Bernd

"Every phenomenon discloses in it´s essence the boundlessness of Oneness. This Oneness which lies at the bottom of all can not be found through name and form. Bernd is a simple man with magnitudes and failings, and at the same time he is like you - a complete expression of Oneness. In the midst of life as life ... like you. The pathless path has no entry. The one vastness experiences itself in All and is free."

Since childhood the world I experienced and I tried to find a place in, to find some hold, some comfort; ended again and again by falling into an endless abyss, mostly at nighttime. Becoming again aware of me as a person the smell of deep peace, which showed up by falling, was thinned out quickly and leaves me even in a more desperate state than before. Still at some little spot, the seed of life was sawn. I always tried to understand the mystery behind, by putting up a few questions, which maybe almost every child gets in touch with: What is life? Where is the beginning and the ending of life? Does space and time has a beginning or an ending? Can this story I am in, go on when I am not? Deep inside I came to know that there is no answer that the mind can understand, and the mystery I was left with grew slowly in the dark, becoming more and more the leading star of this life. Now I know it was always like that, even before I became aware of. The question "Who am I arose in awareness later on in 1999 at the age of 35, when I first came in contact with Satsang and Advaita. In springtime 2007 after an encounter with a friend the seed of undivided life germinates in a way that I came to know deeply that "I am That". A knowing of this mystery which can´t be known because it is All and One without a second. I always hesitate to speak about this as an awakening. This is the journey without beginning and without ending. It is love playing hide and seek. Everything is always complete, but still the story went on but now I could see through it into the endless depths of the mystery behind. On this wayless way it goes into both direction: deeper and deeper into this mystery and also it´s the mystery that comes more and more into this life, and it likes to flow and enlighten every corner with the unspoken, nameless truth. It awakes itself in itself. Everything is always done, and exactly because of this I was invited to give everything to that which I know without knowing. Now from moment to moment I take the challenge to give and open up my whole life for this love. This life can only give everything to itself. There I am home, and the invitation is endless.

Bernd