Updated: Letter from Satsang; As the Clouds Begin to Thin

I had another photo up to illustrate this article, but John just sent in this drawing by Ernst Mach, who was a totally interesting figure, a physicist and philosopher, who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries–prior to Einstein. I’ve seen this before, but I’d forgotten about it, and it’s simply PERFECT for what I’m trying to say here. It spoke to Douglas Harding and John, and it speaks to me, too. I hope it speaks to you.

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Hey Fred,

I was going to share this, but it was too close to 4 PM. 

I wanted to thank you for this week’s Satsang and last week.  At times, it was like you would talk from Awakeness and at other times, it was Fredness.  That was so liberating because your speaking allowed everything to just be there in that paradox  There was a seeing that the Harvey unit did not need to become other than Harveyness and it was just a pattern in the space of Awakeness anyway.  In that seeing, there was just noticing – not Harvey noticing, but just noticing and an insight that the unit did not need to or could do any effort to awaken. It just is what it is like the weather. And so, the noticing and the inquiry were really the same thing. 

It is like the Satsangs are an inquiry because you have a gift to be able to speak both from the relative and the absolute in such a way that there is a seeing that there is no separation and no need to identify with either. It’s just a seeing or noticing of what is in that paradoxical insight. Now the conditioning of the unit  is just noticed as it is and that seeing is liberating.  It was like seeing both the unit and the space simultaneously and yet from no viewpoint.  

Just wanted to share this.  Thanks again !!

Harvey