"There is a step beyond Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Nirvikalpa Samadhi could be described as a true beginning. Up until that moment you are on your way to the true beginning. You are not on the path. You are on the path to the path. So Nirvikalpa Samadhi is liberation but the next step is, its like a seed has sprouted but the tree is not there and the fruit cannot be enjoyed yet. So there is a post liberation or post enlightenment sadhana the purpose of which is to realign, to cooperate to the realignment of the mind and of the body with the truth that has been experienced. As this realignment takes place the psychological suffering is left behind. The name in Sanskrit for that state is called Sahaja Samadhi the Natural State. What the Natural State means that in the presence of the world, in the presence of objects, the presence of manifestation, we don't lose the peace. We live simultaneously on two levels, on the level of space and time, and also on the level of timelessness. On the level of the thoughts, the mentations and also simultaneously in the gap. There is only one gap. From the vantage point of the mind there seems to be a multiplicity of gaps, but all these doors lead to the same space, so there is in fact only one gap." ......
Francis Lucille
from Omega Retreat 7/17-22/2011
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yes The Gap!!! Thanks
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