Richard Rose the Zen master
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for general reading on this Zen master's realisation. He passed away about 10 years ago but left behind only a few books.
You can read his realisation free of charge on his website.
Below is a chapter taken from his book " The absolute" online.
"It began with a tremendous pain right in the top of my head. Now I've had pain before, but nothing like this. Tears were streaming down my face. I couldn't stand it. My head felt like it was going to explode, and I thought, 'Oh boy, three thousand miles from home and here I go.' I was convinced I was dying. Nobody could have that much pain and live. I remember thinking it must be a stroke, and I worried about how my people were going to get my body back home. They didn't have money to be shipping bodies across the country.
"Then, at the peak of the pain, I went out the window. I could see the Cascade mountains from my hotel room, and that's where I went--out the window and towards those snow-capped mountains. I was aware of seeing people on the street, except that I was above them. I passed over the people, and then over the mountains, and I watched this just like I was in an airplane. And I kept going out until I arrived at a 'place.' I don't say where. It wasn't the Cascades or anywhere else I knew. It wasn't on Earth because there was no sun, there was no sky. I simply arrived at a high place, and it was beautiful.
"I became aware at some point that I was in a causal realm--that I was the reason for its existence, that whatever I thought became a reality. In other words, I was causing things to happen, to be created, merely by desiring or thinking about them. The thought passed through me then that I was alone and that I wanted to see humanity--all of it. And so they appeared, all of humanity--everyone who had ever lived, everyone who ever would live--covering a huge mountain below me, crawling over each other like maggots, trying to get to the top. I was aware that they were engaged in a struggle that had an ultimate spiritual goal, but their immediate lives and pleasures were pathetic. I was still in some sort of astral form at this point--still maintaining an attachment to the body and to these people--and so I felt a tremendous amount of grief and sadness for their seemingly senseless struggle.
"I knew that if I desired I could pick out individuals, that I could see any man or woman who ever lived or ever would live. Because there was no such thing as time. These people were all living now--no matter what the earth time was for their lives--and all I had to do was pick them out, if I wished.
"So I thought to myself, if everyone is down there, then I must be there, too. And I looked down into the maggot pile, and there I was--Richard Rose. I could see myself struggling down there, the little man, happy in his illusion. I could see his whole life pattern.
"And then I thought, 'If that's Richard Rose down there, who's watching all this?' Suddenly I realized I was not just my individual self. I was the whole mass of humanity and the Observer watching it all--I was Everything. This propelled me into an indescribable experience of what I can only call ‘Everything-ness.’
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Amendment ~ Richard Rose pass away in the year 2005. He left behind only a few books to share his spiritual journey with others.
The article above is taken from the book " After the absolute" online...from chapter 4.
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Thanks for sharing. I have heard about this man but never really read his materials... thanks for sharing the links to his writings.
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http://www.richardrose.org/ata4.htm
Richard Rose is articulating the I AM/Eternal Witness realization phase - the same realization I articulated in the first post in my thread Certainty of Being. However non-dual, anatta and emptiness insight has not arisen...
For more info see Thusness/PasserBy's Seven Stages of Enlightenment or my e-journal My e-book/e-journal
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Thanks...now my turn to read -
Oh yeah btw, interested to join us for a meetup/casual discussion session tomorrow? (it's not often we have such meetups) - see Thinking of a meetup
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can't
thanks for the invitation.