Oops, everything has gone non-linear and is appearing not to follow any rational course of events like it used to in the past.
Whereas one was previously able to make plans and follow them to an apparent logical conclusion, now it appears that 1+1 =3 or any other random number that might pop up without any reason.
Our little reign of the ‘I’ is almost over and along with it, our small dreams of ‘ruling the world’, being successful and any other self seeking pursuits we might have cherished, (that's 'Self seeking' with a large S, not self inquiry!) If we find this prospect grim and ‘negative’ it’s only because we are still in the clutches of ‘I, me, myself’ and are therefore still seeking some kind of resolution or conclusion to the endless dilemma that has plagued the mind ever since we stepped out of wholeness and into separation.
As soon as there is separation, there is seeking for wholeness and even though wholeness has never actually gone anywhere and has always been with us in plain view; that single tiny mad thought which hurled us into the dark reaches of aloneness has held its empire fast for countless millennia. It has imprisoned the senses and used them as its allies to keep us locked in a world of separation.
I never was much of a mathematician but if I were to give an equation for the current state, it would be something like this:
1 + 1 = 2, OR separation and aloneness (with a huge dose of guilt because we believe we’ve messed things up!) But it cannot be ‘solved’ by 2-1 to = 1 again, because that would still equal separation and aloneness. This is because the ego self or ‘I’ cannot subtract ‘I’ from itself, it cannot annihilate itself and in fact fears its own extinction most of all, so it NEVER can or will end its own reign over its imaginary world; in other words, unity or oneness cannot be entered into from a state of duality: It already IS. Therefore the only possible standpoint is to ‘see’ 1, as it is and has always been.
The moment is fast approaching where all will be revealed.
What this means in so called practical terms is that ‘mine’ and ‘your’ worlds are falling apart. There is no rhyme or reason in this and the more you try to find one, the more it slips out of your personal reach. All the beliefs and thoughts we have had about life and reality are being dismantled and although this may appear to be happening rather ruthlessly, (or wather wuthlessly if you speak like Jonathan Ross), it only appears this way because we have held on to these flimsy ideas for so long that we have forgotten our true identity and settled for a shadowy excuse for being alive.
Although, strictly speaking, we cannot enter oneness from two-ness, we can move towards the edge of the veil of duality and make a degree of preparation through willingness and readiness for Grace to come and pluck us out of the cycle at some random moment. This apparent movement seems to be occurring on a collective level with various structures falling down and coming to an end both externally and internally. The increasing revelation that there is NOTHING that we can do about ANY of this, is an enormous shock and disillusionment for the egoic ‘I’ self which has delusion ally believed that ‘he’ is in control of it all. Now, he must watch helplessly while the walls of his Jericho tumble down.
This ‘un-doing’ is a pivotal point in the evolution of the image of humankind, for although in the grand unlimited spectrum of all, nothing has or is actually happening, the appearance of this series of small and large events serves to shake down the ego, enough for oneness to override the illusion of duality and express the idea of ‘salvation’. This will bring the idea of cause an effect to an abrupt end, for it is only through cause and effect that we are kept imprisoned in the suffering of Samsara.
The mind is addicted to cause and effect, or, to put it another way, seeking resolution to its apparent separate state. If you doubt this, just sit quietly without external distractions and observe it for 5 minutes. You will notice that images and ideas bombard the mind constantly and due to egoic interference we imagine that these thoughts belong to us and are all seeking a conclusion and a destination. From this root delusion; i.e., that we must ‘do something’ about ‘our’ thoughts, the whole idea of sickness arises: I feel a sensation and memory tells me that it must be ‘this or that’; e.g., a sore throat must be a cold, an aching joint must be arthritis etc, etc, and therefore this or that will happen as a result of having this ailment or disease. Thus, my thought has reached a destination and I have drawn conclusions about the initial idea, placing it in a group of like ideas, in this case, ideas about disease, and constructing an imaginary reality about that thought.
It may seem to you that you have not ‘done’ anything except made some judgements and drawn various conclusions but this in itself is a subtle act of doing and creates division, fragments and factions; setting some thoughts up against others, e.g., good and bad, right and wrong, success and failure, and so on. Eventually, these thoughts are manifested in speech “I’m getting a cold”, and then in actions, “I’m going to the Dr.” These thoughts, conclusions and resulting actions run our world and form powerful imprints in our minds that become habituated into behaviours like anger, leading to thoughts and actions of vengeance. The ultimate manifestation of division is WAR, against ourselves and others.
The mind will ask of course ‘What can I do to fix it?’ and herein lies the problem; the more ‘you’ try to fix it, the more dualistic it will become because seeking to change something and make it ‘become’ something other than itself is perpetuating the cycle of cause and effect.
And if you follow this line of reasoning, the ultimate question must be:
WHO OR WHAT AM I?
Ask this question, but do not think about the answer; do not answer with your mind and see what happens. By and by, you will see, you are NOT your thoughts.
We have reached the edge of the precipice; the end of karma: it is a place where the mind and the intellect cannot go. It is a place where thoughts do not own you nor do you identify with them; it is the place where all dreams begin and end and all identities fold in, fall away and diminish into the emptiness from whence they came.
Those who wish to perpetuate the continuation of cause and effect will continue to look for reasons and make adjustments to the ‘dream’; they will continue to identify with anger, fear and desire. Whereas those who wish to be freed will stand very still and allow the wave of actions and reactions to wash over them whilst they maintain focus on the arising and passing of various sensations that appear to be experienced within the field of the body.
And then, at the appointed moment, will jump into the waiting arms of consciousness and be caught with the unconditional love that has been waiting for us
Forever…
You cannot make it happen
But you can be willing and available
May we all fly like free birds
And end the cycle of suffering
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Guiltless and Free
There never really was a fall from grace. All that happened is a thought about separation which expanded into an entire scenario and became an imaginary continuum. Did you do anything wrong? No, because there never was anyone there to do anything. In actuality nothing happened- or is happening- except projections on a neutral screen of a movie called ‘my life’.
And yet the judgement of ourselves for what we feel is the responsibility – or more accurately – the reaction, to separating ourselves from the One Source is a life time of self inflicted pain; in every way we can imagine plus a few extra ones thrown in when the cat o’ nine tails wears out. (For those who have no idea what this is, it’s a type of multi-tailed whipping device that originated as an implement for severe physical punishment).
The pain of making ourselves ill, driving ourselves into the ground with achievement to reach a place where we feel better about ‘me’, punishing ourselves with diets, exercise, restrictions and endless judgements about how ‘bad’ we are, how ‘unlovable’ we are, how we can never be happy until… etc, etc. These are all the bitter grapes of a mind that is constantly reacting to a deep and often imperceptible state of guilt.
But you didn’t do anything wrong and there is no-one who is going to rack you to a cross and crucify you.
Except that is, yourself.
Recently, a realisation arose in my mind. It was that in all these seeming years on my journey through the apparent passage of time, I have lived in reaction to something. First it seems that these reactions are gross, for instance, I receive a bill and have to generate income to pay it, or I have an illness and go to the Dr. for medication, or another apparent someone crashes into ‘my’ car and I react by getting out and jumping up and down like a baboon. But the more layers that got peeled off through meditation, especially the Vipassana technique, the more I saw that these were simply guises for a less perceptible, more subtle disturbance in the flow of things. In other words, reactions within reactions!
Focusing awareness yet deeper, a primal chasm was revealed that had an association with separation from a singularity and a subsequent creation of ‘me’. This so called independent creation, supposedly invented by ‘me’, constantly expresses its fundamental flaw in the continual discomfort of separation; which is guilt and then judgement plus shame. This very low frequency state, i.e., guilt, has been defined as:
‘A feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offence, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined.’ Emphasis on imagined!
It is fundamentally flawed because it is based on the illusion that we are separate entities in control of our lives, performing a series of actions for which we are completely and irreversibly responsible.
For some, to contemplate a life without guilt would cause a reaction of anger as they immediately reel from the idea that everyone is guiltless. Because who would be responsible for everything that is wrong with the world and especially all the things that were/are done to ‘me’ and ‘my’ loved ones. Not to mention, it would bring an end to all the Jerry Springer, Trisha, Jeremy Kyle BS shows in which people in supposed modern day situations are thrown to the lions of ignorance where they are judged en masse and given some version of a sentence. (Has anything really changed since biblical times?) We are actually quite addicted to it and find it hard to contemplate life without it.
The anger that arises in the mind when it is affronted with the idea that we are not what we think we are and neither is the so called ‘tangible’ world, is the consequence of limiting yourself to a set of circumstances and then, believing in them whole heartedly to the point where the constrictions of your ‘movie’ run your life. I.e., ‘I’ am human, this is ‘my’ life, this is my family, my house, my car, and my job and these are my things. These people are ‘good’, these people are ‘bad’. Anything that threatens ‘me’ and ‘mine’ is BAD and anything that enhances my idea of happiness is ‘GOOD’. I watch the news and judge that these events I have heard about are ‘bad’, therefore, the ones who I believe have perpetrated them are also ‘bad’ and deserve punishment. And so on and so forth until there are layers upon layers of stories about all kinds of imaginary things.
It is endless; it is reactive; it perpetuates the cycle of guilt, revenge and suffering… and it is all occurring within the realm of perception. In fact, it’s all back to front just like Alice’s wonderland. Just a quick note here: I’m sure you remember from human biology at school that when light photons are projected into your eyes that your initial perception sees things upside down. It is only when the brain turns them the right way up that you ‘see’ what it is you think you are seeing. And our whole lives are lived back to front where we really believe that we are the victim of these image-inary perceptions
Of course, the instant reaction, when one has become aware of such flaws in our ‘reality’ is ‘well, how do ‘I’ fix it? And hence another cycle of events around ‘fixing it’ begin. But the truth is; you CAN’T fix it. Think of it in this way. If you were watching a film at the cinema, you wouldn’t try to fix it but merely enjoy it (or not ,if it’s crap!) and in any case observe it. The reason you wouldn’t care too much to fix it is because you would be aware that it s just a film, not a reality.
The ‘way out’ sign hangs over the spontaneous realisation that ‘I’ and everything in ‘my’ world is absolutely illusory – a phantom of smoke in the mist that can suddenly disappear as if it were nothing. However, this 'seeing' of the way things are rather than as you would like them to be is absolutely impossible to grasp with the ‘I’ because it is continuously occurring outside the format of ‘I’. Like a niggling itch that cannot be scratched, the ‘I’ forever seeks the dissolution of itself but through its seeking, ensures it will never attain the liberation it desires. Liberation is constantly and freely offered through every nuance of life itself but ‘you’ cannot have it. This is the grand paradox; it cannot be done. It can be, however, reached for with intent and the decision of renunciation.
Contrary to accepted belief, renunciation is not about reducing your wardrobe to a loin cloth and living alone in the wilderness with no external needs except the occasional handful of rice. Renunciation is more about recognising that what the world is offering absolutely cannot give you lasting happiness, freedom or anything that is permanently worthwhile or meaningful. You might protest and say – well what about this or that, what about love? But is love really an offering from the world, or an inner state that has nothing to do with externalities? Most of the deepest and most meaningful incidents in our lives happen outside of time and space, often through a mysterious movement of grace, and have nothing to do with the world, but in the true style of one who is imprisoned in the dream, we continue to credit them to the ‘world’: ‘If only I can get/have, then I’ll be happy…’. It is all a type of seeking, from coveting a gold plated Rolls Royce to attaining enlightenment.
In the cycle of suffering much is promised but very little is actually delivered and we remain in a constant state of longing for that ‘one thing’ that is going to end the constant search; the ‘one thing’ that will make it alright so that we may lay down our heads and finally get some real peace. We say, ‘that’s the way life is, that’s the way humans are’ etc. If you are content to live out your life in this manner then please, with all the goodwill in the world, go ahead. Traipsing down a path as narrow as a razor’s edge isn’t everyone’s idea of fun (not even mine) and there’s no guarantee of any results in this life or even the next 1,000 but if you are compelled then what can be done?
And this brings us back to the choicelessness of what you are. You may think you are in control, that you make decisions about this or that and choose different things and this is all true, in the dream. But when you awaken from that dream, you see that these choices held no substance because the scenario in which they ywere played out was entirely illusory. Nothing happened; You are not what you think and this so called ‘reality’ is not what it seems but one thing is for sure and that is, you are not guilty of anything at all.
In the cycling and re-cycling of souls we have all been everyone and done everything; played all the roles and are now ready for the final part of the play. It is the role of self forgiveness because your innocence is and always has been perfectly intact; what you have always searched for is right here. The difference between this time and the ‘old school days’ is that liberation is readily available in any moment now. Your case is dismissed. You can go Home! Any moment you start to see the stage instead of the actors, the screen instead of the movie. Any moment you see the background instead of the foreground which is where the quiet revolution is constantly and effortlessly occurring, offering itself to be seen…
Any moment now…
And yet the judgement of ourselves for what we feel is the responsibility – or more accurately – the reaction, to separating ourselves from the One Source is a life time of self inflicted pain; in every way we can imagine plus a few extra ones thrown in when the cat o’ nine tails wears out. (For those who have no idea what this is, it’s a type of multi-tailed whipping device that originated as an implement for severe physical punishment).
The pain of making ourselves ill, driving ourselves into the ground with achievement to reach a place where we feel better about ‘me’, punishing ourselves with diets, exercise, restrictions and endless judgements about how ‘bad’ we are, how ‘unlovable’ we are, how we can never be happy until… etc, etc. These are all the bitter grapes of a mind that is constantly reacting to a deep and often imperceptible state of guilt.
But you didn’t do anything wrong and there is no-one who is going to rack you to a cross and crucify you.
Except that is, yourself.
Recently, a realisation arose in my mind. It was that in all these seeming years on my journey through the apparent passage of time, I have lived in reaction to something. First it seems that these reactions are gross, for instance, I receive a bill and have to generate income to pay it, or I have an illness and go to the Dr. for medication, or another apparent someone crashes into ‘my’ car and I react by getting out and jumping up and down like a baboon. But the more layers that got peeled off through meditation, especially the Vipassana technique, the more I saw that these were simply guises for a less perceptible, more subtle disturbance in the flow of things. In other words, reactions within reactions!
Focusing awareness yet deeper, a primal chasm was revealed that had an association with separation from a singularity and a subsequent creation of ‘me’. This so called independent creation, supposedly invented by ‘me’, constantly expresses its fundamental flaw in the continual discomfort of separation; which is guilt and then judgement plus shame. This very low frequency state, i.e., guilt, has been defined as:
‘A feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offence, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined.’ Emphasis on imagined!
It is fundamentally flawed because it is based on the illusion that we are separate entities in control of our lives, performing a series of actions for which we are completely and irreversibly responsible.
For some, to contemplate a life without guilt would cause a reaction of anger as they immediately reel from the idea that everyone is guiltless. Because who would be responsible for everything that is wrong with the world and especially all the things that were/are done to ‘me’ and ‘my’ loved ones. Not to mention, it would bring an end to all the Jerry Springer, Trisha, Jeremy Kyle BS shows in which people in supposed modern day situations are thrown to the lions of ignorance where they are judged en masse and given some version of a sentence. (Has anything really changed since biblical times?) We are actually quite addicted to it and find it hard to contemplate life without it.
The anger that arises in the mind when it is affronted with the idea that we are not what we think we are and neither is the so called ‘tangible’ world, is the consequence of limiting yourself to a set of circumstances and then, believing in them whole heartedly to the point where the constrictions of your ‘movie’ run your life. I.e., ‘I’ am human, this is ‘my’ life, this is my family, my house, my car, and my job and these are my things. These people are ‘good’, these people are ‘bad’. Anything that threatens ‘me’ and ‘mine’ is BAD and anything that enhances my idea of happiness is ‘GOOD’. I watch the news and judge that these events I have heard about are ‘bad’, therefore, the ones who I believe have perpetrated them are also ‘bad’ and deserve punishment. And so on and so forth until there are layers upon layers of stories about all kinds of imaginary things.
It is endless; it is reactive; it perpetuates the cycle of guilt, revenge and suffering… and it is all occurring within the realm of perception. In fact, it’s all back to front just like Alice’s wonderland. Just a quick note here: I’m sure you remember from human biology at school that when light photons are projected into your eyes that your initial perception sees things upside down. It is only when the brain turns them the right way up that you ‘see’ what it is you think you are seeing. And our whole lives are lived back to front where we really believe that we are the victim of these image-inary perceptions
Of course, the instant reaction, when one has become aware of such flaws in our ‘reality’ is ‘well, how do ‘I’ fix it? And hence another cycle of events around ‘fixing it’ begin. But the truth is; you CAN’T fix it. Think of it in this way. If you were watching a film at the cinema, you wouldn’t try to fix it but merely enjoy it (or not ,if it’s crap!) and in any case observe it. The reason you wouldn’t care too much to fix it is because you would be aware that it s just a film, not a reality.
The ‘way out’ sign hangs over the spontaneous realisation that ‘I’ and everything in ‘my’ world is absolutely illusory – a phantom of smoke in the mist that can suddenly disappear as if it were nothing. However, this 'seeing' of the way things are rather than as you would like them to be is absolutely impossible to grasp with the ‘I’ because it is continuously occurring outside the format of ‘I’. Like a niggling itch that cannot be scratched, the ‘I’ forever seeks the dissolution of itself but through its seeking, ensures it will never attain the liberation it desires. Liberation is constantly and freely offered through every nuance of life itself but ‘you’ cannot have it. This is the grand paradox; it cannot be done. It can be, however, reached for with intent and the decision of renunciation.
Contrary to accepted belief, renunciation is not about reducing your wardrobe to a loin cloth and living alone in the wilderness with no external needs except the occasional handful of rice. Renunciation is more about recognising that what the world is offering absolutely cannot give you lasting happiness, freedom or anything that is permanently worthwhile or meaningful. You might protest and say – well what about this or that, what about love? But is love really an offering from the world, or an inner state that has nothing to do with externalities? Most of the deepest and most meaningful incidents in our lives happen outside of time and space, often through a mysterious movement of grace, and have nothing to do with the world, but in the true style of one who is imprisoned in the dream, we continue to credit them to the ‘world’: ‘If only I can get/have, then I’ll be happy…’. It is all a type of seeking, from coveting a gold plated Rolls Royce to attaining enlightenment.
In the cycle of suffering much is promised but very little is actually delivered and we remain in a constant state of longing for that ‘one thing’ that is going to end the constant search; the ‘one thing’ that will make it alright so that we may lay down our heads and finally get some real peace. We say, ‘that’s the way life is, that’s the way humans are’ etc. If you are content to live out your life in this manner then please, with all the goodwill in the world, go ahead. Traipsing down a path as narrow as a razor’s edge isn’t everyone’s idea of fun (not even mine) and there’s no guarantee of any results in this life or even the next 1,000 but if you are compelled then what can be done?
And this brings us back to the choicelessness of what you are. You may think you are in control, that you make decisions about this or that and choose different things and this is all true, in the dream. But when you awaken from that dream, you see that these choices held no substance because the scenario in which they ywere played out was entirely illusory. Nothing happened; You are not what you think and this so called ‘reality’ is not what it seems but one thing is for sure and that is, you are not guilty of anything at all.
In the cycling and re-cycling of souls we have all been everyone and done everything; played all the roles and are now ready for the final part of the play. It is the role of self forgiveness because your innocence is and always has been perfectly intact; what you have always searched for is right here. The difference between this time and the ‘old school days’ is that liberation is readily available in any moment now. Your case is dismissed. You can go Home! Any moment you start to see the stage instead of the actors, the screen instead of the movie. Any moment you see the background instead of the foreground which is where the quiet revolution is constantly and effortlessly occurring, offering itself to be seen…
Any moment now…
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
The Choicelessness of What you are
The illusion of choice is one of the greatest fabrications projected from and onto the human mind. It is the idea that keeps you searching and struggling when the truth is infinitely and eternally simple and ever present.
If I were an egomaniac – and, make no mistake, ‘I’ am, I would want to be in control of all things in the range of my awareness and choose among the illusion of infinite possibilities that are presented by my perception so that I could maintain a charade of power over ‘my’ domain at all times.
But what would be the purpose of such limiting behaviour?
A sense of security for the illusion of the I; a crazy idea that ‘I’ will live forever; some insane belief that ‘my’ domain is indestructible and the maddest of all, that ‘I’ can take ‘your’ energy, make it my own, conquer ‘you’ and increase ‘my’ power and, of course, rule the world.
Now that’s what I call ridiculously deluded, but it’s a game that we love to play. In fact, we’ve played it for so long with such gusto that we really, really, believe in its authenticity and have all kinds of ideas invested in this chimera. Actually, we are obsessed with these games and take them very seriously indeed. All of these games are about power rather than love. One of the things associated with taking power from others is the recurring dream about MONEY. This particular illusion causes more neurosis than almost anything else and is actually the cause of disruption, destruction, death and any other negative position you can think of that begins with ‘d’ (if your short on pointless activities to pass illusory time).
Everything around it is extremely sombre. For instance, ‘I’ (at least I think it was me), was walking home one day when I saw a security man transferring money from a bank in an armoured case, to an armoured car with an armoured expression on his stony face. He had various weapons about him, including a truncheon and a gun – notice money and guns are often seen together- just in case someone came to relieve him of the paper squares with pictures on them, which were locked in this reinforced container. People who attempt this are often placed in other reinforced containers or violently assaulted with weapons, and then their faces are broadcast on the television or in the newspapers.
I just wanted to burst out laughing, it was so comical to witness the bizarre appearance of this clumpy man and his artillery in a high street filled with people trying to improve their lives by purchasing items of limited use. They were also carrying paper squares with pictures on them, but theirs were ‘legally owned’ ‘ because they were ‘earned’ by performing activities known as ‘work’ and they were therefore permitted to possess these paper squares until they were exchanged for objects. After this, the paper shapes would again be returned to the bank where they would later be carried out in another re-enforced box, ad infinitum.
Sounds utterly preposterous when you put it that way but the world wants you to be so stressed about money that you can’t see straight. There’s a stupid game we all take part in called; ‘listen to me whine about my bills’. In this game, the players make depressed, anxious faces and bleat at great lengths about their lot and how hard it is for them to survive in the world. In the midst of this, their features usually contort and display a great deal of tension. Many of the people who take part in this game do have some money and are usually able to meet their basic needs, but there is a struggle related with their version of life that they believe comes down to the paper squares with someone’s face on them.
The point is, that it is the association that causes the depression, not the object that it is projected on. I recently decided, that after years of not having very much money – i.e. the kind of amount that can purchase luxury items of greater financial value than those purchased at, say, shops where items are normally made of low grade polyester, that I would conduct an experiment or, if you like, play a game called, ‘I am rich’. In this game, I would conduct behaviours that emanated the performances of the extremely prosperous and thereby magnetise my surrounding field to draw financial abundance in my general direction. This would accomplish 2 things: 1. it would break the spell that I have projected upon myself concerning belief in poverty and 2. It would provide me with enough paper squares to accomplish feats that required greater amounts of them… I’ll keep you informed on results!
Contrary to what the world wants you to believe, money does not save lives nor make anything better but might merely provide an energetic means to anaesthetise you to the conditions of the dream and make them seemingly more pleasant to tolerate.
Bear with me; I am getting to a point
Another game that is frequently played is ‘I am the authority and you are under my jurisdiction.’ In this game, burly people with very stern faces exhibit hostile behaviour with the intent to make you feel intimidated so that you may cower in their presence and possibly confess to some crime you had absolutely no association with (yet another game called crime and punishment).
For example, you travel to a foreign country, say, the USA. You arrive at the passport control and are interrogated by men or women with very; very serious faces asking very, very serious questions in robotically monotonous voices that make you query whether their original forms have been replaced by pod men in the middle of the night. The inquiries are usually concerning ‘the nature of your visit to the U.S. because everyone who isn’t ‘me’ is a potential terrorist. ‘You may be carrying sharp items in your luggage such as eyebrow tweezers or toothpicks with which you may perform crimes that constitute a threat to the welfare of the state and therefore I must ask you to come with me’. Well, guess what; the dictionary defines terrorism as: ‘a person who terrorises or frightens others’ and trust me, after an encounter with the American inquisition, you will definitely feel terrorised.
Yes my friends, we have become so wrapped up in these BS stories that we are falling further and further into the bottomless pit called ‘my narcissistic neuroses’ (and friends). So how did we come to this?
Well, let’s see:
Once upon a time there were these life forms that became so used to believing in separation that they started to think that they were real people with real lives who owned houses, cars, children; had jobs, relationships; got ill, grew old and died– And these people started playing more complicated roles because they forgot what they really were and where they had come from. Eventually they became so wrapped up in their own BS, they actually started trying to destroy each others projections in an effort to uphold the pretence around their silly stories, eliminating anything that might threaten their illusion… and this, in a nutshell, is the definition of life in our world.
If you think that this could not possibly be us try this quick quiz:
Quiz title: Are you willing to let go of everything that defines you and fall helplessly into the bottomless pit called zero with absolutely no assurance of survival…
1. Someone disagrees with absolutely everything you stand for. Do you
a) Shoot him
b) Take him to a Japanese torture camp and systematically brainwash him until he doesn’t know who he is anymore and agrees with anything and everything you say
c) Watch crap soaps on TV until your eyes turn square and you can’t remember who you are , who he is and what he disagreed with in the first place
2. Someone bashes a hole in your car door with a large hammer. Would you
a) Bash a hole in their head with a larger hammer
b) Sell them as a slave to the black market slave trade and reimburse your car fees
c) Have a cold one and forget about it
3. You have everything you’ve ever worked for and owned swallowed up by a huge tsunami called the taxman. Would you:
a) Rob a Mafiosi member and reimburse yourself
b) Wail to God until you sound like Rod Stewart and then get a mullet to complete the image
c) Have cup of tea, eat Mr Kipling’s cakes and contemplate life without any possessions
4. A huge mammoth like creature comes out of a space ship in the middle of the night and demands your lifelong allegiance to a cause you’ve never heard of. Would you:
a) Finally use your years of geek study and speak to it in Mammothian Yekula pointing out the errors in the spaceship landing and how you could swap navigation lessons for your freedom
b) Explode the weapons of mass destruction you have had hiding in your cellar in the event of times such as these
c) Tell him you need to go to the bathroom and slip out the back way for a swift half at the local. Once there mull over the implications of sharing the planet with large mammothites and whether or not they would hog the remote on TV nights
(Note: this ridiculous quiz does not bear any relation to anything at all and is merely there for distraction and entertainment purposes in the bland hope that we might forget about our neurosis for an instant and slip into holy awakening)
I could go on but I think I’ve drivelled enough…
Furthermore, there are stories about lots of other things like lawsuits, domestic feuds, robberies, riots, politics: a quick word here -this is actually a very entertaining game where the actors conduct a play full of twisted half truths, unfulfilled promises, bluffs and gargantuan mistakes followed by limp apologies and never enough compensation. These displays are generally performed by players who believe that putting on a stripy blue suit alone should win them an Oscar but they are, in fact the most delusional of the entire array of contenders – next to the religious fanatics. Other stories include relationships, careers, the pharmaceutical industry, different kinds of animal flu and their own special vaccinations, spiritual seeking, new- ageism, drug and other addictions and so on and on, and on; all of these taking place all over the vast stage called ‘the world’.
As hugely tragic or entertaining as it may appear to be, once we have played our roles with vigour and expectation, we will always find that all that is waiting for us is a laughing skull where our face used to be, which although bears a grotesque countenance, is at least the only loyal chaperone when all the others have gone. No winner ever takes anything home because there are no winners, losers or reality in any duality. All there ever was and is, is existence playing roles through reflections of light; having a relationship with itself through the idea of you and the story of your life.
Which brings us back to the start; it’s a choiceless observation that cannot be grasped. It cannot be controlled or managed or altered in any way.
It doesn’t matter what you do to adjust the ever-changing to suit your needs, it’s like trying to catch flour with a sieve. Better to realise that I am that.
In the dead of the night, I surrendered all ideas to the great swirl of electric existence
Sensations arose and passed away
History was made and ended
And another story began.
With or without me
It made no difference…
If I were an egomaniac – and, make no mistake, ‘I’ am, I would want to be in control of all things in the range of my awareness and choose among the illusion of infinite possibilities that are presented by my perception so that I could maintain a charade of power over ‘my’ domain at all times.
But what would be the purpose of such limiting behaviour?
A sense of security for the illusion of the I; a crazy idea that ‘I’ will live forever; some insane belief that ‘my’ domain is indestructible and the maddest of all, that ‘I’ can take ‘your’ energy, make it my own, conquer ‘you’ and increase ‘my’ power and, of course, rule the world.
Now that’s what I call ridiculously deluded, but it’s a game that we love to play. In fact, we’ve played it for so long with such gusto that we really, really, believe in its authenticity and have all kinds of ideas invested in this chimera. Actually, we are obsessed with these games and take them very seriously indeed. All of these games are about power rather than love. One of the things associated with taking power from others is the recurring dream about MONEY. This particular illusion causes more neurosis than almost anything else and is actually the cause of disruption, destruction, death and any other negative position you can think of that begins with ‘d’ (if your short on pointless activities to pass illusory time).
Everything around it is extremely sombre. For instance, ‘I’ (at least I think it was me), was walking home one day when I saw a security man transferring money from a bank in an armoured case, to an armoured car with an armoured expression on his stony face. He had various weapons about him, including a truncheon and a gun – notice money and guns are often seen together- just in case someone came to relieve him of the paper squares with pictures on them, which were locked in this reinforced container. People who attempt this are often placed in other reinforced containers or violently assaulted with weapons, and then their faces are broadcast on the television or in the newspapers.
I just wanted to burst out laughing, it was so comical to witness the bizarre appearance of this clumpy man and his artillery in a high street filled with people trying to improve their lives by purchasing items of limited use. They were also carrying paper squares with pictures on them, but theirs were ‘legally owned’ ‘ because they were ‘earned’ by performing activities known as ‘work’ and they were therefore permitted to possess these paper squares until they were exchanged for objects. After this, the paper shapes would again be returned to the bank where they would later be carried out in another re-enforced box, ad infinitum.
Sounds utterly preposterous when you put it that way but the world wants you to be so stressed about money that you can’t see straight. There’s a stupid game we all take part in called; ‘listen to me whine about my bills’. In this game, the players make depressed, anxious faces and bleat at great lengths about their lot and how hard it is for them to survive in the world. In the midst of this, their features usually contort and display a great deal of tension. Many of the people who take part in this game do have some money and are usually able to meet their basic needs, but there is a struggle related with their version of life that they believe comes down to the paper squares with someone’s face on them.
The point is, that it is the association that causes the depression, not the object that it is projected on. I recently decided, that after years of not having very much money – i.e. the kind of amount that can purchase luxury items of greater financial value than those purchased at, say, shops where items are normally made of low grade polyester, that I would conduct an experiment or, if you like, play a game called, ‘I am rich’. In this game, I would conduct behaviours that emanated the performances of the extremely prosperous and thereby magnetise my surrounding field to draw financial abundance in my general direction. This would accomplish 2 things: 1. it would break the spell that I have projected upon myself concerning belief in poverty and 2. It would provide me with enough paper squares to accomplish feats that required greater amounts of them… I’ll keep you informed on results!
Contrary to what the world wants you to believe, money does not save lives nor make anything better but might merely provide an energetic means to anaesthetise you to the conditions of the dream and make them seemingly more pleasant to tolerate.
Bear with me; I am getting to a point
Another game that is frequently played is ‘I am the authority and you are under my jurisdiction.’ In this game, burly people with very stern faces exhibit hostile behaviour with the intent to make you feel intimidated so that you may cower in their presence and possibly confess to some crime you had absolutely no association with (yet another game called crime and punishment).
For example, you travel to a foreign country, say, the USA. You arrive at the passport control and are interrogated by men or women with very; very serious faces asking very, very serious questions in robotically monotonous voices that make you query whether their original forms have been replaced by pod men in the middle of the night. The inquiries are usually concerning ‘the nature of your visit to the U.S. because everyone who isn’t ‘me’ is a potential terrorist. ‘You may be carrying sharp items in your luggage such as eyebrow tweezers or toothpicks with which you may perform crimes that constitute a threat to the welfare of the state and therefore I must ask you to come with me’. Well, guess what; the dictionary defines terrorism as: ‘a person who terrorises or frightens others’ and trust me, after an encounter with the American inquisition, you will definitely feel terrorised.
Yes my friends, we have become so wrapped up in these BS stories that we are falling further and further into the bottomless pit called ‘my narcissistic neuroses’ (and friends). So how did we come to this?
Well, let’s see:
Once upon a time there were these life forms that became so used to believing in separation that they started to think that they were real people with real lives who owned houses, cars, children; had jobs, relationships; got ill, grew old and died– And these people started playing more complicated roles because they forgot what they really were and where they had come from. Eventually they became so wrapped up in their own BS, they actually started trying to destroy each others projections in an effort to uphold the pretence around their silly stories, eliminating anything that might threaten their illusion… and this, in a nutshell, is the definition of life in our world.
If you think that this could not possibly be us try this quick quiz:
Quiz title: Are you willing to let go of everything that defines you and fall helplessly into the bottomless pit called zero with absolutely no assurance of survival…
1. Someone disagrees with absolutely everything you stand for. Do you
a) Shoot him
b) Take him to a Japanese torture camp and systematically brainwash him until he doesn’t know who he is anymore and agrees with anything and everything you say
c) Watch crap soaps on TV until your eyes turn square and you can’t remember who you are , who he is and what he disagreed with in the first place
2. Someone bashes a hole in your car door with a large hammer. Would you
a) Bash a hole in their head with a larger hammer
b) Sell them as a slave to the black market slave trade and reimburse your car fees
c) Have a cold one and forget about it
3. You have everything you’ve ever worked for and owned swallowed up by a huge tsunami called the taxman. Would you:
a) Rob a Mafiosi member and reimburse yourself
b) Wail to God until you sound like Rod Stewart and then get a mullet to complete the image
c) Have cup of tea, eat Mr Kipling’s cakes and contemplate life without any possessions
4. A huge mammoth like creature comes out of a space ship in the middle of the night and demands your lifelong allegiance to a cause you’ve never heard of. Would you:
a) Finally use your years of geek study and speak to it in Mammothian Yekula pointing out the errors in the spaceship landing and how you could swap navigation lessons for your freedom
b) Explode the weapons of mass destruction you have had hiding in your cellar in the event of times such as these
c) Tell him you need to go to the bathroom and slip out the back way for a swift half at the local. Once there mull over the implications of sharing the planet with large mammothites and whether or not they would hog the remote on TV nights
(Note: this ridiculous quiz does not bear any relation to anything at all and is merely there for distraction and entertainment purposes in the bland hope that we might forget about our neurosis for an instant and slip into holy awakening)
I could go on but I think I’ve drivelled enough…
Furthermore, there are stories about lots of other things like lawsuits, domestic feuds, robberies, riots, politics: a quick word here -this is actually a very entertaining game where the actors conduct a play full of twisted half truths, unfulfilled promises, bluffs and gargantuan mistakes followed by limp apologies and never enough compensation. These displays are generally performed by players who believe that putting on a stripy blue suit alone should win them an Oscar but they are, in fact the most delusional of the entire array of contenders – next to the religious fanatics. Other stories include relationships, careers, the pharmaceutical industry, different kinds of animal flu and their own special vaccinations, spiritual seeking, new- ageism, drug and other addictions and so on and on, and on; all of these taking place all over the vast stage called ‘the world’.
As hugely tragic or entertaining as it may appear to be, once we have played our roles with vigour and expectation, we will always find that all that is waiting for us is a laughing skull where our face used to be, which although bears a grotesque countenance, is at least the only loyal chaperone when all the others have gone. No winner ever takes anything home because there are no winners, losers or reality in any duality. All there ever was and is, is existence playing roles through reflections of light; having a relationship with itself through the idea of you and the story of your life.
Which brings us back to the start; it’s a choiceless observation that cannot be grasped. It cannot be controlled or managed or altered in any way.
It doesn’t matter what you do to adjust the ever-changing to suit your needs, it’s like trying to catch flour with a sieve. Better to realise that I am that.
In the dead of the night, I surrendered all ideas to the great swirl of electric existence
Sensations arose and passed away
History was made and ended
And another story began.
With or without me
It made no difference…
Sunday, 29 August 2010
What in the World…
It’s been a little while I know….but I have been trying to strike a balance between a) the OC desire to seek ways of settling into comfort amidst the current bedlam of changes, and b) cultivating the art of mere and utter acceptance of what is happening right now without any embellishments (which seems to involve a lot of involutary twitching.) By the way, OC = obsessive compulsive, not Orange County or any text abbreviation you might think of.
I have been listening to the non dualists speak about their experiences of awakening from the dream. It’s very unworldly listening to these people speak about not existing but still being there as the background of what is happening, because it has a rather unhinging effect on the ‘I’, causing it to slip in and out of perception when you're not looking. Yes, it is terribly confusing for the OC mind that needs a rational explanation for everything. The nature of the egoic mind is to label, refer, understand and own. If it cannot do this, it becomes very agitated; note the increasing agitation of the ‘world’ as we desperately try to ‘make sense’ of the worrying events that seem to be occurring at great speed - although this is ultimately an agitation occurring in your own perception, it does not make it any easier to bear.
But the fact that these ideas about ‘reality’ are appearing in my life leads me to question why now and how do they fit into the frameless picture of everything? When I first started this so called path, I was told by certain teachers that this dawning of the new age that is being spoken of would be a recycling of a Golden Age, which has occurred many times before and continues to recur over and over again. This pure age will herald a time where people would drink nectar out of flowers and walk in the elysian fields of bliss. In accordance with this belief, many groups are attempting to bring about the manifestation of such an age by putting out the thought processes that will draw like energies and therefore create a manifestation. http://thesatyug.blogspot.com/ (paste link)
Concurrently, there is also an undeniable attraction that has recently overwhelmed my being and draws towards Adviata Vedanta or the non-dualists. By contrast to those who are focusing on repeating the cycle and bringing about the repetition of the Golden Age, Advaita is completely naked, with no frills, no references to any future or past and fully experiential right now. The experience of non duality is final with no returns and brings about a permanent end of dreaming.
The question is; will this new Golden Age that is supposedly so close on the horizon, just be a continuation of the dream, albeit a pleasant one? Or will we be functioning in an apparent world, fully awake and aware of the boundless unconditional love that animates all of existence.
And if it is a question of just repeating the cycle until we again degrade our purity and once again move into another Iron Age or age of pollution on all levels, then what would be the point of that? Would it not just be another illusion that we are buying into?
Every spiritual order has their view on how the world will end/change/evolve but it is also equally possible, if not probable, that no-one knows for sure and we may all be in for an impressive surprise. Even though some may vehemently assert that they have received their messages from the mouth of God itself, there is still no guarantee that what they have received is absolute. One has to consider that thoughts are the culprit here and since it is impossible to know the truth through your intellect – no matter how pure, perhaps the real purpose of all these stories, predictions and ideas, is to eliminate the mind by driving it hysterically insane, so that it might involuntary step to one side and allow the real obvious secret to be seen. And that is, that none of this really matters because perfection and unconditional love are not really concerned with an outcome that will give assurance to the human mind and it’s longing to be pleasantly satisfied at all costs.
That said, all of this could be a preparation for each apparent ‘one’ of us to break out of our mental prisons and witness the grand dissolution of all things from a place where there is no individual concern – or even where there is no individual present; i.e., no sense of ‘I’.
I have written of how we are possibly the manifestors of all that appears to be, and on some level, that is true. It may be that an apparent global event will spontaneously, simultaneously and synchronistically occur that will remove all blinkers at once and in so doing, bring about the sudden witnessing of all objects as they really are and not as we would like them to be. This would be an actual demonstration that nothing ‘out there’ has any inherent existence of its own and is a full projection of the collection of our owned thoughts and beliefs. This is the marvel of the dream; its complexity and its hypnotic glamour. Such potent seeing would of course instantly end all things that are based on inaccurate or invalid perception and perhaps THIS is what is meant by the end of the world because it would indeed terminate the ideas and illusions we hold about a thing called ‘the world’.
How Will the World End? According to 'A Course in Miracles':
“Can what has no beginning really end? The world will end in an illusion, as it began. Yet will its ending be an illusion of mercy. The illusion of forgiveness, complete, excluding no one, limitless in gentleness, will cover it, hiding all evil, concealing all sin and ending guilt forever. So ends the world that guilt had made, for now it has no purpose and is gone.”
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Course_in_Miracles/Manual_for_Teachers/How_Will_the_World_End%3F
If you find this too wordy and evasive to grasp, consider the words of Richard Bach:
“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
So I'll leave you with this parting thought: If there is no ‘you’, can there really be a ‘world’? When a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, the caterpillar is no more, and neither is the world of its perception.
Until next time...
I have been listening to the non dualists speak about their experiences of awakening from the dream. It’s very unworldly listening to these people speak about not existing but still being there as the background of what is happening, because it has a rather unhinging effect on the ‘I’, causing it to slip in and out of perception when you're not looking. Yes, it is terribly confusing for the OC mind that needs a rational explanation for everything. The nature of the egoic mind is to label, refer, understand and own. If it cannot do this, it becomes very agitated; note the increasing agitation of the ‘world’ as we desperately try to ‘make sense’ of the worrying events that seem to be occurring at great speed - although this is ultimately an agitation occurring in your own perception, it does not make it any easier to bear.
But the fact that these ideas about ‘reality’ are appearing in my life leads me to question why now and how do they fit into the frameless picture of everything? When I first started this so called path, I was told by certain teachers that this dawning of the new age that is being spoken of would be a recycling of a Golden Age, which has occurred many times before and continues to recur over and over again. This pure age will herald a time where people would drink nectar out of flowers and walk in the elysian fields of bliss. In accordance with this belief, many groups are attempting to bring about the manifestation of such an age by putting out the thought processes that will draw like energies and therefore create a manifestation. http://thesatyug.blogspot.com/ (paste link)
Concurrently, there is also an undeniable attraction that has recently overwhelmed my being and draws towards Adviata Vedanta or the non-dualists. By contrast to those who are focusing on repeating the cycle and bringing about the repetition of the Golden Age, Advaita is completely naked, with no frills, no references to any future or past and fully experiential right now. The experience of non duality is final with no returns and brings about a permanent end of dreaming.
The question is; will this new Golden Age that is supposedly so close on the horizon, just be a continuation of the dream, albeit a pleasant one? Or will we be functioning in an apparent world, fully awake and aware of the boundless unconditional love that animates all of existence.
And if it is a question of just repeating the cycle until we again degrade our purity and once again move into another Iron Age or age of pollution on all levels, then what would be the point of that? Would it not just be another illusion that we are buying into?
Every spiritual order has their view on how the world will end/change/evolve but it is also equally possible, if not probable, that no-one knows for sure and we may all be in for an impressive surprise. Even though some may vehemently assert that they have received their messages from the mouth of God itself, there is still no guarantee that what they have received is absolute. One has to consider that thoughts are the culprit here and since it is impossible to know the truth through your intellect – no matter how pure, perhaps the real purpose of all these stories, predictions and ideas, is to eliminate the mind by driving it hysterically insane, so that it might involuntary step to one side and allow the real obvious secret to be seen. And that is, that none of this really matters because perfection and unconditional love are not really concerned with an outcome that will give assurance to the human mind and it’s longing to be pleasantly satisfied at all costs.
That said, all of this could be a preparation for each apparent ‘one’ of us to break out of our mental prisons and witness the grand dissolution of all things from a place where there is no individual concern – or even where there is no individual present; i.e., no sense of ‘I’.
I have written of how we are possibly the manifestors of all that appears to be, and on some level, that is true. It may be that an apparent global event will spontaneously, simultaneously and synchronistically occur that will remove all blinkers at once and in so doing, bring about the sudden witnessing of all objects as they really are and not as we would like them to be. This would be an actual demonstration that nothing ‘out there’ has any inherent existence of its own and is a full projection of the collection of our owned thoughts and beliefs. This is the marvel of the dream; its complexity and its hypnotic glamour. Such potent seeing would of course instantly end all things that are based on inaccurate or invalid perception and perhaps THIS is what is meant by the end of the world because it would indeed terminate the ideas and illusions we hold about a thing called ‘the world’.
How Will the World End? According to 'A Course in Miracles':
“Can what has no beginning really end? The world will end in an illusion, as it began. Yet will its ending be an illusion of mercy. The illusion of forgiveness, complete, excluding no one, limitless in gentleness, will cover it, hiding all evil, concealing all sin and ending guilt forever. So ends the world that guilt had made, for now it has no purpose and is gone.”
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Course_in_Miracles/Manual_for_Teachers/How_Will_the_World_End%3F
If you find this too wordy and evasive to grasp, consider the words of Richard Bach:
“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
So I'll leave you with this parting thought: If there is no ‘you’, can there really be a ‘world’? When a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, the caterpillar is no more, and neither is the world of its perception.
Until next time...
Thursday, 12 August 2010
WTF is going on: Grand Reunion
WTF is going on: Grand Reunion: "This week’s blog is a pure channelled message about the return to our true lineage. I cannot give you its source because I honestly do not k..."
Grand Reunion
This week’s blog is a pure channelled message about the return to our true lineage. I cannot give you its source because I honestly do not know where it came from. I understand that it will not be everyones 'cup of tea' and some of you may find these words difficult if not impossible to relate to, whereas others may dismiss it as utter poppycock. I trust that some will resonate with the frequency behind the words. It is also possible that I will read it in a week and think 'Eh! What was that???'...Still, I'm only a messenger and needs must relate what is transmitted to me lest I neglect my purpose...So here is what was given to me to be passed on. I hope it twangs some inner strings.
Many, many aeons ago, at the perceived beginning of all things, seeds of light were issued forth from the grand vortex of light and began a very long journey through layers and levels of creation where none - in that particular formation - have ever ventured before. They were dispatched to other solar systems in this galaxy and beyond where they claimed various forms both in gross and subtle matter and lived out life spans in accordance to the frequency they chose to incarnate into.
After numerous cycles and adjustments to form and visits to other solar systems where they again lived out life spans in accordance with those frequencies; they came to Earth.
By this time, the original seeds of light had grown in personal will and had accumulated many layers of memory that gave them the illusion that they were now seperate entities from the original light vortex. They believed that they descended from certain lineages and as seperate entities had undergone certain individual and collective experiences. All of these beliefs caused rigidities to occur in their mental continuum, which were then held onto as part of self identity; just as an individual grasps at certain thoughts believing these thoughts 'belong' to him/her/it. Thus exacerbating ideas and resulting experiences of separation.
By and by after the accumulation of many of these ideas and beliefs, which began to cause more and more confusion, the original seeds, now clothed in form, began a process of seeking the truth that would dispel their bewilderment (there is always a state of bewilderment that accompanies beliefs in separation, albeit below the surface). They became attracted to Earth so that they could be provided with an opportunity to escape the illusion of separation and were given incarnation there in accord with the sum of their thoughts and actions.
This special planet of Earth was given form by the One as an expression of beauty, love and giving, embodied in a stunning green/blue gem like sphere suspended in the perfect blackness. It demonstrates qualities of abundance, nurturing and unconditional giving. It embodies a spirit known as Prakriti or Nature – a special being that is in the service of the One but can be transcended through mastery of the mind and the recovery of the pathways that lead to the true lineage of God in human. Earth is also a flawless demonstration of changing conditions and therefore provides a perfect backdrop of circumstnces that can be utilised to dispel illusion, if correctly used! Many planets in our solar system and also the central star - our sun, is in service to the mother Earth because of her agreement to provide these doorways and portals of escape for those who are trapped in illusion.
Although Earth appears to be solid and real, it is a hologaphic image projected onto our flat universe. Earth provides many gateways that are not offered by any other solar systems. It has always been a planet that many have desired to conquer and rule because of its outstanding beauty and natural resource, but has been granted special protection due to its service to the One and this is why souls are queuing up to be here now - because we are nearing the time of Disclosure, or Revelation; a grand event where all beings would like to be present. As we shift into high gear, we are about to be given an opportunity for the convergence of all into One.
This means that all the lifetimes we thought we have lived will be revealed as only One. All the characters, personalities and different visual forms we played out will be revealed only as One and all sources of life and existence will be pin pointed into only One. Time is about to collapse and fold in onto itself as we hurtle toward the withdrawal of all apparent creation and the revelation of our original lineage.
This need not manifest as physical destruction but is rather like the Father/Mother coming to collect her children and bring them back to the bosom of origin. Many people have these theories of how the world will end but no-one knows for sure; it is a mystery that will spontaneously be revealed at the appointed time and not before. This time can be at any moment. When all the apparent separate moments bleed into one, you will be Home and the drama will be over. The definition of drama is time and location based and has nothing to do with events.
The mystery of cause, effect synchronicity and time, and the culmination of these ideas present many faces at every moment and conjour ideas about the future: So the whole world asks 'what will happen to me?' It may be that you will not be able to take your apparent body to this re-union as it may be too gross in frequency to pass through the non-carnal eye of the needle. It may be that you will be gifted with the secret of resurrection and transmogrify your flesh into a subtle illuminated form that will be able to shift in dimensions, from low to higher, and remain intact. It may be that you will totally drop the body and be provided with a new form that will continue life in another dimension. It may also be that it has already finished and all that remains is the residual memory that is playing itself out, soon to be revealed for what it is, as the knowledge and awareness of your true location is spontaneously disclosed.
Many people envision the changes as dramatic and perhaps traumatic, but this is very dependent upon the thoughts you hold about your apparent present reality. For example, if you believe that you will die, it is likely that you will undergo much mental suffering as a result of that belief and manifest a death sequence that will culminate in your so-called termination; thus fulfilling your own creative impulses. The curse of death has been with us for countless millennia and is a difficult pattern to shift because of the habitual release of the death hormone whose reaction is embedded deep in our DNA but not as deep as the seed that marks our true lineage. Hoever, this knee jerk reaction of 'death stress' again comes from the belief that we are alone and separate and thus is the root cause of all delusion.
We have brainwashed ourselves into believing that we are individual entities that come from different places and different cultures etc. and although this is true on one level – a more surface level, in the heart of all things there is only one lineage – the lineage of light from whence all came forth. This light was processed and facilitated into reflections of various holograms, images, sounds and so forth – but all of these manifestations are illusions projected forth by the One, allowing us to make adjustments in accordance with our experiences and beliefs, thus creating the APPEARANCE of varying phenomena.
Over the aeons, we have become caught up in the illusions that we have projected and have thus entrapped ourselves in a never ending cycle of perpetuation of falsehood and belief in these ideas. Now is the eve of withdrawal back into the black hole of light from whence our original spark or seed emerged. The grand source is about to inhale at the end of a cycle of apparent separation bringing about a state that we have no reference point for. This void is the strand of God’s mind that is within yours and lies waiting to be revealed to your consciousness at the appointed time. But even this is only the breath of the One and not the One itself which cannot be perceived. We will touch base with its magnificence and possibly retain the memory of the event as a living entity within us, using it to create something more spectacular than we have ever imagined.
Just as we were once able to communicate with nature; now we will have an in-road to the WHOLE of creation whereby there will be a GRAND link up with ALL sentient beings for those who are willing to OPEN their circuits to this event.
Apparently there will soon be an equal number of humans on this planet as there are circuits in the brain. According to some spiritual scriptures, ascension will not occur until all souls are present on the earth plane. That is, all souls that have been part of the repeating cycle which the Buddhists know as Samsara.
Like a giant turning key, when all facets are in perfect measure and placement, certain portals will open momentarily for energies to pass through various points, inviting you into eternity where time and space are colapsed. This once in your life-time occurrence will facilitate escape from the repeating projection of illusory reality and allow a shattering of the reflection of consciousness into billions of chards which will fly home like migrating stars to be re-united
with the One
Many, many aeons ago, at the perceived beginning of all things, seeds of light were issued forth from the grand vortex of light and began a very long journey through layers and levels of creation where none - in that particular formation - have ever ventured before. They were dispatched to other solar systems in this galaxy and beyond where they claimed various forms both in gross and subtle matter and lived out life spans in accordance to the frequency they chose to incarnate into.
After numerous cycles and adjustments to form and visits to other solar systems where they again lived out life spans in accordance with those frequencies; they came to Earth.
By this time, the original seeds of light had grown in personal will and had accumulated many layers of memory that gave them the illusion that they were now seperate entities from the original light vortex. They believed that they descended from certain lineages and as seperate entities had undergone certain individual and collective experiences. All of these beliefs caused rigidities to occur in their mental continuum, which were then held onto as part of self identity; just as an individual grasps at certain thoughts believing these thoughts 'belong' to him/her/it. Thus exacerbating ideas and resulting experiences of separation.
By and by after the accumulation of many of these ideas and beliefs, which began to cause more and more confusion, the original seeds, now clothed in form, began a process of seeking the truth that would dispel their bewilderment (there is always a state of bewilderment that accompanies beliefs in separation, albeit below the surface). They became attracted to Earth so that they could be provided with an opportunity to escape the illusion of separation and were given incarnation there in accord with the sum of their thoughts and actions.
This special planet of Earth was given form by the One as an expression of beauty, love and giving, embodied in a stunning green/blue gem like sphere suspended in the perfect blackness. It demonstrates qualities of abundance, nurturing and unconditional giving. It embodies a spirit known as Prakriti or Nature – a special being that is in the service of the One but can be transcended through mastery of the mind and the recovery of the pathways that lead to the true lineage of God in human. Earth is also a flawless demonstration of changing conditions and therefore provides a perfect backdrop of circumstnces that can be utilised to dispel illusion, if correctly used! Many planets in our solar system and also the central star - our sun, is in service to the mother Earth because of her agreement to provide these doorways and portals of escape for those who are trapped in illusion.
Although Earth appears to be solid and real, it is a hologaphic image projected onto our flat universe. Earth provides many gateways that are not offered by any other solar systems. It has always been a planet that many have desired to conquer and rule because of its outstanding beauty and natural resource, but has been granted special protection due to its service to the One and this is why souls are queuing up to be here now - because we are nearing the time of Disclosure, or Revelation; a grand event where all beings would like to be present. As we shift into high gear, we are about to be given an opportunity for the convergence of all into One.
This means that all the lifetimes we thought we have lived will be revealed as only One. All the characters, personalities and different visual forms we played out will be revealed only as One and all sources of life and existence will be pin pointed into only One. Time is about to collapse and fold in onto itself as we hurtle toward the withdrawal of all apparent creation and the revelation of our original lineage.
This need not manifest as physical destruction but is rather like the Father/Mother coming to collect her children and bring them back to the bosom of origin. Many people have these theories of how the world will end but no-one knows for sure; it is a mystery that will spontaneously be revealed at the appointed time and not before. This time can be at any moment. When all the apparent separate moments bleed into one, you will be Home and the drama will be over. The definition of drama is time and location based and has nothing to do with events.
The mystery of cause, effect synchronicity and time, and the culmination of these ideas present many faces at every moment and conjour ideas about the future: So the whole world asks 'what will happen to me?' It may be that you will not be able to take your apparent body to this re-union as it may be too gross in frequency to pass through the non-carnal eye of the needle. It may be that you will be gifted with the secret of resurrection and transmogrify your flesh into a subtle illuminated form that will be able to shift in dimensions, from low to higher, and remain intact. It may be that you will totally drop the body and be provided with a new form that will continue life in another dimension. It may also be that it has already finished and all that remains is the residual memory that is playing itself out, soon to be revealed for what it is, as the knowledge and awareness of your true location is spontaneously disclosed.
Many people envision the changes as dramatic and perhaps traumatic, but this is very dependent upon the thoughts you hold about your apparent present reality. For example, if you believe that you will die, it is likely that you will undergo much mental suffering as a result of that belief and manifest a death sequence that will culminate in your so-called termination; thus fulfilling your own creative impulses. The curse of death has been with us for countless millennia and is a difficult pattern to shift because of the habitual release of the death hormone whose reaction is embedded deep in our DNA but not as deep as the seed that marks our true lineage. Hoever, this knee jerk reaction of 'death stress' again comes from the belief that we are alone and separate and thus is the root cause of all delusion.
We have brainwashed ourselves into believing that we are individual entities that come from different places and different cultures etc. and although this is true on one level – a more surface level, in the heart of all things there is only one lineage – the lineage of light from whence all came forth. This light was processed and facilitated into reflections of various holograms, images, sounds and so forth – but all of these manifestations are illusions projected forth by the One, allowing us to make adjustments in accordance with our experiences and beliefs, thus creating the APPEARANCE of varying phenomena.
Over the aeons, we have become caught up in the illusions that we have projected and have thus entrapped ourselves in a never ending cycle of perpetuation of falsehood and belief in these ideas. Now is the eve of withdrawal back into the black hole of light from whence our original spark or seed emerged. The grand source is about to inhale at the end of a cycle of apparent separation bringing about a state that we have no reference point for. This void is the strand of God’s mind that is within yours and lies waiting to be revealed to your consciousness at the appointed time. But even this is only the breath of the One and not the One itself which cannot be perceived. We will touch base with its magnificence and possibly retain the memory of the event as a living entity within us, using it to create something more spectacular than we have ever imagined.
Just as we were once able to communicate with nature; now we will have an in-road to the WHOLE of creation whereby there will be a GRAND link up with ALL sentient beings for those who are willing to OPEN their circuits to this event.
Apparently there will soon be an equal number of humans on this planet as there are circuits in the brain. According to some spiritual scriptures, ascension will not occur until all souls are present on the earth plane. That is, all souls that have been part of the repeating cycle which the Buddhists know as Samsara.
Like a giant turning key, when all facets are in perfect measure and placement, certain portals will open momentarily for energies to pass through various points, inviting you into eternity where time and space are colapsed. This once in your life-time occurrence will facilitate escape from the repeating projection of illusory reality and allow a shattering of the reflection of consciousness into billions of chards which will fly home like migrating stars to be re-united
with the One
Friday, 6 August 2010
The End of Dreaming
Having just watched the film ‘Inception’ which was, to say the least, a masterpiece which I will enthusiastically be added to my top 10 films of awakening, I was deeply moved and inspired to write a few words about the nature of reality.
Reality is not what you think it is, in fact most of us are in a state of ignorance as to the true nature of objects and of ourselves. What we think of as ‘reality’ couldn’t be further from the truth. In truth, we actually do not know what anything is, or what it is for. We have settled with believing in the labels and collective descriptions that we share with others who collude to propagate the same ‘reality’ as we do. And this is how we live and have lived since we became flesh upon this earthly plane!
In order to understand that we are asleep, we need a few reference points. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso says: “Just as all the fear, danger, and suffering we experience in a nightmare comes from not realizing that we are only dreaming, so all the fear and suffering we experience during our life comes from not seeing the real nature of our world and our experience. The world does not exist separately from the mind. Our conviction that things exist “out there”, independent of our mind, is the source of all our fear." http://www.dealingwithfear.org/root-of-fear.htm/
Before ‘awakening’ to Truth, one generally goes through a process of undoing or dismantlement where the things one believes in, which have been the basis of their stability, start to dissolve. Some spiritual teachers call this process ‘melting’ and it can be distressing and scary as well as thrilling and ecstatic – a little bit like riding a roller coaster with the most unpredictable driver you can imagine!
As we are stripped of our ideas about ‘reality’, the dream, i.e., the pretend ‘reality’ that we have been playing out so far, begins to reveal itself through a series of synchronistic clues. If the desire to awaken is conscious and willing on your part, these synchronicities will appear thick and fast. You may have noticed them. This is because, having expressed a desire to escape from the maze of illusion, you will now be provided with pointers and guidance to help you get out. Pay attention and you will begin to see them everywhere and in everything.
In the light of the immense swiftness of the current changes, everything has hastened to breakneck speed and the time delay between stimulation and response is closing fast. There is no longer available a leisurely amount of time in which to ponder your decisions and brace for your changes; it is as if the porthole through which we have been viewing ‘reality’ has become pin-point, forcing our focus into supreme intensity- definitely not for the faint hearted as will be revealed.
Welcome to the crash course in 'swim or sink'- also not for the faint heart: We will have to learn to surf the waves pretty damn quick, without giving our energy over to trying to make plans and worrying about outcomes – there simply isn’t enough stability for you to get your claws into anything substantial and try to control it. Once you have been assimilated by the enormous wave current that is driving us Home, you just have to let go and hope for the best. It’s an act of faith over fear; one is buoyant and the other… well we've all been down that road and know where it ends!
HOWEVER, the great consoling if not redeeming factor in amongst all this mayhem of frequencies and seemingly clashing vibrations is…
WE ARE DOING IT TO OURSELVES
I am doing it to myself, and have been for as long as I have been aware that 'I' exist. I have separated myself from my own connected truth to One and bought into my own fantasy about life, existence and everything else that I think is ‘out there’ and now, it has to be undone. But here’s the rub, don’t be the victim of your own dream projection; don’t allow your phantoms and fears to usurp you from your sovereign throne and dictate your reality, or it will end in tears. If you find this difficult to grasp, let me remind you of an old Zen story…
Once upon a time there was a baby lion that fell into a herd of sheep and became part of their flock. When he grew up, he behaved like a sheep, even to the point of eating grass until one day an old lion captured him and took him to a pond, where he showed him his own reflection.
Many of us are like this lion - the image we have of ourselves does not come from our own direct experience but from the opinions of others. A "personality" that has been imposed from external society replaces the individuality that could have flourished from within. We become just another sheep in the herd, unable to move freely and unconscious of our own true identity. http://www.osho.com/magazine/tarot/TarotCardNew.cfm?All=Yes&Nr=16
We are kept in this state through the enforcement of fear, to further quote Osho; “Society cannot tolerate individuality, because individuality will not follow like a sheep. Society wants slaves, not people who are absolutely dedicated to freedom. Society wants slaves because all the vested interests want obedience … “
The tool of fear has been used for centuries to keep us in check until we ourselves have perpetuated it and inflicted ourselves with this debilitating disease of delusion. But what if you found out that you held the key to your freedom all along? What if, you realised that you were both the prisoner and the guardian of the gates? What would you do if you suddenly understood that you could have the peace of mind and happiness that you have always longed for: That there is no-one holding you back but your own beliefs and ideas about yourself? What would you do? How do you envision your freedom as a state of mind?
The world is full of discontented people who have been duped into thinking they can fill their inner void with something material, but I promise you, it can NEVER be filled by anything of the sort; no perfect job, relationship or lottery win will EVER fill that hole because it is a wound of the spirit and can only be healed by the spirit. We must understand this quickly and change our course so that we may sail into the oceans of bliss and away from the seas of purgatory. You have suffered enough. Now, shift the focus away from the causes of the rotation of this fruitless repetition of history.
You can make this a place of perfection by allowing your mind to align with the forces of light, love and the truth of your own sovereignty. This is not some hippy nonsense – that is also another form of brainwashing: ‘run down the ‘hippy dippy’ nonsense in the name of harsh ‘reality’; don’t believe in anything other than the material things that pervade to the senses.’ Have you ever asked yourself WHY so many dismiss the non-material? It has always been so, mysticism vs. science. Actually the church took over the realms of the mysterious and murdered anyone who came up with any ideas that questioned their own warped view in a futile attempt to retain control and for what? Yes, you guessed correctly yet again; money and power – the same old story which has kept us bound to suffering like twins joined at the hip.
Our addiction to misery is remarkable and heartbreaking because we are capable of so much more…
The root of all of this is our fear of the finite and ultimate annihilation, and beneath that, a terrible guilt that we have deserted the very thing that sustains us, and instead of honouring life, are the only species who in utter shamelessness, strikes down the living in the name of war and other atrocities.
It will end when we want it to. We must understand that our thoughts are in the driving seat of this nightmarish dream.
And here comes the moment of truth. It is visible on the horizon and getting closer with every breath. .. I see you … But here’s the thing, you no longer have to follow suit and perpetuate any more of this self fulfilling nonsense. Have the courage to think differently and break the cycle of action and reaction.
How will the world end? However we want it to and it needn’t be an ending but a beginning. Do not buy into apocalyptic thoughts and fears or they will manifest from the power of your unconscious thoughts. This is YOUR dream; it belongs to no-one else. Start to become creative within your dream rather than helplessly allowing your thoughts to run riot and project more suffering into the dream. No-one is controlling you - you have merely allowed yourself to be led to BELIEVE that you are restrained and limited.
But the time for liberation is NOW! You must break free from the cycle of fear and reaction. This is absolutely necessary if you want to experience REAL happiness and REAL peace – the kind that does not depend on external factors which are always unstable and changing; the kind that will be with you until the end of all time and beyond. Do not waste yourself trying to tame a hurricane, just learn to stand in the eye of the storm and be at peace.
The time when the meaning of ‘reality’ will be revealed to us is close at hand.
I had a dream of awakening
And woke up to find the Truth
May your inner wisdom arise like a silent storm
And lead you through the open gates
to FREEDOM
Reality is not what you think it is, in fact most of us are in a state of ignorance as to the true nature of objects and of ourselves. What we think of as ‘reality’ couldn’t be further from the truth. In truth, we actually do not know what anything is, or what it is for. We have settled with believing in the labels and collective descriptions that we share with others who collude to propagate the same ‘reality’ as we do. And this is how we live and have lived since we became flesh upon this earthly plane!
In order to understand that we are asleep, we need a few reference points. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso says: “Just as all the fear, danger, and suffering we experience in a nightmare comes from not realizing that we are only dreaming, so all the fear and suffering we experience during our life comes from not seeing the real nature of our world and our experience. The world does not exist separately from the mind. Our conviction that things exist “out there”, independent of our mind, is the source of all our fear." http://www.dealingwithfear.org/root-of-fear.htm/
Before ‘awakening’ to Truth, one generally goes through a process of undoing or dismantlement where the things one believes in, which have been the basis of their stability, start to dissolve. Some spiritual teachers call this process ‘melting’ and it can be distressing and scary as well as thrilling and ecstatic – a little bit like riding a roller coaster with the most unpredictable driver you can imagine!
As we are stripped of our ideas about ‘reality’, the dream, i.e., the pretend ‘reality’ that we have been playing out so far, begins to reveal itself through a series of synchronistic clues. If the desire to awaken is conscious and willing on your part, these synchronicities will appear thick and fast. You may have noticed them. This is because, having expressed a desire to escape from the maze of illusion, you will now be provided with pointers and guidance to help you get out. Pay attention and you will begin to see them everywhere and in everything.
In the light of the immense swiftness of the current changes, everything has hastened to breakneck speed and the time delay between stimulation and response is closing fast. There is no longer available a leisurely amount of time in which to ponder your decisions and brace for your changes; it is as if the porthole through which we have been viewing ‘reality’ has become pin-point, forcing our focus into supreme intensity- definitely not for the faint hearted as will be revealed.
Welcome to the crash course in 'swim or sink'- also not for the faint heart: We will have to learn to surf the waves pretty damn quick, without giving our energy over to trying to make plans and worrying about outcomes – there simply isn’t enough stability for you to get your claws into anything substantial and try to control it. Once you have been assimilated by the enormous wave current that is driving us Home, you just have to let go and hope for the best. It’s an act of faith over fear; one is buoyant and the other… well we've all been down that road and know where it ends!
HOWEVER, the great consoling if not redeeming factor in amongst all this mayhem of frequencies and seemingly clashing vibrations is…
WE ARE DOING IT TO OURSELVES
I am doing it to myself, and have been for as long as I have been aware that 'I' exist. I have separated myself from my own connected truth to One and bought into my own fantasy about life, existence and everything else that I think is ‘out there’ and now, it has to be undone. But here’s the rub, don’t be the victim of your own dream projection; don’t allow your phantoms and fears to usurp you from your sovereign throne and dictate your reality, or it will end in tears. If you find this difficult to grasp, let me remind you of an old Zen story…
Once upon a time there was a baby lion that fell into a herd of sheep and became part of their flock. When he grew up, he behaved like a sheep, even to the point of eating grass until one day an old lion captured him and took him to a pond, where he showed him his own reflection.
Many of us are like this lion - the image we have of ourselves does not come from our own direct experience but from the opinions of others. A "personality" that has been imposed from external society replaces the individuality that could have flourished from within. We become just another sheep in the herd, unable to move freely and unconscious of our own true identity. http://www.osho.com/magazine/tarot/TarotCardNew.cfm?All=Yes&Nr=16
We are kept in this state through the enforcement of fear, to further quote Osho; “Society cannot tolerate individuality, because individuality will not follow like a sheep. Society wants slaves, not people who are absolutely dedicated to freedom. Society wants slaves because all the vested interests want obedience … “
The tool of fear has been used for centuries to keep us in check until we ourselves have perpetuated it and inflicted ourselves with this debilitating disease of delusion. But what if you found out that you held the key to your freedom all along? What if, you realised that you were both the prisoner and the guardian of the gates? What would you do if you suddenly understood that you could have the peace of mind and happiness that you have always longed for: That there is no-one holding you back but your own beliefs and ideas about yourself? What would you do? How do you envision your freedom as a state of mind?
The world is full of discontented people who have been duped into thinking they can fill their inner void with something material, but I promise you, it can NEVER be filled by anything of the sort; no perfect job, relationship or lottery win will EVER fill that hole because it is a wound of the spirit and can only be healed by the spirit. We must understand this quickly and change our course so that we may sail into the oceans of bliss and away from the seas of purgatory. You have suffered enough. Now, shift the focus away from the causes of the rotation of this fruitless repetition of history.
You can make this a place of perfection by allowing your mind to align with the forces of light, love and the truth of your own sovereignty. This is not some hippy nonsense – that is also another form of brainwashing: ‘run down the ‘hippy dippy’ nonsense in the name of harsh ‘reality’; don’t believe in anything other than the material things that pervade to the senses.’ Have you ever asked yourself WHY so many dismiss the non-material? It has always been so, mysticism vs. science. Actually the church took over the realms of the mysterious and murdered anyone who came up with any ideas that questioned their own warped view in a futile attempt to retain control and for what? Yes, you guessed correctly yet again; money and power – the same old story which has kept us bound to suffering like twins joined at the hip.
Our addiction to misery is remarkable and heartbreaking because we are capable of so much more…
The root of all of this is our fear of the finite and ultimate annihilation, and beneath that, a terrible guilt that we have deserted the very thing that sustains us, and instead of honouring life, are the only species who in utter shamelessness, strikes down the living in the name of war and other atrocities.
It will end when we want it to. We must understand that our thoughts are in the driving seat of this nightmarish dream.
And here comes the moment of truth. It is visible on the horizon and getting closer with every breath. .. I see you … But here’s the thing, you no longer have to follow suit and perpetuate any more of this self fulfilling nonsense. Have the courage to think differently and break the cycle of action and reaction.
How will the world end? However we want it to and it needn’t be an ending but a beginning. Do not buy into apocalyptic thoughts and fears or they will manifest from the power of your unconscious thoughts. This is YOUR dream; it belongs to no-one else. Start to become creative within your dream rather than helplessly allowing your thoughts to run riot and project more suffering into the dream. No-one is controlling you - you have merely allowed yourself to be led to BELIEVE that you are restrained and limited.
But the time for liberation is NOW! You must break free from the cycle of fear and reaction. This is absolutely necessary if you want to experience REAL happiness and REAL peace – the kind that does not depend on external factors which are always unstable and changing; the kind that will be with you until the end of all time and beyond. Do not waste yourself trying to tame a hurricane, just learn to stand in the eye of the storm and be at peace.
The time when the meaning of ‘reality’ will be revealed to us is close at hand.
I had a dream of awakening
And woke up to find the Truth
May your inner wisdom arise like a silent storm
And lead you through the open gates
to FREEDOM
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