Showing posts with label enlightenment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enlightenment. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Reverse Engineering the Illuminati Mind Set
By Julian Rose
Pt.1 'On the Inside of Darkness'
When a US army drone got on the wrong side of the Iranian border a year or two ago, some clever hackers found a way into its coded electronics and guided it down to earth. From there it was "taken into custody" by Iranian forces and subsequently taken apart – and a cloned version was reverse engineered into existence. At least, that is what we are led to believe.
This salutary tale provides us with an excellent template for the deconstruction of the Illuminati mind set and the reversing of its malevolent Masonic ambitions.
Firstly, though, we need to agree that there really is some form of 'master plan' which guides the activities of those who are intent upon taking control over of all arteries of human activity on this planet.
There is no lack of evidence pointing to the existence of a small hierarchical cabal of rabid power brokers whose influence on the workings of this planet far exceeds that of the main players in the typical competitive fields of commerce and even politics. The origins of this cabal have been traced to a small network of interlinked family bloodlines going back to – and beyond – the dominant fiefdoms of power once present in the citadels of old Europe.
A Black Nobility, as it was known, that asserts a direct hereditary line to extra terrestrial "gods" that came to this planet at least two millennia ago and set about dominating its development according to a darkly scripted and distinctly sinister plan.
A line can be traced from that time right up to present day shadowy "Godfather" figures - who stand behind all the major banking, oil, pharmaceutical and military industrial corporations of this decade.
Now, to understand the mechanics whereby this dark clan evolved its control strategies, we have to enter its domain and have a look around inside. This exercise demands a surety of touch on the part of the infiltrator as well as a well-grounded sense of the inter-connective nature of the energies that make up the total portrait of life, from the darkest to the lightest points of the spectrum.
When a US army drone got on the wrong side of the Iranian border a year or two ago, some clever hackers found a way into its coded electronics and guided it down to earth. From there it was "taken into custody" by Iranian forces and subsequently taken apart – and a cloned version was reverse engineered into existence. At least, that is what we are led to believe.
This salutary tale provides us with an excellent template for the deconstruction of the Illuminati mind set and the reversing of its malevolent Masonic ambitions.
Firstly, though, we need to agree that there really is some form of 'master plan' which guides the activities of those who are intent upon taking control over of all arteries of human activity on this planet.
There is no lack of evidence pointing to the existence of a small hierarchical cabal of rabid power brokers whose influence on the workings of this planet far exceeds that of the main players in the typical competitive fields of commerce and even politics. The origins of this cabal have been traced to a small network of interlinked family bloodlines going back to – and beyond – the dominant fiefdoms of power once present in the citadels of old Europe.
A Black Nobility, as it was known, that asserts a direct hereditary line to extra terrestrial "gods" that came to this planet at least two millennia ago and set about dominating its development according to a darkly scripted and distinctly sinister plan.
A line can be traced from that time right up to present day shadowy "Godfather" figures - who stand behind all the major banking, oil, pharmaceutical and military industrial corporations of this decade.
Now, to understand the mechanics whereby this dark clan evolved its control strategies, we have to enter its domain and have a look around inside. This exercise demands a surety of touch on the part of the infiltrator as well as a well-grounded sense of the inter-connective nature of the energies that make up the total portrait of life, from the darkest to the lightest points of the spectrum.
In this case, we are going to enter – and try to gain an understanding
of – the darkest end of the spectrum. This is the domain from which the
Illuminati entities draw their sustenance – and if we don't get a feel
for the way it works, we can't accomplish our mission.
We will travel a passage which directly connects the resonant light region to the morphic dark region, using a vehicle – ourselves – which remains innerly illumined throughout.
So here we go...
We will travel a passage which directly connects the resonant light region to the morphic dark region, using a vehicle – ourselves – which remains innerly illumined throughout.
So here we go...
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Monday, September 2, 2013
Transformation of Humanity: Reclaiming Our Spiritual Power
I deeply resonate with this video. Though I do not believe we are each individually and karmically responsible for the negative aspects playing out in the world today, as a collective we have agreed to go the limit and decide the world we wish to live in. What do we represent? I say not Light or Dark, but wholeness, balance, openness, honesty, and love. We can do this, dear friends, we can turn this ship around and head for open sea. Claim your true self, this pristine Consciousness where war is unknown.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The Magician Awakes
by Jon Rappoport
July 15, 2013
Here is another section from my unfinished manuscript, The Magician Awakes.
In
this scene, the "speaker" is talking to Jimmy in a cheap hotel room.
Jimmy has volunteered to go to FreeTown, which some people call FryTown,
because they suspect it's a prison.
But it isn't. It's an offworld colony where men and women seeking a different kind of life are emigrating.
Jimmy
and the speaker have already been talking for hours. Jimmy thinks he's
qualified to take his place in the new colony, but the speaker has his
doubts, and he expresses them at length in this final wrap-up:
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. I keep talking to you, but everything I say disappears. How do you do that? You're a black hole.
It's as if you're folding time back in on itself, Jim. Do you really believe there's nothing new under the sun?
All
the ideas worth contemplating have already been hashed over, and it's
just a matter of going Spiritual Shopping at the great mall?
Most people live in the past, Jim, whether they admit it or not. So they guard it. They patrol it with weapons loaded.
New ideas are never preordained.
That's a hard one for people to swallow, Jimmy. They enjoy thinking
about a universal library that contains all thoughts. Or an ideal
invisible universe that's already there. All laid out. Is that what
you believe in?
They prefer it to the notion that something can come from nothing.
But nothing is exactly where something comes from, Jim.
There is no such
thing as smooth cause-and-effect from the past to the present. That's a
fairy tale. There are always gaps, Jimmy. In our best moments, we
live in the gaps.
People want to plug up the nothing and pave it over with explanations. Hundreds, thousands, millions of explanations.
God is a favorite.
He created us with free will but he didn't want us to create anything
new? Is that how you think it really works, Jimmy? I don't even know
whether you believe in God, Jim, but if you do, I bet you have a pretty
strange idea about who he is.
You
think he made everything there was to make all at once, and then he
stopped, and there we were, with freedom, but everything was already
laid out? How do you square that, Jim?
If you want to describe the nothing from which something comes, you could do a lot worse than "invention."
You invent.
"Nothing new" equals slavery.
The fear of new ideas is the fear of inventing.
The universe isn't a mother or father, Jimmy. No. It isn't whispering instructions in our ears.
The
universe is "deciding whether things are meant to be?" Are you
kidding, Jim? Where did you get that one from? A New Age church on
Sunday? From a guy in a suit that cost five grand who has a
thousand-yard stare and a smile plastered on his face?
There's a Great Plan?
You mean, Jim, the Plan blots out all your freedom and you're just a
machine trying to figure out what your programming is so you can follow
it? Is that your best shot?
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy.
What am I going to do with you?
You're walking around
the dinner table looking at the food and you're reaching out to put
something on your plate, and then you're drawing back. You're hungry
but you're not.
You're doing yes, no, and maybe. You're looking for a way in and a way out.
You want to punch a time clock but you want to be free.
Let's say you're free right now. You'd have to ask yourself, what is freedom for?
What are you going to do with it?
Go back to the past, where everything is already settled? Is that what you want?
Imagine
the whole world living in the past, moving along like one big machine,
all the parts coordinated. Switch a few parts here, switch a few there.
People trying to figure out what to do with their freedom inside the
machine. That doesn't sound realistic, does it, Jim?
In the middle of that
craziness, somebody stands up and says he has the most important ideas
to share. He says they're time-tested and wonderful. But he's in the
machine, too.
People
believe in him, and they start oiling parts and oiling themselves, and
changing locations here and there. They want a better machine.
Who is going to
support this new "prophet?" The people who own the machine. That's
who. But here's the thing. The people who own the machine are inside
it, too. They just don't know it.
Could you dream up a more ridiculous situation?
I
know some people believe the men who own the machine are outside it,
but they aren't. If they were really free (outside), they wouldn't be
stepping on everybody's head. They'd be doing something else. Trust
me.
Freedom is real. If you take it. It feels so good, you wouldn't use it to crush people. Not in a million years.
You wouldn't do that with real freedom.
You know, Jim, we started with a lot of people like you in FreeTown. And it didn't work out. We made mistakes.
We had people who
said they wanted freedom, but when they arrived at the colony, a strange
thing happened. They went back to living the lives they had before.
We
told them FreeTown wasn't the past, but they didn't understand. They
were all about the principle of freedom, like you are, but inside them
something else was going on.
They were putting themselves together like androids.
Look, Jimmy, we're
not going to turn you down. We'll book your passage. But we have a way
station. You'll stop there for three years first. Three years.
The way station's a
special place. Some people call it Limbo, but that's ridiculous. It's
anything but. But it is where you make your bones if you can.
It's stupidly simple, when you come right down to it. No frills. No jive. No symbolism or hocus-pocus. No ritual.
It's
not a new kind of reality. It's not a place that does something to
you. You do something to it. Which is the whole point, if you've been
listening to anything I've been saying.
We call the way station by its proper name. The House of Clay.
You'll live in a little apartment over a studio. The place is all yours.
The
studio has five thousand pounds of clay. Your job is to work the clay.
Make anything you want from it. Use all of it. Make lots of things.
No rules. No guidelines. We don't care what you make.
After three years of doing that every day, you'll go to FreeTown.
We're betting on the fact that...
Well, I don't have to spell it out. I think you get it.
That's the deal. Are you willing to take it?
Everybody who lives
in FreeTown has been through the House of Clay. We've all done it.
See, Jimmy, it's one thing to say you want out of this system and you
want freedom, but it's another thing to go to a place where freedom
actually exists and not screw it up.
You have to start inventing, Jimmy.
That's what freedom is for.
Not just thinking about it. Doing it.
Inventing new realities.
Are you up for that?
Are you?
We're giving you the chance, if you want to take it.
Or go back to sleep, curl up in the bed you call freedom. Sleep in the past where nothing is new.
Jon Rappoport
The
author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM
THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th
District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked
as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics,
medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine,
Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has
delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and
creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his
free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Spiritual Deconstruction: What is "Mind"?
This is the third video in my spiritual deconstructions series. This material is meant to present the possibility of liberation occurring in this lifetime, as is your birthright. It is a matter of re-identifying oneself with non-localized consciousness itself instead of the content of one's personal "mind". By questioning unexamined assumptions, one can open the door to this realization and be a conduit for the evolution of consciousness expressing through humanity on this planet.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Quantum Simplicity
... Quantum Simplicity ...
The universe, high and low, is really a "Divine-Make-Work" project. Everything runs on Universal Energy most people call God or TIL - The Infinite Light. It's a Vibration of Energy and it's Neutral. The actual "Divine-Work-Makers" are Beings equivalent to what we could call animal-trainers. They control or program the lower worlds. Naturally, they are a few steps higher than the average lion tamer, for they are Divine Beings or Co-Creators. Meanwhile, all things are relative...
All worlds are similar to global size circuses and all the "Make-Work" is created so that Souls or Universal-Energy-Units are able to have experiences. Actually, many of these Units create their own experiences since all Units are Holograms of the ICU - the Infinite Creative Universe...
The ICU is The One Mind imagining that it is The Many and it lets its imagination run free within, or throughout all of its aspects. The trick is to enjoy this imagination, including the experiences it creates, without comparing them to others. If it was not for the Divine-Work-Makers, loosely called the Programmers, the universe would be totally stagnant or dead. It would be an infinite Computer without Software! This way - all Aspects are busy and most have the idea that they are going some place...
Naturally, no one Being or Entity goes any place, because all happenings are dreams that take place in their own infinite Mind or Imagination. By design, no Being can pop out of its own dream at will. However, this does occur when True Awakening takes place. This happens to all dreamers or co-creators when they have reached the end of their Creative-Program or when they fully realize that the entire universal activity is nothing but a Divine-Make-Work project. All Beings or Entities cycle within the universe from Top to Bottom and up again. One cycle is called an Infinity. The universe is a Structered-Movement within Awareness or Consciousness. It is on an Infinite Journey without a specific destination - except the final goal of Full Awakening! We are Unborn Awareness cycling up and down as well as sideways...
Most Beings (and especially Human Beings) who speak to their fellow Beings about the Divine-Make-Work project are declared insane immediately! As a rule the masses are too busy to notice that they have been hit by the Truth. Most people, for example, hate the Truth and shun it like a plague. Yet, all of them are looking for it without realizing that they Are The Truth. All are very self-involved by trying to fix or save the world. They work the Light so to speak. Fixing and saving the world is a selfish addiction I call Feeling Important! Notwithstanding this nasty addiction - the allover effect of the Divine-Make-Work project gloriously declares the universe a win-win proposition. In other words - there are no losers...
It is mandatory for all humans and other creatures to be subjected to the Divine-Make-Work project. It's an automatic or a default situation! Eventually, all of them move up and become Divine-Work-Makers themselves. There is lots of room and work at the Top. All Beings and Entities are basically Creative Energy Units raising themselves. If one becomes really good at it, one is promoted to Divine-Work Programmer or Co-Creator. All Galaxies are full of them...
The work at hand in the universe is divided according to the ability of forgetting OneSelf and playing any role convincingly without revealing the secret that "anything goes" or "flipping out" like I did by telling you all this (Please Grin). In the mean time, very few actors make universal history by becoming a Christ or a Buddha immediately. Some already were when they landed - but no Master will tell that s/he is a Master! Last but not least, it is useful to mention again that the entire Universe is...
! A Divine-Make-Work-Project of Love !
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Monday, May 13, 2013
2013 A Message of Realization to Humanity
Great visuals......Enjoy!
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
INSIGHTS
by Anamika
Insights.
Are they true?
Or they seem clear and we just assume that
they are true because there is clarity?
How do we
know?
How do we know anything?
And how can this
passion for truth lead to anything anyway,
as at the end of everything, when one really goes to the end, there is nothing.
Emptiness
Everything falls apart, returns
to source.
Void.
At the end of everything is Nothing. And at the beginning as well.
All
expressions, all intimations, insights,
come up and disappear.
Born out
of Emptiness and returns.
Only Emptiness
remains.
Insights can point to the direction of truth at the moment of expression,
but then they are instantly passed their prime.
Their moment of glory is immediate, never to return.
The pointing
to what Is, eternal and unchanging is
true, is real.
Is the golden grail all through the
ages, the alchemist gold,
the description of nirvana, the diamond of the sutras.
But the language used to express becomes
archaic and out dated in no time.
As
This is ever fresh and new, and cannot
be captured by any word,
not even the
most sublime as it defies all descriptions.
Its beyond the known,
beyond
language,
beyond labels,
its always pristine,
always experienced in the ever present
Now.
Its the ever ongoing open
experiencing of all that is.
you will never not be this,
As this is All
there.
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Saturday, April 6, 2013
There is Nothing for the Ego in Enlightenment
If I was to translate the enlightened state down into human terms, I'd have to describe it as contentment. Being nobody, going nowhere, needing no reason to exist. To the ego, that probably sounds a little boring, and of course to an ego it is. But then again, there's really nothing for the ego in enlightenment. In enlightenment, the egoic false self is rendered an irrelevant illusion, a mask, a character that nothingness wears while pretending to be human.
Not only is there nothing in enlightenment for the ego, the ego is really nothing but a defense against enlightenment. I'm not saying that ego is bad or evil because its not. I'm saying that ego is a social and personal construct and therefore an illusion. But there's nothing wrong with an illusion. A painting is an illusion; a movie is an illusion; a good novel is an illusion. The problem isn't with illusion; the problem is with the emotional attachments and addictions of ego.
~ Adyashanti
Not only is there nothing in enlightenment for the ego, the ego is really nothing but a defense against enlightenment. I'm not saying that ego is bad or evil because its not. I'm saying that ego is a social and personal construct and therefore an illusion. But there's nothing wrong with an illusion. A painting is an illusion; a movie is an illusion; a good novel is an illusion. The problem isn't with illusion; the problem is with the emotional attachments and addictions of ego.
~ Adyashanti
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The Philosophy of Anon
Anon
1 : archaic : at once : immediately
2 : soon, presently /tomorrow will be here anon - Nathaniel Hawthorne/
3 : after a while : later /more of that anon/
You live in a Universe
that exceeds your perception of it
You may see it, taste it
hear it or feel it
And while it contains all those things
It is more
To name the Universe
You may see it, taste it
hear it or feel it
And while it contains all those things
It is more
To name the Universe
is an attempt to limit
limitlessness
Yet there is a part of us
that speaks
And that part needs names
So let us call this Universe,
Reality
with the understanding
there is more to it
Then we can ever name
There is also a part of us
that wants to be free of naming
Wants to be free of detail
free of manifestation
A part that only wants
the underlying mystery and magic
of Reality
The historical conflict between these two parts
these two engines of the mind
Is perhaps the result of a misunderstanding
We often feel it would be best
to be one and destroy the other
But who would cut off his right hand
because he wants to be left handed?
Who would willingly blind himself in one eye
or deliberately destroy one foot?
Who wants eternal Daylight
or forever Darkness
Why then should we seek only to name Reality
or to end all naming?
It is in the balance
that we find the universal harmony
Perhaps this dichotomy
is part of the natural human heritage because
We perceive this Reality
through the filters of our human brains
the Left and the Right minds
The Left brain understands
Logic and Language
The Right brain understands
Love, Magic and Religion
The Left analyzes and dissects
The Right synthesizes and creates
But who would want only one or the other?
Who would want rainbows of only one color?
All mystery and manifestation within us
arises from our perception and reflection
of the Universe
But the Cosmos is not obliged to reside
only within our grasp of it
Who can truly say
there is no more?
Who can limit the limitless?
Yet there is a part of us
that speaks
And that part needs names
So let us call this Universe,
Reality
with the understanding
there is more to it
Then we can ever name
There is also a part of us
that wants to be free of naming
Wants to be free of detail
free of manifestation
A part that only wants
the underlying mystery and magic
of Reality
The historical conflict between these two parts
these two engines of the mind
Is perhaps the result of a misunderstanding
We often feel it would be best
to be one and destroy the other
But who would cut off his right hand
because he wants to be left handed?
Who would willingly blind himself in one eye
or deliberately destroy one foot?
Who wants eternal Daylight
or forever Darkness
Why then should we seek only to name Reality
or to end all naming?
It is in the balance
that we find the universal harmony
Perhaps this dichotomy
is part of the natural human heritage because
We perceive this Reality
through the filters of our human brains
the Left and the Right minds
The Left brain understands
Logic and Language
The Right brain understands
Love, Magic and Religion
The Left analyzes and dissects
The Right synthesizes and creates
But who would want only one or the other?
Who would want rainbows of only one color?
All mystery and manifestation within us
arises from our perception and reflection
of the Universe
But the Cosmos is not obliged to reside
only within our grasp of it
Who can truly say
there is no more?
Who can limit the limitless?
You have been told there are
Three dimensions, perhaps Four
Things are not Black or White but Grey
such dogma denotes limited thinking
Believing thus you bleed
all color, texture and taste from Reality
We live in a multi-dimensional Universe
Unbound in its responses
to our eyes
hands and pallet
Our waking and dreaming mind
And still extending beyond
Perhaps when you name a thing ugly
you limit the beauty you can find in it
Perhaps when you name a thing bad
you limit the good that you can see in it
Is this a really balanced perception?
We may limit our perception
but we can not limit the Universe
Living is balanced by Non-living
Arduous is balanced by Easy
Day by Night
Love by Fear
Light by Darkness
Hope by Despair
Heat by Coolness
Earth by Fire by Water by Air by Earth . . .
None of us can expect an endlessly easy life
we all must touch Reality
Or spend our lives trying to hide from it
But when overwhelmed by one extreme
remember the other is not far away
You will discover that Reality is balanced
but not perfectly symmetrical
Such Cycles are a means of Balance
Everything happens
It just doesn't happen all at once
That's why we have Time
hands and pallet
Our waking and dreaming mind
And still extending beyond
Perhaps when you name a thing ugly
you limit the beauty you can find in it
Perhaps when you name a thing bad
you limit the good that you can see in it
Is this a really balanced perception?
We may limit our perception
but we can not limit the Universe
Living is balanced by Non-living
Arduous is balanced by Easy
Day by Night
Love by Fear
Light by Darkness
Hope by Despair
Heat by Coolness
Earth by Fire by Water by Air by Earth . . .
None of us can expect an endlessly easy life
we all must touch Reality
Or spend our lives trying to hide from it
But when overwhelmed by one extreme
remember the other is not far away
You will discover that Reality is balanced
but not perfectly symmetrical
Such Cycles are a means of Balance
Everything happens
It just doesn't happen all at once
That's why we have Time
Let us consider for a moment
the two aspects of Balance
There is static Balance
where all things stop
all motion stops
no sound, no heat, no matter . . .
Nothingness
And there is dynamic balance
such as a man walking
the middle of a curving road
Know the difference
You can not control a thing
by only stopping it
Control comes from directing the motion
of things
When Balance is achieved
Is it possible to act
without doing anything?
To dance without moving?
Is it possible to be taught
without a teacher?
To have without holding?
To Act outside of Fear or Anticipation of reward?
Is it possible
to let things appear in the distance
move to this place
and let them go
While perceiving the balance
of this motion within Reality?
It is said that our current aspect of Universe
Began in a great explosion
or rending of nothingness into which
one tiny seed of energy became everything
The speaking side of the mind
sees the Wonder of this
The mysterious side of the mind
sees God
A beginning
a middle
what of the end?
Is this not in keeping with Balance?
The Past and the Future
fuse in this Instant
Anon
While the Matter/Energy of this Cosmos
remains balanced
The possibilities are without limit
The Universe is
the Well of first things
A storehouse of new and old things
ever evolving, growing, changing
The Universe is an ever opening flower
And You are part of the Dance
You are not divorced from it
how can you be an unnatural thing?
Are your atoms from somewhere else?
Is your pattern so bizarre?
You are human and share
in the heritage of human beginning
middle and end
How could it be otherwise?
Inside of You . . .
you are a universe
There is the infinite circular ring of You
surrounded the receding
Great out-there
and filled with the vast
Great In-here
The Universe touches your universe
at every points
and all points beyond
You can paint your walls
any way you like
Or you can learn
to see the subtle colors
already there
Hold to the center of the Universe
If you talk of it
and do not dance with it
you will become confused
If you paint it with all the pigments known
and do not reflect it
you will become murky
If you follow the rituals of others
with infinite attention to detail
you will become disillusioned
But if you face each moment
with an open hand
an open heart
an open mind
You will be the Master
of the Moment
And a life is built
of such moments
It is said that the Universe
is running down
But is in this degradation of energy
lies the integration of Life
Human life is the water
that runs uphill
Notice how beautifully
Order arises out of Chaos
without breaking any of the True Rules
The vast open spaces within the Universe
contain an indeterminate number of worlds
The Universe is always pregnant
giving birth to the New
This birthing is the rising up
from the ashes
The fresh breeze of Spring
within the depths of Winter
It is always present within you
How will you use it?
It is said
That which is not born can not die
Is that wisdom?
Is that eternal?
Perhaps . . .
But each moment is born
used
and passed to the past
If these moments are of no use
why do we build them?
Each is special, different
unique
Not a thing to be wasted
If you waste the moments of your life
you will end up
with a bunch of wasted moments
The Past touches the Future
As this moment
this instant
this Now
Anon
Right now
The waters of the Sea
are transformed into the mist
And in this same instant
the clouds are congealing and twisting
And in this same instant
the rains are nourishing all things
And passing through caverns
creek and riverbeds
Running away
away to the Sea
All in Motion
all in Balance
as it should be
There are myriad other examples
of this balance in process
and you should take time
to name them and see them in your mind
Do this and you will never grow bored
You must keep you mind ductile
In living
remember the Earth, the Air, the Fire
and the Rain
I know we have much fancier names than these
But you get my drift
Keep things simple
in your mind
Children have such complicated minds
to be truly simple
you must be older
Confront your adversaries
with your understanding of the Truth
Examine your own motives
seek counsel in wise people
Be Fair and Just
They are people too
and people generally will not do
things that they feel are wrong
If a person does a bad thing
he will have to lie to himself
Saying
"I have the right to . . ."
Or
"He hurt me and my honor demands . . ."
This is an attempt to avoid responsibility
to make the other an object
which can be destroyed with impunity
It is a lie
Try to avoid making such lies
But when the Truth is manifest
as it always must be
Forgive your opponents
forgive your friends
forgive yourself
Odds are its all non-sense
though it wont seem so at the time
Chose a vocation that you enjoy
Avoid over zealous competition
Commerce, like Life, is a process
not a means to an end
Avoid comparing yourself to others
Each of us has many attributes
and envy is not a nice one to have
Father and Mother your Children well
Any civilization
which does not prepare a place for
the children
Has about one generation
to realize its mistake
William C. Burns, Jr.
chyfrin437@yahoo.com
That which is not born can not die
Is that wisdom?
Is that eternal?
Perhaps . . .
But each moment is born
used
and passed to the past
If these moments are of no use
why do we build them?
Each is special, different
unique
Not a thing to be wasted
If you waste the moments of your life
you will end up
with a bunch of wasted moments
The Past touches the Future
As this moment
this instant
this Now
Anon
Right now
The waters of the Sea
are transformed into the mist
And in this same instant
the clouds are congealing and twisting
And in this same instant
the rains are nourishing all things
And passing through caverns
creek and riverbeds
Running away
away to the Sea
All in Motion
all in Balance
as it should be
There are myriad other examples
of this balance in process
and you should take time
to name them and see them in your mind
Do this and you will never grow bored
You must keep you mind ductile
In living
remember the Earth, the Air, the Fire
and the Rain
I know we have much fancier names than these
But you get my drift
Keep things simple
in your mind
Children have such complicated minds
to be truly simple
you must be older
Confront your adversaries
with your understanding of the Truth
Examine your own motives
seek counsel in wise people
Be Fair and Just
They are people too
and people generally will not do
things that they feel are wrong
If a person does a bad thing
he will have to lie to himself
Saying
"I have the right to . . ."
Or
"He hurt me and my honor demands . . ."
This is an attempt to avoid responsibility
to make the other an object
which can be destroyed with impunity
It is a lie
Try to avoid making such lies
But when the Truth is manifest
as it always must be
Forgive your opponents
forgive your friends
forgive yourself
Odds are its all non-sense
though it wont seem so at the time
Chose a vocation that you enjoy
Avoid over zealous competition
Commerce, like Life, is a process
not a means to an end
Avoid comparing yourself to others
Each of us has many attributes
and envy is not a nice one to have
Father and Mother your Children well
Any civilization
which does not prepare a place for
the children
Has about one generation
to realize its mistake
William C. Burns, Jr.
chyfrin437@yahoo.com
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Infinite Self – Reclaiming Your Inner Power
Posted on by Soren Dreier
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Author: Stuart Wilde
Twenty-five thousand people were attracted to my spiritual teacher
over the few years that he taught, and at each level of progress, the
teachings and disciplines got harder and harder.
After a period of
about three years, almost everyone had dropped out; near the end, there
were only 72 people left – one of which was yours truly. Eventually
there were only three of us left. It was that tough.
The
disciplines imposed by our teacher were difficult because they required
you to be extremely spontaneous. So my teacher would phone and say,
“There is a meeting next Wednesday evening in southern Spain at seven
o’clock. Be there!”
There was no question of: could you afford the
travel expenses, get the time off work, were you happy with the idea,
or was it convenient for you? It was a matter of “be there”! If you were
even one minute late for a meeting, you got tossed out forever. There
were no ifs, buts, or maybes; we were cut no slack.
I remember a
session that was held in California, at Big Sur. The meeting was called
for six in the morning. A number of us flew from London, including two
South African friends of mine. We got to the hotel the day before and
checked in. My pals were up early next morning and decided to go for a
little walk before the meeting started. They arrived back at the meeting
room at three minutes past six.
They were not allowed to enter –
in spite of the fact that they had flown all the way from London. That
was the last I saw of them – on that particular path anyway.
What I
learned from those experiences was that spiritual growth and the
getting of a higher awareness is not necessarily convenient. That’s why
most never make it. They want to reach a higher place from within the
considerations of the ego and its limited consciousness – which often
defines life into self-righteous, cozy little boxes, creating a
self-indulgent energy that has the potential of a slug in a puddle.
The ego likes little boxes it is familiar with. But when considering
an infinite consciousness, the first thing you have to do is burn the
boxes. Lao-Tzu talks about it in the first few lines of the Tao Te Ching
– when talking about the Infinite Self, the Christ consciousness, the
God Force, the Tao, the Buddhahood, whatever you care to call it – is
that it runs through all things, its everywhere, so it has no
definitions.
Only the ego needs to define, discriminate, quantify,
and measure things in order to create an edge or framework to life so
it can feel secure and comfortable with what little it knows and
comprehends. But the eternity of the grace of God flows through the life
force of plants, trees, animals, humans, and all things. It doesn’t
have a boundary or definition.
You can define the position of a
tree because there is a definite space around the tree where it is not.
Here’s the tree, and there’s the space around it where it is not. But
the God Force is omnipresent, meaning it’s everywhere, it can’t be
defined. It is the “nameless” from which everything flows. If the God
Force is omnipresent, it must also be God, because God is everywhere.
The God Force and God must be one and the same.
You can work it
out. There is a law in physics that states that no two particles can
occupy the same space.
So, if the God Forces is everywhere, and God (He,
She, or It) is everywhere, then God must be the God Force, and the God
Force must be God – because you can’t have a particle of God existing in
the same place as a particle of God Force.
Either you’d have to
have a particle of God Force and a particle of God side-by-side, and
then both of them are not omnipresent, or they would have to be
superimposed upon each other, which is not possible.
So the God Force
and God are one and the same.
The act of defining life limits your
perception of it. In the Tao, nothing is considered high or low, short
or long. One could say, a journey is long because it takes you four
hours to drive from A to B, but it’s not long when compared to sending a
satellite to Mars. And that isn’t long compared to the distance from
earth to the Andromeda galaxy.
Tossing our definitions of high,
low, good, and bad is the first step towards grasping the indefinable
nature of the Infinite Self. This can be a little unnerving for the ego
because it likes the idea of my body, my people, my house, my car; I am
here, and I’m not everywhere else. Of course, that is true in a strict
physical sense, but in the realm of consciousness, your energy is bigger
that mere concepts of my body, my life, my car.
As you expand
your heart and go past your resistance to letting go, you comprehend
yourself as an omnipresent, eternal being – one that dwells in a
multidimensional state, timeless and immortal. Meaning, you existed
before you came to the earth plane, you exist now in a physical form,
and you will exist after you leave the earth place – after your body
quits in the earth place.
The idea of the Infinite Self is
beautiful, but it’s hard for the ego and the personality to grasp. If I
say to you, “Think about Infinity,” you can try to imagine something
going on forever. But if I ask what does infinity feel like, you will
probably not have a precise feeling you can identify with. You might
say, “Oh, yes, Stu, I think I know what infinity is like.” But thinking
you know is only the first run on the ladder.
First you sell the ego-personality the idea as an intellectual
principle. Then through discipline, meditation, opening yourself up,
moving beyond fear – through coming to a more compassionate
understanding of this planet – you finally comprehend the Infinite Self
as feeling. Then you’ll be able to say, “Yep, I feel eternal, immortal,
and infinite. I feel I am everywhere and nowhere, I dwell in the realm
of spirit.”
Next, it’s important to grasp, early on, that
spiritual growth is not necessarily convenient or comfortable.
This is
not only because you have to discard an awful lot of your beliefs and
definitions – things you hold sacrosanct – but also because your can’t
get to the Infinite Self without traveling back through the
psychological and metaphysical reality of who you are and the memories
of what you have done in this lifetime.
Looking at yourself can be
uncomfortable. It’s difficult to learn to control the ego and
discipline the mind without it reacting. However, it’s a vital part of
the journey, and you have to raise your energy gradually, over a period
of time.
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Walk As a Universal Being on Earth
by Eileen Meyer
Angelic Transmission in 2004, Published in Sedona Journal 2009
People say that they want to transcend, that they want to meet and know
God. And then when God begins to rattle around in their consciousness
the fear erupts, for there is no “known” identification with this
frequency. There has been a loss of memory. For most have been invested
for so long, for so many cycles, in the human world – in this
disconnected state from the rest of themselves.
This is the cycle that is ending. And in this process, in order to stay in form and rejoin with Creation, or the Universal, there is a complete loss of identity - a complete surrender, as you say, to allow the form to be governed by the Universal Self. It does not mean that all relationships perish - all of your persons, places and things - it does not mean that they all perish, never to be seen again. It is that you press the restart button, and from that point forward you are relating in actuality with others, versus to relating to an image that you have designed within this human construct.
Why would one want to resist becoming Universal? There is no marker; there is no book; there is no story on your planet that prepares one for the actual meeting of the Unknown. Therefore, it is feared and resisted. There is no way to prepare for this, except gradually. And even those who have been preparing for years to allow this transformation – the full reversal from separation to Universal – even with these persons there can be resistance in the end, for they have had but glimpses of the Universal. For some it has been longer than glimpses - but the primary foundation of their life, in order to keep consistency with those around them, was to be focused in the conditioned world with the memory and the understanding that this is not all there is.
You see, they carry that knowing for a time. And you call these people "enlightened", by the way. They know, yet they still primarily operate within the human construct. They may pass on what they learn… report on what they have learned of the More, but your next step in your evolution is to BE that MORE – in all ways – including in physicality, in relationship with the earth, in relationship with what is actual.
The guidance at this time is to continue in your present-moment interactions, whatever that may be for you. Whether it is in words in this way or in a strictly feeling experience of it, you will be guided through this process to actual demonstration. Some of you have been consciously requesting and recalling portions of your overall intention for the life – to demonstrate the Universal on Earth… to be That Which You Are in form. In the past this has been theory, strictly theory, for how many examples have you experienced of the Universal Consciousness awakened on Earth? You have your stories about those characters long, long ago who seemed to have achieved this. This is not sufficient for you obviously, to make the transition yourself. For you have your examples embedded in your stories, icons, archetypes, but how often have you thought... how often have you wondered about That which is in you? How often have you asked to become That which you have projected onto others as beautiful; as loving; as powerful; as compassionate? That is the next leap for all of humanity and the opportunity, as we have said many times in the past, is to achieve and integrate this consciousness while in form; while maintaining your physicality. It is possible. And the possibilities are growing due to the willingness of some humans on Earth to take this next evolutionary step. Your dramas that you are experiencing now on the various stages throughout your human world, they will dissolve and there will be little memory of them when this choice is acted upon - to become That Which You Are - Heaven on Earth as you say.
This is the cycle that is ending. And in this process, in order to stay in form and rejoin with Creation, or the Universal, there is a complete loss of identity - a complete surrender, as you say, to allow the form to be governed by the Universal Self. It does not mean that all relationships perish - all of your persons, places and things - it does not mean that they all perish, never to be seen again. It is that you press the restart button, and from that point forward you are relating in actuality with others, versus to relating to an image that you have designed within this human construct.
Why would one want to resist becoming Universal? There is no marker; there is no book; there is no story on your planet that prepares one for the actual meeting of the Unknown. Therefore, it is feared and resisted. There is no way to prepare for this, except gradually. And even those who have been preparing for years to allow this transformation – the full reversal from separation to Universal – even with these persons there can be resistance in the end, for they have had but glimpses of the Universal. For some it has been longer than glimpses - but the primary foundation of their life, in order to keep consistency with those around them, was to be focused in the conditioned world with the memory and the understanding that this is not all there is.
You see, they carry that knowing for a time. And you call these people "enlightened", by the way. They know, yet they still primarily operate within the human construct. They may pass on what they learn… report on what they have learned of the More, but your next step in your evolution is to BE that MORE – in all ways – including in physicality, in relationship with the earth, in relationship with what is actual.
The guidance at this time is to continue in your present-moment interactions, whatever that may be for you. Whether it is in words in this way or in a strictly feeling experience of it, you will be guided through this process to actual demonstration. Some of you have been consciously requesting and recalling portions of your overall intention for the life – to demonstrate the Universal on Earth… to be That Which You Are in form. In the past this has been theory, strictly theory, for how many examples have you experienced of the Universal Consciousness awakened on Earth? You have your stories about those characters long, long ago who seemed to have achieved this. This is not sufficient for you obviously, to make the transition yourself. For you have your examples embedded in your stories, icons, archetypes, but how often have you thought... how often have you wondered about That which is in you? How often have you asked to become That which you have projected onto others as beautiful; as loving; as powerful; as compassionate? That is the next leap for all of humanity and the opportunity, as we have said many times in the past, is to achieve and integrate this consciousness while in form; while maintaining your physicality. It is possible. And the possibilities are growing due to the willingness of some humans on Earth to take this next evolutionary step. Your dramas that you are experiencing now on the various stages throughout your human world, they will dissolve and there will be little memory of them when this choice is acted upon - to become That Which You Are - Heaven on Earth as you say.
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Monday, March 18, 2013
FREE YOUR MIND!
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Morpheus: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
Sovereignty (noun)
• supreme power or authority • a self-governing state
Sovereignty is the quality or authority of being independent and in charge of the conditions you live under.
Please note: that sovereignty carries with it responsibility. Meaning... if you take your life in your own hands you also take upon yourself to act responsibly and with integrity in regards to your own life... your family, your community, your fellow human beings and the planet as a whole.
We have been courageous in our choice to enter this level of density with complete AMNESIA!
Our collective consciousness on the planet creates a thought field that is very dense. The resulting density of these thought patterns carries a level of frequency equivalent to a force or object with mass.
Bill Hicks: All matter is merely energy condensed into a slow vibration.
It is the collective consciousness that holds this holographic/virtual reality in its present existence. Human thoughts trapped within lower frequency waves results in human confinement to this matrix.
Put away those bad feelings. Prevent those bad thoughts from happening. Please. They are the bars of your prison. Or more simply, the 'bad' in your bad days.
Running here and there to find freedom is a sign that we have not grasped the true understanding of sovereignty. When we continue to find ourselves plagued by fear, jealousy, guilt, shame, doubt, attachment and all the adverse emotions that prey on the mind, it is evidence that we are not free. We are ultimately held captive within our own minds.
We exist in our minds. So free your mind and the rest will follow.
Bruce Lee: Knowing is not enough we must apply, Willing is not enough we must do.
To simply be aware of the illusion of separation will not be sufficient. We must passionately invoke the will to move beyond the illusion. Should we fail to invoke this level of passion, we will continue to exist based solely on the old experiences being stored in the brain. All thoughts are then formed from the old programming. Why not hack into your mind... and re-write your program? It is of great significance that we focus on our own transition and uphold the understanding that every moment is divine. In doing so, we can begin to rid ourselves of the lingering judgment of others as well as of ourselves.
Morpheus: It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell, or taste, or touch... a prison for your mind.
As we stumble through this game with amnesia for the event...the key to remember is that transcendence requires sovereignty of mind.
Agent Smith: I must get free, and in this mind is the key, my key.
If we stand in certainty of our connection with source and detach from the need for a go-between or third party... we would discover truth. And through this realignment we let go of the dependency on guides, religion and gurus, and know...All things are you.
Until we can consciously reclaim this hidden knowledge and transform our minds, we will remain imprisoned to all things external to us.
We spend so much time struggling to achieve freedom in an external manner, but true freedom can only come from within, through freeing the mind... and TO GET OUT WE MUST GO IN.
As long as human beings continue to return on the wheel of reincarnation they can easily be redirected to new experiments (times, civilizations, races, etc...) within an old game. If all souls were to awaken to their greatness there would be no souls to participate in these experiments. The overpopulation of Earth is evidence of the many souls locked into the karmic wheel. Karma means cause and effect, not fate.
For those who believe that they are here for a grand reason, such as assisting in ascension or to hold the energy... realize that becoming all that you can will greatly assist the evolution of this species. In so doing, we impart to the whole the energy of alignment through the process of our personal alignment.
BE ALL YOU CAN BE!
What is the only thing that could keep you from doing that? What is the number one tool for keeping us bound and controlling and entire population? Fear.
Frank Herbert: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
For the controllers, fear is the real black gold.Fear does one thing... it denies freedom. Fear is the result of imagined lack. It's the manipulative emotion witnessed in attitudes reflective of jealousy, hatred, anger, envy, doubt, distrust and the enslavement of and to all things, people and places.
Morpheus: You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind!
War. Poverty. Violence. Human misery. Fear and uncertainty have become ways of life.You may argue that it is society that needs fixing, not you... don’t treat the symptoms, cure the disease. But you alone can’t solve the world... it's a collective effort... and it must first START WITH YOU.
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
The Looking Glass: Language as Mirror
by Fred Davis
Notice that you are already awake.
Right now, this moment, the only reason you can read these words is that
you're awake. You're already awake. You're as awake as it gets.
You're already fully awake.
Given that you're already fully awake, how then could you wake up
further? Since you're already awake, does that idea even make sense?
You can't wake up more from where you are right now. And you can't
wake up again.
If you want to read a book through that body, or watch a video, or send
it to a retreat for further clarity or to get some context that has the
potential to open to the door to further clarity, that's great. But
before you do, notice that you don't need to read another book, watch a
video, or go to a retreat in order to wake up, because you're already
awake.
If you want to do meditation, drum, dance, chant, or what have you, for
the sake of grounding yourself in that present human experience you're
having, or calming that unit's mind so that you can better hear yourself
talk to yourself, and better watch yourself dance for yourself,
terrific. Have at it. But, be absolutely aware that you can't practice
yourself into awakening. You can't achieve what you already are.
You're just not who you think you are; that's the only issue here.
You're undergoing a case of mistaken identity, and all you need today is
a little light reflected from this mirror, this mirror of clear
language that is also you. There is only you, but you tend to get a bit
cloudy sometimes, and forget that. It comes with the territory when
your spaciousness contracts around human beings, and it's no big deal.
It's fine. When you're ready to be clear you find a bright mirror, so
here you are, back in front of the vanity mirror.
Vanity, vanity, all is vanity! This is all you, every bit of it--you
dancing for you, you preening for you, just you showing off for
yourself, to yourself and loving it.
You think you're the human being reading these words.
You're not. Well, you actually are that human also, but you're not that
person exclusively. You're the awareness that's reading these words
through that human being. The human is not reading the words; you are.
The human is a reading tool for you just as reading glasses are a tool
for the human. Reading glasses never mistake themselves for being the
reader; humans almost always do.
You think you need to wake up. You don't. All that has to occur is for
you to recognize yourself as what you are. "Awaken" makes it sound
like something really new and different needs to happen. It doesn't.
Recognition, on the other hand, is simply about noticing what already
is. See how much lighter the idea of recognition is versus the idea of
waking up? Why make it hard on yourself, when you're clearing longing
to see/be your true nature again.
Be easy on yourself. How much effort does it take for that human to
recognize itself in a mirror? None. The same is true for you. You
just have to be willing to look in the mirror and see the reflection
instead of the projection.
~ ~ ~
Read the rest of Fred's article here:
http://awakeningcla rity.blogspot. ca/2013/03/ the-looking- glass-language- as-mirror. html
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Meditation Talk by Avtar - Eden Atenas, Costa Rica
My friend Avtar leads weekly meditations from our digs in Atenas, Costa Rica. This is the first attempt to record and share his latest communique. To learn more about what's up in Costa Rica, check out the web site HERE, Facebook HERE, and Avtar's blog HERE.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Mastery of the Expanded Self
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World
To
truly realize the depth and majesty of our expanded self, we have to
master the direct confrontation of the moment. It’s all about performing
inner alchemy. There’s essentially two forms of consciousness that make
up our existential being: the separation consciousness that forms the
bodymind, and the unity consciousness that forms the soul. If you
include various disruptive energies of society’s matrix, everything we
experience from thoughts, to emotions and feelings are caused by the
interaction of these various flows of consciousness. How might ‘we’ – as
presence – be able to positively influence the internal dynamic?…
Creating Your Own Reality?
Some
speak of shaping the thoughts in order to master beingness, but to me,
this is simply a case of the tail wagging the dog. The same goes for
‘creating your own reality’. Sure, we do create our own reality, but
what do we mean exactly by ‘our’? In most cases the identity doing the
manifestation is just a more subtle form of ego – a spiritual identity –
that wants to control the situation in some particular way because it
cannot accept what is already unfolding.
We are already shaping and creating everything we experience. Either the true self - the soul -
is shining through and creating harmonious experiences or else the
false self is influencing the show, by resistance to what’s currently
happening, denial or just plain insensitivity. We might feel a creative
impulse for something to happen, only for the flow to get derailed by
internal eddy currents of life’s conditioning.
In
which case you can’t simply ‘paper over the cracks’, by manipulating
the outer pieces on the game board without first uncovering and
unwinding what’s really happening inside. To do so, is simply to
perpetuate the disharmony through our lives. Even though the
circumstances may change – our jobs, relationships or location – the
patterns remain the same. Instead, we need to look deeply into the outer
mirror we’re already creating. This includes our most intense and
intimate feelings towards it, no matter how challenging or painful. Then
there’s a requirement to notice the blind spots, the grey areas in
these points of attachment where presence closes down and gets drawn
into the fray through identification.
Grasping the Hot Coals
The
only way out is through. We have to feel the fullness of these
retractions from the moment. You have to grasp the hot coals and feel
the heat before you drop them. If you retract in the face of the heat or
the pain or the heartache, be it emotional, physical or mental, then in
that moment, you have reconfirmed your identification with the heat and
with that your separation from the all that is. You have made yourself a
victim of the sense of separation and crystalised that as your reality.
The
key is transcendence: feeling through the heat of the moment until the
coals define you no longer. You become the heat, the pain, the tension,
the discomfort and soften into it. You become so totally at-one with it,
that you no longer build internal references, structures and judgments
around the situations. It is in these totally lucid moments you become
absolutely authentic and free. You have transcended the limitation of
identification and dropped into the void of infinite potential. From
here, anything can happen. The authentic flow of the soul ignites,
fueled by the unstoppable force of the universe.
To
master such transcendence is to increase our inner intimacy – to bring
absolute attention into our bodily field, to know when we retract,
resist and deny. Bringing presence into these blind spots automatically
begins to unwind them, liberating the soul as a free flowing spontaneity
through the moment. There is nothing that feels better, more harmonious
or complete. This is truly living.
The Path to Bodhidharma
It is the Openhand Approach to life and I’ve found it very aligned with some of the ancient eastern teachings such as that of the monk Bodhidharma. I came across his work some years ago through a lovely synchronicity and felt to share a glimpse here…
In
the old days in China there was a priest called Master Tozan. A monk
asked him “how can we escape from this severe heat and cold?” This is
not just a question about severe heat and cold. It is a question about
the reality we are always facing – a melancholy and difficult reality, a
reality that is full of suffering. People are sick and in pain: people
have lost their homes in disasters and wars and have nothing in which to
believe any longer and are suffering in their despair. For those whose
belongings have all been destroyed, their refuge in the material world
has been shown to be empty and meaningless. This kind of pain is always
occurring all around us.
Master Tozan answered the monk, “You have to go where there is no hot and no cold!”
The monk continued, “Where is that place where there is no hot or cold? Where is that true place of refuge for the mind?”
The
priest answered, “When it is hot, become that heat completely! When it
is cold, become one with that cold completely and totally! When it is
painful, become that pain completely and totally, and when you are
miserable, become that misery totally and completely! In the very midst
of that, go beyond all the thoughts you hold in your mind, let go of all
the ideas of good or bad or gain or loss – let go of all of these
thoughts – and from there grasp that place of your very own vivid life
energy! That which directly experiences that ‘ouch’ – feel that life
energy directly, grasp that life energy that feels that pain and
sorrow.” More important than finding a place out of pain and suffering,
or trying to find a place where there is no pain or suffering, is to go
directly to that place where the pain and suffering are being
experienced, to go where you feel that pain and sadness directly and
totally. Touch that life energy directly and with your own experience.
Use that actual direct experience which you have grasped as your base,
and stand up strong and firm. This is how the master answered the monk.
Phoenix from the Ashes
Of
course this advice is not just for the metaphoric physical feeling of
hot and cold. We may apply it to every aspect of our lives. Especially
in relationships for example where we might suffer emotional or
psychological trauma.
As
it’s happening, we must not deny it, but rather go into the very heart
of the contraction and become as one with it – to soften into it – in
the way described above. Then the bubble of identification bursts, the
void of silence is touched, the soul rises like a pheonix from the ashes
and a new, more harmonious reality takes shape.
Finally, the majesty of the expanded self is realized.
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