Question 71: Oliver, what exactly is the absolutely stunning aspect of liberated Being? For example, does one suddenly tolerate a person whom one never liked, or can one enjoy a fag, although one needed years to stop smoking?
Oliver: The absolutely stunning fact is that nothing changes at all. Being, that is the feeling of impersonal, all-embracing, spirited existence is always here, in every moment. Just like the ugly duckling that never receives attention and that suddenly appears as a princess, which it has really always been. Regarding habits: If out of the blue there is nothing but silence, when no "I" is here any longer, which comments on and judges your life at every turn, many habits inevitably change. Old inclinations can appear again or fade away. Indeed, this is sometimes quite stunning…
Additional query to question 71: Oliver, but you "see" things, that is the difference, isn't it? Tell us blind ones something stunning so that at least ONE of our eyes (!) will finally open.
Oliver: There is nothing "more" to see (not with one eye, either…) than that, which is not already here and now! Everywhere you happen to be and with everything you are doing right now. I don't see more than you. For that matter, you see apparently more than I. Or rather: You think you should see more. And even this very thought is the invitation of Oneness to accept Buddha's flower, Liberation, as what it is: The most un-dramatic thing you can imagine. Therefore you need nothing dazzling. Isn't it already stunning, that NOTHING separates you from freedom? Neither can I give you something, nor take something away, as it is not necessary. Relax and don't wait for an "incident". The waiting IS the incident! As soon as the seeker (= the questioner) disappears with the acceptance that a search is unnecessary, impersonal Seeing occurs that Oneness has always been existent. You have your glasses on and your eyes open. Celebrate this fact every moment. The mundane, unglamorous and un-spiritual computer screen that you are looking at right now is the Flower of Buddha!
Question 72 from Cennet: Oliver, where in this entire complexity does the soul range? What is it? Does it arise out of Being and communicate through the "I"? How does it transmit itself, if the messenger "I" is no longer there?
Oliver: Dear Cennet, the term "soul" which - as you may have noticed - I never use in order to keep things simple, is generally employed in a very varicoloured way; according to the religion or spiritual tradition it is interpreted in numerous different manners. For example, the soul is known in our culture as a kind of "etheric personality" that outlasts the body and is re-born or not, depending on the spiritual outlook. If you like, you can imagine it simply as a thought-form (see also Question 19). In my picture of the Ocean of Oneness the soul emerges and fades away like a wave, equal to all (thought-) forms of the apparent dual world. It is, like everything else, never separate from the ocean. It appears, exactly like the mental concepts of Life, Death and Reincarnation INSIDE you, inside Being, inside the Ocean. So when the messenger "I", the separate person is no longer there, when only Oneness exists, the mental construct of an etheric individuality disappears together with the person. What remains is that which has always been. Oneness.
