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Roots What I refer to as "routes" are none other than our particular course in life, with all it's experiences and learnings and conditionings. This is the "route" we take in life. There are as many routes as there are people. These routes, due to the very nature of Evolution/Involution are headed for The Path. Problem is that we get side-tracked with all of the attachments and desires that defile our getting to that Path. So we contrive a path of our own, with it's own truths and own concepts of god and love and right and wrong as a justification for us not getting to The Path. After all, though sentient we are quite intelligent beings so we have to have a reason for not getting to where we were naturally supposed to get to in the first place. Our conditioned rationalization being that we do not have to get to "The Path" because we have one of our own. Which suites us quite nicely. We are comfortable and safe and secure in "our path" (so convinces the Grand Trickster). Bottom line is that if we are not Awakening, we are not on The Path but rather a comfortable contrivance of what we are conditioned to *think* The Path is. And as has been obvious since time immemerable, if we are not on The Path we are not Awakening so we are Sleeping automatons. Reaping transient seeming rewards for our folly. And we can not Hear the AlarmClock to Wake-Up when our Ears are plugged with our conditioned contrived notions that control and manipulate our thinking and behavior. And I have yet to see an organized religion that has a remedy for getting this conditioned contrived filth out of our Ears. No one Saves us but ourself, no one can and no one may, others can Point to The Path, but we ourself must Walk The Way. The fear is a *reaction*, quite psychological, that psychosomaticly induces the body to respond. "As a man thinketh, so is he". There is but Light. So indeed darkness is but the absence of Light. But Light can not absorb darkness for there is no darkness to absorb, though the color black does absorb heat and light. Night is the absence of light, and the change from night to day is but the entering where light was once not. Truth can not be altered whether it is experienced or not. Truth simply IS as it IS, and that is the only way we can experience it. The truth that is altered is but the contrivance of the conditioned mind. Obviously yesterday's truth was not Truth at all, or it would still be Truth today. As everyone has their conditioned ideas of truth, that differs form person to person, is obviously not truth at all but rather each person's conditioned notions and nothing more. Though they are conditioned to *think* that THEY understand Truth, all they understand are their conditioned ideas and images and meanings and nothing more. When they Understand Truth, the Truth will be the same Truth from person to person. When they get rid of the Causes of their Suffering, when they get rid of their conditioned notions, THEN they can Understand Truth. It is not that we have to be conditioned in the first place. We should not be. But we are. And so we have to discard it. If we were not conditioned in the first place we would have nothing to discard. That is my Point. Stop being conditioned and stop conditioning others. We are conditioned to condition others as well as accept the conditioning ourselves. We condition our children as we were conditioned. As Jesus said, "we must be as little children". That is, Free from conditioned notions, Free to be the inquisitive Divine nature that we started out as before we were conditioned. The new born, as I have said many times, is a great Guru if only we would open our eyes. With our education and skills as an adult, if we could be the natural spontaneous inquiring BEing that the new born is, we would BE Awakening. This is what Jesus was saying. We can not unlearn facts and figures and skills for our survival, and would not want to. But we can unlearn the conditioned notions that prevent us from being the Divine creatures that we ARE. Anything learned can be considered conditioned, but not all conditioning is Toxic to our Awakening. Only those notions that control and manipulate our thinking and behavior are Toxic. Though science has told us that the Earth is not the center of the Universe, humanity still thinks that the Universe revolves around him. His God tells him so, that the Universe was made for him to play in. The rude awakening is that if he destroyed the planet Earth and all upon the face of the Earth, the ripple felt throughout the Universe would hardly be felt. He is a legend in his own mind, and nowhere else. Nothing puzzling about that, we see it in just about every activity -- like war and hate and conflict and greed and selfishness and self-centeredness and the like. So the first step in his Salvation is that he must Realize that he is an insignificant growth of fungus that has evolved/involved to a point that it can control and manipulate his contrived reality and everything in it by conditioning or programming everything in this fantasy seeming reality. THEN he MIGHT start to get the drift of the scheme of things in the Cosmos. It was said in jest of the Sleeping. And why I used the figure six billion is because that is almost the total population of the planet. And you are correct, there are those few thousand who have starting Awakening and some of those are well along the Path. A few thousand out of over six billion is not an optimistic figure, especially as we now embark into the Darkest of Dark Ages that humanity has ever seen. Humanity is Sleepwalking toward a cliff, and if they do not Wake-Up soon they will fall over the edge into the Dark Abby of eternal Slumber. Life Force arises to vitalize the system, why then would it leave ("rising out of") ? So it is a cycle, of arising and circulating. As the cobra arises at our beckoning sound and recoils, so too does the Serpent you call Kundalini. Though it may *feel* at times to burst through the top of the head, the Serpent never leaves it's Abode (so never really "returns" either). Life is most Wondrous. Perhaps the problem is that people are not Realizing this until genomics tells them so. We may be getting at the root of our Suffering here. For indeed, people do wait around for some *authority* to tell them this or that otherwise they just keep bumping into walls. Through a *genetic engineering* with the help of genomics, they could simply alter the genes of the parents and therefore breed Blind Followers and not have to be bothered with conditioning them later. Sounds like a step forward in Genetic Engineering -- good find Dear Friend -- we can not be Watchful of that which we know nothing of. The Grand Trickster lurks EVERYWHERE. Anything learned, such as work skills or language or how to use a computer or simply informational data can be considered conditioning. But they are not necessarily toxic to our Awakening. I stress the toxic conditioning for those are the ones we must let go of, as the other conditionings may very well aid us in our Awakening. I speak of conditioned images and ideas and meanings and notions that stand in the way of our Unfolding Awakening, Veils that Blind us to our own True Nature, that we have to let go of. I am sure that there are Mantras, yet the *tried and true* method of letting go of any desire is to dig in with all fours like a football lineman, nose to nose and toe to toe, and clash with it head-on. That is, beat it rather than find a quick-fix or a way around it. The triumph tends to last a lot longer that Way. 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. Can we discard our mind ? Would we want to ? Is not the mind simply the mind being the mind doing what the mind does ? Silence of mind is not discarding the mind but rather allowing the mind to be in it's natural state of Silence. For the mind is inherently Clear and Pure of defilements, as water is naturally Clear and Pure. Yet when we mix the water with impurities the water is no longer clear and is cloudy. Likewise, when we mix conditioned notions with the mind it too is cloudy and no longer Clear. To restore the water to it's natural Clear state we must purge the water of the impurities. Likewise, to restore the mind to it's natural Clear state we must purge the mind of it's conditioned notions. So Silence of mind is the discarding of conditioned notions, restoring the mind to it's natural state of Clarity and Purity. Once restored to it natural state of Clarity, like water the mind is a most Refreshing state of BEing in it's natural state of Clarity. For IN the Silence we Hear, as IN the Void we See, as IN the Awakening we ARE. So it would seem that the colloquialism "it's all in your mind" is quite an Insight. So it would seem that all we have to do is get it out of our mind -- let it go -- discard it -- Silence it. "It" naturally being our conditioned notions. When I refer to Sleep I rarely if ever refer to the physiological/psychological need for rest, but rather the conditioned automatonic state of perception that we interact with the world at large in. But here I will say that such a preoccupation with sleeping as the letter so vehemently stresses is a gross waste of time and potential. We can not Directly Experience Life and Living if we are spending most of our life sleeping. Life and Living is a Wondrous adventure, to slight ourselves by escaping from it seems to be a major defilement. Indeed, psychologically a break from the sensory and non-sensory input and physically a rest from the activity is one of the *preventative maintenances* we have to deal with in this physical form. But only so much is actually needed and any more is mere excess. I would offer that we only take what sleep we need and Live what remains of our Life. Aside from that, any such preoccupation with anything is but our clinging to the past and the future. In that we desire that which was as well as that which we desire to be, when our undivided Attention should be IN the very present Moment from Moment to Moment. How can one Directly Experience this very Moment NOW if one's Attention is never IN the very Moment NOW. For you see, no matter where we go, there we ARE. So I would say that our Attention should be where we ARE rather that where we have been and where we want to be. This, is the difference between Sleeping and Awakening. May I offer that a thought filled meditation is not meditation, since questions are thoughts and thoughts not meditation. Thoughts are thoughts, as meditation is meditation. Perhaps the problem is not so much in the question but rather in the answer. If there were answers perhaps questions would be justifiable, yet if there are no answers then questions are but a waste of energy. Perhaps the reason that no real answers have been found is because there are no real answers to be found. So regardless of how much or how long we look for answers that do not exist, answers will not be forthcoming. That is, "you can't get blood from a turnip". So perhaps the answer is in the question, for if there is no answer there can not be a question. Forcing the issue and asking the question anyway, can not hasten getting an answer that does not exist. When there are no questions there are only answers, as when there are no answers there are only question. Sleeping, we have only questions, yet Awakening we ARE only answers. So perhaps the answer to all questions would be "Wake-Up", for then we will not need answers as we will not have questions. For when there is no "I" there is only "BE". So the new approach would BE to BE. The Sound Heard in the Silence of mind (absence of thoughts) is Operant Sound, or that which is sound before it is audible. So the Sound is not Heard with the ear drum mechanism but rather with our Divine Essence or our BEing. In order to Hear via our Divine Essence, that Divine Essence must be Pure and so without conditioned notions. The Sound of Silence is the Wisdom before it is uttered, or that which is going to BE just before it IS, or the Operant Awakening just before Awakening. It is the space between and behind the words. It is that which is Realized rather than heard or even known. Though we, in our feeble way, transduce this Realization into a medium that we can understand. Yet words can not convey such a Realization, such an Operant Communication, so I can only say that the Sound IN the Silence must be Directly Experienced to be Truly Understood and Heard. When True Silence is established, you will Hear the Sound. Before anything IS, it is Operant Potential to BE. In the course of Evolution/Involution the Operant Potential is excited toward gross manifestation. So it was "in the beginning". Since all manifested form is Consciousness at some stage of Evolution/Involution, "in the beginning" there was only Operant Potential Consciousness Evolving/Involving to BE as manifested form was still "without form and void and darkness was upon the deep". As the natural Evolution/Involution of the Operant Potential Consciousness excited ("moved on the face of the waters") to a point of physical manifestation BEing. And as this process continues Moment to Moment, the Wonders of this very Moment can be Directly Experienced no less a Wonder than it was "in the beginning". This can be Heard IN the Silence as OM or AUM. IN a grain of sand we can See the intricate workings of the Cosmos and Hear the Wisdom of the ages, as Sir William Blake so aptly Points out. A Pearl, I trust, that will not be trampled under foot. 0====[::::::::::> Sword of Truth <::::::::::]====0 I can only offer that when thoughts arise at the Moment of any given experience of a Moment, it is a conditioned reaction to the experience of that Moment. If, on the other hand, as we are experiencing the Moment we draw upon information (thoughts) in aiding us IN the experience of the Moment, then we are responding based on our particular state of Awakening. The difference is a reaction based on prior programming or a response based on our Understanding. For we can not do away with thoughts, but rather whether those thought arise as a reaction or whether we think as a response. For you see, Dwelling IN the Moment requires no thoughts to arise -- it is reacting or responding that will establish a requirement of thoughts. IF we Realize that we are automatons programmed to follow the ebb and flow of our conditioned notions (the contents of our mind, which include memories and emotions), then and only then can we Openly and Honestly stand before the Mirror of Truth. This is not to say that we will remain standing there, because the reflection may be to scary so we may turn away. If we do not recognize the despicable controlled and manipulated puppets that we are, we are resigned to *follow* or remain controlled and manipulated by our conditioned perception. Now, if we get disenchanted with that which we follow (that which controls and manipulates our perception), we simply start following something else. In following a different set of conditioned notions, we are still following conditioned notions. The Key is to get away from conditioned notions, therefore get away from following. Of course they all Understand about the influences of a conditioned perception -- unless they lived there lives in isolation they would have to go through and discard or overcome these influences themselves. What I indicate is that what they do not Realize before coming to the West is the extent and depth and completeness and strength (to say nothing of the continual bombardment) of our conditioning. This is what they are overwhelmed by. Most do not give up their Mission, they do not give up on us as lost causes, Bless them, but their Work tends to take more the shape of gathering followers than Unfolding Awakening. But the roots of our conditionings fill our whole being and so are the very platform of our lives. And to extricate these roots, to transmute this lead to Gold, is a battle not second even to the battle Arjuna faced in the Gita. It is a battle no less that Blake's battle of Heaven and Hell. This is not a minor struggle that we face, but rather such the awesome struggle that 99.99% do not even attempt. Though they follow the beat of a different drummer, they are still following someone else's music.
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