Divine Union

Hear the AlarmClock and Realize that it must be time to Wake-Up so do not reach over and hit the Snooze button. We have an important appointment with our Awakening that we really should not keep putting off.

A Still mind is a mind with no conditioned programs habitually running. Try it, you might like it. "True belief" ? No belief is Truth. Truth can not be found or held or given or taken, as Truth can only BE or Realized when we dare to let go of conditioned notions. Until we have Directly Experienced Truth and ARE Truth, we han no clue as to what this loosely used word actually IS. Truth is not subjective, so can not be *your truth* or *my truth* or anyone else's truth. Try it, you might like it. Model, pattern, template, habit, pigeon hole, identity. Something in something else is dual or two.

Life is to be Lived. Not always enjoyed, but when Truly Lived it is more than worth the Pain. For we can avoid the Pain, but we would miss the Dance -- the Cosmic Dance Awakening.

Regardless of what we *think* or contrive we are Seeking for, the Holy Grail or Enlightenment, the Quest is to Seek out ourself. We do not Realize that we are actually Seeking to "know thyself" so we chase after every fool thing that presents itself thinking that must be what we Seek. So our Seeking is all done outside ourself, we are always chasing that which we run from. Whatever we Seek for will elude us because we are always looking in the wrong places. When we Seek outside ourself for our contrived Holy Grail or Enlightenment we only find our conditioned projections. When we Seek Within for ourself we Realize our Holy Grail or Enlightenment was only a Master Game and we are the Gamester. There must come a time in our Seeking that we set aside the Seeking and simply find out who and what we ARE -- what is our True Nature. Your True Nature will not be found outside of you, for it is right where you ARE. Your True Nature is closer to you than life itself. So close that if you look for it you will never see it. For the Key in finding ourself, knowing ourself, is to find/know who/what we areNOT. You will never find or know who/what you are, though through finding/knowing who/what you areNOT and letting it go you will BE who/what you ARE. Likened perhaps to your eyes, you can not see them but you know they are there.

Sleeping, you do "exist" as you are conditioned to "exist". Awakening, you would Live Life AS it IS. To live the life that we contrive is only to survive, yet to Live Life AS it really IS is BEing Life. People live life in their head, projecting their conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts into/onto their "existence". That is not Life, that is life *as we are conditioned to see it, conditioned to think it*. Let go of the excess baggage of conditioned thinking and your load will be much Lighter and you will See more Clearly. Let go of the conclusions, let go of the goals, let go of the seeming paths, let go of expectations, let go of choices, let go of who you *think* you are. Truly Observe yourself Openly and honestly, Truly take stock in your thinking and you will see what conditioned programmed controlled manipulated robot you have become. When we can Truly Openly Honestly acknowledge this, and take whatever steps it takes to rid ourself of these defiling conditionings (who we areNOT), we have a very good chance of not only finding/knowing ourself but rather BEing ourself.

It has been said that we "must be as little children", so look to the little Gurus, the newborns and before they are defiled with conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts. They know no past, as they know no future, as the only Reality and Truth at their disposal IS this very instant Present Moment. When you are "conscious" of nothing other than the Moment, without projecting memories and/or regrets of the past or wishful thinking of the future into/onto the Moment, when you can BE as little children AS the Moment, you are not only on the Path you ARE the Path. THAT is your "program", THAT is your "study", and indeed to find yourSelf (your True Nature of Awareness/Consciousness/Understanding/Compassion/Empathy) you will indeed "self-destruct" your conditioned self.

In Truly Openly Honestly Seeking to "know thyself" we actually Realize/Recognize who we areNOT. In Openly Honestly Observing the hideous creature of conditioning and programming that we have become, that controls and manipulates our very thinking and behavior, and we do whatever needs to be done to let these defilements go, we revert *back to* our True Self our True Nature (that we were as little children). We do not let go of the learning (education, skills, profession), we let go of the ideas and images and meanings we have gathered over they years that we *believe* because we thought that was beyond us or was to laze to Directly Experience ourself.

The "self", the conditioned personality, the conditioned ego, indeed is an obstacle -- but the Cause of our Suffering or Cause of that obstacle is the conditioned notions that direct and control and manipulate our thinking and behavior. When you lose the conditioned self you locate the True Self, but the Cause to the obstacle of "self" is the conditionings that establish it's validity.

The Slayer of the Real/True is our conditioned modus operandi, for our conditioned perception is 180 degrees from Reality/Truth. So we must Slay that Slayer of Reality/Truth so that we can triumph AS that Reality/Truth that our True Nature IS. The conditioned ego is merely a byproduct of our conditioned notions.

So, Awakening is nothing more than simply letting go of our conditioned notions. No work on Awakening, no Quest of a Holy Grail or Enlightenment, simply let go of the folly or Illusions we contrive as *our* reality/truth. Simple. The not so simple part is letting them go. If you think you have fought some battles in your searching and seeking, and some perhaps were seemingly insurmountable, "you ain't seen nothin' yet". For letting go of our dearly beloved conditioned notions can be the most Painful arduous undertaking that we have ever or will ever have to face. If in your travels you have read the Bhagavad Gita, the Songs Celestial, and Arjuna's Painful Struggles with his beliefs and attachments and desires, you will have an idea of the awesome battle you face in letting go of conditioned notions. Nearly a whole Hindu Scripture deals with conditioned notions so I would say it is more of a condition than we are conditioned to *believe* it is.

Indeed, the only stupid question is the one not asked. Yet, as we ask the question we must be sure that the question is what we are asking for. And, take a good look at the question, for your answer will be more in your question than in any so called answer. For Truly knowing where we ARE, we will Understand where we are going. So, before wondering where you are going, first Realize where you ARE right NOW.

You ARE-NOT, therefore you are confused. When we ARE, there is only Clarity. Clinging to the past, where there are regrets or misgivings, we look to the future for some sort of peace of mind. The future is not Real for it is not yet, so it is empty and hollow. We can take on the religion of *wishful thinking* and it can comfort us in a superficial way, yet will most often generate pain and fear. The past is also not Real for it is dead and gone, along with the misfortunes and misgivings. So we are left to BE who/what/where we ARE right this very Present Moment, thinking not of where you have been nor where you might go. Let go of the thinking, let go of the thoughts, let go of conditioned ideas and images and meanings. Let go of who you *think* you are. For you see, though your question is who you are, you are actually asking who you Really ARE, for you already have a conditioned notion of who you *think* you are. Do you see what I meant above about Truly knowing your question ? I, nor anyone else, can tell you who you Really ARE, but YOU can Realize who you Really ARE when you let go of who you have been conditioned to *think* you are. When you let the conditioned *you* go, what is left is the Real YOU.

For who you think you are and what you do is all in the past or in the future and nowhere near the Present Moment. Let go of the past and let go of the future and let go of the conditioned you and the Real YOU will BE the Present Moment.

You are lost, because you can not locate yourself. So, layer by layer we are getting to the Real question, "why are you lost ?" That one I have an answer for, namely that you are clinging to the past and the future and your dearly beloved conditioned notions. Drop them all in the dumpster and perhaps by removing the clutter you will be able to Recognize yourSelf. Too much work ? Too much Pain ? Well..... *Welcome to the Real world*. It is a back breaking job, and it will hurt like Hell some times, but if you do not take up the task you will continue to be bumping into wall.

Indeed, you are stuck because there is no answer for the question you ask because you are asking one question but wanting an answer to another. Pull the plug on the mind and let the contents drain out, Still the mind, and AS that Silence you will Hear your answers. But if your mind is not Empty, you will only hear what is in there.

Awakening IS to "know thyself". And to "know thyself" you have to wonder and question every thought and every action and root out those defiling thoughts and actions that stand in the way or your continued Unfolding Awakening. Wondering about and questioning your conditioned notions is the First step on the Path of Awakening. So, we are refining the question of who you are further yet. So, before we can actually ask the question of who we are we have to question our conditioned thinking so we will know ourself, and by knowing ourself we will Realize ourSelf (who we ARE).

It should do you much good, for you are Sleeping and *think* you are Awake. When we hit bottom and Realize that we are conditioned programmed controlled manipulated automatons, THEN we can start questioning that which makes us conditioned programmed controlled manipulated robots. But if you just scoff it off as "well, that does me no good", you miss the Pointer.

One Awakening knows nothing more nor anything less, you just know what you know more Clearly. That is, you see knowledge AS it IS, a wonderful tool but has no Real relevance to anything other than functionality in the phenomenal world of everyday life. That is, our knowledge is not worth clinging to as a security blanket. Now, Seeing more Clearly, we Realize more of/about our knowledge and so all of knowledge is most Wondrous. That is, Knowing Clearly, we use knowledge instead of knowledge using us. Some schools of thought call this Self-Knowledge or Self-Knowing. Awakening does not make you any smarter, it just establishes a Clarity AS your whole BEing.

A certain Clarity so that hopefully there will be meaningful Understanding in a given discussion. But I would add that differences over mere semantics is not as prevalent as we would like to think. Many times we will call a misunderstanding mere semantics so that each can *agree to disagree* and therefore end of Understanding. And it seems that I "split hairs" due to a seeming preference in word usage, but that is not Fact but rather that True Understanding is not established. Regardless of what words are used, if there is True Understanding one will look between and beyond the words. And I do not mean to agree, but rather to Openly and Honestly consider that something is perhaps Seen that another is not noticing. As I do not offer beliefs, I would not want to be believed but rather considered/tried to find out whether it is so or not. To simply not believe as well as simply to believe is the error of ignorance and fear.

Both Truth and Reality are one in the same -- Truth IS Reality and Reality IS Truth. What Truth and Reality do you have and hold ? Show me. Send it as an e-mail attachment so the whole Community can also have and hold it. Indeed Truth/Reality IS, but there is no "there" for it to be waiting and no one "there" to get it. You are correct, what you say is the "known", and it is the "known" that you have to Empty the cranium of. You have collecting all those "knowns" your whole life, where do you think they came from ? From your experiences and from watching others ? Overtly or subliminally collected, you are controlled and manipulated by all those knowns. I am sure you have studied Wise Sages of yore, and more recent ones such as Yogananda. Did they all say to cling to all your "knowns" ? Are they all fools because they say to let them go ? Why is it that so called "Spiritual Seekers" fashion their own Path to Enlightenment, when the Path has been sat out for us since time immemerable ? Is the old tried and true Path too arduous or too Painful ? Everyone has their own notion of how they are going to get to Enlightenment. Frank Sinatra made millions on his song "My Way", but we will not get any further than our bed "Our Way".

You are rationalizing the so called *Connectivity*. If you are not connected before you reach your hand out you will never get connected. Your visual contrivance *sounds good* but True Connectivity does not work that way. The Dualistic notion that there needs to be a connection and there are separate things to connect is folly, and it would be surprising if you actually *believed* that. But it is obvious that you *believe* the contents of your mind (the knowns -- which are conditioned/programmed) because you seem to be very reluctant to *consider* else. We build walls to protect ourself, but those walls are our prison. Our rationalizations are but avoidance responses and defense mechanisms. Do not avoid confrontation with the Grand Trickster. Do not defend the Grand Trickster. All those collected "knowns" are collected from the Grand Trickster. Let them go. For if the school of hard knocks is the deciding factor, why is not most Enlightened ? Open your eyes, Seeing is not as bad as we are conditioned to think.

It is offered to dump the "knowledge" and come directly from your BEing, for your knowledge is not YOU but rather what contents of the mind you have acquired. Open up, you are hiding the Real YOU. Why ? Is there something you do not want to See in yourself ? Is there something you do not want to admit to yourself about yourself ? Do you not think it is time you stopped identifying with your past and come foreword to the ever anew Present Moment ?

I am not talking about that misnomer "human nature", I am talking of Truth Nature which is your very Essence, that which establishes your sentience, your greater Evolved/Involved state of BEing. The so called "human nature" is nothing more than the conditioned way of thinking and behaving, whereas the True Nature is who you ARE this anew Eternal Infinite Present Moment. So *Who Is* ? Not who WAS or who *thinks* is or who thinks *should be*, but rather *Who Is* right NOW ?

No one can Save us, we must Save ourself. As we can not Save another, we can only Help them Save themselves. Sleeping we serve ourself, Awakening we Serve others because we no longer need our Services.

The Final Discovery is that you had nothing to discover, but that you have Everything to BE.

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If it is not what you want to hear then do not ask ? Please follow my finger and focus on where it may Point. It may not be what you want to hear and it may even confuse, but just perhaps it is what you Need to hear. And not hear with your ears, but rather with your BEing.

Both trust and mistrust are Illusions contrived by the Grand Trickster's Dualistic modus operandi. For trust and mistrust are actually the same thing called a different word. We contrive this attitude of relying of something or someone to be or do something, which is a conditional situation that we have orchestrated. That is, *so if this, then that - but if not this then not that*. We set ourself up to be discouraged and disenchanted and feel hurt. Yet Awakening is neither this nor that for Awakening simply IS What-IS. There is no need for the concept of trust or mistrust for whatever IS simply IS and whatever ISNOT simply ISNOT. That is, why trust or mistrust that a catalytic converter will or will not go out on a vehicle ? If it does not go out then good, and if it does go out then so what ! That is, why trust or mistrust a person to do or not do something ? If they do then good, and if they do not then so what ! Entropy ! Vehicles do brake down and people do drop the ball, so what ! Fix the vehicle when/if it brakes down and help the people pick up the ball when they drop it. So What !

Do what must be done and worry not about trusting or mistrusting. When two people are doing what must be done, in any given interaction, then this concept of trust and mistrust is quite meaningless. For when two people are doing what must be done, then they are Awakening and simply BEing who they ARE. Which establishes a Peaceful Meditative State of Mind and BEing. Now, when one Awakening interacts with one Sleeping Joy is added to a Peaceful Meditative State of Mind and BEing because they are so Funny. Marvel at the Sleeping ignorance that they would go to great lengths to contrive situations that Cause them Suffering.

The outcome is always *poor me*. Why ? Does it serve some Divine purpose to Dwell in the Abbeys of Pain and Suffering ? To Dwell on this or that ? To Dwell on trust or mistrust ? To Dwell on concepts ? If it IS then it IS and if it ISNOT then it ISNOT !

What you Observe in humanity is what you must Observe in ourself, for greater humanity is but a Mirror of Truth for us to see our own defilements. When we let go of our own defilements then we Observe humanity as a Wondrous Guru who Helped us start our Awakening by showing us our defilements and so *respond* to humanity with our Help and Compassion. When we do not Observe our own defilements in the defilements of others, and therefore do not purge ourself of our defilements, we *react* to their insanity with our own brand of the same insanity. When Awakening is all you Dwell on, then you can See the Light.

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*Daily Meditations*

Awakening is as encompassing as True Love As seen in the eyes of the new born the Wonder of, There is no forced Attention for All IS AS it IS Without projected conditioned notions of that or this. -- Yogajyotii

No written word or practiced orientation or a Map Will ever guarantee that Divine Union will drop in lap, Neither Awakening or Love can be predictive Though once Awakened are very much addictive. -- Yogajyotii

Harboring old conditioned notions Suffering it's Due Yet Divine Union is Free and Light and always New, You think those notions are protection and secure But a Lonely imprisonment is what you must endure. -- Yogajyotii

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