Support

As a student becomes more directly aware that he is feeling a lack of support, the felt sense becomes more definite and concrete. His legs may feel light and empty, insubstantial, even ghostly. This can progress to feeling the emptiness in the legs and the lower body as a definite sense of vacuity, as in the case of the hole in the belly… Only when the student accepts the feeling that he has no inner support does he finally recognize this lack as a specific emptiness, a state of deficient nothingness, which feels like a lack of support. (The Point of Existence, pg 249)

The most important insight needed for a student to move from the deficient lack of support to the actual state of support is a recognition that the feeling of helplessness, of not knowing what to do to be oneself, is not a natural deficiency, nor a personal failing. It is rather, the recognition of the fundamental truth about the self, which is that we cannot do anything in order to be, for to be is not an activity. We can come to this understanding only through the cessation of intentional inner activity. At this point, not to know what to do is a matter of recognizing the natural state of affairs, for since there is nothing that we can do to be, then it is natural that we cannot know what to do. There is nothing to know because such knowledge is impossible. Nobody knows what to do to be, and the sooner we recognize this, the easier is our work on self-realization. (The Point of Existence, pg 256)

The more it is integrated and the more inner support is realized, the more your experience of self-realization will become independent and permanent. You can be in the school and still be independent and alone. Eventually you will have to be free from all teaching, from everything you have learned, everything absolutely everything. You will have to give up all the ways you support your self-realization with anything you have learned in the past, so that nothing from the past is needed for support. The past can only support self-image. Your self-realization will deepen, go to different levels and become more permanent. (Diamond Heart Book 3, pg 113)

Support and Essence

What does having your own support mean in terms of Essence?

Its a dimension of Essence called the Diamond Will. It's a deeper thing that has to do with the Hara and the lower belly more than anything else. The Hara is a support and at some point a certain realization, a certain aspect develops there. You feel a sense of solidity, a sense of immensity, a sense of power and firmness that somehow supports you, supports your sense of self. Usually lack of support is experienced in the belly and the lower extremities. (Diamond Heart Book 3, pg 119)

Support and no support

Support will come only when you experience the state of no support, which is not an easy state to experience. It is not easy because it is the state of feeling you don't know what to do, don't know what's happening, haven't got the slightest idea of what's up or what's down. You feel there's no ground to stand on, no wall to lean against. You look around and there's nothing to hold on to. You wonder how you can help yourself and you feel you can't. (Diamond Heart Book 3 pg 110)

True support is not mirroring, and arises only when you confront your lack of support, the absence of it, which is there already like a huge abyss. A huge, humungous abyss, a humungous hole into which you go and become nothingness. If you allow yourself to feel it, then true support will arise in you. When true support comes you feel as if you are sitting on a mountaintop. The whole mountain becomes like a fountain of support for your reality. From within, you feel an immensity, a tremendous immensity, a tremendous Presence, a tremendous existence that is almost as hard as a rock, and it supports whatever reality you have realized. (Diamond Heart Book 3, pg 111)

Support and the teacher

When support for self-realization comes from outside you, it comes from feeling that self-realization is precious, acknowledged and valued. Here, the greatest support comes from your teacher. This is why your teacher is your best friend. Your teacher is someone who not only helps you to attain that reality, but someone who can perceive it in you and knows it is a valuable thing. When you see that someone perceives your state, you feel seen, and you feel supported in that state. (Diamond Heart Book 3, pg 106)