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[Oct. 17th, 2009|10:14 am] |
~Will there ever come the day
~When the race of man surpasses
~Self interest and delusion
~Greed, deceit and fear?
~Or will that be left to the few
~Who toil relentlessly
~Unconcerned with the condition of life,
~Seeing what it is, as it is
~Accepting life as a treasure
~Not a race to accumulate more.
~Will men and women ever see
~The equality of all parts of Creation
~And forego the urge to distinguish
~Good from evil, right from wrong, this from that
~To be free from conventional thinking
~And social, political and religious norms?
~Or is it mankind's destiny
~To forever live in the darkness
~Blind to the reality of Truth
~Seeing only the outward appearances
~And ignorant of the inner Being?
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~I can not foretell the future
~Though I suspect it will mirror the past.
~Physical conditions changing daily
~While souls go untended.
~Ever more distractions, things, concerns
~Ever less the unity of the One. |
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| Self NEVER loses or gains. |
[Oct. 15th, 2009|05:36 pm] |
It came to me to post #84 from A Woman's Skirt Vol. Two on The Rest of MySelf Facebook Group
. As I read it, I remembered seeing it before and again thought "how curious". Then (in the bathtub :-) the revelation of it came.
Any human loss is a gain. It is an opportunity to see that, as one identified as a human thinking he/she can possess something--and such an assumption follows the abandonment of self-completeness (thus attempting to place power and worth out there in and with a thing), one HAS ACTUALLY been attempting to get, to complete, to fulfill an incomplete SENSE OF SELF. No such separate "self" exists.
Any human loss is an opportunity to "re-gain" one's wholeness. This is not at all really the case, though. It is more like One is realizing one's mistake, oft calling forth the necessity of self-forgiveness.
Self NEVER loses or gains. It is incorporeal in its seamlessness and cannot be partitioned in order that a part or portion of it can be wrenched away or split off from itSelf. Realizing this IS Self-Completeness in Being/Truth/Fact. Abiding in this is Self-Completeness in Rest. Knowing this IS Self-Completeness in Action.
Light illuminates the "gain", which is a seeming addition to or change in the reality of a thing. This illumination dissolves the false (the "gain"/addition) and is thus perceived (humanly/corporeally) as a "loss". Nothing has really happened.
The illumination of a human gain is the dissolution of it. It is the exposure of it and its mechanisms for the delusion that it is. All that is bourne of Spirit is indestructible and CANNOT be dissolved. That which is of Spirit can be multiplied, never can it suffer deconstruction.
This is the security that you can Rest in; the knowing that all is well and my own shall come to me. And when it comes it is satisfying, as all Good is permanent.
All Love, Don
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| Poetry-Speaking of Violence |
[Oct. 15th, 2009|12:52 pm] |
Speaking of Violence
Let us speak of violence
and to begin the discussion
we must speak of birth
for being born here
at any time
has been a birth into violence
a world laid open and bleeding
begging for sutures
instead staunching the flow
by packing children into the wound
the children covered by the blood
of those that came before
who could not manage to clean it up
before their arrival
The world abounds with violence
from the random bullet
fired by an angry mouth
or the metal projectile
tearing through flesh
when one human
attempts to prove to themselves
and the other...that “I hate you”
What tree springs from the roots of violence?
The tree of humanity.
Humanity...the only species that protects their rights
to judge, blame and hate
as they would protect clean water and healthy food
for their own starving children
To be born under the canopy of this tree
is to awaken in the garden of good and evil
like laying naked in the desert sun
and swimming in blue water at the same time
there you are, so alive, so miraculous
yet unborn through their misunderstanding
you are, so awake and complete
yet construed as infantile and unfinished
To be born here, and survive the threat
of the way those that love you live
is to prosper through thought
and to wander down the meandering halls
of the ever so troubled minds around you
and attempt to become what appears
to bring them some measure of happiness
The violence of being born here
is being born invisible.
To them your divinity, like theirs, was not admissible
so you became divisible
and one became two
a sort of peace was found
and you found plenty of company
in the world of the ego
the land of duality
Rape, murder, crimes of all natures
are all reflective of the original sin
the great missed mark
of Godhood.
This missing place, this great empty spot
becomes the angry upwelling
that wants to shake our fellow humans and exclaim
“I am lost!” “I am alone!” “I feel powerless”
but settles for misdirected and dishonest words
in their stead.
We say this through blame, jealousy, resentment
and myriad permutations of pain
wrought out under the constraints of
our so named ‘life’
because to us the illusion of some measure of control
is better than the recognition
that none exists
To us the very nature of what we really are
has gone so completely unrecognized for so very long
by those around us
and ourselves
that to let go of what has arisen in its place
feels like annihilation itself
and so, we dream of control
that unconsciously gets expressed as violence
And this fight...
this mighty struggle to remain asleep
is cause and source of violence the world over
this singular reason behind every argument
every drug taken
every raised fist
every angry word
every murder
is to fight to not be shown
what we fear we cannot yet bear
Oh let us try to speak of violence
and grace and karma
as though they are different
and by God watch us fail in the effort.
Our hearts will come full circle
and the debate will cease when we realize
that through every act of violence
love is telling us where we need to most focus our attention.
Incessant orthodoxy of the living truth
of love
is all that we can honestly bear witness to. |
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| Poetry-Fog |
[Oct. 14th, 2009|06:02 pm] |
Fog
The familiar landscape
of my hometown
covered by fog
a misty morning
frustrated sunrise
trying its best
the low cloud
hiding the pines
it’s all so different
so magical
the fog invoking
an automatic mystery
and air of ancient stories
told long ago
and it’s like that with us
all of the sweet ‘us’
living and breathing
and working so very hard
to have clear skies
at all times
and cursing the fog
while missing its mysteries
deep shrouds of fog
rolling in like karmic wetness
covering up our clarity
and we curse it
even as it reveals the magic
and transforms our landscapes
into things we do not recognize
thank god it does
journeyer
thank god it does
for you can only learn
so much, from that which you recognize
and the fog will help you
will aid with obfuscation
and the dry pines will hang
heavy with dew
and you can now contemplate them
completely anew
learn, learn, learn
for it is what you are here to do
let the cool humid vapor
help you to not see
clearly
so that you may once again
appreciate what you forgot
and what you forgot
is what
clarity felt like
and the fog helps us to see
the mystery in the familiar |
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| Poetry-Guessing about God |
[Oct. 9th, 2009|01:07 pm] |
If anyone is still around here...this posting does not promote 'myself', invite you to join facebook or beg your attendance at a retreat. All you are invited to do is attempt to enjoy the poetry. Whether you do, or not, is entirely not up to you :)
Guessing about God
You will not search for meaning
when you love things without meaning to
You will find it hard to dwell upon what may come to pass
when overcome with love for this very moment
“What am I doing here”
yields to,
“I am here.”
and “What is the purpose for all of this?”
folds in on itself, as do all of these questions.
These questions cannot be transformed
cannot do their good work
so long as we believe
that answering them
is more important
than why they are being asked
and what the asking tells us about the human condition
and about the state of our hearts.
It is a state of the most exquisite suffering imaginable
and we are the only ones who can imagine it
Set adrift we are
guessing about God
and reciting to ourselves Creation bedtime stories
so that we, the people of Earth
can sleep at night
and sleepwalk all day
the numbing rhythm of scarcity and doubt
a ceaseless lullaby.
Do not begrudge anyone this slumber
for awakening can be swift and merciless
can be a rude and lonely thing
Awakening can make you feel like a dying child
calling out for your mother,
but not recognizing her upon her arrival
You may feel like a streaking meteor
lighting up the night sky
believing the earth to be your final resting place
but disintegrating before ever touching her.
It can feel as if God is always falling backwards
just out of your reach.
It can be as if you are a bird
soaring over trackless water
and seeing no land
like an endless and restless flight.
Yes, awakening can feel like the dark side
of the light side of truth
instead we only hear of rumors of sweet bliss
from the other side.
From the other side of what?
A desert for the ego. A place where the ego cannot survive.
A place where it can find no sustenance.
That place of dessication is not always a pleasant one.
Believe the rumors of bliss, but don’t assume the entire journey
will be bliss.
How can you find your way?
When will your questions be answered?
When can your spiritual journey begin?
The first step is to acknowledge that it already has begun.
Next, pray with all your heart to lose everything.
Then surrender completely to the impulse to openly care for those around you.
Give to yourself the gift of periodic silence.
Find your way back into nature.
Do these things, and
the reasons you ask the questions
and their respective answers
will cease to matter
Collapse, dissolve, distintegrate
realize that you never were,
“you” never were...
remember here and now
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| Paragraph from a letter "To the Rest of MySelf" |
[Sep. 2nd, 2009|12:58 pm] |
Mind, God, Infinite Intelligence is no more "an instrument of God or for God" than is God an instrument for God! Oh, yes! We must bring in duality, we must account for man because the moment we have man-mind whether we call this man-mind "an instrument" of God or instrument of the devil--Oneness is thereby destroyed. For now we have God AND an "instrument of God". I repeat, Omnipotence means what it says and says what it means--ALL Power meaning Omniscience. It means that "an instrument" would be something of use to God, therefore needed by God, Omniscience ItSelf. "If" the Almighty needed its thought, patterns, in order to BE, then the ALONE One is no longer ONE (individual or undivided or single or non-dual or sole and only or without another, or One Alone or unapproachable, or One without a second, some other in addition). Such gives account of man who thereby may weasel or worm around AT LEAST as an instrument, at least some accounting. The little man who is not there, the child of a barren woman, the CREATION which never occurred (for NOW only IS) can be "accounted for" in the guise of being "an instrument" for God. It is an attempt to make Mind a thing, something of which Awareness is Aware and to call mind an avenue of Awareness or an instrument of Infinite Intelligence is two, double-mindedness. There are not two minds, "another" called an instrument avenue or what. To rationalize for the sake of man is always "at the expense" of God, even though such rationale be in "the name of God" but has nothing to do with God.
By Kay
The remainder of this letter is being posted progressively at:
www.therestofmyself.com
Link to actual article:
http://www.therestofmyself.highpowersites.com/articles/article/5691558/125794.htm
Enjoy!All Love,
DOn
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| Consciousness in Brooklyn? |
[Jun. 13th, 2009|02:16 pm] |
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BIG NEWS! :)
I'm moving to New York city in a few weeks to be a Raw lifestyle coach! I just got my certifications and I've been preparing branding and logos and marketing plans and all the rest of it for the past couple weeks here in Atlanta.
Here's the thing... I don't know hardly anyone in Brooklyn! And I especially don't know any other raw vegans, yogis, conscious people, or spiritualists. I want to find roommates that at least have similar lifestyles.... I don't think the typical New Yorker would quite sympathize with morning chanting or their roommate drinking algae or growing Kombucha fungus in the fridge unless they were of certain "alternative" inclinations themselves.
So I'm posting this entry in this community in the hopes that someone here is from Brooklyn and knows someone of a conscious nature looking for a roommate.
Here's to intention! :-)
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| Invitation to make a blog post to celebrate a woman philosopher! |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|01:40 am] |
Everyone (of all genders) is invited to participate in Theano's Day, an event to celebrate and rediscover women's contributions to philosophy throughout the centuries.
Blurb from the Pledge Bank signup site, which you may find here: http://www.pledgebank.com/theanosday
"I will blog to spotlight a woman, living or dead, who has made an important contribution to philosophy but only if 100 other people will do the same."
Also there's a Facebook group for Theano's Day to discuss the project with other participants: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=526821601&ref=profile#/group.php?gid=74564828672&ref=mf
More information, from the website: http://www.pledgebank.com/theanosday
Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras' wife Theano was a scholar and intellectual in her own right. Along with helping him raise five children, she put together writings on mathematics, art, beauty, philosophy, and child raising. She is credited with developing the Golden Mean, a crucial idea in aesthetic theory.
By taking this pledge, you sign up to honor and celebrate important women such as Theano by promising to create a blog post on June 24th concerning a female philosopher. As with Ada Lovelace Day, spotlighting women's contributions to technology, the woman you select may be from any nation, culture, or time period, living or dead...and you may blog in any style or format, using any software in any language.
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| What is Enlightenment? |
[May. 20th, 2009|03:07 am] |
What is enlightenment?
Enlightenment is a label to refer to something that can't be explained. It can only be pointed to and talked around. It's the living realization that there is only one thing, one event, one life, one everything, one nothing, one all. It's waking-up from the dream of separation, division, and realizing true nature. Realization, true nature, enlightenment, it's all the same. Even separation and division is part of this, is waking-up to that too.
Then it can be explained. I can understand that its all one.
Understanding intellectually is perhaps a door-way to it (yet no understanding at all can lead to realization, there are no rules to how it unfolds), but it's not a complete understanding. When you are say that you understand but you're not sure it can ever be understood because it is a living realization, then no understanding is necessary. When self-realized, it can't be understood because there is nothing to understand and you see in your living seemly unfolding experience, that there is no you there to understand it. You realize that you are everything, but you are not doing anything because there is no you there to choose anything.
So I don't exist? It sure feels like I do.
You exist, but you are that which is unexisting and existing simultaneously. Real and unreal. Moving and unmoved. You just don't exist as you understand yourself to be. You feel you exist as separate.
But I realize I am not separate.
It's not realized unless you can see in your own experience that you can not be defined or known, since you are everything and nothing simultaneously. Realization is realizing that you have no-choice EVER because there is nobody here to choose anything. You can understand that somehow you are not separate, but that understanding is based on a belief. What I am stating here, is not a belief. Belief, faith, and anything of the sort, will fall away upon seeing this.
Are you saying there is no free-will? I make choices everyday.
You believe you are not separate, but if nothing is separate, then that means you are everything. If you are everything, then that means you are nothing because there is nothing here to compare yourself to anything else. If you are everything, then you would have the power to control all aspects of yourself as everything. You can't control anything, because you are nothing. Nobody is there to make a choice to choose something.
I am everything, but I am limited to this aspect in this life and in this aspect of this body, I do have choice to choose what will happen. I am everything because I come from a Source that connects us all. Therefore, I have choice in this body, right?
To imply that everything is connected, there would have to be two (or more in this case: everybody else). The belief that you are everything, gets you nowhere expect to seeing an illusion that you still have choice. If you as everything/everybody is connected to a Source, then the Source would seemly be the only one thing choosing, but if you are connected to that Source, then you are that Source itself. You are implying that the Source lets you choose for It, but if you are It, then that implies that It is choosing through you. So who has the power here? Who is actually choosing: you or the Source?
I guess it would be both, since we are connected.
Yes, but if you're connected as one thing, then there is not two there. Only One, therefore neither is making choices because there is no distinction. Being everything, there is nothing simultaneously. Nothing is appearing as something else. Nothing can't decide anything, because nothing is the only thing. Everything in this world, is seemly to appear as an unfolding from nothing, nobody, no-one and that is why this can not be explained since it's happening, it's not happening. Nobody is doing it, but it is unfolding. That is why I say you are everything but you're not doing anything. Everything you observe is you because there is only one here, yet it derives out of Nothing since there is nothing else to compare everything to. Everything=One, One can't be compared to anything else, therefore it's nothing. Nothing=One. Everything/Nothing is It.
Okay, so I am everything and nothing. What is the point?
You are everything and nothing, but you are not here to claim that as your identity. You are nothing so there is nobody here to claim the everything. Oneness appearing as everything and doing nothing. There is only one here, doing nothing, so where is there to go? What is there to do? What is there to be gained? What is there to be learned? Who is there to grow ones self? There is no point. Quite pointless. It is 'all' irrelevantly seemly 'here and there'.
Isn't there something to be learned about the everything/nothing I am?
There is nobody there to learn it or anything else, yet the seemly appearance of learning may arise, but you are not there to make the choice to learn or not. Learning may arise, but the learning is pointless. Where are you going to take that learning and who is there to benefit from it? There is nothing of value happening. Everything/nothing means infinitely everything and nothing, therefore, if something appears to be something new, that is you too. You were it before it seemly appeared for the first time in the so-called world. You may not have been aware of it as you before it seemly appeared, so there seems to be an evolving, learning, unfolding taking place, but what does matter? It doesn't add to who you are, you are infinitely everything/nothing.
How depressing. If there is no purpose to any of this, then why am I aware of any of it?
That is the mystery that can't be solved, but once this is fully-embodiment as a living realization and not just a belief, it's not depressing at all. It's quite liberating. In fact, in many cases, searching and seeking for purpose has lead to such an extreme-case of depression, that one awakes to this and the depression is seen as this one event that doesn't matter. When you see that everything is this, even depression, the depression no longer holds any emotional value (no attachment to the depression that is arising) for you (since it's seen that you are not there to be depressed, nobody is there to be the depression).
How do I fully embody this realization?
You are not there to choose to do something to realize this. Choosing arises but not by you, so there is nothing you can do. Either this is realized or its not. Nobody can tell you how because there is no how. In fact, trying to do something to realize this will perpetuate this since realization and non-realization are not two different things. Not realizing this, is this too.
There seems to be techniques and methods that arise, that can act as 'door-ways' to glimpses of this, but there are no guarantees. The infinite is unpredictable and undefined, some techniques work for 'some' and not 'others'. Some have even been seeking this for decades and find nothing because they are looking for something else other than what is arising now.
What would you suggest?
Everything I suggest will become just a task to do something. It will imply that there is something to get and somebody to get it. The fact is that this is it, whatever is arising is it. Realization doesn't happen for a 'somebody' in a 'future time', it's who you are now.
Many realized 'people' have suggested things like: live in the now, stick with the awareness that is aware of everything being observed, sit quietly like meditation but don't try to stop your thoughts or manipulate anything arising, look within your own experience and see if you can find the answer to the question "who am I?" or "what am I?" and realize it can never be answered with a thought, notice where the I-thought is coming from and trace it back to the source, be aware of the identifications you make as who you are: a mother, a doctor, a spiritual person, an addict, an activist, a christian, a professional, a nobody, a self, etc... Let go, don't resist anything arising, and the list goes-on.
Those suggestions have arose here too and many of them are pointed to in detail through this site: http://consciousflex.blogspot.com/ under the label: enlightenment. However, all this implies that there is a you there to make a choice to do these things. There may be a reading of this and a stimulus-response may arise to what appears like a choice to do these things and that is fine, everything is this, even the seemingly 'separate person' who is appearing to make a choice. All of it, is this, so either way whatever arises, happens spontaneously and naturally on its own accord.
For a variety of different 'realized people' who point to this in different ways, there is a list of recommendations on the very bottom left-hand corner of that site.
You say realization is who I am, but I don't feel realized. Why is that?
There is really no reason or causality or purpose to this or anything else. Infinite means timelessness, always here, no beginning or end, therefore, nothing causes anything else. But many things have been suggested as to why the seemly appearance of a separate self arose:
1. We were born into this world with this realization because it's who we are. At around the age of two, we were all conditioned to believe in a separate self. The terrible-twos is a sign of this identity taking place. "My toy!".
2. The mind is designed to separate things for survival purposes. The mind has to know the difference and similarity between things in order to keep the game of life unfolding. If you didn't see the difference between a car and yourself, unfolding yourself couldn't happen.
3. The never-changing ever-present awareness that is everything innocently confused itself by gradually recognizing opposites and claiming one as more itself and another as a lesser degree of self until it trapped itself.
4. This mystery can not be solved and a fear arose out seeing this everything/nothing of not knowing what this life is or who/what it is being aware of this life that it is, causing an identification to occur, in order to resolve the first arising fear.
However, those are just stories that unfold in this and because it's there, it's part of this too. But the stories never tell truth. Truth can only be pointed to, talked around, or realized.
Whatever is happening, is happening the way it should or it would not be happening.
Then there is some sort of purpose! Why would you say everything is happening the way it should?
All the seemly opposites that exist, are not opposites at all, it's one thing. Therefore, there is no right or wrong with whatever is arising. This life is, but nothing in this life is wrong and nothing is right about it either. It is what it is without purpose, but purpose may seemly appear and arise. Seeing the appearance of purpose is this too, but in realization, what is seen, is that there is no purpose or agenda of where this is going or why it's here.
What happens after life? What happens when you die?
What is realized is that life has no opposite, death is the opposite of birth. Life is eternal. Infinite. No beginning and no end. This moment right now is timeless. This moment right now is not moving. The appearance of time arises in this and that is this too, but it's the unmoved mover. The only death that occurs is the death to the illusion of the separate self.
I need this body to be aware of this. When this body is not there, then this is not being aware of. So how is this life eternal?
Awareness is the timelessness, it is the everything/nothing. Awareness is not separate from this or anything else. You are aware of the body, therefore, the body is within the awareness and the body is also the awareness itself. What is seen, is that this timeless awareness is aware and unaware simultaneously. This awareness is the nothingness is which gives rise to the seemly everythingness. It is the nothingness and everthingness, one thingness.
Is this timeless awareness intelligent?
It is the intelligence, since it is everything/nothing.
Well, if it is everything/nothing, then that means it's intelligent and unintelligent, right?
The question itself is quite irrelevant because it implies that if there is an intelligence then it has an intelligent agenda or purpose to itself. It is what it is, it doesn't question itself because it doesn't answer itself.
There is nobody or thing there to question and nobody or thing to answer. For a question to arise, there has to be something else there to compare itself to. It would have to see something else other then itself and question the something else that appeared (that is appearing as not itself, which is the only thing that is not possible in this: for itself to not appear as itself since it is everything) and there would have to be something else for an answer to arise out of it.
So here 'we' have it, a seemly 'you' to question and a seemly 'me' to answer. Yet, when it realizes itself, all questions stop, because it's seen that there is no questioner, nobody to question and nobody to answer.
Questions may arise in this and that is this too, questions can even arise for the realized, but for the realized there is never an answer because there is nobody to answer back. Even the question that arises to the realized, realizes that there is no questioner questioning anything, it's just a question arising. No different then anything else arising since everything that arises is this: one thing.
You say some weird things, but it makes sense! How do I know you are realized? How do I know you are enlightened?
You're aware right? You are aware of these words and you are aware of everything you are observing right?
Well, yeah?
Is that awareness enlightened or unenlightened?
What do you mean?
I mean enlightenment is just a label, refer to the beginning of this conversation.
All these so-called answers are designed to dissolve the so-called questioner, perhaps if you read this conversation again, that may arise.
I just don't want you to be right. I want this life to have purpose and meaning!
If that is the case then you don't want this realization, you want the appearance of something else and that is what you will find, if that is what you want.
There is a part of 'you' that knows all these 'answers'. You are this, therefore you resonate with these words and you know this next answer: every realized being doesn't want something else, because it's seen that there is nothing else and that is the most liberating, most peaceful, most blissful and most contentment realization in the whole of the universe. You lose yourself, but you gain the universe.
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| Part 5 of 5 Non-Duality is Non-Dual |
[May. 18th, 2009|02:43 am] |
What is the obstacle? Indulgence of a belief.
From the standpoint of the human mind, the senses, there is no such thing as nonduality, but the scriptures refer to the human mind as the devil, don't they? We are aware of the human mind are we not? Not THROUGH the human mind. Awareness is not partitioned. All that is included within this awareness are not separate functioning entities... they are ideas within the one awareness. This awareness includes. There is not awareness AND things/ideas.
We must stick with changeless fact to ever have clarity. Diddleing with things, the human so-called mind, opinions and beliefs -- multiplicity-- will not reveal the truth. Who or what is the one aware of things, thoughts, the sun, planets, your mother, your car, your very body (your favorite one and others)?
Is not that awareness ever-present and whole right now? Do you honestly know of a time when there is no awareness? If, you say that there is no awareness when you slept or when one passes out.... how do you know there was sleep or passing out? Is not the one aware constantly aware? And what of the one claiming an apparent absence?
Must not that one be present in order to claim absense?
Valuing the senses and sense information is simply a habit that we must come out from and be separate. We are aware of the senses, not through them! Give a moment or two to this and consider it... finally not just reading over words and one can find that the kingdom of heaven is at hand... just previously seemingly unnoticed. That which you have labeled your self is a false self--you are the "labeler". It appears to function as a self, but what of appearances? What of a mirage in the desert? Upon investigation, one will find no such personal one who changes with the prevailing opinion of the day.
Do you believe, agree with, every single thought that comes blipping across your screen? Do you take hearsay to be fact and fact to be hearsay? That receiving set you have between your ears cannot tell you who you are. It can only report what it hears and it can't even really do that, but, seemingly functioning on borrowed light, we put stock in its flailing and floundering around and say that it is has power.
No false world has ever gotten started and now needs to be eradicated. Seeing the REAL world through a false sense (human thinking mind) does not suddenly create two worlds. Does it? NO. Just where do we locate this false world (for that which is a "not" cannot be found, can it?) and, having found it we can then eradicate it? These are serious questions. The honest answers to which will reveal that the Sole and ONLY world (the world of non-duality) is the One that exists right here, right now.
All Love,
Don
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[May. 15th, 2009|04:04 pm] |
*Sorry if this is off-topic, or not pertinent to the group, dear moderator. Please delete if you feel post is inappropriate. thank you.
I am wondering if anyone would like to assist me with technical or practical aspects of some particular magical working.
I have in mind the various details which I find most appropriate. It may help to clearly outline or 'spell out' the causes, motives and potential goals, to obtain a true answer and most efficacious production of effects, as desired.
I am calling for mystical, shamanic, Qabalistic, metaphysical, spiritual, or any possible psychological ramifications to meet discussion and ultimate realization.
Anyone might conceivably contribute or benefit from this shared effort, as their would be commonality in the distinctions to be made.
Literally or figuratively, materially or spiritually, in an abstract or a concrete sense, after the manner and fashion of the subject is defined, whether you be concerned to whatever degree you are capable, or involved to the extent which is only limited or restricted by your own innate properties and propensities, either personally, superficially, casually, intensely, fully, partially, temporarily, permanently, occasionally, or briefly and in mere passing- I trust the Universe to take care of it's own.
That be the impetus, stimulus, cause, inchoate and completely minimal- the seed of future growth.
Who will rise to the challenge of the occasion and join forces? Allies? |
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| books of Nisargadatta Maharaj |
[May. 11th, 2009|09:50 pm] |
Dear all,
All the books of Nisargadatta Maharaj is now available for free download at : http://nisargadatta.we.bs
Also see a collection of photos, videos etc...
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| Prajapati Awakens |
[Apr. 17th, 2009|03:09 pm] |
Stillness.
No sound, no wind, no moon, no stars.
There was only One.
He breathed.
He breathed in silence, “I am”
Who knows whence He came?
No thought, no desire, no creation. Yet.
“Yeah, I am”
If time had existed, many a million years would have passed.
But there was neither a past nor a future, not even a now.
In silence arose the first question, “Who is?”
The emptiness trembled in anticipation.
“Who is?”
And then began Time,
A silvery thread of light speeding towards the endless edges,
Backward and forward,
And instantly there was eternity in the past and in the future,
Time wiping out the possibility of its own genesis.
He asked only the one question ‘Who am I?’
The question was Tapas
The questioner was Tapas,
The answer too, was Tapas.
In Tapas, He burned.
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| Episode 40 of Out of Our Minds has been published! |
[Mar. 15th, 2009|08:43 am] |
Episode 40 is titled, "The World is Fundamentally Play". I never thought I would have published so many episodes when I first began podcasting. OOM is a bi-weekly, 15 minute spirituality podcast focused on nonduality and the traditions of jnana yoga, advaita vedanta, zen buddhism, etc. I speak from direct experience and understanding, but borrow upon Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, HWL Poonja, Adyashanti, Eckhart Tolle, Alan Watts, and many others. The podcast can be found at...
http://www.awaken2life.org/podcast-more-oom.html The website is Awaken to Life. Not only are all 40 episodes of Out of Our Minds available for free, but also the site contains previously published articles, satsang schedule and excerpts, a free e-book and audiobook, cartoons, recommended books, and more. |
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| Egoless as possible creativity aids yourself and others in release of painful duality |
[Jan. 21st, 2009|04:42 pm] |
So much pain in my darkness where I feel so alone
a light shines through
I move towards it
I want to be saturated
But I know there are others behind me
I choose to stay put
And live a life within constant duality
One can not exist without the other
As above, so below
I am observing the contrast
I am conscious within it
I will add more colors to it
A beautiful spectrum that loops around
In the eyes
The ears
The heart
Anything and everything in between
Maybe most won't understand
But I know for certain that I am not alone
~Molly Lenore
REMEMBER: No one can advance with the rest left behind |
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| We are on a schedule |
[Jan. 18th, 2009|04:43 pm] |
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Very happy to join this positive and wise community!
We invite you to explore Ian Xel Lungold and Dr. Carl Johan Calleman's findings on the evolution of Consciousness and how it aligns with:
- Earth's biological evolution
- Epics of time for Human cultural history (and future)
- Acceleration
- Progression toward non-duality
- One of the Mayan calendars!
Ian gave this talk in February of 2005, just a few months before he left Earth. (Bless his Soul.)
"What do we do now?"
Please see the last video listed below, where he brings us almost up to date...
"Consciousness has a plan and we are all part of it."
Blessings and Love upon all of creation.
http://www.mayanmajix.com/
http://www.mayanmajix.com/cycles.html
http://www.calleman.com/
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