The True Rebellion
The True Rebellion refers to the actual rebellion that must take place with the concept of "I". This concept is the understanding through which people experience themselves as being separate from life as if the were apart from it; some even fight against it.
The "I" supposes the separation which is the thorn in the flesh. By separation we divide life, which in truth is One, into single entities and thereby arise loneliness, comparisons, jealousy, anger, competition, revenge and ultimately war.
This book goes through some of the conditions which are the deciding factors to living identified with the idea of the "I" and what keeps us from looking deeper within ourselves. It points out what hinders us from establishing more permanence with our inner clarity. It helps the reader to distinguish between different paths - spiritual therapy, meditation, inquiring "Who am I?", love and the master-disciple relationship. It tells about the aim of it all - the peace, clarity and trust which we fundamentally are.
The book is a personal story about an awakening as well as an invitation to the reader to identify and value his/her own experiences. Everyone has experience of clarity - shorter or longer lasting experiences of I-less-ness.
Contents
Introduction by Rahasya
Author’s introduction
Chapter 1 – Experiences of clarity in everyday life
Chapter 2 – Beginning the feast of wholeness
- Going to India and meeting Osho
- Discipleship
- Poonja’ji
- Rishikesh and my master ShantiMayi
- The problem of seeking enlightenment
- Sacha and the Master tradition
- The pain of changing Masters
- The enlightenment process
Chapter 3 – Clarity and spiritual therapy
- Doubt is separation
- “Consciousness with content” and “Consciousness without content”
- Choice and desire
- Ideals
- Maturity
- Despair – The foundation of the personality
- Buddhas are unbearable
- Consiousness – the aim of spiritual therapy
- Consciousness and acceptance
- “Consciousness with content” – a case study
- Consciousness and projections
- “Consciousness without content” – a case study
- Therapy in a buddhafield
- The meaning of trust
- There is no path to Self-realization
- Questions from satsang
- Therapy on individual and collective level
Chapter 4 – Who am I?
- The Structure of the “I”
- Questions from satsang
- The personality, individuality, and sense-of-I
Chapter 5 – Paths to the Self
- The path of will
- The path of love
- The path of the intellect – Advaita and Atma Vichar
- Questions from satsang
- My own experience of Atma Vichar
- The forms and names are many, the content is the same
- The periphery and the centre
- The enticing mind
- Longing for the real
Chapter 6 – Clarity and meditation
- What is meditation?
- Forms of meditation
- Gayatri meditation
- Meditation retreats
Chapter 7 – The significance of the enlightened master
- The function of the master
- Shakti and the transmission of energy
- Many masters, few disciples
- Guru-sadhana in practice
- Questions from satsang
Chapter 8 – The feast of wholeness
- Clarity and Self-realization
- The blazing dawn
Chapter 9 – The ten diamonds of Chinul
Different expressions of the inexpressible
About the author
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