When The Two Becomes
One
The dualistic approach
will always keep you at arm's length from that which you seek an answer
to. Seek not for answers, Dwell IN the Direct Experience of that which
you question. For in our question, the answer eludes us. In our conclusion,
Truth and Reality of What-IS eludes us. It is when we Realize that All
IS what it IS, and we stand in awe IN it, that we Recognize What-IS, and
can Dwell in the perfection of each and every Moment, Moment to Moment.
All else is a figment of our conditioned imagination. Indeed, Truth can
not be found in words yet nor can be found without words -- for Truth can
not be found. Truth can only be Realized. No one Saves us but ourselves,
no one can and no one may, others and their words can Point to The Path,
but we ourselves must Walk The Way.
There is but One Path,
it IS the Path of Awakening. All else is but individual Routes to that
Path or Illusions of our own conditioned thinking. There can be similar
Routes, but either we are ON The Path or we are not. Likewise, if there
is but One Path there can be only One Action and One Perception. Is it
not the *different truths* and *different paths* and *different actions*
and *different perceptions* that is at the root of our Suffering and wars
and conflict ? For it is in this *ownership* of OUR Truth and OUR Action
and OUR Perception and OUR Path that we lose Sight of The Truth and The
Action and The Perception and The Path. When humanity Truly Understands
THIS, he may start Awakening. Light IS, and has very little to do with
the conceptual conditioned mind.
The Key is to continue
that Moment, Moment to Moment, why limit ourselves to "a moment"
? For only IN the Moment is there Truth, for only IN the Moment is there
Reality, for only IN the Moment is there True Action, for only IN the Moment
is there Awakening, for only IN the Moment is there The Path.
"Light Work"
is a catch-phrase out of Star Wars. Those who profess to be *Light Workers*
are so fast aSleep with eyes Closed that they Understand not Light. For
we must BE Light and IN Light and OF Light to Truly Realize the Direct
Experience of Light. The Light they see at the end of the tunnel is a Train.
There is no dualistic notion of Light/Dark. There is Light and there is
the absence of Light -- there is no other condition. IN Light, we Serve
humanity. IN the absence of Light, IN our conditioned modus operandi, we
serve our own Illusions. *Dark* is only a term to describe a particular
school of thought, a particular practice, and has little to do with Light
or the absence of Light. Such dualistic thinking is at the root of conditioned
notions that so abound in humanity, and therefore one of it's greatest
ills. And keeps him separate from himself.
And also Realize that
Sleeping humanity must Understand such as well, for they must start Awakening.
Armageddon is not around the corner or even near, but humanity has put
off Waking-Up for to long and he does not have *forever*. There is but
One Focus Dear, and it is not in space/time but rather it is IN the Direct
Experiencing IN the Moment, Moment to Moment, and thereby Awakening. Is
there a communication here ? These offerings are not to challenge, but
rather to Help and to Serve.
Since there is but One
True Action, there can only BE Service. Each of us are Helped by others
Giving, by others Serving, and so we in turn must Help and Give and Serve.
It IS Awakening. Matter, physical manifestation, is already Awake naturally,
it is conditioned humanity who is Sleeping and who must Wake-UP from the
Slumber that the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind keeps him Dreaming
that he is other than he IS.
It can not be *found*,
it can only be Realized. Such Realization results from us Truly Openly
and Honestly Observing ourselves, our actions and reactions, our habitual
thinking and behavior, our conditioned notions and how they control and
manipulate us, the rise and fall of our emotions, and much more. THIS is
when you are Looking into the Mirror of Truth. A hideous sight and painful
experience, and thus most turn away and grip tighter to the chains that
bind them. And become more emersed in the false security of their conditionings.
It is not only feasible,
but ultimately necessary for humanity to start Awakening. Otherwise they
will Sleep through the best part of the Show. Though it is really quite
a simple matter, which involves letting go of the *traditional way* of
thinking and behavior, it is the most difficult and arduous and painful
take humanity has ever and will ever undertake for they have become quite
comfortable in their Sleep and DreamLand. Most all will give up most anything
for some cause whether it be noble or foolish, but will refuse to give
up even a minor insignificant Cause of their Suffering. "For they
know not what they do". They trust the Grand Trickster the conditioned
mind rather than Trust their own Divine Nature. They are programmed as
such.
It is not what they "lack",
that keeps them Sleeping, but rather the conditioned notions that they
*do not lack*. Our conditioned ideas and images and meaning are all *added*
by family and peers and social settings, and such *programming* is rationalized
as *learning*. Francis of Assisi said, "give me your child for a year,
and he will be mine for the rest of his life". He Understood the treachery
and deceit in conditioning, and the awesome control and manipulative powers
one has over another when one is conditioned or programmed. Sages of yore
spoke in their particular language, and if their particular style happens
to "put many off" then that many will not Understand. So it is
up to each one of us to go through whatever we must do to Understand them,
for it is we who must start our Awakening. WE are the ones who have to
Save ourselves with their Pointers. If that is to arduous a task, we are
to fast aSleep to be able to Understand it anyway. It is not up to them
to speak to us, but rather for us to Understand them. They can knock at
the Door, but we must Open it.
It is not a matter of
"readily adjust their beliefs" but rather to let go of the beliefs
all together. We can not Walk the Path holding on to some belief system.
And whether the atheist and agnostic admits it, they to are bound by a
*belief system*, a belief in this or that or a belief that there is no
this or that. A belief is a belief, by any other name is still a belief.
WHEN you look around and see people, people of no particular creed or religion
or school of thought, just people Working on themselves to get Free from
creeds and religions and schools of thought, THEN you will see Awakening.
This is the way of *beliefs*,
they can be seen as correct to each one of us in our conditioned thinking.
One can not force Truth upon another, though both beliefs and opinions
have established many wars and conflicts to force such beliefs and opinions
on others -- causing much pain and Suffering. All one can do is *expose*
another to Truth, for Truth can be quite infectious to those susceptible
to Truth. The Sleeping, on the other hand, are usually unscathed by such
exposure.
Awakening, the viewer
or Observer and the view or Observed ARE one in the same. This is the underlying
Unity in All diversity. Sleeping, they are separate -- hence Duality. Likewise,
the doer and the deed done are one in the same for without a doer there
could not be a deed done. It is in the Flow of this physical manifestation
that deeds are done, as physical manifestation IS the Flow. And in order
that this Flow is Smooth and Easy, each Element in this manifestation must
do as the Flow does. "Go with the Flow", as it were, of this
physical manifestation and not our particular conditioned notions. To do
so, we must BE the Flow as we must BE the Observed as we must BE the deed
done.
For indeed, though discarding
our conditioned thinking and behavior is a most painstaking and painful
undertaking, as Arjuna and Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita points out, it
starts with the simple matter of "Just Do It !" Sleeping, we
tend to over complicate ourselves with complexities that only serve as
a web that holds us fast to Sleep. Awakening, we Realize that the infrastructure
of our conditioned notions are but glitter that distract and dissuade us
from the simple matter of Opening our Eyes. But even as an Observer, is
not Observing 'doing' ?
That which we are conditioned
to *think* is Truth, but may even be a seeming fact, is still an Illusion
of our conditioned thinking. We are conditioned to *believe* it, yet our
*believing* it does not make it so. Truth is a *stand alone* Realization
that does not depend on our particular notions of it. Truth simply IS,
and if we are to deluded by our own contrived Illusions then we will not
Recognize nor Realize Truth. For in order to Understand or Realize or Recognize
Truth, one must BE Truth. And in order to BE Truth, one must NOT be their
conditioned notions. "As a man thinketh, so IS he".
Truth can not be owned,
so we can not call it *our own*. If indeed it is *our truth*, then it is
not Truth at all but rather a conditioned opinion -- a false perception,
an Illusion that controls and manipulates our thinking and behavior. Everyone
having their own truth and conditioned to *think* that it is THE truth,
is at the very root of our wars and conflict and Suffering. Opinions are
arguable, though fruitless. Truth simply IS. And it IS simply IN the very
present instant Moment. So if our perception is other than IN the Moment,
Truth will be a stranger to us. Truth is not of the past and not of the
future and not of you or of me or the next person. Truth IS Realized IN
the Moment Directly Experienced AS it IS and not as our conditioned projections
distort it to be.
Surely that something
which may be called God or Truth or Reality, must be totally new, unrecognizable,
and a mind that approaches it through knowledge, through experience, through
ideas and accumulated virtues is trying to capture the known, which is
an impossibility. To be Free of the known is to be completely Free from
all the impressions of the past, from the whole weight of tradition. The
mind itself is the product of the known, it is put together by time as
the 'me' and the 'not-me' which is the conflict of duality. If the known
totally ceases, consciously as well as unconsciously (not theoretically
that there is a possibility of it's ceasing) then you will never ask if
there is a God, because such a mind is immeasurable in itself. Like Awakening,
it is it's own Eternity.
The words *fact* and
*Truth* are very often used synonymously this is not necessarily True.
If indeed a *fact* IS *Truth*, then indeed fact is Truth. If a fact is
but a projection of our conditioned thinking then this fact is far afield
of Truth. For you see, seeming facts change with further Understanding
whereas Truth IS Eternal and Constant from Moment to Moment. The Moment
is anew and changes each Moment, but Truth Observed IN each Moment will
be the very same from Moment to Moment. If that which we call truth changes
from Moment to Moment, then it was not Truth in the first place but rather
our projected notion of what we *think* Truth is. Truth also is anew IN
each new Moment, but only the Moment changes for Truth simply IS Truth.
And will remain Truth regardless of the conditioned projected ideas and
images and meanings onto/into any given Moment.
A while ago I heard a
story about a fellow who died, and so he walked down the streets of gold
and awed at all the fine mansions. Alas he come upon the finest of mansions
with his name on the front door. So naturally he went in and found everything
he had every wanted. Servants everywhere to wait on him hand and foot.
He lived in this lap of luxury for a few centuries but finally grew weary
of this perfect life where every wish came true. To the point that it became
quite maddening. He called to the caretaker saying, "Hey, this has
been real nice, and I am glad that I made it here. But I can not take this
any longer, send me to Hell and I will try that for a while". The
caretaker looked at the fellow with blank look and simply asked, "Where
do you think you are ?"
If anyone *believes*
that taking another's life for no other reason than one's conditioned *belief
system*, I would say that there would be nothing to "scrutinize".
Nothing to even give consideration to. Sleeping, we consider another's
life less important than our own. Awakening, All Life is a Wonder to Directly
Experience -- and none any less or more important than the other.
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.
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Telling one to go Within
is not cruel or ego based but rather simply a Fact that must be Realized.
I stress however, that one must first discard, let go of, our conditioned
notions the we are so fond of clinging to. To go Within before first getting
rid of our conditionings, all we will realize is our conditioned notions.
All of the answers that people seek are Within, but can not be Realized
until AFTER we discard our conditionings. Psychology, behavior modification,
conditioning, subliminal conditioning -- areas of study that will give
you an idea of the influences that control and manipulate our thinking
and behavior, and how it comes about that we so willingly give up our Freedom
for this control and manipulation.
After you have an understanding
of the influences and conditionings that shape our thinking and behavior,
then Observe these conditioned notions and influences in your thinking
and your behavior. You will start to recognize what a automaton you are.
If the trade-off of gaining Freedom by discarding these influences or conditioned
notions is more than you wish to bare, then going Within will be of no
use. If you want Freedom, if you want Awakening from the delusions that
you have been conditioned to *believe* all your life, then the Task is
to discard the conditionings by Observing them IN yourself and one by one
discard them. It can be a long and arduous Struggle, for some of them are
to dear to let go. Siddhartha said that we would give up everything including
life itself for some cause whether it be Noble or not, but would refuse
to give up even a minor Cause of our Suffering (which is the control and
manipulation by our conditioned thinking and behavior).
Zikr Meditation IS the
practice of Self-Remembering. Mindfulness Meditation IS Dwelling IN the
Moment, the Present. But we can not Self-Remember or BE Mindful if we are
conditioned automatons. If you wish to Realize What-IS, then there can
be no thought of the past or of the future. But *want* nothing, for in
your *want* you keep pushing both the Present and Oneness away form you.
Do not want, either Do or Do-Not, but never *want*. In *wanting* you are
dwelling in the future -- simply Do what must be Done. Think not about
where you have been, nor where you want to go, just Do what has to be Done
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