The Ocean of Being...

Liberated from what? Consciousness is liberated from the mistake, from false
identification and separation. Consciousness, or spirit, is pretty crafty and wise. It has a
lot at its disposal as a human being.

In life forms with no conscious awareness, the
evolution cannot speed up or slow down; it's just going to move at whatever speed it
moves. However, when consciousness becomes aware of itself in a human being, it sets
up a very interesting dynamic that's not available to any other form of planetary life.

The
dynamic is that when consciousness wakes up out of the illusion that it's a separate being,
consciousness can then use that form to wake itself up in a much larger sense. When it
wakes up to the fact that it's really not a wave but it's the ocean of being, it can then use
that wave to deliver the message—to get other waves to contemplate this possibility of
awakening.

In human beings, this evolution can speed up incredibly because of the conspiracy
that consciousness enters into. Once it wakes up in one form, it doesn't have to wait for a
natural maturation to happen in all other forms. When that form relates with another
form, the awake consciousness relates with sleeping consciousness. Now the sleeping
consciousness is much more likely to make this very big leap of awakening. That's the
game that consciousness plays in satsang. That's what it's all about.


-Adyashanti from Emptiness Dancing