A Dialog



Question: If I am already perfect, if I am already Brahman, if every moment is complete, why do I need to practice (meditation)?

Monàs: I could then also ask: if I am already perfect, if I am already Brahman, if every moment is complete why do not I need to practice? If you practice it's fine, if you do not practice it's still good!

Q: You need to practice to achieve perfection. Once achieved, the practice itself is your perfection.

M: I do not need anything to be perfect. Everything is already perfect. You need to practice to recognize that everything is already perfect.

Q: So you're dead and not alive. Life is movement and death is stillness.

M: I'm sorry but this does not mean anything to me. The distinction between life and death is only an opinion. There is nothing like death in the universe. Everything is alive and life!

Q: Everything dies except the Absolute.

M: There is only the Absolute, so nothing dies.

Q: Nothing is not the Absolute.

M: This is just a words game.

Q: I do not understand.

M: "Nothing" is just a word. "Absolute" is just another word. There is only one thing, and you can call it as you like. This one thing is already perfect. We can say that it is perfect and absolute because it depends only on itself. When you say, "Nothing" is not the "Absolute" you are actually saying that there is something you call "nothing" and that is distinct from the one thing that is there. It's just a word game!

Q: You will not be interested in learning Advaita if you're already perfect.

M: Why not?

Q: It would just be a word game.

M: Yes. It's what it is, just a pun.

Q: Can there be only the "Absolute" without anyone witnessing it?

M: Actually there is no witness. What you call witness is just being. There is only what happens while it happens and it is witnessed by itself.

Q: If there is no witness, does not this mean non-existence?

M: Right now there is something to experience, so you need someone who has this experience: the witness. Thought creates separation, creates the witness and also experience, but in reality there is only experience, an happening, total, complete happening. There is no separate person who can testify. What is there is the experience of someone who testifies!

Q: Why is it said that the Universal Consciousness splits into two in manifesting itself as maya?

M: It is often used to say: Universal Consciousness to know itself, is divided into object and subject, as if Consciousness needs to know itself! Personally I prefer to explain it this way: Universal Consciousness, dividing, can know itself, that is, it can use the characteristic intellectual knowledge of the human mind. That is, the Consciousness has multiple aspects, we could say infinite aspects. The human mind is one of these aspects. For no reason but only because it is its nature, Consciousness takes the form of the mind seemingly dividing itself. It is like the ocean that, due to its nature, manifests itself through the waves that may seem to have their own nature independent of the ocean. The single wave can be seen as separate as the human mind can seen separate from the Conscious. But in this form, due to the nature of this form, the human mind, the Consciousness can know itself intellectually. All these are considerations of the conceptual dual mind. In reality, Universal Consciousness never does anything, it simply is everything .

Q: How do you understand or define the void?

M: You can not understand the emptiness. You understand with your mind and the mind itself can not understand emptiness. Your mind can understand emptiness only in relation to something else. But in reality you're always experiencing the void you can call Absolute or whatever you like. Or you should better say you are that Absolute (or empty or whatever you like).

Q: Why can not we understand the void except with a dual relationship? Is not Advaita's focal point attaining non-duality?

M: The point of Advaita is to show the illusion of the mind that creates duality. The mind is an instrument. Throw away all the tools and you will be non-duality! As a blind man can not understand a color, non-duality is not a matter of understanding but of experiencing, of realizing.

Q: What is the best definition you can give for Absolute Truth? If you say you are the Absolute means you are God?

M: "God" is another word. I am what I am!

Q: A God who can create things from nothing?

M: For this you must be careful about the words you use. Every word that I will say you will think something and that something is limited by what you think. If I say God you will perhaps think of a super man, perhaps with super powers and maybe a long white beard. If I say "nothing" you will think of emptiness. If I say "absolute" you will probably think of some kind of energy in space. Every word I will say you already have an opinion. These opinions separate you from the truth.

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