Goes Around Comes Around

How could one Openly and Honestly Look at oneself in the Mirror of Truth UNLESS ALL conditioned notions are discarded ? If we Look at ourselves with the rose-colored glasses of conditioned notions, would our Observations not be tainted by the color of the glasses ? Would the mind not have to be Silent of all arising conditioned thoughts and memories FIRST ? Or are our conditioned notions of minor concern ?

Ah yes, The Grand Trickster. Reactions and mental games that we are conditioned to play with ourselves to give us some auspices over some situation that we find ourselves in. Projecting our own conditioned judgements into/onto some experience, we miss the Moment OF the experience. The Grand Commenter -- that is as good a label as any, I would say.

Separation is an Illusion indeed. But Soul and Christ and God and Buddha and Muhammad and whomever are but Pointers or Mantras for Dwelling AS the Silence or the Void or Awakening, and will never be Found Within. When we Dwell Within, we Realize ourSelf. And AS ourSelf we Realize these other Pointers, for they can be none other than ourSelf. And to Realize oneSelf we must discard the conditioned notions ABOUT these Pointers.

The *Salvation* game of belief systems talking about *backsliding*, due perhaps to peer or family pressures. Salvation, unlike Awakening, is an occupance at usually a revival meeting that can lose it's strength after the meeting and after one is Saved and so one can return to one's old ways. As I am sure you Realize, Awakening is an ongoing Unfoldment and Realization of What-IS Moment to Moment that never really ends. In fact, it never really begins, but rather always has been and always will be -- we just have to remove the Veils to Realize it. You see once we get the modus operandi of conditionings down pat, we always maintain a vigilant Watch for them. So when we find ourselves "slip back into the conditioning" we immediately Realize the Illusionary nature of such conditionings and so end being duped.

May I offer, that since Realizations are not verbal that our best explanation would be to Point to where others can make these Realizations as well. Then there would be no explanations required. For as I am sure that you Realize, though we speak of a Direct Experience, that Direct Experience can not be Experienced by another until they themselves have Experienced it. We can only speak Truth and exemplify that Truth in the hopes that others will Realize Truth themselves.

Yes, the very difference is *speaking about* Truth and *speaking of* Truth. Any Sleeper can *speak ABOUT* Truth but only the Awakening can *speak OF* Truth. Sleepers speak about Truth that they have been conditioned to speak about or the Truth that they read yet do not Truly Understand. Usually offering quotes of such Truth as some authenticity that they recognize Truth. But alas, they are conditioned to accepted Truth and quotes of Truth from conditioned authorities.

Is there anything that can be Truly Possessed ? Is there anything that is of a Permanent nature ? The answer lies in what we take with us when we leave this physical realm.

Though it is True that Truth can only be Realized and not transferred to another through osmosis, is Awakening at "action" ? Is not Awakening the very Realization, and can therefore not be possessed any more than anything else ? Though indeed, the Realization or Awakening or Direct Experience is very "individual" whereas Truth is not.

That is to say that we *should* Understand the Truth OF the words of a quote before offering the quote as an answer. But we could offer a quote for discussion because we do not Understand the Truth therein and want to find it out. Or we could offer a quote to start a discussion, whether we Understand it's Truth or not. The Key is, I would say, in the *intent*.

Is anything *new* ? At this stage of physical manifestation, I would say that no one's Direct Experiences or Awakening or Realizations, though personal they may be, has not already been Directly Experienced or Realized by another before us. Since Truth is constant and will always be the same Truth Moment to Moment, anyone Realizing Truth will have a Direct Experience of that very same Truth and anyone speaking OF the Experience will sound very much like another who has also Realized Truth.

A bit contradictory to desire not to desire, is it not ? For a desire is a desire regardless of whether it is desiring or desiring not to desire. No, the passage was saying simply not to desire. For it is WE who generate desire, as we are conditioned to do so. Desiring and simply doing or not doing are totally different. We are conditioned to *think* they are the same, yet the Key is Attachment -- we cling to that which we desire via emotion so we are controlled and manipulated by those desires/emotions. When we simply do not desire, we can not be controlled and/or manipulated by those desires.

Only seemingly, for The Great Path has no Gates, though thousands of roads enter it. When one passes through this Gateless Gate he Walks freely between Heaven and Earth. For the seeming "Temple" is YOU this very instant Moment. WE block our own Way to this Temple with our conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts. WE Veil our own Understanding of this Temple with our defiled projections of this or that. So indeed this Temple is ever guarded by the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind. Awakening, there are no paradoxes as there is no confusion.

We can say that we Realize this or that, but we can not verbalize the experience of any given Realization. Many have come along and told us precisely what awakening is and to do something and we will also be awakened. And many *believe*. And as many are deluded. In our early Quest we all want to know what to expect when we finally cross the threshold and Wake-Up. When we can experience the very instant present Moment without projecting any notions into/onto that experience of that Moment, we ARE Awakening AS that experience OF that Moment. And after experiencing the very instant present Moment without projecting any notions into/onto that experience of that Moment, and ARE Awakening AS that experience OF that Moment and move on to the next Moment not missing an instant from Moment to Moment we will Realize that All IS and All IS-NOT. When there is no distinction between ourselves and what we Observe, when the Observer becomes the Observed, we are Awakening. Even this is not describing Awakening, but merely what we are doing AS Awakening. And even *doing* is misleading because actually we are simply experiencing a Pure unconditioned Moment. It is that which can not be spoken that IS Awakening. The *bottom line* is, however, the more conditioning that we discard the more we Realize and the more we experience What-IS and the more we Awaken. Our Routes are different and our experiences will be different as well as our language and cultural setting will be different, but the Realizations and What-IS and the Awakening will be the same for anyone Awakening. This is why so may Great Sages and Teachers of Wisdom (as well as some contemporaries) sound like they read the same Book -- because they did.

Indeed, Real Open Honest Friends Gathered Together AS Awakening is no less a Sangha as any monastery. Not just Real Friends, but Real Friends Gathered Together Sharing and Helping each other for the same reason -- Awakening from the delusions of the conditioned mind.

A relationship much like the relationship of Reincarnation and Karma. One without the other can be misleading and definitely incomplete. And as interlaced. The short of it is: As we physically *evolve* our *operant* or *potential* of Awakening increases. Evolve (evolute) = exterior and involve (involute) = interior. Physical evolution will advance us to an *increased potential* to Awaken, but that does not mean that we do. To Awaken we must work on Observing and then discarding anything that Veils or Hides that Awakening. For with the refinement of evolution our potential of delusion increases as well. Humanity *is* and has been for some time *Ready* to Awaken but continues to Snooze. His arrogant Dreams of being Awake is but a delusion that we contrive to establish some control over our lives. But alas, it is but a Dream.

Discard this notion of dualism, it draws a line of demarcation that is *thought* to be gone beyond. As long as there is a wall, there will always be two sides of that wall. If there is no wall, how can there be sides ? We are all on the same side, the only side that there IS. Did Siddhartha lock himself in his castle and try to Enlighten those on the other side of the walls of that castle ? Did Jesus sit in the Synagog and try to Save others on the other side of the wall of the Synagog ? We are all on the same side, because the wall of two sides is a construct of the conditioned mind. The Grand Trickster builds wall to keep harm on the other side of the wall, which also imprisons us to *our* particular side of that wall. Awakening is discarding the wall, then we do not have to be concerned about which side we are on because there are no sides to be on.

GO nowhere. For no matter where you go, there you are. Simply Openly and Honestly Observe the arising thoughts and emotions in any given experience and discard those that hinder your Awakening. Observing them in this way will reveal it's vulnerable point so that it can be discarded. This can be viewed as "going deeper", but in actuality it is simply a matter of continued Unfolding of Awakening. And it is not a matter of one discarding one's conditioning, but rather *continually discarding* one's conditioning. For we are bombarded continually with various forms of conditioning. In time this continual bombardment will be Seen as simply humor, for the greatest defense against anything is a thorough Understanding of it. The more we Observe it and discard it, the more we Understand it and the more humorous it gets.

I can only offer that when thoughts arise at the Moment of any given experience of a Moment, it is a conditioned reaction to the experience of that Moment. If, on the other hand, as we are experiencing the Moment we draw upon information (thoughts) in aiding us AS the experience of the Moment, then we are responding based on our particular state of Awakening. The difference is a reaction based on prior programming or a response based on our Understanding. For we can not do away with thoughts, but rather whether those thought arise as a reaction or whether we think as a response. For you see, Dwelling AS the Moment requires no thoughts to arise -- it is reacting or responding that will establish a requirement of thoughts.

Of course they all Understand about the influences of a conditioned perception -- unless they lived there lives in isolation they would have to go through and discard or overcome these influences themselves. So I did not mean to indicate that they were unaware of such conditionings. What I was indicating was that what they do not Realize before coming to the West is the extent and depth and completeness and strength (to say nothing of the continual bombardment) of our conditioning. This is what they are overwhelmed by. Most do not give up their Mission, they do not give up on us as lost causes, Bless them, but their Work tends to take more the shape of gathering followers than Unfolding Awakening. Even the quote that you offered does not reflect the awesome power of our conditioned perception that is a major struggle to overcome or discard. The quote indicates that our conditioned ways are but bad habits that we have to stop giving energy to. But the roots of our conditionings fill our whole being and so are the very platform of our lives. And to extricate these roots, to transmute this lead to Gold, is a battle not second even to the battle Arjuna faced in the Gita. It is a battle no less that Blake's battle of Heaven and Hell. This is not a minor struggle that we face, but rather such the awesome struggle that 99.99% do not even attempt. Though they follow the beat of a different drummer, they are still following someone else's music.

May I offer, that when we Realize Truth, though it may be at first a surface level of Understanding, it will still be leading toward that Truth. On the other hand if we realize what we are conditioned to *think* is truth, at any level of understanding, will have no resemblance of Truth. Is not the reflections by Gandhi as you offered what I just said ? And I reiterate that Gandhi and any Easterner is not a good example to use for Westerners because though their external struggles are many, and their conditionings are similar to ours in the West, they Dwell Within far more than we Westerners do. And so the good fortune of us Westerners is that our Inner Struggle is a far more arduous task. There are Easterners, and if they think their struggle with conditionings is an almost insurmountable task, their struggle would be likened to a disagreement between neighbors compared to the World War Three that us Westerners have to confront.

May I offer, that Life limits nothing for Life IS Life. It is humanity who places limits on just about anything in the conditioned desire to *judge* and *choose*. For again, Life does no *choosing*, but rather simply does Life as it IS. If we would take such a cue and simply Live Life as it IS rather than judging and choosing we might Realize the Truth of Life. You are correct in one aspect, if we have green to experience then indeed we should be experiencing green instead of perhaps the red we are conditioned to *want* to experience. But AS Awakening, we experience All that is to experience as it IS and What-It-IS, whether it be green or red or green & red or green/red.

Life wears no Mask, it is humanity who wears Blinders and Blindfolds with it's conditioned notions and therefore can not See or Live Life.

There is only INside -- humanity's *final frontier*. For All IS right where you ARE. Discarding the conditioned notion of *other* we can Realize that which IS Within. This applies to the seen as well as the unseen Helpers of humanity.

It is not about finding *distractions*, it is about the intention of Seeking. For as long as we *look* we will never *find*. It is when we stop *looking* and simply experience What-IS AS the Moment that we are experiencing whatever it IS, with no projected notions into/onto that experience, that we Realize Truth and Reality with no labels or images or ideas or meanings. THIS is True Seeking in that we are not Seeking, we are simply experiencing right NOW and Unfolding as a result of it.

Recognize conditioned thoughts: There is where we must start -- recognize and discard. To dear to you ? To attached to them ? You enjoy the pain they give ? You enjoy the Blindness they cause ? Siddhartha did mention that it would be very difficult to get rid of the Causes of our Suffering. I would say that he was on to something, would you ? Apparently you have not recognize these hideous vermin for what they are, otherwise you would have been so scared to see yourself as the controlled and manipulated programmed automaton we are AS the Mirror of Truth that you would have ran from them (or perhaps embraced them more fully for a false sense of security).

Get rid of what you *know* and embrace the Moment with your total BEing without projecting all of these dizzying notions into/onto the experience. Experience What-IS, whatever it IS, AS it IS -- let the experience tell you it's story instead of you already having a story to apply to it.

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Emotions are another of the foundations of conflict and war and attachment to *our truth*. May I offer that we must Truly Openly and Honestly Observe our thinking and behavior to root out the defilements in our conditioned state of being. For our Heart is not the seat of emotion but rather the seat of Compassion, which has nothing to do with attachments emotional or otherwise. Intent is a Key factor in Embracing the Moment, and when it is defiled by conditioned ideas and images and meanings it is greed and selfishness and hatred.

When you tap into your True Nature there is very little that is not known and understood and all concepts fall away. We Realize that nothing is what it seems. We Realize that all is a continuance. We Realize that all, even the concepts, is right NOW. Such concepts as soul is primarily for those who dwell in a future *better times*. AS the Moment, there is only YOU and there is only NOW.

For it is quite True that we delude ourselves into thinking that our delusions are Truth. It is the Way of the conditioned mind. The answer to your query is quite simple however, let go of the Causes of your Suffering -- let go of all your conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions/beliefs of all sorts, THEN and ONLY THEN go Within to Realize your True Nature, to "know thyself". Ah..... the answer is simple but accomplishing this simple task is most likely the most arduous and Painful undertaking that we will ever have to face.

*The Age Of Discovery*, we do not know what we have until we lose it (so to speak). We live such the habitual life, not considering what we do is doing to us........ until we let the habit go and see what it is like without the habit. Letting go of conditioned ideas and images and meanings are much the same, in that we do not know who we ARE until we let go of the conditioned habitual thinking and behavior....... until we let the Illusions go and see what it is like without them. Though we all can benefit by another's success story, giving us encouragement for our own undertakings, the one who gets the Real Blue Ribbon or Gold Cup is the one BEing the success story.

We are in and are ever deeper entering a Dark Age Kali Yuga. The worse it gets the more Mindful we must be and realize that much of what is happening is way beyond anyone's control. That the only person we can Save is ourself and it would behoove us not to dally about it. Yes, in the refined barter system money is most appropriate. Money is not the root of Evil, our attitude about money is at the root of Evil. One will not be soiled by gathering and using money, we are soiled when we will cheat and lie and otherwise trick another out of what money they have for our own selfish greedy appeasement. Yes, when we Worship money as our Savior, dedicating ourself to it at the cost of all else, when it means more to us than life itself (another's as well as our own), indeed it becomes our God. Nothing wrong with money, but when we love it more than our fellow man we missed the Point.

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What done Yesterday got you where you are Today So what done Today begets Tomorrow you'd Pay, Don't Regret the Past or Wish the Future to come Your Salvation IS the Present Moment so get Some. -- Yogajyotii

Virtue begets Virtue as Awakening begets the Light So what Goes Around Comes Around in Dark Night, Beware all conditioned notions Reap what you Sow Before it's too Late Let Go what you think you Know. -- Yogajyotii

This is not a Prophecy though you best Listen Well The conditioned coarse you Plot Leads right to Hell, No one can Save you but yourself that is your Fact So take a look at yourself see what you've Lacked. -- Yogajyotii

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