What-IS What-ISNOT
No, it is not the words
that seemingly allow you to see your defilements. Nor is it the Scriptures
and tales by Wise Sages. Nor unearthed scrolls of Wisdom. Rather it is
your own Awakening. Step by Step, Aha by Aha, Realization by Realization,
Recognition by Recognition, your Sight is getting Clearer and Clearer so
that you are Seeing What-IS as it IS for what it IS (and IS-NOT). Yes,
this is "where the rubber meets the road" and may I offer that
you punch the petal to the floorboard and never let up on the gas. Peal
out henceforth, because the Grand Trickster is right on your rear bumper.
And yes, this is when you have to "look at this in that mirror of
truth and see it, really see it and face it, or run shrieking into the
night and let it stay in control". Problem is, that now that you have
Recognized it, now that you have Opened the Door, you will not be able
to close that Door completely so you will have to eventually turn around
and Embrace that which you run from. In the fine print, that perhaps I
*forgot* to mention, way down at the bottom of the last page, it states
that once one is bitten by Awakening one can never really locate a cure.
And when one tries to shake it off and pay no Attention to it, one's Suffering
and Torment will increase ten-fold UNTIL one Truly Embraces it with/as
one's Whole BEing.
But "what next"
? The Niki add holds your answer, "just do it !". Just BE it,
BE the True Nature of Awakening that you ARE. This is not just the next
step, but rather THE step. Do what must be done, consider not any "next".
Walk the Walk. Walk the Talk. Not just in your head, but in every aspect
and activity of your life. Being cleaver, for this is where our cleverness
can Work in our Awakening, we figure out how to implement these Wise words
of "Walk the Walk and Walk the Talk". Others can Point to the
Path, but others can not know the *route* that another takes to the Path.
So it is up to us, Understanding our particular route, Understanding our
particular life situation, to determine how best to put Wise words into
practice. For no one Saves us but ourself. The Wise Sages who state the
Wise words just give us Pointers to the Path, we ourself must figure out
how best we can Walk the Way in our particular situation.
Are we whimps, who need
to be spoon fed, who need to be lead, who need someone else to Save us
? Are we to believe those goofy Wise Sages ? Do not believe them ! Rather,
go off in the direction of their Pointers investigating and find out for
yourself if they are worthy of believing in the first place. I am not here
to bring Peace, but rather a Sword for you, a Sword of Truth <::::::::::]====0
to Cut away your defilements. Especially do not believe me -- go prove
me wrong by Directly Experiencing where I Point.
Then, you are not in
misery ? Misery does not like company ? When we evaluate (judge) others,
good or bad, beautiful or ugly, we evaluate (judge) them compared to ourself
-- compared to our conditioned notions. That is the way of conditioned
notions, this is the way of the Grand Trickster. When we stop comparing,
when we stop judging, when we let those conditioned notions go, we stop
evaluating and judging. Thus we stop getting aggravated and critical of
others for we have no expectations of them. They are as the ARE. When we
see that Help is needed we Help, as when we see someone is Sleeping we
Wake them up, as when we see that Help is offered we Listen.
Then, who tries ? Do
you have a frog in your pocket ? Is it the frog who is trying ? Is it the
frog projecting it's conditioned notions into/onto the observation or evaluation
or judgement ? Or could it be the Grand Trickster ? And the Grand Trickster
making you think it is the frog's fault ? Until we let go of our conditioned
notions, until we evict the Grand Trickster, we establish our own reality
based on the game plan that the Grand Trickster gave us. We do not have
to "try" for it is simply the way of conditioned notions, it
is the way of the Grand Trickster.
Your Reaction, your Evaluation,
your Judgement, is a projection or reflection of you and not the other
person's nasty deeds or words. The results of their defilements are not
your's, as the results of your defilements are not their's, but the defilements
are the same whether they be your's or their's. A defilement is a defilement,
by any other name is still a defilement. It is in our True Observation
of the Slayer that arises that we can Slay the Sayer. THAT is Awakening.
True, I can not Directly
Experience your Direct Experience of seeing nor your Direct Experience
of feeling. However, we all have seen through those eyes and have felt
those feelings so all we can offer is that which is so -- that which we
have Realized to be Fact/Truth/Reality. We have been there and done that,
so all we can offer is a Pointer to watch out for the pot-holes you will
fall into and the Path to climb back out again when we fall into such pot-holes.
No matter what Reiki
Energy is sent to do, it's nature is to do what is needed or what must
be done rather than what our feeble notions desire it to do. Likewise,
we can only do what must be done regardless of whether we are asked to
do so or not. And regardless of whether such efforts or appreciated. Sleeping
we do what we and others desire, Awakening we do what must be done (no
more yet no less).
Ah indeed, we could avoid
the Pain but we would miss the Dance -- the Cosmic Dance of Awakening.
Though *even if we could*, as you said, we would not want to miss the Dance
so a little Pain is well worth it. Problem is, so many regret the past
and dream of the future and never spend any time Enjoying the present.
We are where we are, through the past we came and into the future we will
go, but neither past nor future is Reality. Reality is right where we ARE
right this very present Moment. Indeed what we *should have done then*
has a bearing on What-IS and what we *should do NOW*, but is totally irrelevant
to What-IS NOW for it is what we *should do NOW* that establishes what
*will BE*. That is, instead of regretting what we did not do *then* we
must do what we must do NOW so we will not continue to regret not getting
it done. For 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. What better time
to start Walking than NOW ?
Indeed Peace and Tranquillity
is our True Nature, and it is in the True Understanding of our True Nature
of Consciousness Awakening do we "know thyself". It can not be
given nor can it be taken nor can it be chosen, for it simply IS as it
IS. Yes, it is all about Remembering who we ARE. We are like Enlightened
Masters with amnesia. Is not *amnesia* forgetting ? And if we no longer
are forgetting, would amnesia not be present ? Remembering one's Self is
BEing one's Self. We forget because we are conditioned to remember that
which is conditioned. When we discard the conditioning, we remember and
no longer forget. Conditioning covers up or hides ourSelf (our True Identity
or True Nature) so that we do not remember who we ARE. We ARE who we ARE,
but we can not remember after we have been conditioned. The young toddlers
has a perfect remembrance of who they ARE. This is what was meant that
we must be as little children, because they remember who they ARE *UNTIL*
the Sleeping world at large conditions them not to.
We are conditioned to
build further Illusions upon our already established Illusions. Sounds
like a circular chase to catch our own tail however. Sleeping (modus operandi
our conditioned thinking and behavior) we are indeed on a merry-go-round
that we contrived ourself. Awakening, we Realize this and stop chasing
our own tail by letting go of the very conditioned ideas and images and
meanings and notions that established our self-made merry-go-round in the
first place. We get off the merry-go-round and wait for ourself to catch
up with ourself, so that we can BE who we ARE.
Indeed, we are legends
in our own mind. Sleeping, our so called reality is nothing more than our
own contrived Illusions for we project our conditioned notion into/onto
our life so it will be as we are conditioned that is should be. Awakening
from this Illusion, projection nothing into/onto our life, Realizing it
AS it IS, IN this very instant Moment form Moment to Moment, we then and
only then glean a glimpse of True Reality. That IS not of our contrivance
but rather What-IS.
When we create our own
reality we also create our own truth and our own values of right and wrong
and good and bad, which is the foundation of war and conflict and pain
and greed and selfishness and strife and Suffering. So it would seem that
*our own reality* and *our own truth* and *our own .....* is the Cause
of our Suffering. Further, it would seem, that if we let go of the Causes
perhaps there would be no Suffering. But then, if we did not have war and
conflict and pain and greed and selfishness and strife and Suffering we
would not have anything to complain about -- and that is scary.
What stands out in Quixote's
adventures is the futility of clinging to the contrivances of our conditioned
thinking (illusions). Chasing these windmills and clinging to them though
they are the Cause of much Suffering and Pain, gets us further and further
away from Truth/Reality. Sleeping, conditioned programmed controlled manipulated
automatons, we contrive a complex and ornate grandiose rational for our
reason of existence. So we contrive adventures to attain, in varying degrees,
our position or station in some *chain of command*. It is foolish to think
that we can be free from the mind, or would want to be. The mind is simply
the mind being the mind, and has taken the natural Unfolding of manifest
form billions of years to establish this mind. The problem is not the mind,
as is often mistaken, but rather the problem is the programs we dearly
harbor for the mind to run. When the mind does not have these programs
to run, the mind is Silent. And it is the Silent mind that is the No-mind,
not that there is no mind. Nor would we want the mind to run free, which
is the helter skelter chatter of Sleep.
The very notion of free
will is itself the bondage of Quixote gloriously hunting ferocious windmills.
As long as we continue to harbor our conditioned notions we will continue
to set up valiant adventures and dragons to slay. To live life the way
life lives life, we must live it without our dearly beloved conditioned
notions. That is, live life the way it IS and not the way we are conditioned
to *think* it is. Life does not live life wearing rose colored glasses,
nor can we if we are to live life as life lives it. Life IS life, so too
we must BE life to live it as life lives it. Clinging to the conditioned
notions, life is not lived but merely survived. We must "drop the
stick".
And so it is with all
Help that is offered. I would say that Siddhartha and Jesus and Muhammad
and Confucius and Hermes and many others all intended Help with their offerings,
yet it was a hindrance to most and laughed at by others. They knew that,
but did they stop offering Help ? No. The offering of Help is in the *intent*
to Help and not whether it Helps or not. Unless it is simply the Blind
trying to lead the Blind, no intention to offer Help is unworthy.
I would only add that
emotions are part and parcel of the package of conditionings and desires
that we must work to discard in order to Realize Compassion and Empathy
and Real Love. Though I was not speaking of one's separation from Truth
other than the fact that Truth is Veiled due to our conditionings.
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To use words is a necessity
in communicating, in talking and writing, which does not indicate dualism.
It is not in the words that we use that we are dualistic, it is in our
thinking and behavior. Dualism, like Awakening, is a state of BEing. When
we think and act and perceive everything in relation to something else
our whole BEing is conditioned as everything is dual.
With each self observation
of our reactions and thoughts and habitual behavior, and a look at the
reasons why such reactions and thoughts and habitual behavior, we see the
Veils that shroud our Awakening and prevent it's Unfolding. With each conditioned
notion that we let go of we glean an *Aha*. With each Aha gleaned we Realize
who and what we ARE and that we are Awakening from the DreamLand of the
Grand Trickster the conditioned mind. This is not a belief or experience,
but rather the Realization of What-IS and What-ISNOT. Truly Understanding
the difference, and doing what must be done to let go of What-ISNOT, is
what some call "Spiritual Awakening". Beliefs are not founded
on Pure unconditioned Direct Experience, and experiences are not of the
Present Moment but rather some past Moment. Awakening takes place in the
Pure unconditioned Direct Experience of the very instant Present Moment
NOW, and nowhere else.
To accept or consider
or think that there is both (two) is dualistic for in order to consider
them they both would have to be present, yet simply discussing the two
is not. Thinking is a creature in it's own right and is not dualistic.
It is in the contents of our thinking that determines whether we think
dualistically or not. If the two were not present they could not be considered
as such, as considering the two because they are present is dualistically
dualistic.
It most assuredly matters,
for Awakening and dualism are on *two* different routes -- one going in
One direction and the other in the opposite direction. It, the barer of
the ego, reacts.... due to pain or fear.... or simple dislike...... all
of which is conditioned. We definitely have a delusion/illusion in order
to Observe it in ourself, so indeed such an experience is in our repertoire.
The Self-Observation of it would be Real, but the perception is based on
those delusions/illusions so the perception IS the delusion/illusion for
it is conditioned. Indeed delusion/illusion is nonsense, but a deluded
perception can not Observe a delusion/illusion. Only by letting go of the
conditioned deluded perception can we Openly and Honestly Observe ourself
and our delusions/illusions.
The *excess* is clinging
to the method or practice. As I have said many times, the practice of meditation
is of supreme importance but eventually after establishing the *Meditative
State of Mind* the practice or method is of little importance because then
that *Meditative State of Mind* is emanated in every aspect of our life.
So we eventually become that *Meditative State of Mind* in everything we
do or say or think rather than just practice it from time to time to clear
our head.
This is True of most
who start meditating, they cling to the practice or method as a security
blanket to escape Truth and Reality and problems they may have in Living
it. This is not only excess, but also not the intention of meditation.
When meditation is only used as an escape, it is no use at all. And many
times it is the Meditation Teacher who does not Point this out to the student.
Meditation is a tool
to establish the Meditative State of Mind, to Silence the conditioned chatter
of the mind, so we can figure out who we ARE. Once we calm the mind down
so it starts acting responsively, responsive to our True needs, responsive
to Truth and Reality, then we open our eyes and See the world we live in
As it IS without a bunch of conditioned ideas and images and meanings attached
to that Direct Observation. We are then Free to See without the shackles
of a conditioned perception. THAT is Meditation, and THAT is the Meditative
State of BEing that we are to establish with Meditation.
As an added note: those
who practice meditation as an escape fool themselves by thinking that it
is a better escape than drugs because it does not harm the physical body.
WRONG ! Psychosomatic harm is just as damaging as drugs. The use the term
meditation because it *sounds* better than *drugs*.
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