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Observe your *reaction*. And why you reacted. And for what purpose you would react. This is how we get to "know thyself", by Openly and Honestly Observing our thinking and behavior. Was some conditioned notion tweaked ? This is how we see what our True Nature is not, and therefore Realize who we ARE. It has been said that "as a man thinketh, so is he", to indicate that when our modus operandi is conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts that we are controlled and manipulated by those very conditionings. "By observing our own mind carefully, we will come to the true understanding of the formation of suffering, as well as the disappearance of suffering - the ultimate wisdom." -- Buddha

And Jesus' gospel was not "love" but rather *Wake-Up*. He said that he came not to discard the Law but rather to explain it. That is, his Mission was to bring the Sword of Truth to an otherwise corrupted interpretation of Scripture. Which is precisely what we still have today, a corrupted self-gratifying interpretation and proselytizing by organized religion of Wise words and Wisdom of yore. Jesus taught Compassion, but he never told anyone to love him. Instead of robots led around by beliefs that some seeming authority issued to them, they should really learn how to read and Truly Understand Scriptures and the Wisdom in them without projecting their particular brand of conditioned notions into/onto them.

So indeed, if being controlled manipulated programmed automatons is our goal we are a credit to that cause. For man will give up anything even life itself for some cause whether it noble or foolish, but will not give up even a single speck of the Causes of his Suffering. As he is convinced by the Grand Trickster that he is not Suffering, that this is life and to *believe* him. Well, "Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live as hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." -- Dhammapada

Indeed, each person's experience of anything will vary relative to one's route along and to the Path. I would add that the written language is not the most communicative medium of expression, so in our endeavor to Truly Understand written offerings we must consider them as they are in the hopes that they will give us a meaning rather than we give them a meaning. A grand lady, Helena Blavatsky, once said "study a little, meditate on it a lot, and try what survives". That is, be Open and consider because what does not survive our meditation now may very well survive latter on down the road. That is, as Siddhartha said, "Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?"

Volition is actually the state that must be established so that there is choice. That is, we must be able to choose before we can choose. Since choice is but a contrivance of our conditioned mind, so is the condition established whereby we could make such choices -- contrivances of our conditioned thinking. When we Realize that our choices and our ability to make choices is but a fantasy contrived by our conditionings so that we can *think* that we have some control over our lives, we establish the Fact that we have no volition to make choices. Sleeping, we have no choices because we are controlled and manipulated by our conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts. Awakening, we have no choices because we simply do what must be done. Sleeping or Awakening we have no choice in the matter, so obviously we have no volition to make a choice. *It is all in our head*, so to speak.

Be loyal and True to yourself. Give gratitude to those who Help you and pay close attention to their Pointers, but follow no one. Believe nothing ! Belief is a confession of ignorance and conditioned thinking ! Therefore do not even believe what I tell you ! All I can do is to Teach you and Help you to Awaken yourselves. Your first duty is to let go of your conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts, and only you yourselves can do this. 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.

Indeed they should meld or blend as your own unique Unfolding, for it is YOUR route only and it is YOUR Awakening only. 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. On this Path of Awakening, effort never goes to waste and there is never a failure. We can either stay stagnant or move ahead, as there is no un-Unfolding -- we only *forget*.

There is nothing to act upon and no one to act upon it, there is only YOU and whatever IS the Moment. Let go of the conditioned thinking and behavior and BE the True Nature of Awakening that you ARE. And BE it NOW, for NOW this very instant Moment from Moment to Moment is the only Reality that we have at our disposal. The past is no more and the future is not yet, so BE who you Truly ARE each and every Moment, as each Moment is anew and fresh. Live this Moment as though there were never any earlier Moments and as though there will never be another Moment. It is IN/AS the present, it is IN/AS the NOW, it is IN/AS the Moment, that you will Realize Truth and Reality and nowhere else.

I would say that we all have those times of "impatience and laziness" until we Realize that there are no shortcuts nor quick fixes. There is just the long arduous painful road of letting go of all those dearly beloved conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts. Keep a big dumpster handy because the more conditionings we trash the more we will find that need trashing. Awakening or Enlightenment are verbs, action words, that indicate an ever Unfolding. That is, no goal to attain nor closure at the end of a Journey. The Journey is the goal. And since we are bombarded with conditionings continuously in our daily lives there is always a "rehanging of those curtains" (Veils covering our True Nature). Our weapon against the "rehanging" is Mindfulness. Realizing that our Awakening is an ever unfolding, so too are the influences of conditioned notions is an ever bombardment, and being Mindful that we are not influenced.

There are as many Routes along the Path of Awakening as there are individuals, so "How to stop the old tapes from rehanging those curtains" is somewhat specific to each person. A basic rule of thumb, however, is to stay out of the past and future, and ever dwell IN/AS the instant present Moment from Moment to Moment. There is no other Reality than this Moment, for the past is dead and gone and the future is not yet. This Moment being the only Reality at our disposal, it is the only place we can glean any Truth. Not our reality or our truth, but rather THE Reality and THE Truth. Meditation/Yoga has been a tool to establish this since time immemerable. And establishing Reality and Truth AS our life can not stop with the meditation session, but must be emanated into every aspect of our life so that we are always IN/AS a Meditative state. That is, we must BE Reality and BE Truth or they are both just concepts of our conditionings.

So, the "how" is first to start letting go of conditioned notions so that you can glean some Insight as to your True Nature. For when you Realize your True Nature the rest of the "how" will be quite Clear to you. Why I say to start with letting go of our conditioned notions is because while we still harbor conditioned notions we can only see our True Nature through those rose colored glasses of our conditioned notions, so it will not be our True Nature that we see but our conditioned idea or image or meaning of our True Nature. When we let go of our conditioned notions a lot becomes quite Clear.

"Understanding" is simply a word, that can be defined as some cognitive process or a Recognition of What-IS. Understanding can be solely an intellectual undertaking yet it can be simply the Awareness of what happens to be so. Everyone's definitions of words can be very misleading, so we have to stumble through them to glean what is between and beyond definitions of words. Though we use the intellect as a tool along the route to Awakening, the intellect is of no use in our Awakening.

When we let go of the intellect we stop intellectualizing, as when we let go of our conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts we stop the intellect. THEN we can simply BE. We can not start Awakening via the intellect. Awakening is about not having any concepts to intellectualize. *Intellectually* we mistake the practice or the study for the Truth, the route for the Path, whereas the practice or study or route is but a Pointer to the Truth or the Path.

So I would say that letting go of the cherished concepts that we cling to would be a step in giving the intellect nothing to intellectualize. For the brain is simply the brain doing what the brain does being the brain, as the mind is simply the mind doing what the mind does being the mind. Letting go of the conditioned contents of the mind that Veil our Awakening and we remove the fuel for the mind to do what it does best, which is conceptualize and intellectualize. That is, we can not discard the mind (or would want to) but we can Silence it.

Awakening can not be Truly Understood via the intellect or any aspect of mental activity. Awakening is all about *ceasing the intellect as Observing What-IS, AS it IS, without projecting our conditioned notions into/onto it. An intelligent person can indeed grasp Awakening faster than the non-intelligent, though intelligence is not a prerequisite. For the intelligence Helps us in our Awakening but can very well be a block to it. So I offer, understand Awakening with the mind BUT you will not Awaken through the mind. Awakening will not be in the *study* of Awakening, but rather in the BEing Awakening. IN/AS the Silence of mind, we Hear. IN/AS the Void of ideas and images and meanings, we See. IN/AS Awakening from the chatter of the conditioned mind, controlled and manipulated by the images and ideas and meanings contained therein, we ARE.

Truth can not be found or held by anyone or even offered to another, it simply IS and we have to Realize What-IS. Otherwise any offering would simply be our own projected conditioned notions. My offerings are not new but rather the same offerings of many Awakening both presently and of yore. Jesus said to let go of our "influences", I say let go of our conditioned notions. Am I not saying the same as he ? Except, of course, using more modern terms. Takes or views or opinions are like butts, everyone has one and they are dispensers of much crap and the best thing to do with them is to sit on them. So the only True offering is one of simply a Realization of What-IS without projecting our opinions into/onto it.

But his message was "know thyself" or love thyself or Total Dedication and Surrender to our True Nature of Awakening. And not to believe another, who believed another, who believed another, who most likely did not know what they were believing anyway. He did not say *believe*, he said to go *do it* and find thyself.

He said "I come not to bring peace, but a sword". That he would turn father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother. But then Jesus did also say that there would "come many false prophets in my name, only to deceive you". Such adorations as this carol exemplifies is the work of false prophets in their ways of conditioning to control and manipulate our thinking and behavior.

"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 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.

Siddhartha dwelled heavily on *craving* being our major Cause of Suffering. And what is craving but a desire ? The desire to have and the desire not to have, the desire to become and the desire to get rid of, as well as the desire of pleasures of the senses.

Pleasures of the senses are those things that taste good or feel good to our sense of taste and smell and sight and hearing and touch. That which gives you physical pleasure, which includes all things tangible such as food and drink and smoke and sex and fame and fortune. Which mostly ends up in disappointment and dissatisfaction. That which we do not have we desire (crave) to get. There is also the desire to get rid of unpleasant physical things, which we usually express in anger and fear or even jealousy.

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Can there be too much happiness ? Can there be too much Love ? Can there be too much Wisdom ? Can there be too much Awakening ? Is it not all relative to our Understanding of what happiness IS and what happiness IS-NOT ? For any amount of superficial or conditioned so called happiness is actually too much, whereas True Happiness should be TOTAL. Though indeed, polarizing happiness with sadness, setting up a duality of oppositions, and accommodating both, would be quite maddening. But you see, if we do not consider sadness and simply always BE happiness, leaving no room for sadness, there can be no imbalance. Is it not all IN/AS our state of BEing ?

And if one's center is happiness, and one IS that happiness, therefore one IS that center, how could there be sadness ? Is it not IN/AS that when we acknowledge happiness or sadness that it is no longer happiness or sadness but mere emotion and *reaction* ? For we must also Truly Understand what sadness IS and what sadness IS-NOT, as we much Truly Understand what happiness IS and what happiness IS-NOT.

Is there really a choice in whether we accept or reject "responsibility" ? We use the terms 'accept' and 'reject' but such terms indicate *judgement*, yet there is no judgement IN/AS Awakening. What IS, IS, and what IS-NOT is IS-NOT -- no choice, no judgement, just BEing What-IS. Sleeping, we are deluded *thinking* we have such choices and can make such judgements. Sleeping, we wear many masks, as much to fool ourselves as to fool others. If we first do not fool ourselves with our various masks, then our masks will keep falling down exposing ourselves to others. So we are always faced with the choice of making the judgement of which mask should be worn at any given time. Oddly enough, we are actually more Beautiful without the masks though we are afraid to find out by discarding the masks. For Awakening, we ARE What-IS.

Sleeping, 'control' is the ability to manipulate the circumstances that we find ourselves in -- whether it be the activities of others or our own activities. Awakening, we ARE What-IS, controlling nothing and relinquishing no control of the circumstances we find ourselves in to anyone else. We simply ARE, What-IS simply IS, and we are in Awe Enjoying Pure unconditioned Direct Experience of True Life. We are conditioned to be Master of our Domain, when actually Domain needs no Master for it is a Wonder in itself if only we would set aside our conditionings long enough to Recognize that. "As a man thinketh, so is he". IN/AS the Silence we Hear, IN/AS the Void we See, IN/AS Awakening we ARE What-IS -- controlling and projecting nothing into/onto the Moment, form Moment to Moment -- the Observer BEing the Observed.

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*Daily Meditations*

Especially must be as All conditioned notions must go "Return To Sender" Address Unknown Above/Below, As when the Veil is lifted and you See Freedom's Face Does mortal man Directly Experience Awakened Grace. -- Yogajyotii

The very conditioned Veils that are Lifted for the Kiss And the grand Embrace of Awakening the Virgin Miss, Who will surely care not for any conditioned that or this But rather longs for Awakening NonDual Union's Bliss. -- Yogajyotii

And IN/AS such a ever anew Eternal Infinite Embrace As mortal man is no more and IS the Ecstasy of Space, Yet so cloistered in conditioned Illusion's Grand Fantasy We See naught Awakening's ever so Blissful Ecstasy. -- Yogajyotii

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