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 21, 2013
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
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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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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.
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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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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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Thursday, February 21, 2013
OPPT - The One People's Public Trust
What if the Godhead could reach down through the multi-verses and rewrite the script using the very laws once used to enslave humanity, thereby unequivocally declaring what was always true - that we are FREE in ALL WAYS in our collective Being and Doing! It might then just look like THIS:
WAKE UP WORLD
What is the One People’s Public Trust?
The One Peoples Public Trust itself consists of every person on the planet, the planet itself and the Creator.
The
One People’s Trust trustees are a group of very skilled individuals
including legal professionals who, in conjunction with a positive group
inside the financial system, carried out extensive investigations into
the massive fraud and theft taking place at the time.
They
concluded that the financial and corporate government systems were
committing treason against the people and after testing different
approaches at correcting the injustices against humanity they saw being
inflicted, they decided that that the only solution was to terminate the
entire system through UCC filings.
The final report from the investigation is to be found here.
Resources
Press Releases
Disclosure Agreement – 25th December 2012Announcement – 28th December 2012
Current State – 15th January 2013
OPPT Foreclosure on Major Corporations – 4th February 2013
Social Sites
Oppt-in – Facebook
Oppt-in – Twitter
Oppt-in – Flickr
OPPT Book – Facebook Alternative for the OPPT Community
Articles
One People’s Public Trust Lawfully Forecloses Corporations, Banks and Governments for Operating Slavery and Private Money Systems
Corporations Masquerading as Government in Australia & World Wide
Corporations Masquerading as Government (Part II): Which “Government” Can We Trust?
Further Wake Up World Articles on OPPT
Video: One People’s Public Trust Presentation
Video: 20 Reasons to OPPT in to One People’s Public Trust
Downloadable Documents
OPPT Courtesy Notice and Courtesy Notice Guidelines
UCC Filings
CVAC (CREATOR’S VALUE ASSET CENTER)
Updated OPPT UCC Financing Amendment
Network of Global Corporate Control
Operation Paradigm Final Bullet Report
SWQW Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
Flash Mob Photo Kit
Radio Shows
Click here to listen to OPPT Radio ShowsWebsites
One People’s Public Trust 1776 (Legal Documents)oppt-in.com
Removing The Shackles
American Kubaki
Kauilapele
Lisa Harrison
Angel Lucci
FUQ: Frequently Unanswered Questions of the “Australian Government”
The OPPT Daily (Web ‘Newspaper’)
Extensive List of OPPT Websites from Around the World
For more CLICK HERE.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds - Parts 1-4
Excellent introduction to all that leads to awakening consciousness. Enjoy!
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
What Do You Want?
TRUE ABUNDANCE
You don't really want what you think you want
You only want your wanting to end
To no longer want for anything
To be existentially full and complete
But isn't that just another want?
Perhaps the biggest want of all?
Do you really want your way out of wants?
What do you really want?
"Want" actually means "lack"
So now the question changes:
What do you really LACK?
Do you really lack anything in this moment?
Thought says YES
Thought lists all the things that are missing
Thought advises that certain objects, people, experiences would complete this moment
Thought is always a seeker
It is always comparing
Thought says:
If you get what you want
The lack will disappear permanently
And this moment will be completed
Get what you want!
No more lack!
Do you see the trick here?
A mechanism perfectly designed to keep you away from what you really want
What is true abundance?
It's not about getting what you want
It's not about filling a lack
It's about realising that the present moment never lacks anything
It's already full to the brim with sights and sounds and smells
With thoughts and feelings
With colours and shapes beyond imagination
A thought or feeling of lack
A sense of 'something missing'
Is actually part of this moment's completeness
Not a threat to it
Part of the richness of Now
Not an enemy
A welcome visitor in the vast open space that you are
An old friend, come for tea
Space lacks nothing
For it is full with everything
Pregnant with possibility
Rich with potential
The mind confuses peace with 'absence'
Space with 'emptiness'
And unlimited capacity with 'lack'
And the game is on
The search for opposites
The longing for goals
You don't really want what you think you want
And that's why getting what you want
Doesn't satisfy 'you' for long
Who you really are does not 'want'
It has never heard of 'lack'
It is already satisfied with this moment
For it is this moment
Exactly as it is
This is true abundance:
Remembering who you really are
Prior to time and change
These are the unparalleled riches of the universe:
A breath
The simple feeling of being alive
Getting what you thought you wanted
Acquiring all the material and spiritual riches of the universe
Doesn't even come close
This moment is a strange and unexpected jackpot
And when nothing belongs to you
Everything is yours
You don't really want what you think you want
You only want your wanting to end
To no longer want for anything
To be existentially full and complete
But isn't that just another want?
Perhaps the biggest want of all?
Do you really want your way out of wants?
What do you really want?
"Want" actually means "lack"
So now the question changes:
What do you really LACK?
Do you really lack anything in this moment?
Thought says YES
Thought lists all the things that are missing
Thought advises that certain objects, people, experiences would complete this moment
Thought is always a seeker
It is always comparing
Thought says:
If you get what you want
The lack will disappear permanently
And this moment will be completed
Get what you want!
No more lack!
Do you see the trick here?
A mechanism perfectly designed to keep you away from what you really want
What is true abundance?
It's not about getting what you want
It's not about filling a lack
It's about realising that the present moment never lacks anything
It's already full to the brim with sights and sounds and smells
With thoughts and feelings
With colours and shapes beyond imagination
A thought or feeling of lack
A sense of 'something missing'
Is actually part of this moment's completeness
Not a threat to it
Part of the richness of Now
Not an enemy
A welcome visitor in the vast open space that you are
An old friend, come for tea
Space lacks nothing
For it is full with everything
Pregnant with possibility
Rich with potential
The mind confuses peace with 'absence'
Space with 'emptiness'
And unlimited capacity with 'lack'
And the game is on
The search for opposites
The longing for goals
You don't really want what you think you want
And that's why getting what you want
Doesn't satisfy 'you' for long
Who you really are does not 'want'
It has never heard of 'lack'
It is already satisfied with this moment
For it is this moment
Exactly as it is
This is true abundance:
Remembering who you really are
Prior to time and change
These are the unparalleled riches of the universe:
A breath
The simple feeling of being alive
Getting what you thought you wanted
Acquiring all the material and spiritual riches of the universe
Doesn't even come close
This moment is a strange and unexpected jackpot
And when nothing belongs to you
Everything is yours
A SORRY AWAKENING
Many years ago
When I believed I was "enlightened" and "beyond ego"
(How ironic!)
I had a mantra:
"Never Say Sorry. Never Apologise".
I secretly believed that I was perfect
Beyond humanity
Beyond reproach
And there was "nobody here"
who ever needed to apologise for anything
(since everything was "perfect", of course).
If anybody ever had a problem with me
If anybody was upset with something I'd said or done
It must have been their projection
Their ego
Their un-enlightenment
Their ignorance
Their suffering
That's what I believed, anyway
(I also believed that I had no more beliefs).
I was attracted to "radical" spiritual teachers
Who acted unkindly
And never apologised.
How awakened they seemed!
How cool and detached!
How unaffected by life!
How radical!
But when did saying sorry
And making amends
And listening deeply to the one in front of you
And truly meeting in humility
Ever become the Original Sin of enlightenment?
When did awakening lose its humanity?
When did enlightenment become an excuse for a raging ego?
Back then, I held 'others' at a distance
With my lack of humility and refusal to engage
And then I claimed that there were "no others"
Like a well-trained Advaitically-correct robot.
Perfectly denying the perfectly imperfect human heart.
A disconnected Oneness.
A recognition with no love.
A fire without warmth.
I'm sorry.
Many years ago
When I believed I was "enlightened" and "beyond ego"
(How ironic!)
I had a mantra:
"Never Say Sorry. Never Apologise".
I secretly believed that I was perfect
Beyond humanity
Beyond reproach
And there was "nobody here"
who ever needed to apologise for anything
(since everything was "perfect", of course).
If anybody ever had a problem with me
If anybody was upset with something I'd said or done
It must have been their projection
Their ego
Their un-enlightenment
Their ignorance
Their suffering
That's what I believed, anyway
(I also believed that I had no more beliefs).
I was attracted to "radical" spiritual teachers
Who acted unkindly
And never apologised.
How awakened they seemed!
How cool and detached!
How unaffected by life!
How radical!
But when did saying sorry
And making amends
And listening deeply to the one in front of you
And truly meeting in humility
Ever become the Original Sin of enlightenment?
When did awakening lose its humanity?
When did enlightenment become an excuse for a raging ego?
Back then, I held 'others' at a distance
With my lack of humility and refusal to engage
And then I claimed that there were "no others"
Like a well-trained Advaitically-correct robot.
Perfectly denying the perfectly imperfect human heart.
A disconnected Oneness.
A recognition with no love.
A fire without warmth.
I'm sorry.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
The Elephant in the Living Room Is Standing On My Foot
Contributor
Question: What is your relationship to Life? How do you feel about
being here? Do you trust it, or are you suspicious, bitter, and
withdrawn?
In my casual ego mind, I am emotionally withdrawn, absent, shut down,
bewildered, disengaged, and confused. I endlessly complain about my
plight in this world and am ungrateful. The ugly truth is that I
routinely default on myself and others and on Life itself. Life doesn’t
betray me, I betray it. When I entertain thoughts of betrayal and
abandonment, I rape Life, then blame the bitch. Life gets raped and
blamed for it.
By now, I’m choking to death, but by my own hand.
This is important to recognize because, if it’s my hand, then I can
remove it myself, don’t need anything or anyone to do it for me.
This is the first Office of Authentic Spiritual Practice: Recognition
of and responsibility for the emotional withdrawal from Life and Love.
The Second Office is when I sit down and shut the Fuck up in the Face
of the Cosmic Enormity of Life, and recognize Its Innocent, Fierce,
Infinite, egoless Nature, my truest self. I stop disassociating
emotionally into my fantasies of separateness from this Profound Wonder
and vomit out all the repression, the avoidance, the trauma of real and
imagined disease and get into Bed with this Great Lover.
The Brilliant, Unbroken, seamless Presence of Life circulating
through all creation, the Current that oscillates between the cycles of
birth and death, through infinite stretches of fathomless space, that
one, that Very One, is the Only Existing Reality and I am completely,
always, already inherently one with It, just like a whirlpool in a
River. It has always been this way.
There is only One Life living all things and It became me and you.
When we meet on that level, big things happen, because ego, the
dramatization of betrayal and abandonment has been made obsolete by
Noticing and Being Intimate with the One who shows up as Two. This
produces emotional and spiritual intimacy between us because we are
standing on what is Real.
When the whirlpool sees the River and its place in it, it swoons and
falls intoxicated into bed like a lover, ready, willing, able, open,
fully engaged, deeply pleasurized, intensely passionate.
Now, you are aware of the Elephant on your foot. It hurts. God
becomes man, even poor little you and me, a painful and bloody affair.
The infinite Life consents to be you and me and everything else, fully
surrendered to us all, and I miss it. The Word becomes flesh, the
infinity of Life fractalizes into mortal human beings who are all going
to die, and I hide my face even though I am obligated to somehow love
and trust in the face of this great contradiction. We were born with
the impulse to love, and everyone we love is going to disappear. Does
this make sense? Does it produce trust or doubt in you?
Authentic spiritual practice, true religion, begins with this:
Recognizing my emotional recoil from the Incandescent Event of Existence
and overcoming it by being responsible for it.
I thereby stand before it, not as it.
Spiritual practice has exactly nothing to do with beliefs, it has
everything to do with the moral obligation to face the truth, to face
Reality, to tell the truth about my lies, to own my own refusal to be
that which I so obviously am: the full bodied, red blooded incarnation
of Infinite Life, in spite of my mortality and all my many faults and
shortcomings.
This is an Ordeal, coming to terms with the simultaneity of my
infinite and mortal nature. It’s an impossible, contradictory
situation, but here I am anyway. When I make friends with it and stop
making it into a problem, my eyesight clears up, the Obvious is now
Noticed, this is simply the Way God Is. Coming to terms with this
involves staring into the Paradox long enough for the light and heat to
burn through the rational and metaphysical assumptions I constantly
plaster onto Life, ideas like “consciousness comes from neurons firing
in the brain” (scientific materialism) and “Original Sin separates Man
from God” (religious psychosis)
These completely unfounded and theoretical assumptions reduce Life to the level of a concentration camp.
We are not isolated individuals, we share a dynamic unity with
literally everything. Scientism, the religion of science, as well as
religious fundamentalism are maps masquerading as this Territory of the
Heart. It doesn’t matter if the whole world believes it, belief has
never changed the truth, not once.
Ego ideas about life are just not equivalents to Life Itself. No map
ever could be equal to the territory it describes. The Radiant Core of
Conscious Light, Existence Itself, the Infinitely Intense Current of
the Heart, is the fundamental Nature of Reality.
When human culture is based on the Recognition and Appreciation and
Exploration of this Wonder, this Impossible Treasure buried in the
Field, when we as individuals and nations overcome our recoil, our lack
of confidence in Life, in Actual God, we will return to the disposition
of the Radiant Core and humanity will become the birthplace of Real
Life, not materialistic, industrialized consumerism and disaster
capitalism, not fundamentalism and fascism. Tyrants will be laughed off
the planet, having no exploitable hosts to dominate. Priests will go
broke for lack of work. The searing Obviousness of Utter Unity with all
Life will overwhelm the petty differences within the human family and
profound gratitude for and empathy with all others will be the dominant
social meme planet wide.
This will come about when Reality is met on it’s own terms and is no
longer held hostage in the dungeons of ego mind. That will be
accomplished when we have had quite enough of self strangulation,
capitulation to lies, collusion with saboteurs, empowerment of tyrants,
belief in false gods and completely wake up to the liberating Facts of
Life: Freedom and Light and Happiness is our very nature, now. We
share the nature of That which originated us, which is Free, Self
Existing, and Radiant, Intelligent Light. We are not orphans born in
sin. We are inherently blissful incarnations of love and truth
(Reality) radiant fractals of eternal Light, now as always. This is the
demonstrable Truth, is not a belief, an idea. It’s Real. See for
yourself.
This is cause for great celebration and will one day be the basis of
human culture. The Recognition of the Free, Ecstatic nature of Life and
our inherent unity with It will unleash the most powerful forces ever
seen on planet Earth. When we identify What is fundamentally True and
live in alignment with It, everything else falls into place.
Responsibility for Love, for Life, for What is True is the only
realistic way to live. Conventional religious and scientific beliefs
are like junk food, it looks good, but has no real nutritional value.
Only Truth and Love can provide Light and Life. Truth is Real, is not
an opinion. If Truth is an ocean, belief is a ripple on its surface.
Belief systems are virtual facsimiles of this Reality, canned versions of fresh food.
Why settle for a virtual reality when you can have the Real Thing?
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Sunday, January 13, 2013
The Real You - Alan Watts
“When
you’re ready to wake up, you’re going to wake up, and if you’re not
ready you’re going to stay pretending that you’re just a ‘poor little
me.’ And since you’re all here and engaged in this sort of inquiry and
listening to this sort of lecture, I assume you’re all in the process of
waking up. Or else you’re teasing yourselves with some kind of
flirtation with waking up which you’re not serious about. But I assume
that maybe you are not serious, but sincere – that you are ready to wake
up.
So
then, when you’re in the way of waking up, and finding out who you
really are, what you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place
you call here and now. You are something that the whole universe is
doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is
doing… The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real,
deep down you is the whole universe.”
– Alan Watts
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Symptoms of Inner Peace
by Saskia Davis
©1984
Be on
the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have
already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere
could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious
threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition of conflict in
the world.
Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:
· A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.
· An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
· A loss of interest in judging other people.
· A loss of interest in judging self.
· A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
· A loss of interest in conflict.
· A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom.)
· Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:
· A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.
· An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
· A loss of interest in judging other people.
· A loss of interest in judging self.
· A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
· A loss of interest in conflict.
· A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom.)
· Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
· Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
· Frequent attacks of smiling.
· An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than (try to) make them happen.
· An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.
WARNING:
If you have some or all of the above symptoms, please be advised that your condition of inner peace may be so far advanced as to not be curable. If you are exposed to anyone exhibiting any of these symptoms, remain exposed only at your own risk.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Wei Wu Wei - Bits and Pieces
From 'Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon':
It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.
* * *
The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.
* * *
It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.
* * *
There is no becoming. ALL IS.
* * *
The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.
* * *
It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false 'me' no longer identifies with his suffering.
* * *
We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.
* * *
Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless
attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window
is wide open?
* * *
Detachment is a state, it is not a totalisation of achieved indifferences.
* * *
The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.
* * *
Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.
* * *
How many of the ways (disciplines, exercises, practices) recommended
as helpful, or even necessary, for the attainment of Satori are not in
fact consequences of that state erroneously suggested as means?
* * *
There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their
ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though
you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such
attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one
thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego,
by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal
identity with pure being.
* * * * *
From 'Why Lazarus Laughed':
Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.
* * *
Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as
systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They
should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted,
rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.
* * *
Of the many earnest, and how earnest, people we may observe reading,
attending lectures, studying and practising disciplines, devoting their
energies to the attainment of a liberation which is by definition
unattainable, how many are not striving via the ego-concept
which is itself the only barrier between what they think they are and
that which they wish to become but always have been and always will be?
* * *
Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!
* * *
On the phenomenal plane we seek pleasure and the
avoidance of pain. On the noumenal plane we know the absence of both -
which is Bliss.
* * *
When you give a shilling to a beggar
- do you realise that you are giving it to yourself?
When you help a lame dog over a stile
- do you realise that you yourself are being helped?
When you kick a man when he is down
- do you realise that you are kicking yourself?
Give him another kick - if you deserve it!
- do you realise that you are giving it to yourself?
When you help a lame dog over a stile
- do you realise that you yourself are being helped?
When you kick a man when he is down
- do you realise that you are kicking yourself?
Give him another kick - if you deserve it!
* * *
Reality alone exists - and that we are. All the rest is only a dream, a
dream of the One Mind, which is our mind without the 'our'. Is it so
hard to accept? Is it so difficult to assimilate and to live?
* * *
Even the intellectual understanding of the inexistence of our
'selves' is a rare and bitter attainment which few even attempt. And
that is only the elimination round which qualifies us for access to
Reality... Intellectual understanding should be not indispensable to a
'simple' mind, but, with our conditioning, it would seem to be an almost
inevitable preliminary.
* * *
Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.
* * *
Spontaneity is being present in the present.
Spontaneity by-passes the processes of the conceptual (aspect of) mind.
Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.
Spontaneity by-passes the processes of the conceptual (aspect of) mind.
Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.
* * *
What we know as 'life'
is the analytical realisation
in the seriality of time
of our eternal reality.
is the analytical realisation
in the seriality of time
of our eternal reality.
* * *
We have only to eliminate the ego-notion by succeeding
in the difficult task of understanding that it does not exist except as
a notion.
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