77. Reformation and Transformation

Reformation is a path whereby one changes ‘oneself’ to become ‘another oneself’ or changes his inlook and so also his outlook, for himself and to others, as to who one should be known as.  It is as if, one is not happy with oneself and needs to become ‘more’ or different, which becomes a goal and also unfolds a path, to reach such goal. There is a trying to get there and with some grace, a  success as wished or failure as unexpected, depending on seemingly various factors of ‘will power’, clarity, dedication, sincerity,  Conducive circumstances, luck, success etc etc as purporting the end result.

People reform themselves from being smoker, non-vegetarian, angry bad person, etc to their opposite behaviour. Here it seems as though one has a choice and free will to make possible this change, as planned and have a good rate of success ( but is seen to range from normally from 0 to 100) and any deviations are explained to patch up the deviancies along the line.

Motivations, role models, examples, success rate data’s, therapy etc, are introduced as support to make reformation successful. For some, it comes out very easy and for others its a perfect disaster that becomes known only at the end of the game. They can say, we played the game to ‘lose’. Might as well have – ‘not played’ at all. The pathway gets suffocating for such victims of reformation.

Transformation is the limit of reformation.  The range here is seemingly different. One doesn’t know where he started off and where he landed up. It has nothing to do with trying to transform. It is a complete change of life’s behaviour pattern, as compared to ones mental conditioning. Life form, then on, never seems the same to oneself, even though to the outside world, he may seem never to have changed. ‘Awakening’ is a term for such transformation. The ‘me-sense’ or a sense of doer-ship is just ‘missing’ completely for that ‘apparent’ person, as if it was an illusion right from the beginning of ‘his’ life.

Transformation is not reformation. One can’t plan to lose oneself. It is suicidal. You need help of life, or ‘Grace’ outside of one’s ‘thought of’ abilities to bring about transform. The present pattern of one’s mental conditioning and meaning held about oneself and the outside world, both seem to be of ‘no’ significance at all after such occurrence. However life goes on, much lighter, compared to before, as if one has left behind a big burden of ‘trying’ to live life.  

Existence is ‘Life’ happening around, as if ‘with’ events and people and the rest, always in a rush to  maintain change.  ‘People’ are in fact not other than existence. Meaning, it is ‘life’ all the way, expressing as people and trees and roads and days and nights etc. However in normal cases, we are taught to believe that we are living life as separate persons, rather than being ‘hollow forms’lived by life, that has no ‘we’ component to take charge of it at all. It is life that talks these body forms as ‘I’ and ‘me’ and behaves as if, ‘we’ live with individual freewill and choice. This is not understood as there is no-one ‘in there’ to have this understanding, or life pretends to put ‘you’ off making such claims about non-duality, lest its game, be easily exposed, which is still a part of the play of duality, making it more ‘lively’.

Part of life’s game as existence, is to realise that this is non-serious playing of itself. This requires a new style of expression ‘as’ ‘transformed people’, even though all of it is ‘life’ in expression.  The ‘person’ concerned who has this ‘understanding’ before  and after, feels a huge difference within himself, as life played out that person, before and after. The after game, seems perfect and extraordinary, while the whole world was looking at the ‘before’ part, as imperfect and ordinary play of life. The play out as seen ‘after’, is a case of transformation that transforms the person from being ‘someone’ to not being at all or being ‘no-one’.  No-one is a very amusing game. All can be said about someone. But for a no-one, there isn’t as case to be ‘said’ at all. It is like talking all the itme about a ‘no –elephant’. Its funny. Its a big joke played out on the whole ‘no-human’ race.

So humans reform and feel better or worse, but when transformed, its the ‘one’ just popped out of the normal life-style system. The someone of everyone seems ‘jacked’ and also thus was the case already, for all time before, and never ever noticed. An open secret –as call it to be.

Huge sighs and lots of fun, from then on, watch the joke, playing out mankind as if ‘real’ separate entities, who have lost all the fun.