What-IS Is Done

A bit cumbersome at times conversing with those from other countries who's primary language is not English, but other than always being a worthwhile exchange it is a good test of our sense of Brotherhood. Because one may talk strange (to us) or wear strange clothes (to us) and have strange customs (to us) and may even look strange due features or color of skin (to us), but it is just Oneness AS multiple aspects, the Union AS the multiplicity.

Sleeping we always look for the *quick-fix* because Awakening is too arduous and too Painful an undertaking. But The *quick-fix* avoidance route is not limited to the so called new agers, as it applies to anyone wallowing in conditioned ideas and images and meanings and beliefs that are outmoded. Awakening may sound easy on the surface, but if you have been lurking for very long you no doubt noticed that I do not hide the Fact that Awakening is a long arduous Painful undertaking. Too arduous and too Painful for most. It is not often that anyone agrees with this.

Yes, all the so called spirituality games are just that, games. The sad Fact is that these games, that are only avoidance maneuvers, keep us away from Awakening. This is the arduous Painful battle/struggle. It is not a struggle to Awaken, nor is it Painful, but a most arduous Painful struggle to let go of conditioned notions that Veil our Awakening. For no matter how many lessons we learn or how much we give of ourself or meditate or pray, when done via a conditioned programmed controlled manipulated modus operandi there is only Sleep. We spend our whole life *thinking* we are progressing on the Path with our lessons and giving and meditating and praying only to find that the Real villain is the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind. There is the Devil in Sheep's clothing, the Grand Trickster. And that is the varmint we must let go of, albeit an arduous Painful struggle to do so.

The more conditioned notions that you let go of the more continuous and the more frequent the ever anew Moment. When there are no more conditioned notions to let go, there is only the ever anew Eternal Infinite Present Moment. There can BE only One.

There is no "or". When you let go of the conditioned notions there is no "gamester", when you cling to conditioned notions there is always the "gamester". So you are at the mercy of that which you cling to. When you have no conditioned notions to cling to you are at the mercy of nothing, as when you have conditioned notions to cling to you are at the mercy of the conditioned notions -- the Gamester -- the Grand Trickster.

True, as the ever anew Eternal Infinite Moment IS Essence. Do not mistake the frog or the jump for the jumping frog. That which is connected with the so called "personality" is False and Sleeping. And not between or a combination of the two. Emotion. Memories that live longer and with more vitality are those connected in some way with some emotional reaction/response. The rest is simply Data-Base material, and both are but archives with no inherent Reality/Truth to them. But just saying it does not make it so, you have to BE the ever anew Eternal Infinite Present Moment. THEN it will be so.

We remember Directly Experienced Moments as well as remember opinions and beliefs. Direct Experience has nothing to do with whether we remember it or not. Yet, it is True that whether Directly Experienced or simply believed are still remembered and dwelled upon in Sleeping and of course are no longer Real. For it is only the ever anew Moment that is Real. And the Moment you Realize that you are IN/AS the Moment it is already part of the past and so is also not Real. The ever anew Present Moment is Eternal and Infinite because it is Timeless. So, alas, there is no Time to leisurely step in and out or to rummage (especially through old stuff).

Yes, I speak of greater humanity as a whole in a general sense -- which includes you and I. Though, of course there are exception. The humanity of whom I speak are those who are not isolated from the rest of greater humanity. The exceptions being those kept in isolation to be groomed other than in the ways of greater humanity, such as the Dalai Lama for example -- almost from birth, isolated and groomed in that discipline unincumbered by greater humanity's influences. The rest of us, however, who have been reared and conditioned and programmed and are controlled and manipulated by that conditioning and programming have to Work at getting rid of greater humanity's influences in order to start Awakening.

Before we let go of our conditioned notions, before we start Awakening, WE are the "whackees". Those who have let go of those defilements, Understanding the Cause of the Suffering those defilements are, those Awakening, are the "whackers". The "whackers" are the Wise Teachings and of course Wise Teachers. For neither the Teachings nor the Teachers can Awaken us, they can only Point or Whack (so to speak). The "whackers" have had to endure being the "whackee" too, so they Understand/Realize/Recognize the needs of the "whackees".

Intellectually, of course, the caterpillar could "know" nothing. The Point is that it IS it's True Nature, quite naturally without any work to attain it. It IS what it IS. And whether you realize it or not, you struck upon the very crux of our (greater humanity) problem -- the "mind". The problem is not that we have a mind, but rather that it is full of preconceived programs. "No-mind" is not getting rid of the mind but rather in Emptying the mind of it's nonsense or clutter. Besides, we could not any more than we would want to get rid of the mind. The mind is simply the mind BEing the mind that it IS, an operating system to run the foolish programs that we fill it with. It has take millions of years to develop such a Wondrous tool as the mind through Evolution/Involution. So please do not think of "no-mind" as "no mind", there is a VAST difference.

Another stumbling block of humanity, we travel far and wide looking for who knows what. Yet no matter where we go, there we are. So we always wind up "here". Struggling to be like the caterpillar or struggling to Wake-Up or struggling to start Awakening will get us no closer to Awakening. We struggle with all sorts of obstacles to work on Awakening yet we keep pushing Awakening away form us. Because we are always struggling for the wrong thing. Like the caterpillar, we must simply BE our True Nature. Like the caterpillar, we can not struggle to BE our True Nature. Rather, like Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, we must struggle with our conditioned programmed notions. And by struggling with and letting go of our conditioned notions we THEN simply ARE our True Nature. And like the caterpillar, we do not even "know" it -- we simply ARE who we ARE. We can not struggle to BE who we ARE (our unconditioned True Nature), but rather struggle with who we ARE-NOT (conditioned programmed robots) and so simply BE who we ARE quite naturally (like the caterpillar).

Since volition is a conditioned concept, there is no volition or choice in either. 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 thinking, 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*.

Indeed, some do and some do not start Awakening in any given incarnation. So, one could say that Awakening is quite relative to the individual who Realizes that conditioned notion must be let go. Though one Awakening is not "separate", there is a certain distance that the Sleeping sense and Recognize. And, as you said, Awakening starts dissolving seeming separateness engendered by our conditioned notions as we let them to. But Awakening is neither volitional or an "act". The more we work on Awakening the further it get from us. The Work is letting go of the false conditioned notions.

Possession or ownership is the Illusion. Both imagining and possession are Illusions, so why consider them at all ? Sadly True. And it would not be so bad if they Realized that they were "opinions". The sad Fact is that they are conditioned to *think* that their opinions are the Truth. The do not know the difference. Sleeping, they would not have Directly Experienced Truth so all they have to cling to are their opinions and their beliefs in another's opinion. Another sad Fact about opinions and beliefs is that the original Pointer or Pointing may very well be Pointing out the Fact/Truth. The finger then becomes the *authority* and the Pointing becomes the Truth, so the actual Truth is never Recognized/Realized. If it were a simple matter of *self-destruction*, doing their own thing, it would not be so bad but it is that they destroy others, preventing them form doing their own thing, in the process. Opinions and beliefs are the very foundation of war and conflict and greed and selfishness and crime and disrespect. They have to get the finger out of their eye so they can See.

Indeed, what is wrong with saying "I'm not sure" or "I don't know" ? OR, "interesting, I am going to find out" ? A most difficult conditioned notion to let go of. After all, what if Superman said, "are you crazy, I can't do that, who do you think I am, Batman ?" Or what if Batman said, "are you crazy, I can't do that, who do you think I am, Superman ?" Or if one said, "are you crazy, Legless frogs can't jump ?" What then ?

We stand for nothing, so we take anything. Why we have opinions is because we do not know the Truth. Believe nothing you hear because it is noise, believe nothing you see because it is an Illusion, BE the Truth you Directly Experience.

This can serve as a good analogy for Awakening -- Sleeping being the illness, letting go of conditioned notions being the cure. During the Pain of letting go we feel that perhaps the cure is worse than the illness. Only after we let it go, only after the sliver is plucked out, do we Realize the Relief. Only after we "Just Do It" do we THEN kick ourself in the butt for not taking the Cure sooner.

Void is never "filled", it is the filling that we have to let go of. We are already, as it were, "full of it" so we have to Empty. That is where "speculation" does exist only, for there can be no speculation IN/AS the Present Moment as it IS What-IS AS it IS. There is no Silence to be broken when distraction is our Desire. Sleeping, there is no Silence for all is distraction. Awakening, all is Silence, Silence of mind, as nothing is a distraction. IN/AS Silence we Hear, IN/AS Void we See, IN/AS Awakening we ARE. Life can only be Lived IN/AS/AT the Present Moment, or it is simply what we speculate life to be.

Why not taste it AS it happens, as memory is but an shallow dream. Ah, to Live Life AS Life is Lived can be gleaned by Observing/Witnessing the new born Guru. Eyes wide with the Awesome Wonder of What-IS this very instant Present Moment. A Direct Experience well worth any trouble to *re-gain*. We had it once, but the Grand Trickster hid it from us. Now we have to uncover it again by letting go of the Grand Trickster.

The past is baggage, clinging to dearly beloved conditioned notions is baggage. More baggage is the conditioned notion that there is a *choice*. As long as the baggage is carried around you never have the choice to start Awakening. And we fool ourself by *thinking* that it is by choice that we cling to that baggage, for it is actually the Fear and Pain of letting it go that keeps us clinging ever so tightly to the Causes of our Suffering. We do not choose to, we are afraid not to. And as real as that Dream seems, it is just a "speculation".

If it is a "thought" it is not Realization, but merely an individual preference -- one conditioned notion opted for yet another. Realization, Awakening, is a *Dawning* or an *Aha* and there are no thoughts at all. Though thoughts do arise after the Dawning or Aha. If there is any mental activity at all, it is merely your projected notions. The intellect is a good tool in sorting out this and that, but falls short in Waking-Up. It is when you let the intellect go, when you Silence mental activity and Observe whatever AS it IS without you projecting any idea or image or meaning into/onto that which is Observed. THEN you will Realize/Understand What-IS Truth/Reality AS it IS for What it IS. Anything else is but a product of the conditioned mind.

So there is no so called "distinguishing", it is a matter of Recognizing Truth/Reality AS it IS all by itself. When you Realize it for a Fact, Directly Experience it, and not just because you *believe* someone else, there will only BE Truth/Reality that is the very same Truth/Reality as all others who also Realize/Recognize Truth/Reality. This is why it is so easy for those who ARE Truth/Reality to recognize the self-generated so called truth/reality of those still Sleeping. There is only Truth, there is only Reality, all else is man-made.

First, do not Search for Truth. You will not find it, for it is nowhere to be found. Truth can not be found or held or given or even known, for it is not a commodity but rather a state of BEing. When we look for Truth all we find is our own projected conditioned notions. When we look for our conditioned notions and wrench them out by their very roots, we begin to embody Truth and thereby become Truth. Awakening is to "know thyself" and Perfect our state of BEing AS our True Nature -- which IS What-IS Truth/Reality.

Reincarnation, and it's sister doctrine Karma, is not to be rejected or accepted. They are merely explanations or information about aspects of What-IS Truth/Reality. They are simply Cosmic Laws that are not concepts to be believed or not believed. The explanations are a concept but the Truth/Reality of Reincarnation/Karma is not. Study it well, it's deeper aspects, but contribute no attention to it's validity or fallacy. IN/AS Awakening you will Recognize/Realize/Understand how and why these two doctrines Work IN/AS the fabric of What-IS.

Apply your logic/intellect/intelligence to Seeking out and destroying your conditioned notions. There is where your attention and energy should be focussed. For one by one, as you let go of those conditioned notions that Veil your True Nature (your Awakening) there will be a Dawning or an Aha until eventually your ARE the True Nature (the Truth/Reality) that you are. And to rid yourself of those conditioned notions it will not only take your mental power but also all the power you can muster. For letting go of those dearly beloved notions is the most arduous and Painful undertaking you will ever have to endure. Only the Brave few put forth the concentrated effort and endure the Pain, obviously, or there would be many more Enlightened. People will give up anything even life itself for some cause whether noble or foolish, but refuse to give up even a minor Cause of their Suffering. A good book that Points this out is the Bhagavad Gita, in Arjuna's major battles to overcome his enemies. His battles are with his conditioned notions for they are his enemies.

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There is but One Dimension, and that is the one you ARE right NOW. Dogen once said: "Above all don't wish to become a future buddha; your only concern should be, as thought follows thought, to avoid clinging to any of them". "There" is nowhere to *go* for you are always where you ARE, non-localized by "here" or "there". "Here" keeps you trapped in the past and "there" keeps you trapped in the future, unable to enjoy the present Moment. It is all in our head, the Illusion of *this* and *that* and "here" and "there". When we stop *thinking* about it, we simply ARE simply DOing what must be done IN/AS What-IS -- whatever and whenever and wherever that we may BE.

Physical suffering, physical pain, physical stress and strain and aging comes along with the deal of physical manifestation. It comes and goes, and sometimes hurts in between -- that is the nature of manifest form -- the nature of physical existence is this physical suffering. We just have to make our visit as comfortable as we can minimizing physical suffering as much as we can.

Ah, but the Suffering of which I speak is Sleep. Sleeping, we are prevented from BEing who we ARE because we are controlled and manipulated by our ideas and images and meanings of greed and conflict and selfishness and hatred and regrets and wishes and broken promises and broken dreams. We are controlled and manipulated by our conditioned perception and so can not perceive What-IS Truth and Reality. THAT is Suffering. And the Cause of that Suffering is our conditioned notions. Sleeping, we say that is simply the way of life and not suffering at all. And indeed it is the way of Sleeping life. But it is not the Way of Awakening Life. Where most often is seen the smile emanating from an Inner Source, and where most often is seen the sadness also emanating from some source ? Are those smiles and are those looks of sadness not clues or Pointers to Awakening and Sleeping ?

So why not Sleep, why start Awakening ? The smile. The Peace, the Compassion, the Brotherhood, the Goodwill, the Grace, the Love, the Life without Sorrow and conflict and hatred.

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.

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Before crawling and after running yet not points between This can be denied because there indeed no Doer seen, Separate from What-IS because What-IS is already Done Problem is most of humanity are conditioned to have fun. -- Yogajyotii

They have blocked the Illusion out even for long durations Yet Illusion was right where it always was for it's sensations, It is the conditioned notion while we are still robots that Do And something to be Done though that must be let go too. -- Yogajyotii

We do not see and so we *think* we are other than we ARE Which means that duration controls/manipulates us thus far, It is our perception and therefore every aspect of existence The sun does rise and set as nuclear form is not a pretence. -- Yogajyotii

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