tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76000724301330384792024-03-08T18:09:25.130-06:00Neti NetiNeti -neti "Not this, not this," Negating all names and forms in order to arrive at the underlying truth.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-61288994512094278902009-11-29T23:25:00.004-06:002009-11-29T23:38:52.241-06:00"The real you is timeless and beyond birth and death. The body will survive as long as it is needed. It is not important that it should live long". <div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Nisargadatta</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Maharaj</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Read this statement from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Nisargadatta</span></span> again. Ponder it's meaning and feel the mind resist the implications of non resistance to the death of the body. Isn't everything in your mind resisting and ultimately fearing death? Can you see that at the core of this statement lies liberation? Can you find a place in yourself that was never born and will never die? </div><div><br /></div><div>Realize this and you will be free.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Namaste</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-65059194022668199752009-10-04T00:14:00.007-05:002009-10-04T10:22:32.894-05:00The great masters, teachers, seers and saints, the enlightened ones, those beings who found the way to realisation of their True Nature, have spoken with one voice and one message. <div><br /><div>The simple and yet profound truth to "love one another" was their call. </div><div><br /></div><div>What then does this mean, to love one another, and why after 10,000 years of civilization do we experience so much suffering?</div><div><br /></div><div>Have "we" failed to understand and integrate the wisdom of our hearts?</div><div><br /></div><div>You might want to ponder how in your own life you love, and more importantly find the courage to admit that you only "love" when you are "getting" what you want from your object of love or from the situation you find yourself in. Notice how you abandon love and what or who you love when you don't get what you want. </div><div><br /></div><div>Feel the suffering caused when we objectify ourselves and others for "love".</div><div><br /></div><div>You might want to consider the possibility that you are too afraid to love, or filled with so much desire for love that love has become a thing to you.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>So then, what is love? </div><div><br /></div><div>Is love something you do, or feel or give?</div><div><br /></div><div>Is it something you share? </div><div><br /></div><div>Is it something you experience?</div><div><br /></div><div>You might say yes to all of those "aspects" of love, but in actuality the answer to those questions cannot be answered from our conventional understanding of love.</div><div><br /></div><div>Our indoctrinated beliefs about love gives you ownership of love but in truth there is no "you" that loves.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is no object of love. </div><div><br /></div><div>There is only love.</div><div><br /></div><div>Love is a word we use that really describes what wasn't born and what cannot die. </div><div><br /></div><div>Love is the essence of all existence, the field of being. </div><div><br /></div><div>Love is the space that holds everything, and even that which holds space is love.</div><div><br /></div><div>Love is prior to our consciousness and love is after our consciousness leaves.</div><div><br /></div><div>Before you "knew" who you were, you were love. </div><div><br /></div><div>After you forget who you are, you will still be love.</div><div><br /></div><div>You then might want to ask the simple question, "who am I" or better yet "what am I" ?</div><div><br /></div><div>Seeking the answer from stillness and from within you might find the answer that you're not a person, nor a body, or a mind. No longer identified with the mind and body you can experience the realization that you are not your thoughts or your feelings. </div><div><br /></div><div>Understanding that you were not born nor will you die you may see that you are not your past, nor do you have a future and that you're not your personality. Nor are you your failures or your accomplishments and you're not what you own or what you do. </div><div><br /></div><div>How you love, or not, has nothing to do with you, nor who you love, or who loves you back.</div><div><br /></div><div>Because what love is has nothing to do with "you" or "them" or "her" or "him". </div><div><br /></div><div>You see that's the problem with love. </div><div><br /></div><div>As long as we believe that we are the "doer" of love we will create only suffering. </div><div><br /></div><div>To "love one another" might be better understood as "to experience one another as your true self", which of course is love. </div><div><br /></div><div>However, this has nothing to do with "other" as form. </div><div><br /></div><div>There can be no separation, when form is understood as just the dance and play of our creation. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There can be no attachment, or fear, or withholding with the realization that separateness is only an illusion. Desire for love, appreciation and approval vanishes when one realises that there is no other to love, because the other is simply love manifesting in form. Other is actually a result of our imagination. It's just a mental construct, a projection of our own identification with our body and mind. </div><div><br /></div><div>Granted, finding someone to love is a pursuit and belief that we have all agreed to, but I ask you, has that EVER really worked for you? What is our common bond? What are we really looking for?</div><div><br /></div><div>"Finding" someone to love is an interesting concept. Sometimes there is an appearance of happiness here, but does this last? Can this idea that we need each other in this way be more than just a concept. Look around you, look at the world, look at yourself, the answer is no.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm not suggesting that form is not to be enjoyed, but it will never fully satisfy because to identify with form can only create possession or rejection of form which always results in suffering.</div><div><br /></div><div>Find the willingness to see what you really are. </div><div><br /></div><div>Go beyond gender, race and age. </div><div><br /></div><div>Go beyond form and identification and fascination with the body.</div><div><br /></div><div>Go beyond form and reside as the Source of all that is. </div><div><br /></div><div>From here love is experienced as freedom, spaciousness, kindness, peace, compassion, acceptance. </div><div><br /></div><div>From here, there is no story. there is only love.</div><div><br /></div><div>And this is our True Nature.</div><div><br /></div><div>The truth about Love is that Love wants nothing, because it already is everything and being everything this includes "you" as love.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are this and from this awareness one can finally be love and find a peace that is beyond understanding.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>namaste<br /></div><div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-91363419927349473292009-07-28T22:01:00.005-05:002009-07-29T03:10:39.866-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"Until humankind can free itself from false identifications, from pretense and delusions of various kinds, it cannot come face to face with the eternal verity that is latent within its own self."</div><div><br /></div><div>Jean Dunn </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I have a friend who is a spiritual guide and teacher. During one of her recent courses she was confronted by a student. The incident enraged her and left her in tears. She felt rejected and judged, she felt attacked. Her experience reminded me of my own difficulties with others and I shared with her those moments when I have felt unappreciated and unloved by those "I" was trying to "help", and I remembered the intense feelings connected to not getting what I want.</div></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">Here is a part of our conversation.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Dear Linda, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I know how that goes, having an expectation of appreciation and getting rejection instead can be a real wake up call. I remember feeling the same way when that has happened for me. I've felt enraged and then hurt when I perceived or experienced rejection, especially when I felt like I should have something better. I was shocked when I noticed what came up for me when I didn't get what I wanted. I noticed that somehow I believed I deserved to be loved and appreciated, and when that love didn't come the way I wanted it, or if it didn't come at all, that it really pissed me off. I found myself actually punishing those "I loved" or "had helped" for not giving me their love and appreciation the way I wanted them to. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">How strange. This has to be the farthest thing from love. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I really believed I was a person who loved, who knew what love is, it wasn't until later that I realized how conditional my love for others was. It was humbling to realize I wasn't loving them at all and that "getting what I wanted" was my agenda and my version of love. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It was hard for me to grasp at first that loving others had nothing to do with me. That loving someone isn't about "me" at all. It took a great deal of suffering and resistance on my part to finally get that loving is simply just being with a person, and sharing a space with them in a kind of open acceptance of what is.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I wasn't loved like this. I learned what love is from what I observed around me. I was taught that you go out and get what you want. I think most, if not all of us are taught that being proactive and getting what you want is the path to happiness. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"The pursuit of happiness" is written in our Constitution. It appears to be a part of our culture, but if you really feel into the pursuit part of this language one begins to experience this kind of behavior as just pure narcissism. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It was a relief to finally admit I was not capable of loving others while I was holding conditions and only thinking of myself, and it was hard to accept that I had always been like this, and that I had never loved people without expectations. It was humbling, really quite humbling to feel the loss of my Self in this way.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">It took quite a beating from this conditioned part of my mind that insisted on having its own way, for my viewpoint to finally shift towards real love. There were many people who tried to love me, and one in particular who became one of my greatest teachers, but I couldn't let go, and I couldn't love without fear and the need to control.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">This part of me finally crashed and I found myself shattered and lost until I finally <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">surrendered</span>. This surrender took the form of acceptance and a willingness to love what is, without question or resistance. From this place came a deep knowing that everything is happening in this moment, now, to wake me up to my True Nature, which is unconditional love. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">So if you want, may I suggest you go (in silence) to that person who "rejected" you and thank her as your most divine Guru, consider this incident as a lesson in humility and move forward. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">From here you can choose to go a little deeper and from a different viewpoint see how we have created EVERYTHING in order to experience Love with consciousness as form. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">From this place nothing is wrong or broken or lost...our experience is simply seen and felt as the play of Self Remembrance. One can appreciate from a different perspective that people and situations arise to give us exactly what we need to let go of everything, and I mean everything, that we attach to. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">So welcome them, they are here to liberate us from our confusion about love. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">I know there is no cultural context for this, and I know how hard it is to believe that we know little or nothing of love, but there are great traditions that can lead us out of our conditioning. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">The path of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Advaita</span> as it is expressed through <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Sri</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Nisargadatta</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Maharaj</span> is a great place to start. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">Look into the great classic, " I Am That" "Talks with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Sri</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Nisargadatta</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Maharaj</span>" for guidance. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">It is great to know you are out there embracing the great Reality. I am grateful to call you my friend. I'm looking forward to seeing you when I'm in Chicago this September.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">love always</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">Scott</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:11px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:11px;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-5770746806471361872009-06-15T19:10:00.017-05:002009-06-15T21:21:10.953-05:00<div><br /></div><div>Please take a moment to ponder the nature of love. </div><div>Your True Nature. </div><div><br /></div><div>Below is a short excerpt from a dialogue with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Sri</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Nisargadatta</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Maharaj</span><br /></div><div><br /></div>Questioner:<div><br /></div><div>"What is the Real?"</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Maharaj</span></span>:<br /><div><br /></div><div>"There is no great mystery."</div><div><br /></div><div>"The Real is simple, open, clear and kind, beautiful and joyous. it is completely free of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">contradictions. It is ever new, ever fresh, endlessly creative. Being and non-being, life and death, all distinctions merge in it."</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Questioner:</div><div><br /></div><div>"What then, in all the universe is there one single thing of value?" </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Maharaj</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>"Yes, it is the power of love. "</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I love how the great teachers cut through our confusion like a laser, like a mirror they reflect the Real.</div><div><br /></div><div>But how can this appear real to us in our day to day lives? </div><div><br /></div><div>The power of Love....what is that exactly? <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>How does that apply to us, here, now?</div><div><br /></div><div>I had a friend recently experience an unexpected layoff from a large insurance company just weeks after she was assured during her annual review that her job was secure. </div><div><br /></div><div>The following was my correspondence concerning her layoff, and with her permission she has asked me to share it. After the unexpected layoff, Lisa decided to tie one on, and after a night of drinking with her girlfriends, she e mailed me in despair. She was feeling ashamed that she had turned to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">alcohol</span> and fearful that I would judge her as weak and broken.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I hear you and feel you, sweetheart. </div><div><br /></div><div>Getting drunk and teary eyed and expressing your love is beautifully human, you know, Lisa, everything is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">ok</span>. </div><div><br /></div><div>I personally believe that we all need to practice being okay with ourselves no matter what may be happening at any given moment. There are no rules, no <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">shoulds</span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">shouldn'ts</span>. Life is very short, it is meant to be lived, it is meant to be experienced. So be Lisa, with full on permission from yourself to be a human being with all that it encompasses. Being aware that our human self is pretty much a mess most of the time, is a great gift, being okay with ones own messiness is even a greater gift, letting the world be a mess, because it is a mess, is compassion not only for the world, but for your own world. </div><div><br /></div><div>You see, sweetheart, that's the big joke. Everyone is a mess and trying not to act like it, and we spend a lot of energy hiding that messiness from others or trying to fix it. I love it when people get real, but unfortunately it only seems to happen when there is a crisis. If we could all just be more vulnerable and out of control and okay and accepting with what's happening inside of ourselves, I feel it would be a better world. </div><div><br /></div><div>It is messy to be human, it is the mind, it is it's nature. </div><div><br /></div><div>There is another perspective, however, from the ultimate viewpoint of Pure Awareness, there is nothing wrong, ever, and everything is working towards our evolution. This is our True Nature, this is the viewpoint of the Self and the nature of the Self is Love. </div><div><br /></div><div>So can you see it is quite impossible to scare me off?</div><div><br /></div><div>I love it when we allow ourselves to be real, even if it takes getting drunk to get there, sometimes that's the path we choose to be close to ourselves and others and it's no wonder then, why we use alcohol. So don't worry about a thing when it comes to my impression of you, because I'm human, too, and it's my messiness that makes me human, and you can't fix that, because it's not broken, it's not a broken thing to be confused. It is, however very human.</div><div><br /></div><div>Okay then, so let's celebrate being human and confused, because we all are, until we're not. It's built in and if you want to take the high ground and start the process of integrating this body and mind with your True Nature, I can't think of a better place to start than with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Eckhart</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Tolle</span> or Byron Katie or Joan <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Tollifson</span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Nisargadatta</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Maharaj</span>. Seek out these teachers of what's Real. I have found them most helpful.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm sure that our current human story about life and the fears and insecurities and doubt and self loathing and all that comes with being confused is just a part of our current evolution. There are ways out of this confusion, but remember, it's okay right now just the way it is, unless, you believe it's not. </div><div><br /></div><div>Examine, observe and ask, who's in charge of your life right now?</div><div><br /></div><div>What's in the moment right now? </div><div><br /></div><div>Who are you? What are you?</div><div><br /></div><div>Can you really, only be, your suffering? Your mind? Your body? </div><div><br /></div><div>I believe from this viewpoint you can see the perfection of what is and move forward with compassion and with love.</div><div><br /></div><div>Enjoy the ride.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">namaste</span></div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><div><br /></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-21610974517328563542009-06-04T17:49:00.002-05:002009-06-04T17:53:14.349-05:00Come, come, whoever you are.<div>Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.</div><div>It doesn't matter.</div><div>Ours is not a caravan of despair.</div><div>Come, even if you have broken your vow</div><div>a thousand times.</div><div>Come, yet again, come, come.</div><div><br /></div><div>Rumi</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-2824126216332411542009-06-01T18:49:00.003-05:002009-06-01T19:56:12.388-05:00"Love one another as I have loved you". Jesus of NazarethUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-72398043869992347372009-05-31T10:17:00.007-05:002009-05-31T12:05:47.780-05:00I share a back yard with a neighbor named Howard and Lulu. Lulu is Howard's nine year old Jack Russell Terrier and every morning before I'm off to work Lulu greets me with an explosion of terrier energy that can only be described as "Let's Play!" So here's the ritual, every morning as I walk down the stairs to the back yard on my way to the driveway I can hear <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">LuLu</span> barking in Howard's house and I can see her jumping vertically straight up about twenty inches to clear the window sill so that for about two seconds she can see me through the window as I descend the stairs. She's making it clear to Howard it's time to go outside, and like clockwork Howard opens the back door and out she comes. I throw a ball or a toy for about 15 minutes as Lulu performs amazing acrobatic catches and even more amazingly at age 9 (63 years in human years) returns the ball to me by throwing it back! I don't know how she does it but she stops in front of me with the ball and bobs her head three times (and it's always three times) and then releases the ball with uncanny accuracy into my out <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">stretched</span> hand. Every morning it's the same. Last Friday Lulu came to greet me as usual and Howard's assistant who was house sitting at the time informed me that Howard was out of town and wouldn't be returning until weeks end. The next day, Saturday, as I came down the stairs there was no Lulu. No barking, no joyful vertical jumping to catch a glimpse of me from the window, just silence in the house. I thought about it for a second and remembered that Howard was out of town and thought nothing more of it. It wasn't until Howard's return that I realized something was missing, and yes it was Lulu. Howard had decided to kennel her while he was gone, and Lulu had suddenly fell ill while at the kennel and had died. I was shocked and sad at first because even at age nine Lulu was so full of life, joy and vitality. I realized I was grieving for my loss because I would never see her again. But soon, I found gratitude for her and for what she had taught me. Lulu showed me that even until death, that if we can stay in the moment and live with open hearts, joy and playfulness we can deeply enjoy life and bring joy and connection to others. She reminded me that our bodies, our forms are temporal, and that it isn't the body we remember when a loved one passes but it's the LOVE we shared with them that matters. I loved Lulu and she loved me. She was a bundle of unconditional non contained loving Presence expressing our True Nature in the form of a wiry little white haired smiley faced Jack Russell Terrier. She helped me remember who and what we truly are, and that, is Love.<div><br /></div><div>namaste Lulu....namaste.<br /><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-55670837682584517132009-04-19T21:24:00.005-05:002009-05-14T11:48:41.288-05:00<div><br /></div><div>In this lifetime I have been given many opportunities to experience my True Nature. I can't tell you why but from a very early age I have been confronted by death. Over and over again I found myself staring into the ultimate unknown and finding the false self standing naked before the ultimate reality, which is we are not the body and we are not the mind, and that none of "us" are getting out of here alive.</div><div><br /></div><div>When I was sixteen I was a Boy Scout attending a Boy Scout camp in Colorado. I was in a group of older more experienced Scouts and in this summer camp a competition was held to determine the top ten Scouts in the camp. This competition involved a timed ascent of a 600 foot vertical climb of a butte near the camp. We did not know why or what we were competing for but we were told the fist ten climbers reaching the top would receive a prize.</div><div><br /></div><div>So we lined up at the base of the butte a Scout leader was already at the top and a whistle was blown and up we went. I was the first to reach the top. I and nine others were gathered together at the summit and asked to meet at the camp cafeteria at 5am for an early breakfast the next morning at which time we would be given instructions concerning our "prize".</div><div><br /></div><div>The next morning we all gathered in the predawn chill to eat our breakfast and afterwards a senior camp counselor walked in and announced we were all loading up to drive to set up a base camp at Longs Peak. We were going to climb the highest peak in the Colorado National Park, elevation 14,259 ft.</div><div><br /></div><div>None of us were experienced climbers but our senior counselors were so off we went on our grand adventure.</div><div><br /></div><div>Upon arriving we were told to make camp, and at 4 am we were to set off towards the summit. The first part of the climb was relatively flat, we had flashlights and the path was well worn and easy to traverse.</div><div><br /></div><div>But at first light we saw the mountain. It was formidable. The counselors impressed upon us to press on because it was our goal to reach the summit by early afternoon so that we could descend in time to be at base camp by dark.</div><div><br /></div><div>All went well during the ascent. We were young, experienced scouts and enjoying the challenge.</div><div>As we neared the summit we noticed a snow field running down the face of the mountain, we were at 13,000 ft and still climbing.</div><div><br /></div><div>We reached the summit around 2pm. When one reaches the summit of a mountain there is usually a book or record left behind by other climbers. It is customary to sign in and leave a comment. We were doing just that, eating a bit of lunch and milling about the summit, (which was an area of bare rock about the size of a basketball court) when suddenly without warning all hell broke loose. </div><div><br /></div><div>In the Rockies, in the summer it is common to experience sudden and sometimes violent thunderstorms, and as luck would have it, while we were on top of this barren rocky place a thunderstorm rolled up from below and over the top of the mountain. It got dark, very dark and suddenly without warning we found ourselves surrounded by howling winds, blinding rain and lightning. Lots of lightning. The lightning was striking the top of the mountain, blinding flash after blinding flash. We were trapped inside of a thunderstorm. Rock shrapnel was whistling about our heads as lightning exploded against the stone. Deafening thunder with every lightning strike made it impossible to hear each other as we huddled together against the storm. Something smelled like burning iron. It was surreal.</div><div><br /></div><div>Suddenly, during a lightning flash, I saw our lead scout waving his arms for us to follow him. He was running towards the snow field. We all ran. We followed him to the edge of the snow and watched him pull off his parka, place it on the snow, sit on it and disappear into the storm.</div><div>His parka had become a sled, and his quick thinking had showed us a way off the summit. </div><div><br /></div><div>What was happening for me, in me, was this amazing moment. This moment was familiar to me, I was calm, alert, present unafraid. I felt a Presence that was witnessing the storm, the lightening, the chaos. There was just stillness and the mind doing it's job, and it's job was take off the parka, sit on it and get the hell out of there.</div><div><br /></div><div>That is what I did. One at a time we shot down the snow field into the storm on a blind track to somewhere below. I was the 4<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span> one down, the three Scout Leaders had gone before. They had instructed us to go down single file in 60 second intervals. As I blasted down the 45 degree slope I used my heals to correct my track, I could see the groove cut in the icy snow by the counselors who went before me. This was all happening in seconds, but time had stood still, just like before when I had faced death in the past, nothing mattered, there was no past, no future, no fear, just NOW. </div><div><br /></div><div>As I continued to descend I realized I was getting below the storm, I saw light ahead and suddenly there were the three counselors standing with arms locked on their knees acting like a human net to catch me. I hit the brakes and dug my heals into the ice and rolled into their arms. </div><div><br /></div><div>One after another we locked arms to catch the next sledder, and miraculously we all made it to the bottom. </div><div><br /></div><div>Slowly one by one we stood up dusted off the ice and snow and looked up at the raging storm pounding the top of the mountain with a bombardment of lightning strikes, thunder and howling winds.</div><div><br /></div><div>No one spoke a word, and after a few moments one of the counselors gasped, we all looked at him as he gazed towards the edge of the snowfield. We all realized at once we were standing 5 feet from a cliff edge that plummeted a thousand feet to the rocks below.</div><div><br /></div><div>There wasn't much talking going on the rest of the day. We all descended the mountain in silence. </div><div><br /></div><div>That night in base camp I remembered that morning with my little brother, and the gun, and the neighbor boy. I remember the sense of Presence, the Stillness, the fearlessness. I felt the truth of myself. My True Nature. I knew that if my body had gone off that cliff, that what and who I really am would not have. I felt extreme gratitude.</div><div><br /></div><div>We are taught practically from birth to identify with the body.<div><br /></div><div>We are given a name and told by our parents and family that this is who you are.</div><div><br /></div><div>This named person with a body is in relationship with other named bodies and in time we develop a complex personality that is adept at negotiating this rather odd world of separate bodies with separate names.</div><div><br /></div><div>Soon we are indoctrinated into a world of separateness and we are left to our own devices that hopefully prove to be successful in the unrelenting quest for love, attention and approval. Not to mention being successful with and as the prime directive of the now fully formed ego, which has one primary objective, to survive.</div><div><br /></div><div>Most of us float along like this, trying to fit in, make the grade, get the right job, find the right partner make the right decisions and so on.</div><div><br /></div><div>If we're lucky however we encounter an alternative reality that is typically revealed to us through some form of crisis or loss or excruciating emotional or physical pain. Sometimes it is a near death experience or sometimes the loss of a loved one. But these opportunities come, and when they do we are given a glimpse into The Real.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div>You are not your body.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are not your mind.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">namaste</span>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-42885038215466127452009-04-15T08:16:00.005-05:002009-04-15T21:12:36.609-05:00<div>When we are children, before we are fully socialized, the mind is in a more fluid, open and receptive state.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Absolute, our True Nature is still present and intact. </div><div><br /></div><div>We are still connected to our source, and less concerned with the body, the past or the future.</div><div><br /></div><div>Most of us as children, remain more fully in the now and live as spontaneous expression of the moment.</div><div><br /></div>My first "conscious experience" of my True Nature occurred during an incident when I was six years old.<div><br /></div><div>My mother had asked me to "take care" of my little brother while we were playing in an open common area behind our apartment. My little brother was four and I was holding his hand while we walked together in the play area. My mother had stepped into the apartment for a few minutes and left me alone with my brother Neal. </div><div><br /></div><div>This was 1959 in rural Texas, back in the days when we lived with a sense of relative safety. No one locked their doors, everyone knew each other and each others kids. Kids were left alone in the yard to play. </div><div><br /></div><div>A new family had moved into a nearby apartment. The father was a cop and he had a son who was around ten years old. That particular morning this neighbor, the ten year old son of the cop decided to take his fathers revolver from it's holster and walk outside with it. When he saw Neal and I in the play area he walked up to us holding the gun behind his back. As he approached us, "I" sensed that something was wrong. The boy stopped about two feet from us and leveled the gun at my head and said "I'm going to shoot you!" At this point the most curious thing happened. "I" became incredibly calm. My mind stopped, my breath became steady. I stepped in front of my little brother with absolutely no fear and told the boy from some place in me that I had never experienced in consciousness before, " You are not going to shoot us", and then I said " That isn't even a real gun," even though I knew that it was a real gun. I could clearly see the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">bullets</span> in the revolver's chamber.</div><div><br /></div><div>The boy seemed confused. He didn't say a word. Time had stopped and from a very present and focused place I just stood there, standing in front of my little brother. I was in complete stillness and fearlessness, there was nothing in me but presence. The boy lowered the gun and walked away.</div><div><br /></div><div>This was my first experience in consciousness of Presence. This was the first time "I" witnessed the moment from my True Nature. This was my first experience in the body with a mind as Stillness, present in the moment as Now.</div><div><br /></div><div>I never forgot that moment. That experience remained in my consciousness. It was my first conscious realization of the Absolute as it expresses in form.</div><div><br /></div><div>As I matured and had more experiences, I realized this Presence as our natural state. </div><div><br /></div><div>Our True Nature.</div><div><br /></div><div>This state was never born, and it cannot die. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is the Absolute as it animates form in all existence.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is nothing to fear. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">namaste</span>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-85946104521863740452009-04-14T16:43:00.002-05:002009-04-14T17:01:42.844-05:00Ego<div><br /></div><div>Simply it is the False Self.</div><div><br /></div><div>Obsessed with the past or the future it's main purpose is to survive.</div><div><br /></div><div>This movement of ego is the seeker. </div><div><br /></div><div>It seeks love, attention and approval.</div><div><br /></div><div>It competes with, or attacks, and destroys anything that threatens it's prime objective.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is the root cause of all suffering.</div><div><br /></div><div>The construct of the False Self is based on the illusion of separation.</div><div><br /></div><div>The <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">dismantling</span> of identification with the False Self as who you are is the most important task you can undertake.</div><div><br /></div><div>Be earnest about this.</div><div><br /></div><div>Be still and ask yourself... "How could this be me?"</div><div><br /></div><div>The irony is the prime objective of the False Self ultimately ALWAYS results in "failure".</div><div><br /></div><div>We all know this.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can free yourself from this wheel of suffering if you are earnest.</div><div><br /></div><div>Remember your True Nature and realize you are not your mind. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-78969034006932915762009-04-13T10:34:00.003-05:002009-04-13T17:27:42.657-05:00Realization of ones true nature delivers you from the collective and individual identified mind that is the cause of all suffering.<div><br /></div><div>Finding your true nature as The Absolute which is prior to form and consciousness is the path that leads to Realization.</div><div><br /></div><div>When Realization is accomplished one has found Enlightenment.</div><div><br /></div><div>From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.</div><div><br /></div><div>"When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything that is love, and between those two my life moves."</div><div><br /></div><div>When one understands that one cannot be the body or mind (form) that is wisdom and yet when one understands that prior to form The Absolute (formlessness) animates all existence as form then one is not separate, one is Love. </div><div><br /></div><div>From this place the illusion of duality dissolves and one is free to be That which moves as formlessness and form without identifying with form.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am nothing and I am everything and between these two my life moves.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>namaste</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-52796801263771005472009-04-12T19:01:00.002-05:002009-04-12T19:11:37.716-05:00Jesus of Nazareth was once asked by a seeker to show him the way to The Kingdom Of Heaven.<div><br /></div><div>The seeker was sure that the way to this place lay within the master.</div><div><br /></div><div>Jesus of Nazareth replied,</div><div><br /></div><div>"Behold, the Kingdom of Heaven lies within you". </div><div><br /></div><div>Something to ponder.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes indeed.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Kingdom of Heaven is the Absolute.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are also That.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Absolute cannot be confined as a body, or a mind, or some mythical place that you arrive at if you live a good life. </div><div><br /></div><div>No, the Kingdom of Heaven is here and now.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is within you.</div><div><br /></div><div>Where else could it be?</div><div><br /></div><div>namaste</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-25321787813068833862009-04-11T18:54:00.003-05:002009-04-11T18:58:58.553-05:00There is nothing else but this.<div><br /></div><div>You are not your body.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are not your mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>You were never born.</div><div><br /></div><div>You will never die.</div><div><br /></div><div>Know your true nature as "I AM".</div><div><br /></div><div>You are the essence of all creation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Be still and experience all that is as One.</div><div><br /></div><div>namaste</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-62176150819958855812009-04-10T08:34:00.002-05:002009-04-10T08:52:06.230-05:00In the world of form you are a person with a body and a mind.<div><br /></div><div>You were taught by your parents, relatives, friends, the institutions and schools you attended, TV, and the culture you live in, to accept the story of you and everything else as reality. </div><div><br /></div><div>But have you ever considered that you are not that story?</div><div><br /></div><div>Have you ever considered that what you are is what animates all existence?</div><div><br /></div><div>Observe the world of form and all the stories of this world as the minds attempt to gain control over it's surroundings and "others".</div><div><br /></div><div>Realize that time, the past and the future, "other" and all your concepts and beliefs were created by those who <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">preceded</span> you. </div><div><br /></div><div>Realize we just made it all up.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wake up from the dream of your story.</div><div><br /></div><div>Be in the NOW without attachment.</div><div><br /></div><div>Embrace the NOW and everything in it, including form, time, past and future, the story of the world, yourself and other with compassion.</div><div><br /></div><div>Breathe into the dream and release yourself from the limitation of the story of now and just experience now as a free being, as the essence of all that is. </div><div><br /></div><div>This essence was never born and will never die.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is your true nature.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is reality.</div><div><br /></div><div>namaste</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-60205677454217280332009-04-08T19:22:00.002-05:002009-04-08T19:50:56.714-05:00The most important thing you can do is to be present to the incessant thinking that occurs in the mind.<div><br /></div><div>From Awareness, which is your true nature, observe the mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>From this place of deep centered peace it is apparent that something is just thinking...and that some thing is just a mind. </div><div><br /></div><div>A mind, the voice in your head. </div><div><br /></div><div>So ask yourself, if that thinking mind can be observed, or witnessed if you will, how could that possibly be you?</div><div><br /></div><div>Eventually if you practice witnessing this biological thinking machine called "your mind" or "my mind", the mind chatter begins to fade away and yes it can and does eventually stop.</div><div><br /></div><div>You might want to ponder that if it's "your mind" or "my mind" then who's saying that? Who does your mind belong to? Is there something already observing the mind saying to it "my mind"? </div><div><br /></div><div>Of course there is.</div><div><br /></div><div>This observer, this witness, this simply being in stillness, is the place of no mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>This no mind is the space of E<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">ssence</span> occupying Now. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is enlightenment. </div><div><br /></div><div>There is no suffering in this place, only peace and stillness and attention in Now.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is who and what you really are.</div><div><br /></div><div>It always has been, it always will be.</div><div><br /></div><div>Most of us have just forgotten what we really are.</div><div><br /></div><div>Self Remembering is the way to return to the source of being.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wake up to your true nature. </div><div><br /></div><div>Remember what you really are.</div><div><br /></div><div>namaste</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-30493194217532250972009-04-07T21:13:00.003-05:002009-04-07T21:17:29.111-05:00One of the last things we give up is our attachment to thinking.<div><br /></div><div>There is no greater freedom than to realize your true nature.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are not your thoughts.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are not a body. </div><div><br /></div><div>You are not a mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>namaste<br /><div> <br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-9411085190325812402009-04-06T08:02:00.002-05:002009-04-06T08:43:52.106-05:00Religion, organizations, countries, civilizations, actually groups of any kind, require a shared need for their existence.<div><br /></div><div>We form and are attracted to groups because of a need for support, comfort and community.</div><div><br /></div><div>Often with groups we are seeking answers and an identity.</div><div><br /></div><div>And yet, notice how there is always a certain <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">diminishment</span> of Self associated with groups.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It's as if what we seek by "joining" a group, aligns our attention with the group instead of with our own Essence in this moment now. </div><div><br /></div><div>Groups are necessary for many, I would say most of us, until the notion of seeking subsides.</div><div><br /></div><div>When one fully realizes that he or she is already THAT which is sought, the identity associated with the body and mind weakens it's hold. </div><div><br /></div><div>Until this happens the ego is always looking for an opportunity to seek love, attention and approval from others. </div><div><br /></div><div>This pseudo approval from the group will only last as long as you remain willing to align with the group identity. Threaten the group identity and see how long you are allowed to remain.</div><div><br /></div><div>Of course it is impossible to expect love, approval, attention, security, etc. from others, much less consistently experience it.</div><div><br /></div><div>But until Awareness is centered in the moment and witnesses the body mind as a temporal aspect of NOW, there will be a tendency for ego to create a structure (group) where it can be fed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Groups of human beings banding together have accomplished amazing and positive things. But notice why did you join them? Was it to "serve" the World in some way. Was it for the greater good? Was it for money? Or was it for the love, attention and approval from "others" in the group? </div><div><br /></div><div>It was probably a combination of all of those aspects.</div><div><br /></div><div>Group identities are still working at the level duality. "Us and them". "The world needs us". "I need the world to be a better place", "We have the answer". etc.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This is ultimately why all groups and eventually movements fail.</div><div><br /></div><div>They are based on the thought that we are separate, on duality and this is unreal. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-13952184854946503542009-04-05T00:20:00.002-05:002009-04-05T00:32:37.317-05:00Honor existence as form without identifying with it.<div><br /></div><div>Witness thought and form and experience essence from stillness.</div><div><br /></div><div>Stillness permeates this moment as your true nature.</div><div><br /></div><div>Be with the mind and body and all form as merely a manifestation of the story of now.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are not this and you are this. </div><div><br /></div><div>Experience the space that holds everything and nothing and know the power of simply accepting What Is.</div><div><br /></div><div>Non acceptance of now is like arguing with reality and results in suffering.</div><div><br /></div><div>Accepting and loving what is allows you to be fully present to the here and now without judgement or attachment.</div><div><br /></div><div>This relationship with now allows clarity and presence to be engaged in the moment.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is a good definition of sanity.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is the correct use of mind.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-66414008662889899272009-04-04T08:21:00.002-05:002009-04-04T08:49:06.912-05:00A friend recently express concern that if one follows the path of non duality that "they would disappear". ...that there might be nothing left of the person...that they would lose themselves and become ineffectual and insignificant. So to answer the question about the disappearing (wo)man...and what might he/she choose...ponder this dear friend. <div><br /><div>For one to imagine creation one must hold the belief that he or she is a person. </div><div><br /></div><div>In reality you are indescribable being animating existence in form as now. </div><div><br /></div><div>If you want to believe that you need to create love, compassion, forgiveness, friends, money, comfort, etc...then there needs to be a person identified with its body and mind operating with beliefs. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is just a mind thinking it needs something...why not consider you already are everything you seek. From this place there is no "person" no doer operating with concepts and beliefs. It is only the mind that tells us we are separate from love, money, friends, forgiveness, compassion, etc. and that we NEED these people, things or states in order to be happy.<div><br /></div><div>This is an illusion created by beliefs (mind) that we are separate individuals with wants and needs. Granted there is a body and a mind but ask yourself, how could I be that? Simply know that what you ARE survives the body and the mind and be present to THAT in this moment now.</div><div><br /></div><div>All else is illusion.</div><div><br /></div><div>Since when has anything that you have ever created been enough? Playing creator in the world of form is fine, but Form is only temporal. Ultimately, being whatever you want to be just becomes more ego.</div><div><br /></div><div>Indeed become the disappearing wo(man)...free yourself from the belief that you are your thoughts, your body and your mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>What you "need" will come, what you don't "need" will leave. Let go of doership and just BE.</div><div><br /></div><div>Namaste.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-78049691968443498512009-04-03T18:41:00.002-05:002009-04-03T19:08:54.085-05:00There is nothing wrong.<div><br /></div><div>There never was. </div><div><br /></div><div>There never has been. </div><div><br /></div><div>There never will be.</div><div><br /></div><div>The body occupies space and the mind imagines that we are the body in time and space and that we are separate from one another.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is just an illusion.</div><div><br /></div><div>The body is born and the body dies.</div><div><br /></div><div>What you really are was never born and will never die.</div><div><br /></div><div>What you are is indescribable and yet THAT is what animates all <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">existence</span>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Breathe into this limitless space and experience now as all there is, and know that the dance of life and death are only happening in the mind and to the body.</div><div><br /></div><div>Have fun out there.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">namaste</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-43096566335904484232009-04-02T20:53:00.002-05:002009-04-02T21:02:58.286-05:00The indoctrinated mind or ego creates the world as separate from itself.<div><br /></div><div>The personality which is merely a construct of the ego is always wanting something from this world as it is perceived as separate from itself.</div><div><br /></div><div>The personality is constantly seeking love, attention and approval.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is the task of the false self and this "seeking for" is futile.</div><div><br /></div><div>You already are the love you seek.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are presence with attention.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this moment now approval of what is, is your natural state of non resistance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-32063985118011365682009-04-01T14:30:00.002-05:002009-04-01T14:34:38.795-05:00There can be no lasting peace, joy or love until you free yourself from the dominance of mind. <div><br /></div><div>You are not your thoughts.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are presence being in the moment now.</div><div><br /></div><div>Notice how thinking is just an activity of the mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>Witness this.</div><div><br /></div><div>Let the ego/mind topple.</div><div><br /></div><div>What will emerge is peace.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-8889637933215533892009-03-31T07:29:00.003-05:002009-03-31T07:55:35.383-05:00You already are what you seek.<div><br /></div><div>The most important that thing you can do is to free yourself from the tyranny of the mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>Create a relationship with mind from the Witness state.</div><div><br /></div><div>Observe that thinking is just happening.</div><div><br /></div><div>Know that you are far greater than this incessant noise.</div><div><br /></div><div>Let your mind off the hook.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's good at a lot of things.</div><div><br /></div><div>But not so good at being wise.</div><div><br /></div><div>Understand that it is just some very complicated biological software trying to do it's job.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's programming is fear based, it's task is to survive at all cost.</div><div><br /></div><div>Reboot and give it a break.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are not this software, this indoctrinated self.</div><div><br /></div><div>When faced with unpleasant thoughts or emotions, simply observe them.</div><div><br /></div><div>Soon this addiction to thinking will subside.</div><div><br /></div><div>What will be left?</div><div><br /></div><div>Presence, clarity, free attention, awareness, joy, peace.</div><div><br /></div><div>All of this is already there, it's just masked by the noise of the False Self.</div><div><br /></div><div>Turn down the volume and relax into the moment.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just breathe and remember to be here now.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just breathe and remember that you are not separate from anything. </div><div><br /></div><div>You are the knowing presence within which says "I AM".</div><div><br /></div><div>Repeat this "I AM" to yourself often. </div><div><br /></div><div>Soon you will experience the subtle Reality of all existence as Oneness in the moment Now.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-79294594774658625492009-03-30T07:32:00.002-05:002009-03-30T07:55:34.196-05:00You are far greater than what your mind tells you.<div><br /></div><div>It is simply a case of mistaken identity.</div><div><br /></div><div>You need not be a slave to your thoughts.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are not the body mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>Be earnest in this effort to remember your Self.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's not that you deny your bodies existence, or need of care or care of others.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's not that you stop thinking or having thoughts.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's merely the simple abidance in the realization that what you really are is far greater than a physical form or thoughts.</div><div><br /></div><div>Open your heart and mind to the possibility that you are far greater than anything you could possibly imagine.</div><div><br /></div><div>Understand this and know freedom.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600072430133038479.post-84446494684255628332009-03-29T12:28:00.006-05:002009-03-29T13:53:25.575-05:00Quantum Physics has proven that everything is a bundle of atoms, electrons and neutrons and other sub atomic particles swirling about in space. <div><br /></div><div>Even light which appears formless has particles that can be measured.</div><div><br /></div><div>Electromagnetic fields permeate the entire physical universe and everything in it.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>There is no doubt that at the physical level everything is made of the same stuff.</div><div><br /></div><div>Within the physical laws of form, there is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">nothing</span> that does not share this basic relationship as form.</div><div><br /></div><div>This great cosmic soup is our physical home. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It is all connected, indeed it is all the same thing.</div><div><br /></div><div>How then does the appearance of separation within this form occur?</div><div><br /></div><div>It occurs in the mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>Our minds trick us into believing that you and I are separate from one another. That we are separate from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">everything</span>.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the physical level there is a body, there "appears" to be a body in space and time.</div><div><br /></div><div>The mind identifies with the body, and with it's thoughts and says "This is I".</div><div><br /></div><div>We are all indoctrinated from birth to be body mind identified.</div><div><br /></div><div>But is this who and what you really are? <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>What is it that "leaves" the body at death? What is it that animates this form and all form?</div><div><br /></div><div>Observe the physical world and ask the question. "Who Am I? What Am I?"<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"Who" is asking this question?</div><div><br /></div><div>You may find that the answer is simply "I AM".</div><div><br /></div><div>You may realize that you are everything and nothing occurring simultaneously and experiencing existence in form as Now.</div><div><br /></div><div>Self Realization is this. </div><div><br /></div><div>From Self Realization the mind is witnessed as consciousness and understood as merely an aspect of human form.</div><div><br /></div><div>That which is prior to consciousness, which is simply non identified Awareness, is what "you" are.</div><div><br /></div><div>And THAT which is prior to consciousness, and even prior to Awareness, which was never born and will never die is your true nature, the "I Am", which is free from time, free from death and free from identification with form.</div><div><br /></div><div>Realize this and experience Now as what you really are.</div><div><br /></div><div>namaste</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1