous
relinquishment,
of the search
and “bond”
to attention
and its process,
then the “Perfect
Practice”
becomes spontaneously
possible.
It is a spontaneous
renunciation
-not effort
-of the orientation
toward conditional
existence,
(object)
or attention
(subject)
and its results,
or the adventure of the first five
stages of life,
or the assumption of point of
view,
the assumption of body,
the assumption of
particularity
by association with any kind of
object at all.
That inclination is
relaxed,
(surrendered)
and there is simply
the Standing As Is,
As What Always Already
Is.
So you don’t have to make any
effort
to be
What Is already.
(surrender is not an
effort)
But you are already making
efforts,
and you must be purified of
that,
such that you will relax
it.
But when that occurs,
then the “Perfect
Practice”
can begin,
because you are already
then
in the Native Position
of What Is
-Whatever That Is.
Well,
That is What is Realized
in the “Perfect Practice”
when its Position is
Realized.
When the first five stages of life
are transcended,
you Stand in the pre-klik-klak
Position.
So, if you want to know really how
to do this,
then you take up the practice of the
Way of the Heart as I’ve Given it.
That is how to really do
it.
End of Part One
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Discourse – Klik-Klak: The Pattern Patterning
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Mirror and the Checkerboard – The Aletheon