Is Liberation Real or Just Another Concession?

I’ve experienced states where the separate self was extremely thin. I’ve heard teachings about complete letting go of the ‘I’ thought, where it doesn’t return. Is this a real state, and how would it fit with the separate self being necessary for an experience of the world? Rupert says: ‘The idea of liberation and enlightenment, awakening, union with God and so on are concessions; legitimate concessions, but nevertheless concessions to the temporary finite self that we seem to be. Here we just dispense with those preparations, and we go straight there. It’s why it’s called the Direct Path. We see who we truly are. We don’t work on who we are not. The very most we do is just turn away or let go of the content of experience. When everything that can be removed from us is removed from us, who we truly are shines by itself. We don’t suddenly become infinite being, we were always that, but previously clothed in experience.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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