We Slept

When you have finally gotten it all, continuing to protect yourself from new such conditionings, you enter into a state of BEing that you are always your companion. Always watching yourself doing whatever you do. The difference is that you are in complete control because you are always there with yourself AS the Moment that you are doing whatever you are doing. As long as everything is happening as it should AS the Moment everything flows quite nicely with no spaces between activity. The odd thing is that when something happens that does not go with the flow of the Moment, it is as though you are in a cartoon because what happened that was not in the flow of the Moment appears obviously fantasy. It is as though you become immune to that which is not Real, immune to attachment, immune to reaction, immune to all the aspect we work so hard to let go of. Awakening gets easier the deeper we go into it. It is an uphill struggle to a point, then everything gets easier as though rolling down hill.

A bit contradictory to desire not to desire, is it not ? For a desire is a desire regardless of whether it is desiring or desiring not to desire. For it is WE who generate desire, as we are conditioned to do so. Desiring and simply doing or not doing are totally different. We are conditioned to *think* they are the same, yet the Key is Attachment -- we cling to that which we desire via emotion so we are controlled and manipulated by those desires/emotions. When we simply do not desire, we can not be controlled and/or manipulated by those desires. Problem is that we are conditioned to be our desires by manifesting those desires in our thinking and behavior. "As a man thinketh, so is he".

Awakening, Within could be called Heaven -- yet Sleeping, Within IS Hell. Whether we Realize it or not. For the Grand Trickster has us convinced that Hell is Heaven. We indeed must "be a lamp unto thyself", but when our chimney is sooted up with conditioned thinking then our Light shines dimly. It is only in the Cleaning of the Lamp that we can be a Light unto ourself. So I would say that before we even light the Lamp we must first Clean it, that is let go of conditioned thinking.

If I may, it is the chatter of the thoughts that we must Silence, so that we may offer our Wisdom and Pointers to others rather than withdraw from Helping those who are obviously in desperate Need of our Help. Though, paradoxically, they do not even want our Help for they are conditioned to *believe* that they need no Help. "Forgive them, for they know not what they do".

And yes, we will falter and stumble and repeat ourselves and even make fools of ourselves in our confusion of conditioned thinking and behavior. And sometimes we have to be told over and over again the same things before we *get it*. We only hope not to be shunned for such programmed automatonic condition, for it is Compassion and Empathy and Help that we Seek from those who can offer Wisdom and Insights and Pointers to us.

But without Pointers... words as Pointers... would it not be a *self-engendered* knowing ? Would it not be a knowing founded on our own projections ? Which may be quite conditioned ? Perhaps the words (Pointers) are trying to be a finger Pointing toward Waking-Up. How would we know if we never looked ? How would we look if it were never Pointed to ? I would say that the Grand Trickster would not take the initiative to go looking to Wake-Up on his own.

*IN the world yet not OF the world* is "separateness"? No, I would say that it indicates that we ARE the world (no separateness) yet not a contributor to its conditioned folly (no separateness). There is no separateness throughout the manifested Cosmos. WE generate our notion of separateness because WE Desire to be unique and special. Fact IS, All is Unique and Special as One.

But the fact is that most are controlled and manipulated by their emotions and desires. If there was no deceit or ulterior motive in this misunderstood four letter word love, there would not be so many broken relationships or marriages. There are many who say "follow your heart" and "love makes the world go around" -- such as the corporate moguls who love money, and the war mongers who love war, and the selfish who love possessions, and the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind who loves to control and manipulate one by their emotions and attachments. No, one can not get to Truth through that portal. Truth is not within the *known*, and though can be Recognized and Realized it can not be understood. Can not be found or held or given or received, and we delude ourselves when we *think* that Truth is a commodity that can be possessed.

It is not a matter of *finding* it, but rather in BEing it. If indeed WE generate the Desire, if indeed WE are responsible for the Desire, would it not also be possible to not generate the Desire ? If we indeed can do something, run for example, then it would seem that we would also have the power not to run, such as stand still. Desire being as much a conditioned notion as judgement, to let go of the conditioned notions would be letting go of Desire. Really a simple matter of simple math -- Desire being in the baggage, and we throw the baggage away, we also throw the contents of the baggage away. All of that baggage full of conditioned contents gets pretty heavy and quite the burden, as setting it down and Walking off from it really Frees one up.

It is "illusionary and self-imposed" and so it does exist *in our conditioned mind*. Yet nowhere else. In projecting our conditioned notions into/onto whatever it is that we are observing, we are actually establishing our perception of the observation. When we stop projecting our conditioned notion onto/into everything we Realize that everything simply IS as it IS, which is quite simple and straight forward and not in conflict with anything else. In fact, uncannily obvious. AS the Silence we Hear, AS the Void we See, AS Awakening we ARE, AS All IS.

Indeed, words are but Pointers, and not to be believed or followed or clung to in any way. For 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. What "takes you there" is not fixing our gaze on the finger Pointing but rather looking in the direction that it Points then Directly Experiencing the Path ourself. Sure, we look in the direction that the finger is Pointing yet we can see nothing. Why ? Because there is this Veil of conditioned notions preventing us from Truly Seeing. We can not See past the Veil that Blinds our Sight until we let go of the Veil -- it is that simple, though letting go of this dearly beloved Veil is not a simple matter.

I would rather: regardless of Direct Experience or not, initially we do indeed find ourself fluctuating between AS the Moment and NOT being AS the Moment because we do not keep our focus AS the Moment. We are easily distracted by our conditioned notions. BEing AS the Moment is most simple, yet staying AS the Moment is the most arduous and painful task we will ever undertake. For it takes reaching Deeply Within and wrenching out each and every conditioned defilement we have grown so fond of.

This is very True of the mind, the conditioned mind, the Grand Trickster. He is what we must Silence, let go. Sleeping, "Words are merely verbal expressions of notions and ideas...all of which are conjured up by one's mind". And indeed the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind "will do whatever is necessary to steer you away from what you are seeking". Awakening, words are Pointers.

It is indeed a joy to Point, but mere intellectual parlaying serves very little purpose relative to Awakening. Though even such parlance can very well Serve those who "have the Ears to Hear and the Eyes to See" though they may not take part in the discussion.

Though indeed words are very inadequate in explaining a given Realization or Understanding, acting only as Pointers and not actually transferring the Direct Experience, it is not so much a complexity to express the Realization but rather a complexity in translating the words into Pointers. In the expressing the words make perfect sense and are obvious Pointers, but in converting those words into some sense to glean an Insight or Pointer our Rose Colored Glasses of conditioned thinking distorts or totally negates a True translation. Yes, fathoming an expressing reading between and behind and beyond the words is needed in the translating but the Grand Trickster does not allow that. The Grand Trickster only allows the understanding of the *letter of the word* and keeps one's Vision shallow or surface. So until we bid farewell to the Grand Trickster, no expressing of Truth can be Truly Understood for all such expressing will be paradox and confusion. So, I would say, to translate such expressing of Truth we must simply toss out the conditioned dictionary and pick up a new one. The new one being no dictionary at all, because we can not Truly Understand Truth or Trust or Reality or Love via our conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts projected into/onto that Understanding.

I can only express that which has been Realized to be so, which is not knowledge but rather simply the unconditioned Observation of What-IS. This does not require a trust in oneself, though indeed we must be Lamps unto ourself, but simply a Clarity in one's Observation. Clarity in the lack of conditioned notions. When observing through the Rose Colored Glasses of conditioned ideas and images and meaning we see what we want to see, what we project into/onto the observation. When we take off the Rose Colored Glasses, when we let go of our conditioned notions, we Clearly See What-IS. In our feeble way we express What-IS, but because language is not a direct medium of transference the expressing can only be a Pointer IF translated by one who also has taken off the Rose Colored Glasses that the Grand Trickster so gleefully provides.

I would only offer that AS BEing, there is no trust or desire or control but rather What-IS. The Direct Experience of non-self AS the Moment, neither this nor that but rather BEing What-IS AS the Moment from Moment to Moment.

I have always said that to let go of the Grand Trickster our conditioned notions is the most arduous and painful and frightening task we will ever have to undertake. Easily said but not easily done, for it involves reaching deep Within and wrenching every conditioned idea and image and meaning that we have become very fond of and dependant on out of our BEing. So painful, so frightening, so seemingly insurmountable that most turn over and go back to Sleep. They catch a glimpse of their Reflection in the Mirror of Truth and reach over and hit the snooze button. The Reflection shows too much Work, too much insecurity, too much impermanence, too much conditioned notions -- a picture we like to keep in the attic. And the longer we wait to clear up the Reflection in the Mirror of Truth, the more defiled we become and the more difficult the task of Awakening will be.

Aha by Aha, Realization by Realization, Step by Step, some very minor and some quantum leaps but it is never an over-night occurrence. Only because we are going from duality to non-duality. When we are Non-Duality we do not go to Duality to get back to Non-Duality. Indeed no one is to blame for our defiled state of affairs, yet WE are to blame when we do nothing about it.

Indeed "much fuss over such a little word", but what that little word indicates is at the foundation of our Suffering -- a root Cause of that Suffering. Indeed one's "moment of Aha will arrive" but not without struggling with and letting go of our conditioned notions that stand in the way of those Ahas Realized.

Of course, Living is about Life AS it IS with all the interactions Life so abounds with. And not as an island, so it would behoove us to learn to Live together. Of course personal relationships form bonds, but not to overshadow the inherent bond of all manifest form, namely Brotherhood. Which, I would say, is not limited to humanity as one human to another but rather of one aspect of physical manifestation to another. Ceremony have and has had it's place. But what is "humanization", what is "culturalization", if not the programming or conditioning for the control and manipulation of another. In times of yore such control was I am sure needed to a degree, but we do not continue to plow our fields with a horse when a tractor is made available to us. I would say that the time is long past when we should let go of those worn and weary programmed ideas and images and meanings that simply get in the way of our continued Unfolding Understanding and Awareness.

We can not *approach* Truth, we must BE Truth. When we try to contain Truth in *thinking*, we push our Realization and Recognition of Truth away from us. It is when we stop thinking *about* Truth and stop perceiving thinking *as* Truth and Dwell AS the Reality of the Moment, Moment to Moment, do we Recognize that our conditioned ideas and images and meaning are not Truth. For AS that Moment, Moment to Moment, without our conditioned notions projected into/onto it is when we Realize Truth.

I would say that there is nothing wrong with good old fashioned *positive thinking reading*. Assuming of course, that we have already discarded our various conditioned notions of what is positive and what is not.

Again, may I offer that ALL Direct Experiences are of great worth to us, for it is in the True Open Honest Observation of those Experiences that we come to "know thyself". The present instant Moment IS, and is established by what we do the previous Moment. And so, what the next Moment will BE is established by what we do NOW. So you see, we establish what is "meant to be", not a predestination sat up by some imagined *higher power* to teach us some imagined lesson. Conditioned, Sleeping, we respond to the Direct Experience AS the Moment with conditioned notions and so what is "meant to be" is also of that same conditioned nature. A *Vicious Circle of Blindness*. Awakening, not conditioned, we respond to the Moment as it IS without projecting our conditioned notions into/onto that Direct Experience and so what is "meant to be" IS What-IS -- IS Reality, IS Truth.

Likewise, the imagined *inner guide* is also part of our conditioned notions *to be Saved*. But 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.

To "move our total self" would simply place "our total self" in a different location, and would not change our conditioned perception. In order for the Observer and the Observed to BE as one, one must discard the conditioned perception of both the observer and the observed. In fact, we can not Truly Observe while still conditioned. It is the conditioned notions that you want to move -- move from your thinking.

First, the physical senses have very little to do with the Inner Senses. To confuse the two, will only lead to misunderstanding of both. Then it is not Awareness, but rather our own conditioned perception. For True Inner Awareness simply Focusses, on no particular thing, and perceives all aspects of every Moment all at once. When you focus on a given thing, you lose the Moment. Simply Focus, simply BE. Yet this can not be attained until we discard our conditionings.

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To an extent all learning can be considered a conditioning. But our Awakening is not encumbered by all that we learn, for much of what we learn is needed to function in the everyday life we have established for ourself. No, the toxic conditioning that I speak of is the ideas and images and meanings and beliefs, in our following the herd, that Blind us from Recognizing Truth and Reality and our own Awakening (or Enlightenment as it were). So yes, there is a vast difference between the conditioned skills needed to function as viable human beings in the social order we have established and the conditioned beliefs and opinions and ideas and meanings we place on Truth and Reality. The one will aid our Inner Unfolding by aiding our functionality in the human family and the other will prevent it. The Key is to Recognize the difference and let go of the influences that are toxic to our Awakening. Thank you for your reply in bring this up, for indeed not all conditioning is *Toxic*.

We can not "know/sense" a True Guru through the filters of our conditioned thinking and behavior. When you have the Eyes to See, you will See. When you have the Ears to Hear, you will Hear. When you have let go of enough conditioned notions that Veil your Sight and Hearing, you will Know the True Pointers toward your Awakening. For Truth is not in what another tells us, but rather in our own Realization of Truth by the Pointers of another.

Which is all that a Pointer can do. A Pointer is not to *follow* or to *believe*, but rather to Openly and Honestly Observe our own defilements AS our own conditioned thinking and behavior. In this way we are our own Guru, we are a Lamp unto ourself. But of course the Lamp wick must be trimmed and the oil must be Pure without conditioned imperfections in order that the Lamp casts a Pure Light unto ourself. Most Lamps are faulty and casts a dim hazy light that distorts our Vision, hence to Clean the Lamp we must pay Attention to True Pointers by True Gurus. THEN we can Save ourself, for the Guru is not our Savior but rather simply an agitation to the conditioned mind. If the Guru does THAT, agitates the conditioned mind, he has accomplished his task. For as I repeat: 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.

As an added note: Listening to the Pointers and Understanding the Pointers and acknowledging the Pointers' value and benefit and accepting them as Truth, is far afield of Walking the Way of those Pointers. For our Salvation, our Awakening, does not lie in the Realization of the defilements that those Pointers Point to but rather in Walking the Way after we let go of those defilements. The Path, The Way, must be Walked and not just Talked about. Many Talk the Talk, but few Walk the Walk.

The very fact that we are trying to start Awakening in a Sleeping world puts us in a domain that is judged quite severely by the Sleeping World.

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*Daily Meditations*

The Way is Wayless so not phenomena effervescence The Path The Way IS BEing AS this Moment Presence, It is a State of BEing AS the Moment without Baggage Unconditioned projecting nothing isn't just some Adage. -- Yogajyotii

The problem with the whole concept of an embodiment It connotes someone can embody embodied increment, Fact is that the human form is just like all the other forms Is not Realized/Recognized due to conditioned norms. -- Yogajyotii

Embodiment suggests Duality which is but a contrivance Of all the conditioned perception preventing any Initiance, By letting go of all the conditioned notions as we stepped In Realizing/Recognizing what we are NOT and we Slept. -- Yogajyotii

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