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Freedom IS BEing Some time ago in the United States, before the advent of the tractor, in just about every tack-room could be found an item called *blinders*. It was used by farmers as well as city/village coachmen for their horses. The bridle was secured around the horses nose and the bit of the bridle placed in the horses mouth so the horse could be steered. Then the blinders, an apparatus of straps that fit over the horses head exposing the ears and had two shields about the size of your open hand that were placed one on each side of the horses head just ahead of the temple area. You can assimilate this by opening your hands flat and putting them up to the sides of your head just in front of your temples perpendicular to your line of vision. The blinders were used so that the horse would not be distracted by anything to the side of the horse. That is, the horse was allowed to look only straight forward, only at what was straight in front of it. This made it possible for the farmer to plow a straight farrow, and the passengers in coaches not to be jolted by the horse getting frightened by some activity along side of the carriage. It narrows the horses ability to see. It works very well with horses. For the life of me, however, I can not fathom why people wear them. Indeed in Sleeping humanity everyone has their *own truth* and their *own reality* as they have their *own heaven* and their *own hell*. All such concepts of ownership are at the root of war and conflict and hatred and greed and all sorts of ills facing us today. "When the two become one", Jesus so aptly said, "you can enter the kingdom of heaven". I would say that he was indicating that our personal truths and realities were keeping us separate not only within the human family but also separate from ourself. Assume nothing, it is a Fact that *once all conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts are let go of* Truth is Truth regardless of who is looking at it. It is our conditioned notions that make us *think* that everyone can have their own truth, that is why there is so much conflict and war and abuse and abandonment and Suffering in the world. The Key of course being that we let go of our cherished conditioned notions, THEN we will all see the same answers. For there is but One answer, Truth, and Truth does not come in various flavors according to our liking. Letting go of our dearly beloved conditioned notions is most Painful, for we have grown quite dependent on them for our seeming security and sense of importance and the support of our ego. When we Realize that the only thing that is important is that we BE our True unconditioned Nature, we Realize the folly of our conditioned thinking and behavior. But the cost of letting go of those closely held conditioned notions is too High for most to bare, for it requires the most Painful and arduous struggle with the Grand Trickster our conditioned mind that we will ever undertake. For we will give up most anything including life itself for some cause whether it be nobel or foolish, yet will not give up even a minor shard of the Causes of our Suffering. Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita portrays this quite well. Ah yes, the elephant story -- a good illustration that we are Blind robots controlled and manipulated by our limited conditioned perception. That to be able to Understand the Whole elephant we must Wake-Up from the Blind adherence to our conditioned notion that *our truth* is THE truth and Truly look at the elephant as a multiplicity of Unity that is One Wholeness. For *our part* is only the part that we are conditioned to think is THE whole, so there is conflict. When we let go of *our part* and consider All parts put together as a Whole, THEN as Blind as we may be we will still be able to See the Whole elephant. So all I am saying is that if we limit ourself to just *our part*, we can not Enjoy the Whole Enchilada. "Hard and fast rule" ? Who is it who makes ? What is to make ? Who judges ? What is to judge ? Mother Nature is not doing such a good job at "hard and fast rules" so we must step in a help ? It would seem that it would be far less worrisome if we would let Mother Nature BE her True Nature as we must BE our own. Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and the Cosmos that which is it's due, and give unto ourself only our True Nature. Who is to advise ? Who advises ? What is to advise ? What is advice ? True advice is not advice, but rather the simple doing of that which must be done IN any given Moment from Moment to Moment. The intent of the advisor must not be to advise but rather to Help and to Serve, as the receptivity of the advised must not be advice but rather Open to Help and Service. The difference is interactivity. Though Helping and Service is advice, interactive advice, advice is simply a commodity freely given whether worthy or not. True advice, interactive advice, Helping and Serving, demands a certain melding of the advisor and the advised. So I would offer that advice as Help and Service, without projecting any conditioned notions into/onto that Help and Service, is advice worthy to give or to receive. So it would seem that *intent* of both advisor and advised is a most crucial element, as it is IN our Awakening. Further, when our advice is offered due to our conditioned perception of our experiences or due to our conditioned belief of another's conditioned experiences then our advice is the furtherance of conditioned notions. When our advice is offered due to our Pure unconditioned Direct Experience Observation then our advice is Help and Service. Note the Key is our Pure unconditioned Direct Experience, all else is but the folly of the Grand Trickster. For even though our advice may be from Direct Experience, it may not be unconditioned. Only unconditioned advice is worthy of attention, though all else is funny. When we Realize that what we are doing is not a means to a goal but rather is the goal, we then can Naturally Unfold Awakening AS it IS, AS we ARE. THIS is IT. Odd, we Wake-Up from the Causes of our Suffering to BE our Suffering. Yet, BEing our Suffering we no longer Suffer for there is no Cause to Suffer. Then we can just enjoy and BE whatever we are doing. It is such the unspeakable Freedom, just doing what must be done and gleaning Insights IN/AS our continuous Unfolding Awakening each and every Moment from Moment to Moment. The Key being that as we let go of conditioned notions we Realize that what we are doing is what we are working to attain, for doing what we are doing *unconditioned* IN the Moment from Moment to Moment Frees us to BE the Life we Live. We Realize that the wearisomeness is all in our head, for doing what must be done IN the present with no thoughts of anything other than what we are doing is the Greatest Meditation. And so that Meditation IS Life itself, it's True Nature -- and of course our True Nature. Dwelling IN/AS our True Nature and observing through our True Nature, is the most Enlightening experience one can have. To continue that from Moment to Moment without gaps, we are able to Understand the Truth and Reality of what actually IS. Indeed a Tranquil and Peaceful state of BEing, but that is not what it is all about. What it is all about is that the more who can Truly BE this Tranquil and Peaceful state of BEing the less problems life on this planet will have and the more unifying the effort in the Evolution/Involution of Life in this Life-Cycle (Manvantara). It is all about refining the quality of energy emanated by this manifested life, Life-Force as some have called it though they do not know it's Big Picture. We are a speck of a Bigger Picture, and that Bigger Picture is but a dot on a yet Bigger Picture. As our Journey (Refining or Perfecting) in any given incarnation is never ending, so too the Refining or Perfecting in any given Manvantara is never ending. Obviously any attempts to explain it is futile, for words can only Point to the Fact that we must Directly Experience it ourself. If we "follow" anything we are, as you said "programmed, robot, stuffed dog stuff!". This would include following our conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts. And if we never Truly Observe ourself, if we never Truly Openly and Honestly show ourself in front of the Mirror of Truth, and see what programmed conditioned controlled manipulated automatons we have become, we will *think* that we are free and independent agents of and for ourself. Yet who we follow is the Grand Trickster our conditioned notions. Legends in our own mind. What book ? There are many books of vital information for us as Pointers. Problem is that we become mesmerized and beguiled by the finger and lose sight of where the finger Points. As reasonably small as a dime is, when held too close to the eye we can not see beyond the dime. So I would say to follow no book, glean Insights from many Pointers, and find out for ourself by Directly Experiencing whatever IS the Moment without projecting any notions into/onto that Moment. "Ah, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men............... the Shadow Knows". A fond quote from a radio program before television, "The Shadow". Before television people were glued to radios listening to radio programs, now a days they are glued to television watching movies. The quote from "The Shadow" comes to mind because there is where the "evil force" is -- in our hearts and in our minds. For evil has no force if we do not drive it and give it impetus. Humanity has become conditioned programmed controlled manipulated automatons, with war and conflict and hatred in their minds and their hearts. This is shown in their thinking and their behavior. Are there not more crimes in the streets today than there was even a decade ago ? Are there not more innocent shootings by children today than there were even a decade ago ? Are there not more atrocities in all parts of the world today than there were even a decade ago ? Is there not more corruption and deceit in government and business and religious organizations today than even a decade ago ? One does not have to look very far to see the proof that the evil is not *out there* but rather *Within* the pathetic robots we erroneously call *Man*. A sad commentary on the so called *Human Advancement*. You ask for *proof* of our statements ? All you have to do is take an Open Honest look around. The final frontier is not *out there*, but rather Within our mind and our heart. When we finally get on the *Inner Trek* rather than the *Star Trek*, we perhaps will actually be able to do something about the evil that WE manifest. Yes, WE are the Cause of our own Suffering. So pointing our finger at some contrived devil guy only diverts our attention away from Openly and Honestly looking into the Mirror of Truth. For it is that Open Honest look into the Mirror of Truth that will reveal the Real Devil Guy. Did Jesus not say "I come not to bring peace, but a sword", a Sword of Truth to cut away the defilements of our conditioned thinking and behavior. He also warned "release the influences upon you for they will keep you from entering the kingdom of heaven". He said that to his disciples due to their conditioned thinking before they started studying with him -- they were still very much influenced by their previous life. There is no one to blame for our defilements, but WE are to blame if we do nothing about them. Indeed, any given incarnation is a human experience for us that must be experienced but not as the conditioned programmed automatons we have become. People use Pierre Teilhard's saying "We are spiritual beings having a human experience" as validation that their lives are lived the way they are supposed to be lived, with all it conditioned notions. This is obviously so for they refuse to Wake-Up from those notions. The conditioned notions is their practice. The fallacy is that we are doomed as "spiritual beings" by being controlled and manipulated by our "human experience". This is nothing more than one trying to hold onto one's conditioned notions, so all they are experiencing is their own projected thinking and behavior. Yes, our True Nature of Awareness is always and has always been who we ARE but our True Nature is in the background awaiting it's manifestation in every aspect our of life when we let go of the conditioned notions. That is, we really can not Truly Understand or "have" this "human experience" until we ARE the "spiritual being". So BEing this "spiritual being" is not a goal to be attained but rather must be established before we can "have a human experience", otherwise it is just a figment of our conditioned mind. The "human experience" IS What-IS, and we really do not have a choice in the matter. So we must BE that "human experience" AS our "spiritual being" and not as the robots we have become. BE Life AS it IS and project nothing into/onto it. Does the toddler Guru project anything into/onto it's "human experience" ? Or does it simply experience it AS it IS ? And as the toddler Guru so aptly offers, we can only Understand that "human experience" this very instant Moment from Moment to Moment anew. Could this be the toddler Guru's Practice -- True Nature (Spiritual BEing) Truly "having a human experience" ? Is this what Jesus meant when he said that "we must be as little children" ? Is this what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin meant when he said "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." ? So, would it not behoove us to BE the "spiritual beings" we ARE without the added ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts so that we can BE the "human experience" we ARE without the added ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts ? Is this not Pure True Practice ? Only when we can BE our True Nature can we BE our True "human experience", otherwise we are but playing a game in the Grand Trickster's Olympiad of "contradictions". 0====[::::::::::> Sword of Truth <::::::::::]====0 A Recognition of that which IS and that which ISNOT. Not good or bad, but rather What-IS and What-ISNOT. Sleeping, we tend to lean toward that which ISNOT. Awakening, we tend to lean toward that which IS. It not a matter of judgement but rather a matter of Recognition. We may Recognize that one is in a state of denial when they do not. For they will not want to admit to themselves that they are. Denial is a many faceted dimension of our conditioned notions, that leads most times to abuse and oppression and even to violence. The Sleeping judge, whereas the Awakening extend Compassion. Only the Sleeping judge, as they have no clue as to What-IS is. They have their belief systems and value systems and pit something against another, resulting in judgement based on What-ISNOT. For What-ISNOT is what they understand best. For it could be both one's denial of What-IS and one's conditioned perception of value. For if we can not Recognize What-IS, any observation would be a judgement based solely on one's conditioned ideas and images and meanings and values. "As a man thinketh, so is he". Indeed, *intent* is a major factor in anything we do or not do. For where there is intent there is a pre-disposition, a pre-conception, a pre-conditioned notion. And when this intent is not satisfied, then whatever it is that we are seemingly observing will be *judged* as erroneous in some way. THIS I have termed *Sleeping*. For IN Awakening there is no intent, there is no pre-disposition, there is no pre-conception, there is no pre-conditioned notion, there is only What-IS. Though intention can be very well hidden, it does become obvious to a trained eye or in the Works of those with intentions. It has been said: "you can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time". So, Awakening we simply Observe What-IS and What-ISNOT and respond accordingly, with no intent. For as you said, those with intentions act according to their own particular conditioned notion. But they are not connected to anything resembling Truth. There is where our Salvation IS. But why we cling to these Causes of our Suffering ? They are our security blankets, though a very false security at best. We are conditioned to *think* that we are secure by these notions, only to find out when put to the test that we fall flat on our face and even establish that which we cling to these notions to secure us from. A rude Reckoning, but a vital one in establishing our Awakening. So if we have progressed enough along The Path in our last incarnation, so we are more inclined toward our Awakening, then we will be responsive to such Reckonings. And that is why there are those who can Point to those Reckonings and tell why there are such Reckonings. For if it were not for those Pointers and those fingers Pointing, we would be as confused with the Reckoning as we are with the false security. 0====[::::::::::> Sword of Truth <::::::::::]====0 *Daily Meditations* Are you ready to take up the task or to Sleep Can you be Still let go what makes you weep, Can you be Nothing can you the Silence BE 'Cause there is no other Way to ever be Free. -- Yogajyotii It's not in your actions or where you may go Not in your practices nor in what you know, Nor in your vows or a worship of any kind Only IN/AS your BEing a Meditative Mind. -- Yogajyotii For IN/AS Self-Knowing Self-Actualization Enlightenment Awakening Self-Realization, Another word for IN/AS Meditative BEing Don't be mislead Stillness in your Freeing. -- Yogajyotii
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