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Don't Miss The Dance 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 ? 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. The Sleeping seem to *think* that they have *choices*, and in the myriad of *things* to posses we set up options whereby we can pick that which pleases us most. But the fact of the matter is that all of these *options* and *choices* are part and parcel to physical realm activity. And even then, we are conditioned to establish options and make choices. We are lead to a given response by a given stimulus. But indeed, when our Focus in OF the physical realm then we can choose between many things because our potential of attaching importance to those things are great. But when all one can understand is the physical realm, there is *no choice* but to act within the physical realm. There is no better time to DO anything than right NOW. In fact, it is the only time that we can DO anything. Pondering the lack of DOing in the past is not part of the Moment and therefore not Real. There is no past NOW. Why waste the energy concerning ourselves with something that is not Real. If we had Focussed are energy and Awareness AS the Moment twenty years ago, instead of fiddling with choices, perhaps we could be Experiencing a tree NOW instead of wishing we could. Because we are Sleeping. While Sleeping, we do not really *choose* pain or suffering but we choose *things* that we pay the price of pain and suffering to *posses*. Sleeping, we always have the sensation that we are falling out of bed so we have to *hold onto* any*thing* that comes into our *grasp*. Awakening, with Eyes wide Open, our Balance is quite True and the need no support and holding on to anything is useless. Sleeping, this is True. It is due to the fact that we *think* that we have *choices* and we do not Realize that we are being controlled and manipulated by the world at large. Dualism dictates an *either/or* situation in every event that takes place before us. However to transcend dualism, to transcend *either/or*, to transcend judgement, we find that there is but one so called choice and that is to Awaken from our *slumber* and See Reality as it IS rather than what we are conditioned to *think* -- stated in the signature of that post: "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem." AS Awakening any day is the first day of the rest of our lives, and so is neither good nor bad but simply is what it IS. Some days are just more difficult than others, but it is not up to us whether we experience the day or not. But "locked in a dualism", we are conditioned to *think* that we have choices so that we can have a sense of security in the control of our lives. Paradoxically, the seeming *choices* control and manipulate our thinking and behavior so our seeming *security* is quite false. So transcending dualism is not a goal, but rather a *result* of Awakening to nondualistic What-IS. Perhaps simply disregarding choices is a transcendence in itself. Perhaps discarding conditioned thinking is a transcendence in itself. Perhaps discarding dualism is transcendence. Sleeping in a conditioned dualistic perception is not DOing, but rather *reacting*. Sleeping we react, Awakening we Act or DO. We Dream when we are Sleeping, we do not Act or DO. I would only add that evolution is the natural progression of the physical form due to adaptations and mutations and involution is the progression of Inner *potential* for Awakening. Evolution gives us nothing but a more useful and more adaptable form, whereas involution gives us the progress potential of thinking and learning and devising games of conditioning -- as well as the potential of Awakening. Before form there is Consciousness as operant potential for form. My use of 'Consciousness is Form and Form is Consciousness' is the same as saying Form is Formless and Formlessness Form or "Energy at it's lowest state of evolution is Matter and Matter at it highest state of evolution is Energy". It may have been more clear to say Pure Consciousness is Form-To-BE and Form is manifested Consciousness. It is the Sound of Silence that excites Consciousness to manifest Form. It is AS the Silence that the Sound IS Heard, or the Word is Heard. I always harp on Dwelling AS the Silence so that we can Hear. You must Dwell there to Hear the Sound. This is where the word Om or Aum actually came from -- a human verbalization of that Sound. It is not the Sound of course, but saying the word correctly does set up some wonderful vibration Within. Manifestation of Consciousness is a continuum, not some past occurrence. We have to BE Awakening in order for us to Understand at all. The Sleeping only know what they are conditioned to know. It is only AS the Awakening from the delusion of our conditioned thinking that we are able to start to Realize What-IS. It is AS watching a blade of grass grow and it's dance in the wind, and BEing One with that blade of grass. It is AS watching a column of ants walk across a sidewalk, in their United dance and BEing One with those ants. It is, as Sir Blake has so aptly said, "to see a world IN a grain of sand", and Understand that the DNA of All of physical manifestation is AS that grain of sand. The Sleeping can not Understand What-IS. Only AS Awakening and Dwelling AS the Moment do we Realize What-IS. But before we can hope for further Awakening we must Look Openly and Honestly into the Mirror of Truth and see the hideous mess of conditioned thinking that we have become and Realize that we have no *choice* but to discard it and continue to Unfold. The Sleeping live in a *subjective* reality because they project their conditioned perception onto/into their existence. Reality is very *objective* in that it stands alone with meaning and purpose of it's own, without us projecting our particular *preferences* into/onto it. Reality IS, only AS Awakening can this be Realized. Conditioned thinking is a hinderance to Awakening, thought we are conditioned to *think* it helps. It keeps us from Awakening, so those who are Awakening would care. The Sleeping can DO nothing, let alone *create*. If you mean that the conditioned project their particular notion of what-is, this is True. The Sleeping are indeed legends in their own minds. The Sleeping never See a problem with Sleeping. They like to Sleep, less muss and less fuss and less work to Wake-Up. Hit the snooze button, reset the wake-up call, throw out the alarm clock -- Here's Your Sign. An incorrect approach will always get one face to face with a brick wall. But On the Path of Awakening effort never goes to waste and there is no failure. Even our seeming setbacks are Insights. The first step is Observing our thinking and behavior. The next step is discarding the thinking that is the conditioned elements that block the Awakening that we are to Realize. Knowledge and memory is not discarded, just the automatic responder of thinking and projecting of conditioned images and meanings into/onto a Moment before we Experience it. One can not really DO until one can BE. But yes, there is no room for "models and ways" when we take that step into the so called Unknown. Yet all we have to fear is fear itself. Which calls forth a memory of a Teacher who had a hamster. The hamster was given to him by a previous student as an offering of the first-born of the two hamsters that the student had. The Teacher seemed to cherish the little guy because every day he would take the cage that the hamster was in and sit it on his table and spent at least a half an hour playing with the hamster. One day the Teacher took the cage not to his table but rather to the door and placed the cage with the hamster in it on the ground outside and opened the door to the cage. I asked if the hamster would be alright, since to be left out in the wild was not familiar to it. The Teacher simply said, "the hamster knows, it is his nature". In Observing the hamster, it poked it's head out of the door of the cage and sniffed the air (a very cautious critter). Then he jerked back into the cage and jumped on the wheel that was in the cage and started running in the wheel. Ah, as I suspected the hamster did not know how to act in the wild so it decided not to venture forth (so I thought). Then with a dart, in one leap, the hamster jumped out of the cage and scurried into the bushes. When I see people not wanting to venture into areas that they are not familiar with, I think of the hamster jerking back into it's cage and running in the wheel that was placed there for it's exercise and entertainment. To keep it occupied, as conditioned thinking keeps humanity occupied so that we will not venture into the Final Frontier (Within). But if we Realize that Freedom from our cages of conditioned thinking is simply a matter taking that first leap Within, perhaps we will Realize our True Nature of Truth, as did the hamster. "Expose our vulnerabilities" ? May I offer: Awakening and Dwelling AS the Moment, Open and Honest AS All interactions, what is "exposed" but our True Self ? What "vulnerabilities" would we have in such a state of BEing other than the remains of toxic conditioned thinking and behavior ? "Rejected or scorned" by Awakening is expected by the Sleeping world at large, and always elicits a smile. One must BE Awakening to Understand and Realize Real or True Love, the Sleeping do not have a clue about it though they are conditioned to *think* they do. "If thine eye offend thee pluck it out". Not "lay out" but rather "pluck out". It is necessary for us to observe these fears and "learned" thinking and habits AS the Mirror or Truth, it does no good to offer them for "acceptance" of others when we have to Realize their control and manipulation of us and discard them. We are not to "accept" our shortcomings and offer them to others for their acceptance of them, but rather Cut our attachments to them with the Sword of Truth. Then what is "exposed" but our True Divine Essence of Awakening ? A *reconditioning* ? Why not a *de-conditioning* ? When we find ourselves in the abbey of no thoughts arising and no ideas projecting and no conditioned thinking or behavior, we Dwell AS the Silence where All is Heard, we Dwell AS the Void where All is Seen, we Dwell AS a State of BEing. It is not a matter of replacing one for another, but rather discarding what was not there in the first place. Only physical realm love is *directed*. True Love is not directed toward ourselves or anyone else -- we simply Love, we simply ARE Love. And it has nothing to do with others, it has all to do with our Awakening. Karmic Attraction and Connectedness is not for "validation" but rather for *continuance* of Work Together. Clinging to anything is fooling ourselves and has nothing to do with Awareness or Awakening, for that very clinging will prevent our Awakening. We do not Wake-Up because we Fear *change* and Fear what we do not Understand (fear of the unknown, it is said). Ah, but the Void is Full, and we can not "step into" anything or anywhere. Void is the emptying of ourselves of the Darkness of conditioned thinking and thereby BEing Full of Light. As there is nowhere to "step into" for "no matter where you go there you are". Dwelling AS the Void we are Full of Light and we are precisely where we are right NOW. BEing Full of Light, we See. The "nothingness" that is so often spoken of is actually the absence of conditioned mind and *nothing* more. May I offer that Truth can not be possessed, can not be gained nor obtained nor confined to one's holding. What you indicate is that it is your judgement or your belief, which may or may not reflect Truth (though judgements and beliefs rarely do). It is a matter of one's Experience. When one Directly Experiences Truth, then Truth is Experienced. Likewise, when one Directly Experiences judgement or belief then the judgement or belief is one's Experience. AS Awakening, we must Understand the difference. Yes, at times I do use the term *toxic* quite a bit (usually as more of an eye-catcher or shock-word). I separate conditioning by it's *intent*. Intent is a major factor in anything. That is to say that some conditioning or programming or learning is what we use to function in everyday life, such as work skills or social skills or abilities that allow us to maintain a certain similarity with the rest of the activities of the human race or learning how to operate a computer. Not *toxic*, but rather what we need to interact with physical existence. Then there is the conditioning or programming or learning that veils or gets in the way of our Awakening and Realizing the Reality of the Moment, such as beliefs or emotions or attachments of any kind. This type of conditioning is toxic to our Inner Awakening and prevents the Realization of Truth. It prevents us from being Open and Honest with both ourselves and with others -- in fact, prevents us from BEing. That is what I call *toxic*. For you see, regardless of our particular state of Awareness of What-IS, we must interact with the world at large on a day-to-day basis so we must have certain abilities to do so -- these abilities are conditioned. But when those abilities prevent us from Realizing our Self or Realizing Truth or Realizing Reality or Realizing anything not associated with mental activity, those seeming abilities become a detriment not only to us but to the rest of the world at large that we interact with. That is Toxic. To a very big degree (not totally), we are a product of our environment -- some of that is helpful and useful, and some is not. We would not want to get rid of all of our conditioning any more than we would want to get rid of thoughts or memories -- it is all in whether they control and manipulate us or we control and manipulate them. I will only add that it has been shown that either specking of conditioning in a general sense as *conditioning* or using it in a dual sense of *conditioning and toxic conditioning* generates about the same *reaction* from the Sleeping and only mixed *response* from the Awakening. 0====[::::::::::> Sword of Truth <::::::::::]====0 No matter where you go, there you are. When we look outside ourself for God we merely find our projected conditioned notions of God which are actually our conditioned notions of ourself, yet when we Dwell Within to look for our True Nature we find God. It is in your own personal relationship with The Divine Source of Consciousness, Awakening, that Truth is Realized. That which you Live after all of the talk is done...... is your own personal Awakening Within Manifesting Without. We are not all crazy -- It is all in our head, You have to Seek your own Salvation -- In the end the final Truth is between the lines instead, The narrow Path gets harder to find -- It is not what is done but rather a state of mind. The original writers of Scriptures tend to be Awakening, yet those who interpret Scriptures do not necessarily need to be. Was this not one of Jesus' main thrusts, to "clarify the law". He said that he was not out to discard the Scriptures but rather to Help people Understand them. Either he did a poor job or those who came after him did a poor job because there are few, who Truly Understand and are able to Truly interpret the very Scripture they *believe*. So who is it they *believe* ? Clergy who do not Truly Understand or know how to interpret the Scriptures themselves ? "False prophets" ? The Grand Trickster ? When Christians learn to Truly Understand and Truly interpret their own "Holy Bible", they will Realize that they have been duped by the very organized religion that they have been *thinking* held the keys to their salvation. What I state here applies to any organized religion, just that some are not quite as bad as others. Yet, Awakening, there is no *lesser of evils*. Truth is Pathless, you will not get there via any half-baked understanding and/or interpretation. "I come not to bring peace, but a sword", a Sword of Truth. It is True that as doors shut and thereby block our Way, there are always those Truly Awakening who will find a way to Open a window to get the Message out to those wandering in the abbeys. Yet as I have said quite some time ago, and the telltale subtle signs are becoming more evident, doors will be forced shut the further into Kali Yuga we go and those starting their Awakening will be hard pressed to locate those windows. I would say that we do not have to worry about it in this incarnation, but we will in the next. So, it would seem, that we have no good reason why we should not start Preparing right NOW. Gathering the Tools we will need to Sharpen our Sword of Truth as Warriors on the Path of Awakening. This is not obvious to the Sleeping, yet most obvious to those who have the "Eyes to See and the Ears to Hear ". Though the evidence is not hidden, conditioned controlled manipulated automatons will not See it. Jump train, for the True Strongholds of Awakening are dwindling. Not dwindling in numbers but rather dwindling in surface appearance for they are getting harder to find. 0====[::::::::::> Sword of Truth <::::::::::]====0 *Daily Meditations* Do not Fool yourself thinking those notions are You You'll not turn to Salt by Letting Go Proven by a Few, Conditioned not to See Truth Directly just Reflected In all the conditioned notions now must be Rejected. -- Yogajyotii Naturally as in any reflection the original is Distorted As we fashioned our own mirror it must be Aborted, We actually only see Reflections of some Reflection So Rendering the Present Reflection mere Distortion. -- Yogajyotii It takes a Strong Commitment to yourself then Do It As you do not need to know their location just Intuit, You can avoid the Pain/Struggle with just a Glance But problem is that you would also Miss The Dance. -- Yogajyotii
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