Thank you LH. Hubbie wants to know that if someone has desire why does that mean they have case. I tried to explain to him and then my words faltered and I thought you might help me out. He is saying if he has a desire to help someone does that mean he is not in the Now and therefore has case?
My question I wanted to ask Mr. Tolle is if one is stilled in their mind and in the Now would they be able to telepathically communicate with others? I'm asking that because Hubbie and I are auditing out the identities that have goals opposing telepathic communication. It appears there are piles of incidents where the being decided not to communicate telepathically, or to hide it somehow.
I have no experience to share as regards the second question. I could give a theoretical answer, but there is little point in that.
The first question: Desire means one believes one has a lack. The One lacks nothing - how could it, when it is the All? Therefore the belief that one lacks something is a separation from the All, the One, the Now. Desire is a wanting to change the apparent lack. It is a protest or resistence to the perceived lack. This is charge.
Charge or case is protest, resistance or desire. It is wanting to reach what one believes can't be reached or wanting to withdraw from what one believes can't be withdrawn from. Case is how one reacts to life. The reaction is a wanting to reach or withdraw.
Now, here, there is only One, the All, the Nothing. So there is no resistence no desire, no lack. Being All and Nothing there is nothing to reach or withdraw from. There is no case.
"if he has a desire to help someone does that mean he is not in the Now and therefore has case?" This is something I'm still working through, so I can't answer with certainty. What I have experienced is that in the Now there is nothing wrong and there is no desire to alter anything. I can remember clearly once watching a child in great distress and the mother unable to pacify the toddler. Yet I smiled and thought the distress was perfect! I can't explain that any further.
Mostly I do feel strongly moved to help but there is an underlying certainty that everything is exactly as it should be. I suppose we are each on our path to the certainty and unity of the Now, so therefore distress and suffering are transient and a part of the journey. Perhaps the desire to help is a wish to speed the person's journey?
There is no doubt that getting involved in trying to help can be disturbing and generate case, personally I experience that over this whole dilemma of the CofS. But there is the sanctury of this awareness that we are talking about and once experienced I believe it is always there to return to whenever helping is causing hurt and case in self.
The only great person I have personally met is Douglas Harding - a great soul! Three years ago I was there when he was asked what one should do about the suffering in the world. His reply was profound and mystical. He agreed there was so much suffering and said what one can do with the suffering is "take it in, take it on" then he paused and said "and this is the mystery, you take it in, take it on and take it away!" The moment he created was transcendent and all was well!