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Influences? We must come to a point in our Inner Unfolding when we Realize that our previous belief systems (and no doubt all belief systems) have failed to do nothing more than control and manipulate our thinking and behavior. Jesus told his disciple to avoid *influences* (conditionings), for they had embraced them their whole lives and these influences were keeping them from Realizing the Truth he was offering. He did not want to change the Truth found in the Scriptures, but rather wanted to explain it AS IT IS and not as the organized religions taught it. For the organized religions were Sleeping and Understood not the Truth that the Scriptures actually stated, which would also be the case today with organized religions. He said that such false prophets would come in his name and deceive the people. For he knew that 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. May I offer, our religion, our belief in God, is an escape from actuality, and therefore it is no religion at all. The rich man who accumulates money through cruelty, through dishonesty, through cunning exploitation, believes in God -- and you also believe in God, you also are cunning, cruel, suspicious, envious. Is God to be found through dishonesty, through deceit, through cunning tricks of the mind ? Because you collect all the sacred books and the various symbols of God, does that indicate that you are a religious person ? So, as it should be, religion is not escape from the fact -- religion is the understanding of the fact of what you are in your everyday relationships, religion is the manner of your speech, the way you talk, the way you address your servants, the way you treat your wife, your children, and neighbors. As long as you do not understand your relationship with your neighbor, with society, with your wife and children, there must be confusion, and whatever it does, the mind that is confused will only create more confusion, more problems and conflict. A mind that escapes from the actual, from the facts of relationship, shall never find God -- a mind that is agitated by belief shall not know truth. But the mind that understands its relationship with property, with people, with ideas, the mind which no longer struggles with the problems which relationship creates, and for which the solution is not withdrawal, but the understanding of Love -- such a mind alone can understand Reality. Truth can not be known by a mind that is confused in relationship, or that escapes from relationship into isolation, but by the mind that understands itself in action, and only such a mind shall know the Truth. The mind that is made quiet without understanding it's relationship is a dead mind, but the mind that has no belief, that is quiet because it understands relationship -- such a mind is Silent, creative, and it shall know Reality. Thinking there is a body that moves, a brain that thinks, a hand that grips, or a mouth that smiles, is not other than believing there is a "chunk" of water that move closer to the shore as a wave. There is nothing "here" that can be anything else. No body to move, no brain to think, no fist to open, no hand to close. There is nothing "here" to cause anything else. No brain to cause a thought, no chemicals to cause emotions, no muscles to cause movement, no irritant to cause anger or be impressed. The only thing "here" is Waking-Up. Labels are indeed of no real use other than a medium of communication. It is the *belief* in these labels that is the problem and not the label itself, for we associate ourselves with these labels giving both the label and ourselves some importance. Albeit a false importance contrived in our conditioned mind, but it does control and manipulate our perception of both the label and ourselves. This is the foundational thinking that is at the root of all wars and conflict and strife and Suffering in the world at large. So of course if you enjoy war and conflict and strife and Suffering, it could not be wrong to you. Indeed, Awakening must be continually Realized *religiously*, Dwelled IN the Moment form Moment to Moment, for the Direct Experience of Reality and Truth IS continually anew each and every Moment. As Life and Compassion and Empathy and the Moment must be continually Dwelled IN and Realized *religiously*. Yet, indeed, *practicing* even these as a *religion* is nothing more than *belief*. So it would be the habitual practice of any conditioned notion that evolves into a religion based on beliefs, which is just the opposite of Awakening because Awakening IS the Direct Experience of What-IS (Truth, Reality). Ah, the *empirical data* game. Another of the shell-games to rationalize our particular position. The science game and the religion game has been toe to toe and nose to nose for centuries. We associate the bean with a shell, and as the shells are swiftly moved before our very eyes, we try to choose the shell that the bean is under. But the bean is under no shell, WE are. Only in our conditioned mind, do we *think* it is any other way. And where does this empirical data come from, other than outside of ourselves ? Our Direct Experience in Realizing it, without any projected conditioned notions about it ? Would it be *empirical* then ? Could it be replicated by another, or even by ourselves ? Could we give a protocol to replicate it ? Awakening, we Directly Experience the Realization of ourselves -- which IS a far more Factual than our conditioned ways of thinking and behavior. The Sleeping are still Sleeping, busily playing their shell-games and word-games. Playing one game rather than another, is still playing a game. And it is in that a game is played at all, that is the problem, rather that which game is being played. Sleeping, they are but variations of a shell-game. Awakening, they are Pointers to something more profound -- Waking-Up. But my suggestion would be to follow the jump of a legless frog. One does not eat a chicken and say they are eating an egg, yet it is quite common for one to believe that a fist is made of a hand, or a hand is an open fist, or to say that it is a body that stands and the same body that walks, sits, or talks. One does not, generally, watch the movement of a television screen and believe that there is really any object moving itself about, yet it is common to belief that there is a "brain" that arranges itself as thought, memory, etc. It is no more so that there is a "brain" that thinks, than there is a small man who is first on place on a television screen and then another place. That which we name is not the name, but rather the name is but a pointer to that which we do name. That which is *so* or that which *IS* is Reality, is Truth -- the uncalculated uninfluenced unbiased unconditioned uncontrolled un-manipulated. That is, not as we perceive it but rather as it is all by itself without us projecting any idea or image or meaning or label or name to it. A pure observation of whatever. We are conditioned to label and categorize and judge what we see as either good or bad or useful or useless. Yet nothing is good or bad or useful or useless in itself, it is simply what it is and nothing more. If we judge that it is good and useful via our conditioned thinking and behavior, we rave it and acclaim it's worthiness. If we judge that it is bad and useless via our conditioned thinking and behavior, we *react* to it or delete it. Yet, what we judge good and useful today might be bad and useless tomorrow, as what we judge bad and useless today may be that which will save our life tomorrow. So you see, no offering is anything in itself but rather as we perceive it to be so. You may ask, what is "What-IS" ? What-IS, What-IS Reality, What-IS Truth, is that which we do not project our conditioned ideas and images and meanings into/onto. That is, the actual object as it is without our judgments as to what we are conditioned to *think* it is. Observations through the Rose Colored Glasses of conditioned thinking, the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind, is nothing more than those conditioned notions that we project into/onto those observations. That is, we perceive whatever as we are conditioned to perceive it. That is, our perception of ourself and the world at large is nothing other than our conditioned notions as we judge and evaluate ourself and the world at large. So the use of the term *What-IS* is simply a conservation of words. Is not *following*, *following* ? May I offer that following one belief system in leu of another is a mere substitution for following either. We fool ourselves if we think that one is better than another. Awakening from Sheepdom is not about changing one belief system for another, but rather discarding our conditioned notions of Truth and Reality and BEing that Pure unconditioned Inner State of Consciousness that resides and IS Within. 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. The Ten Commandments ? The reason they are silly is that they do not work. They have only been with us for thousands of years, and yet we can not fit them into our daily lives. Have we changed ? Do we kill ? Do we bear false witness ? Do we covet ? The design of the commandments from heaven is an ancient, tired horse. Authority is not passed down blindly from generation to generation. Why do we look for authority in a God that gives us written laws to obey ? Is it because we want to shirk the responsibility for our own actions, our own deficiencies, our own conditionings ? Why do we want to be told how to think and how to behave ? Are we so afraid of how we may think and behave, without being concerned about being controlled and manipulated ? In Inner matters, is there an authority save our own Awakening IN the Moment ? As a matter of civility and common decency, there is legitimacy to these commandments in the interaction with others. But I ask you, did the Israelites keep these commandments ? Has anyone kept them ? Why enshrine the word and not the deed ? No, Dear Friend, drop the pretense of *divine inspiration* and drink at the well of human nature and whatever the Moment holds to Directly Experience right NOW, without any crutch whatsoever. Is that possible ? One may be surprised at what one would Realize if tried. We must Listen, and Hear the Alarm Clock -- and not hit the *snooze button*. The practice of meditation (in sessions) is to establish a meditative state of mind, to establish the Silence and Self-Observation needed -- but True meditation can not stop there. We must manifest that meditative state of mind into every aspect of our lives -- BEing that meditative state of mind. THAT is meditation. To conduct our whole life and interactions with the world at large in a continuous state of meditation IS meditation. To work our jobs, to play our games, to interact with family and friends, to socialize, continually IN a meditative state IS meditation. The *practice* or *session* is just to get us used to the Silent Calm Awakening state of Observation -- noncommittal, non-judgmental, non-projecting, non-conditioned Observation of What-IS Moment to Moment -- THAT is meditation. Too often we mistake the frog for the jump. That is, we think that there is a frog and that there is a jump that the frog does. When actually the jump is nothing more than the frog BEing the frog, so the frog and the jump are one. Likened perhaps as Jesus said "THROUGH me shall ye be Saved" -- not BY him, but rather THROUGH his offerings of Insights and Wisdom. For Jesus can not Save you, yet through the Help that he offered you can Save yourself. And so it is, THROUGH offerings of Help, one can Save oneself. In the case of Jesus, people have missed the Wisdom and the Help because they became attached to the man. It is in offerings that one will find *importance* and not in the one offering at all, for the offerer is of little importance (save perhaps that he is offering his offerings). So we must BE Mindful, for there are so many Gurus and Enlightened Teachers on every street corner SELLING their wares and proclaiming themselves the New Messiah. As Namaste is to say *may the Divine Essence IN me Embrace the Divine Essence IN you as a Divine Essence of One*, so too Metta is to say *may the Loving Kindness IN me Embrace the Loving Kindness IN you as Loving Kindness of One*, so too Zikr is to say *may the Self Remembering IN me Embrace the Self Remembering IN you as a Self Remembrance of One*. So *may the True Nature IN me Embrace the True Nature IN you as a True Nature of One*. It is in the Inner Embracing of each other that we Realize that we are all cut from the same bolt of cloth yet most do not Realize it yet. 0====[::::::::::> Sword of Truth <::::::::::]====0 I stress the True Understanding of Aloneness -- being Alone. Not lonely, but rather Realizing that we are all Alone in our Inner Struggle with our conditionings and that Solitude is our True Friend. But we do not have to be by ourselves to Understand and Realize Aloneness, for we can be in a downtown shopping center crowd and BE Alone. It is the Solitude and Aloneness that you need, even when you are with your family doing family things. Your Insights come and go with your state of BEing at any given Moment because your Awakening comes and goes each Moment. Remaining IN the Moment from Moment to Moment, continuously, your Awareness IN the Moment would not come and go but rather would BE on a continuous basis. Naturally you will try to cling to them because they are always fleeting, coming and going, and so you try to follow them and hold on to them. But the *clinging* is the clinging to the conditionings that prevents you from remaining IN the Moment. An *Intensity* yes ! But an Intensity that will only destroy conditioned thinking. When you finally discard that conditioned notion that puts you over the line into True Awakening, you are struck with an awesome Realization of Reality and Truth that leaves you speechless and motionless and as limp as a wet wash cloth. This is the Intense Realization of your worthlessness as a conditioned automaton. It is not the first conditioning discarded, nor will it be the last. Awakening is an ongoing ever struggle with conditionings. No sparks, no balloons or lights, no fanfare, no ticker tape parade, no being bowed to by god, just the awesome Understanding of Reality and Truth. And you start Observing the everyday things as an *outsider*. You feel that you do not belong anymore. Everyone is a stranger now. You Realize that everyone is Sleeping -- "wake up, wake up, you fools". They can not hear you. Then it dawns on you, you reached over to hit the *snooze button* but decided to go ahead and Wake-UP.
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