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Whole, Not Hole First, the Whole does include All, that is a given, so nothing is "apart" from anything other than in dialog (which tends to appear dualistic at the surface). Do not avoid the conditionings by the world that we live in, the tendencies and inclinations that lend us to think and act in particular frames of reference. This is what I refer to as the *Grand Trickster* -- the conditioned mind. Would you say that we should not empty ourselves of this vermin that keeps our Awakening Veiled ? Are these conditionings not the very Causes of our Suffering regardless of what that Suffering might be ? I am not the first to point to conditionings being our Blindness and I will not be the last. We must take care of this instrument, this vehicle we use and ARE, for it has it's worth in experiencing the manifestation of physical form at the human stage of evolution and to Help others in their Awakening. But beyond that, the physical plane is not worth attaching so much importance to it that we would destroy each other to *have* it. This is the contrivances of our conditioning (the Grand Trickster). The form's duration is limited, our Essence is not. We must not cling to that which we Realize is but a *passing*. Only in dialog does there seem to be a separation, but it is our conditioned mind, our conditioned thinking, that is the Grand Trickster and it is with us until we discard it's Influence over us, discard it's control and manipulation of our thinking and behavior. Then and only then can we possibly start Awakening. Of course, any statement can be turned around to state about anything that the Grand Trickster would like it to state. But the fact remains, if we are full of conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of any kind we can be filled no further with the Light of Awakening. Only an empty glass can be filled, we can add nothing to a full glass. It is an Illusion contrived by the conditioned mind to establish our self-importance and thereby a hinderance to our Awakening. A help-mate to most, but not to those who are Awakening. In Awakening, we will Observe the activities of this creature we call the ego and call it to task to reveal it's worth as an aspect of our BEing. Yet, IN the Moment of no projected conditionings into/onto the experience of that Moment, ego will not be present. So it would seem that if the Moment is the only instance of Reality, and ego is not present, then would not ego be part of that conditioned thinking that when discarded with all other Illusions will self-destruct with the other Illusions ? Conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts are not "straw-men", but rather very well armored an equipped to battle for their survival. In fact, the greatest battle we will ever face is to discard these Causes of our Suffering. The Bhagavad Gita points this out quite readily. But of course this can not make much sense until we Directly Experience it. Does anything exist *outside* Wholeness ? Does anything exist *outside* What-IS ? I have Seen nothing that does. Siddhartha said that *problems* were causeless in that we establish them ourselves. He did say that we would not give up the Causes of our Suffering because these Causes were our conditionings. We can Realize our shortcomings by Openly and Honestly Observing our human frailties and conditionings in the Mirror of Truth. In Openly and Honestly, without any conditioned notions as to our likes and dislikes, we See the jesters we are and how controlled and manipulated we are. If it does not scar us too badly we Struggle to rid ourselves of this pestilence we call conditionings. And eventually we stand before the Mirror of Truth and See the Divine Essence of Awakening that we ARE. And when we step away from that Mirror as the Awakening Essence that we ARE we Realize a Peace and Contentment and Compassion and Empathy with All, and conditionings such as *ego* are not recognized any more. Is not the root of Sleeping or Suffering, attachment ? Is not the root of attachment, desire ? "No matter where you go, there you are". But may I offer, that "Either/Or" is not the question but rather our Direct Experience of Realizing What-IS. If there are any projected conditioned notions in our experience, then What-IS is not Realized. For in projecting conditioned notions into/onto any given Moment, we will only experience the conditioned projections (which are Illusions) instead of experiencing the Moment. Why "tolerate" anything, why not simply Dwell IN Silence. What is breathing ? That is, other than an autonomic response of the human organism to get oxygen into the organism or a focus of concentration in some meditation techniques or setting up particular harmonics in the various human energies. Is not the experience of breathing, the experience of breathing ? If we are taking short breaths, is this not the experience of taking short breaths ? If we are taking long breaths, is this not the experience of taking long breaths ? If we are driving a car, is this not the experience of driving a car ? If we are cooking, is this not the experience of cooking ? If we are washing the dishes, is this not the experience of washing the dishes ? Whatever we happen to be doing, is this not the experience of whatever we are doing ? Is this not the experience of What-IS ? We have a tendency to projects our ideas and images and meanings into any given experience, thereby distorting the experience of What-IS. Distorting it toward our way of thinking -- a conditioned way of thinking. And yet we wonder why it is so difficult to experience What-IS IN the Moment. What-IS IN the Moment has nothing to do with our particular conditioned way of thinking, so it is only a defilement of What-IS IN the Moment by our projections. Perhaps if we discarded the arising conditioned images and ideas and meaning and Observe What-IS AS-it-IS for what it IS of itself and by itself, then we may be able to Dwell IN Awakening. Then we may be able to Dwell IN the Moment. Then we may be able to Experience What-IS. The experience IS the experience of experiencing an experience, and nothing more (or less). The problem is that conditioned thinking establishes attachments and therefore is of a negative nature. And indeed, we are bound by these conditioned attachments provided by the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind. And if we are to Awaken from such Illusions we must not consider them likened to the "bonding" of parent and child. For conditioned thinking is but a Damian, and we are but foster parents of this antichrist that we seek bonding with. Is not "grasping, a clutching at" conditioned thinking ? Are we to "be one with" our conditioned thinking ? Is this conditioned thinking not the Causes of our wars and conflict and tension and madness throughout the world ? Is not this conditioned thinking the very basis for our Sleeping ? If not, why would all of the Wise Sages, including Siddhartha and Jesus, tell us to get rid of it ? I guess one could call it "classical", for there is nothing new in what I say, just the way that I say it. There was nothing new in what Siddhartha or Jesus said, it seemed new at the time because of the way they said it. I am only echoing the words of others in terms that I am familiar with. Indeed, there is established a separation or division between Sleeping and Awakening. But there is no "boundary" or wall or even any resistance other than on the part of the Sleeping (the resistance to Wake-Up). This is most times called "detachment" or "un-attachment". This detachment does not relate to the Oneness of All manifestation, but rather our non-attachment to the physical realm so that we can Realize Oneness. We can transform ourselves, and Help others transform themselves, and thereby Help in the world being transformed, but our attention must be to transform ourselves. No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may -- others can point to the Path, but we ourselves must Walk the Way. A mission of transforming the world lends to one's avoidance of transforming themselves. For they can not hope to put even a dent in world transformation until they transform themselves. I contend that our attention should be focussed Within rather than on the world. Awakening, we are strangers in a strange land, so we can Observe the world as one who is not OF it -- though we are obviously IN it. Being OF the world, one would not see to much of it's shortcomings for we would be too close to the picture. We can see distant stars in the heavens as we point at them, but if our finger is too close to the eye our sight is blocked by our finger. Has not all Wise Sages and icons of modern religions told us that Awakening is not "composed of the stuff of my world" ? They have pointed to the Path, but we have to Walk it. Only hermits withdraw from or reject the world, or perhaps enlightened ascended beings. But we who are IN the world, Awakening, must interact with it continually for if nothing else our physical survival. To say nothing of our participation in the work force and economic system to pay bills. So this is simply Experiencing What-IS, and not a withdraw form it. But we do not have to be OF the world, but simply a stranger in a strange land. Must not Healing start with Healing ourselves ? Are we to contend ourselves to be *want-a-bes* or *rather-bes* ? Is it not a colloquialism that we should clean up our own back yard before instructing others to clean up their's ? Siddhartha said that we would "*want* to" keep the Causes of our Suffering and contend ourselves with complaining about the Suffering. This is seen throughout the world. If I may offer, the closer one gets to the world (the more attached one is to it) the further away from Spirit (Awakening) one will find oneself. That is not an *opinion*, but rather a *classical* fact. We are conditioned to *believe* or *think* that we are not conditioned and that we are not Sleeping. It is only in the discarding of the conditioned thinking that we Realize that we are conditioned and Sleeping. Otherwise we *think* that we are as Free as a bird and wide awake, "superman and ten feet tall". Many have Realized that they have been controlled and manipulated all of their lives and Work on remedying that shortcoming, and so they begin to Awaken. Most endure and numb themselves to the chains they are bound with because they enjoy Sleeping. Only by Observing ourselves and what thoughts arise in any Moment and why such thoughts would arise and for what purpose, do we start to see how conditioned thinking controls and manipulates us and how it impedes our Awakening. 0====[::::::::::> Sword of Truth <::::::::::]====0 Good ? Bad ? Pleasurable ? Long ? Short ? Learning ? Somesort ? Indeed, we do Learn from our experiences. May I offer, that Experience IS Experience and by projecting conditioned notions into/onto the Experience is missing the Experience. As thoughts arise as to whether Experience is good or bad or pleasurable or long or short or somesort, the Experience Totally IN the Moment of the Experience is history -- and history is not part of NOW. To Totally Experience the Moment (whatever it is) we have no time to be considering, but rather must Purely unconditioned and unconditionally Experience -- and nothing more. May I offer, consider nothing, simply Experience. Sitting on a rock next to a tree, to Dwell in Peace and Harmony One with the rock and tree is nothing short of what some term a *Mystical Experience* -- nothing good, nothing bad, nothing pleasurable, nothing long, nothing short, nothing learned, nothing somesort, just Experiencing Oneness with All IN the Moment. Experiencing, Experience to Experience, Moment to Moment, Unconditioned, Unconditionally, Purely, would not our whole Life be quite Mystical ? It is in the boiling of our frustrations, and that boiling point that seems that our frustrations are about erupt and blow us to a mental Hell, IN that Moment IF we Observe those frustrations in the Mirror of Truth it IS our Awakening and it IS the frustration's Reckoning. When we are Open and Honest and pour ourselves out to a Loving Community such as this, through the exchange of offerings, not *followed* but Observed, we start to See a glimmer of that Light Jesus and Siddhartha pointed to when they said "Be a Lamp unto theyself". Great Pointers, these two -- as are many a Wise Sages. Who are really not to be *followed*, but rather Listened to and Observe what they Point to. Their words of Wisdom will aid us, and their Pointing will show us where we can locate The Way or The Path. They never told us to *worship* them, though they did tell us to Truly Listen. They never told us to *believe* them, but rather to *believe in* them that they would be uttering Truth. They did not say to know them, but rather to "Know thyself". You see, if we are really looking to where their finger Points, we will Realize that they Point Directly to US. No one Saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may -- others can Point to The Path, but we ourselves must Walk The Way.
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