Question 11: What is true consolation?
Oliver: True consolation (or true healing) is only possible in the timeless presence of Being. Where separation and therefore suffering doesn't exist anymore, both, the suffering person who needs consolation and the suffering person who wants to soften the suffering by giving consolation, are recognized as one. Afterwards, no separation between the suffering and the consoling person exists any more. Suffering and consolation are recognized - by no one - as the ONE appearing as two.
Question 12: To whom does the idea of death refer?
Oliver: The idea of death refers to the separate person who thinks they are born and going to die. There is nothing ever born or subjected to death. Birth and death are illusions. Concepts that were built by a separate person identified with a body. As soon as the person disappears the idea of birth and death will disappear. Birth, death and if you like reincarnation are identified to be the One playing the game of life. That's of course another concept. Don't worry about it. It's going to disappear with the "death" of the identified person. But actually nothing happens at all.
Question 13: How do you go about, I mean without a body?
Oliver: Of course there is a body. But it doesn't belong to anybody. It just happens. It appears like everything in the world of manifestation just appears. I don't do anything. Acts are happening.
Question 14: Is the body a thought form appearing in my head? Perception is always selective isn't it?
Oliver: As long as there is somebody (the perceptive person) who perceives something, then perception is selective. But there is no one here so the concept of a selective perception doesn't make any sense. In place of the word "perception", which needs a subject and an object, I suggest the word "happen" or "appear". According to this concept, something "happens" without cause, without reason and without any subject or object. Something (apparently) just appears. So does a body or these words. They appear out of you, the ONE.
Question 15: In satsang and in Advaita forums you often hear or read the following answers to a question of a seeker: To whom does this appear? Or: Is there nobody who understands this?
I don't understand what this means. Is it related to the (apparent) person or to the consciousness (the Being)?
Oliver: Basically in satsang there is always this counter-question: WHO asks the questions? The investigation of this counter-question by the identified mind (the apparent person asking questions in satsang) leads to a kind of loop. The answer can never be found by the asking person because simultaneously with the appearance of the answer the identification (person) ceases to exist. So there isn't anybody left who can "keep" or "conserve" the answer. At the end there is nobody with the final realisation because realisation means there is only THIS, the One and there is no "either... or" and therefore no questions and no answers. It doesn't mean that the asking person should agonise over who is this "me" asking questions. It is unnecessary. There is only oneness. The "me" asking questions is oneness appearing as a "me" asking questions. So nothing has to be done. Liberation is now. You may relax and let "it" happen. Because it has already happened.
