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Who is BodhiAvasa Bodhi Avasa lives in North Wales, U.K. He has been sharing the realization of the Self for over 30 years through Satsang and workshops held in Europe, the United States, and Canada, reaching thousands of people who are interested in knowing the Truth of who they are. Overcoming the concept of master-disciple, Avasa points to a simple and clear way to know and free ourselves from the ignorance and illusion that cause suffering and fear. The sharing points to the recognition of who we are, the One that lives through every body and mind and rests beyond birth, death, space, and time. Although in the vein of the ancient Advaita Vedanta tradition, it is present day message that offers a way of awakening and realizing Awareness in everyday life, transforming it into a dance of the Divine. His sharing "Let me speak to you of that which is unspeakable, that has no qualities
with which to describe it. The great Emptiness, Silence, Nothingness,
many are the words that point to it but none can do it justice and for
that very reason the mind cannot grasp it. Words are a manifestation of
Silence, temporary, in that they do not exist, then they do and then they
do not exist once more. The Silence is a continuum throughout, prior to
the sound, during its appearance and afterwards, defining its length and
quality in time and space. This quality-less No-thing is the deepest depth
and the highest high, it is all pervading, equally everywhere at once
in exactly the same proportion. This One is the experiencer in your body,
it is the Truth of you and of all things. You are this unmanifest condition
which is not a condition at all and in which all conditions have their
temporary existence. This One was never born and cannot die, it is Life
everlasting and this is all that you ever are. All else that you imagine
yourself to be is an illusion in time, in the manifest condition which
arises from you, the unmanifest One, who is the observer of both the thinking
process and the emotional content within your form. This empty Awareness
is never touched or changed by any of the comings and goings within the
mind, it stands always as the constant that they appear and disappear
in. This is what you really are, this is all that remains when all your
concepts and ideas about yourself have been seen through. To the mind
the closest description of this non-state that it can come to is a blank
and for this reason the mind does its best to avoid the moments when this
is making an appearance. The appearance of this Emptiness is the absence
of the mind and therefore the concept of personality and it is the death
of this concept of mistaken identity that causes the mind to do its best
to avoid the non-state even when it appears to be seeking it. When this
non-state is known in the Being of the non-state it is anything but what
the mind conceptualized it to be and is found to be the deepest contentment
and fullest of all experiences, total in every way and lacking nothing.
There is a memory of this in the human psyche as it was known in childhood
and is rested in each night in deep sleep and it is this memory that the
mind tries to emulate. When this non-state is known as one's constant
the mind returns to its correct place in the scheme of things, the contented
servant finally having found its master". Bodhi Avasa
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