Waking Up in a Busy World: Magic, Sahaja Samadhi, and the Balance Between Matter and Matrix

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck (Father of Quantum Mechanics)

Eckhart Tolle in the below linked video describes what I believe to be magic. That is the ability to see...instead of through the veil that distorts reality for so many of us... through the simple uncluttered pure awareness, to everything that is happening in the foreground. (Ultimately everything happens in your mind). It is being able to see clearly the distinction between foreground and background. The foreground is all the phenomena, including thought and feeling, that is unfolding in front of us humans, but the background is the pure awareness, the stillness. In the foreground there is gain and loss, success and failure, birth and death, happiness and unhappiness, calm breezes and torrential storms, sunshine and cloud, joy and sorrow. The background is untouched by any of it but is experiencing it all through this separate self we believe ourselves to be. Magic happens when we realize we are so much more than this human body with a tiny slice of mind we can call our "personal mind" and definitely more than this idea of "me" we erroneously identify as.

There is something deeper than happiness and unhappiness and that is the stillness behind it all.

You are essentially not that entity calling what you see "my life" you are the essence....and magic happens when we realize that. Eckhart Tolle

In yogic understanding there are something called "siddhis", marking a certain state of accomplishment of samadhi...true realization. These siddhis would be seen as "magic" by even the most hard-core Harry Potter fans. Now "magic" is just a word that has many different connotations for everyone, right? It really doesn't matter what we call it, does it? You might call it "woo-woo nonsense", I might call it a siddhi, and dedicated researchers in the field, like Dan Radin, would call it psi phenomena.

The attainment of these powers due to samadhi is believed by yogis to be the ultimate of accomplishments. I am, however, not seeking these strange powers or what others would refer to as magic as my goal for Self-realization. I am seeking the ability to be balanced between both worlds...between the human one and the being one, between the foreground and the background. Hmm! Thanks to Eckhart Tolle I have discovered that this is a special type of samadhi known as Sahaja Samadhi.

Sahaja Samadhi is the state of samadhi where a person is said to be in both worlds simultaneously- fully anchored in the inner, non-dual divine consciousness while active in the outer, phenomenal world....considered the highest state of realization, where the distinction between the inner Self and outer world disappears, allowing the yogi to act in the world without losing awareness of their divinity. (google search: AI overview)

That is the magic I seek. What "magic" means to me is simply a piercing of the veil that keeps who we think we are from experiencing who we truly are. It is that which pierces the veil between reality and what we are conditioned to believe is real. When that veil is down...anything is possible because the relativity of time and space becomes obvious. That to me is magic. It is not woo-woo nonsense. It is not "unrealistic horsesh&%". It is spooky science at a distance.(Einstein). It is seeing the matrix behind all matter.

I believe this type of "magic", is the true and lasting way to get untangled from our "unnecessary and unreal" sense of suffering. When we know who we are...an essence in the background observing all the ups and downs of Life in the foreground including our thoughts and feelings...we are not lost to what is in front of us. We are aware of it but not harmed by it.

...the unhappiness may still be there, but it doesn't touch the deepest realm of your being anymore ...

Magic, to me, is realizing we are awareness and not that which we are aware of...

Awareness means consciousness becomes conscious of itself...you are consciousness and you have become conscious of your Self.

Hmm! What do I know lol? Anyway, I recently answered a question, "Do you believe in Magic?" It may apply to what I have written here.