Waking up "out of body"

[zenmaster]

If you can be congruent with yourself, so you are with the universe. 'faith' is not really the word, because it implies something extra. You experience cooperation and what is essential, basically to the extent you allow. Having even a small taste of 'oneness' seems to always reveal the balance or imbalance of a situation - there is no hiding.

So Zen, feelings of urgency or anticipation can take one out of the now/oneness, right? At the very least I feel my energy shift out of acceptance when I get these feelings.

Not only do you feel your energy shift out of acceptance, you will also find that it is almost impossible to learn anything in that state as you will not be open or curious. Same thing with the fear state or fear-based ideas.

Urgency and anticipation is as much of an avoidance as fear. It's what binds us here in suffering - that which we like (think we like) and that which we don't like (don't think we like). Catalyst comes in, that is ignored. More catalyst comes in, that is ignored. Slowly it reaches this emotional level, where we can see it in operation as this type of displacement. It often manifests as acceptable idea (based on personal or collective distortions) which carries the associated charge. Completely unnecessary and kind of lacks dignity due to shift away from honesty.

The central idea here is to make things more conscious, not avoid. That in itself leads to now/oneness.