Operative Wisdom

Deluded Passion

Though *time keeping* is an invention of man, duration (time) is not. Every *thing* that is a part of the physical realm is affected by duration. The Inner realm is not bounded by time, but the Form is. If we take time away from the Form, then the Form would not be suitable for Inner Timelessness. One has to progress so that the other can have the potential to progress.

We do not pick and choose from among possibilities. *We* are the creator so to speck. We do not stand back as entities apart from the Absolute Consciousness and pick what aspect of it we will concentrate on. We are the Absolute Consciousness in physical manifestation, and we Realize the world of experience. Nothing exist outside your current experience. The entire universe is what you are experiencing NOW. Objective Reality is Pure non-projected images and meanings as to what we are conditioned to think Reality is. Whereas Subjective reality is the projected conditioned images of our perception, sometimes called Relative-reality.

The Awakened mind is Opened... it is Free of conditioned conceptions that limit Experience. It does not say, "the world must be this way or that", it is fearless and because it is fearless and open it is Loving. With nothing to protect (fear), it offers all it is. With nothing to reject, it welcomes all and embraces all. It knows itself, not through rational discourse with itself but through the Experiential Bliss of Freedom.

It is "Realized". Not as one "knows" an object, but as freedom of anxiety, coolness of temperament, and the bliss of openness. Knowledge of Self is not knowledge of "object", verily, the knower is not it's own object, this is a snake eating it's own tail, but as the Recognition or Realization of Source (Infinite Consciousness), the revealing of the world as a mere reflection of Source. Self can not be known in thought, but a certain stream of thought arises with the Recognition or the Awakening. Thought is the reflection of the state of Self.

If I may, I would encourage a little less reliance on the question "how". Asking how will never explain how one asks how. If God is all powerful, what would keep him from creating suffering ? I ask this question rhetorically. It's premise is not true to the essence of what I hope to communicate.

Thought does nothing, obscures nothing. Thought is simply something intelligence does (becomes, creates). It is not in thoughts, but rather the resulting actions of thoughts. There is nothing for anything to be in harmony with. "Harmony", like "disharmony", is it's own creation. The dualism suggested by "coming into harmony" is insupportable. At this "level" "nothing" exists. There is no "thing" at all. There is no suffering, no not-suffering.

Suffering, like Peace, depends on nothing. It is simply the result of action or non-action, being Awake or Asleep. What things are reflected ? From where do things come, to where do they go ? Where do things end and this thing called Awareness begin. What happens in the space between them ? If the things are already things (reflections) separate, then is it not redundant for thought to divide them ? It is mine to offer, thought does nothing. It does not cling, it does not resist, it does not divide, it does not obscure.

That which we are conditioned to *think* is Truth, but may even be a seeming fact, is still an Illusion of our conditioned thinking. We are conditioned to *believe* it, yet our *believing* it does not make it so. Truth is a *stand alone* Realization that does not depend on our particular notions of it. Truth simply IS, and if we are to deluded by our own contrived Illusions then we will not Recognize nor Realize Truth. For in order to Understand or Realize or Recognize Truth, one must BE Truth. And in order to BE Truth, one must NOT be their conditioned notions. "As a man thinketh, so IS he".

Truth can not be owned, so we can not call it *our own*. If indeed it is *our truth*, then it is not Truth at all but rather a conditioned opinion -- a false perception, an Illusion that controls and manipulates our thinking and behavior. Everyone having their own truth and conditioned to *think* that it is THE truth, is at the very root of our wars and conflict and Suffering. Opinions are arguable, though fruitless. Truth simply IS. And it IS simply AS the very present instant Moment. So if our perception is other than AS the Moment, Truth will be a stranger to us. Truth is not of the past and not of the future and not of you or of me or the next person. Truth IS Realized AS the Moment Directly Experienced AS it IS and not as our conditioned projections distort it to be.

Surely that something which may be called God or Truth or Reality, must be totally new, unrecognizable, and a mind that approaches it through knowledge, through experience, through ideas and accumulated virtues is trying to capture the known, which is an impossibility. To be Free of the known is to be completely Free from all the impressions of the past, from the whole weight of tradition. The mind itself is the product of the known, it is put together by time as the 'me' and the 'not-me' which is the conflict of duality. If the known totally ceases, consciously as well as unconsciously (not theoretically that there is a possibility of it's ceasing) then you will never ask if there is a God, because such a mind is immeasurable in itself. Like Awakening, it is it's own Eternity.

The words *fact* and *Truth* are very often used synonymously this is not necessarily True. If indeed a *fact* IS *Truth*, then indeed fact is Truth. If a fact is but a projection of our conditioned thinking then this fact is far afield of Truth. For you see, seeming facts change with further Understanding whereas Truth IS Eternal and Constant from Moment to Moment. The Moment is anew and changes each Moment, but Truth Observed AS each Moment will be the very same from Moment to Moment. If that which we call truth changes from Moment to Moment, then it was not Truth in the first place but rather our projected notion of what we *think* Truth is. Truth also is anew AS each new Moment, but only the Moment changes for Truth simply IS Truth. And will remain Truth regardless of the conditioned projected ideas and images and meanings onto/into any given Moment.

A while ago I heard a story about a fellow who died, and so he walked down the streets of gold and awed at all the fine mansions. Alas he come upon the finest of mansions with his name on the front door. So naturally he went in and found everything he had every wanted. Servants everywhere to wait on him hand and foot. He lived in this lap of luxury for a few centuries but finally grew weary of this perfect life where every wish came true. To the point that it became quite maddening. He called to the caretaker saying, "Hey, this has been real nice, and I am glad that I made it here. But I can not take this any longer, send me to Hell and I will try that for a while". The caretaker looked at the fellow with blank look and simply asked, "Where do you think you are ?"

If anyone *believes* that taking another's life for no other reason than one's conditioned *belief system*, I would say that there would be nothing to "scrutinize". Nothing to even give consideration to. Sleeping, we consider another's life less important than our own. Awakening, All Life is a Wonder to Directly Experience -- and none any less or more important than the other.

The best way that I have found is to dig out the old fashioned hardware of a bucket of hot soapy water and a scrub brush, and have at it. A tried and true cleansing method. OR: Do not be a negative energy generator/mirror yourself. Another tried and true cleansing method. Because you can not combat negativity with more negativity. When negativity enters your abode or your mind, greet it with open arms as a long lost friend. Much vital force is in negative energy, so use that force constructively to transmute your energy to a positive emanation. We can use adverse situations to strengthen and fortify our own continence, our own state of BEing. Do not react to negativity with hostility, but rather respond to negativity with understanding and Compassion. Fires are better fought with water than trying to fight it with more fire. It would appear that you have allowed the negative energy to control and manipulate your own energy, so what you are doing is precisely what you are trying to combat. BE the positive energy that you want in your abode or mind. Do we kill for peace ? Do we break the law to uphold justice ? Are we negative to fortify the positive ? The Key is to Understand the negativity and then let it go.

As the Niki ad so aptly puts it: "Just DO It !" Just BE it ! No one Saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may, others can Point to the Path, but we ourselves must Walk the Way.

We can not *approach* Truth, we must BE Truth. When we try to contain Truth in *thinking*, we push our Realization and Recognition of Truth away from us. It is when we stop thinking *about* Truth and stop perceiving thinking *as* Truth and Dwell AS the Reality of the Moment, Moment to Moment, do we Recognize that our conditioned ideas and images and meaning are not Truth. For AS that Moment, Moment to Moment, without our conditioned notions projected into/onto it is when we Realize Truth.

Our Direct Experiences AS they ARE without us projecting our conditioned notions into/onto them IS Awakening -- which, I would say, is the ultimate in True Success. Is it not our conditioned notions that establish an experience to be a failure or a success ? So by discarding the conditioned notions, would not all Direct Experiences be a success without any failures ? Life is to Live, Life is to BE, whatever that Life IS -- if this be done Moment to Moment, THIS is success. Is not whether we *like* the experience or not simply our conditioned notions again degrading our experiences ? You see, The Grand Trickster would have you live life as he see it and not AS it IS. So if we live life as The Grand Trickster sees it, then indeed all experiences are failures. On the other hand, if we Live Life AS it IS then ALL experiences are True Successes.

There can only be failure IF we live life as The Grand Trickster the conditioned mind would have us live it. Living Life AS it IS makes failure quite nonexistent.

And a wondrous web we weave. For the ego is part and parcel of our conditioned thinking and behavior. So to discard our conditioned notions, we would also be discarding our ego. Is it not our conditioned ego that does not allow us to live Peacefully and without threat of conflict and war ? Is it not our conditioned ego that urges us to use and abuse others for our own sake ? Is it not our conditioned ego that drives us to kill and maim others to get them to believe as we do.

We must take down the screen of belief. One will believe in God, and another does not believe in God, so our beliefs separate us from each other. So, ego, which is conditioned belief, becomes a means of escape from What-IS, from the fact of confusion. Do we not know those who repeat certain chants and words, and who in their daily life are dominating, cruel, ambitious, cheating, dishonest ? Is this not ego ? To "lubricate" the ego is to perpetuate it's control and manipulation of our thinking and behavior. Where there is ego, Awakening is not. Where there is the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind, Awakening is not. So indeed, "the task at hand" is to discard our conditioned notions and thereby indirectly discard our ego. That is, IF we are to be Awakening form the delusions of our conditioned ego.

One must first discard, let go of, our conditioned notions the we are so fond of clinging to. To go Within before first getting rid of our conditionings, all we will realize is our conditioned notions. All of the answers that people seek are Within, but can not be Realized until AFTER we discard our conditionings. Psychology, behavior modification, conditioning, subliminal conditioning -- areas of study that will give an idea of the influences that control and manipulate our thinking and behavior, and how it comes about that we so willingly give up our Freedom for this control and manipulation.

Oh yes, the New Testament portrays a far more loving and caring God than the Old -- showing a sort of evolution of religious thought. But I would say that the real difference in these to religious organizations (Christian and Buddhist) is the stressing of a tangible *other* which is called *God*. Buddhists tend to recognize that words and images and symbols are but mere representations of the Essence of what we may call *God*. That God itself is of little value compared to one's own Awakening. For it is AS Awakening that we Know or Recognize or Understand or Realize God. The God that can be named is not God. When we look for God, we find nothing but another's beliefs or a religion. When we look for ourselves, we find God. Both the New Testament and the Old Testament, as well as both Jesus and Siddhartha, stressed to abolish our conditioned need for words and images.

Little by little each person will be his own religion. You are at the beginning of this process, no gurus, no masters, and everyone will be his own guru, and master, and everyone will have his own oratory. The multiplication of sects which at the moment seems dangerous will go on until everyone has Realized himself as his religion, because as many human beings as there are on this planet, there are as many revealed religions. Everyone is conditioned to pretend to a given religion, for now, but our return to Eternity is our Path that we do by ourselves. For the route for everyone is different from the route for all others, even though all these routes must eventually Awaken to the Path to Eternity. No one Saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may, others can Point to the Path, but we ourselves must Walk the Way.

After you have an understanding of the influences and conditionings that shape our thinking and behavior, then Observe these conditioned notions and influences in your thinking and your behavior. You will start to recognize what a automaton you are. If the trade-off of gaining Freedom by discarding these influences or conditioned notions is more than you wish to bare, then going Within will be of no use. If you want Freedom, if you want Awakening from the delusions that you have been conditioned to *believe* all your life, then the Task is to discard the conditionings by Observing them AS yourself and one by one discard them. It can be a long and arduous Struggle, for some of them are too dear to let go. We would give up everything including life itself for some cause whether it be Noble or not, but would refuse to give up even a minor Cause of our Suffering (which is the control and manipulation by our conditioned thinking and behavior).

So before you can Dwell AS the Present NOW, and before you can Realize Oneness, you must first BE Free of your conditioned notions. For THEN and ONLY then can you Truly Go Within.

Zikr Meditation IS the practice of Self-Remembering. Mindfulness Meditation IS Dwelling AS the Moment, the Present. But we can not Self-Remember or BE Mindful if we are conditioned automatons. If you wish to Realize What-IS, then there can be no thought of the past or of the future. But *want* nothing, for in your *want* you keep pushing both the Present and Oneness away from you. Do not want, either Do or Do-Not, but never *want*. In *wanting* you are dwelling in the future -- simply Do what must be Done. Think not about where you have been, nor where you want to go, just Do what has to be Done right NOW.

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Awakening, one will Recognize Awakening for they are Awakening. Awakening, one will Recognize Sleep for they were once Sleeping. Anyone, Awakening or Sleeping, would, I would say, recognize or observe varying ways of saying the same thing.

If indeed, ego reacting to a statement due to some interpretation that the statement was different and therefore incorrect (which is the Cause of much Suffering and Conflict and War in the world at large), then indeed one would be controlled and manipulated by the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind. So I would say that my reply to your post was a response due to a Recognition, and not a reaction by one trying to oppose another.

Reaction would indeed be that the ego reacted to a statement due to some interpretation that the statement was different and therefore incorrect (which is the Cause of much Suffering and Conflict and War in the world at large), then indeed one would be controlled and manipulated by the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind.

I do not say to directly kill the ego, but rather to discard (kill) our conditioned notions and the ego would be indirectly discarded (killed) as a result for ego is in our conditioned notions. As long as we refuse to give up the Causes of our Suffering, or refuse to discard our conditioned thinking and behavior, we will always be controlled and manipulated by our conditioned ego. Ego = Translator = Filter = Separation = Good & Bad = Right and Wrong = Judgement = Priority = Worth = Misuse = Abuse = War = Conflict = Hunger = Inequity = any number of ills that we face day to day in the society at large.

And where is the intellectual prowess, then ? In Sleeping !

Human rights are concepts entertained by the Sleeping. Awakening, there is no concepts of human rights or anything else. Awakening, we humans ARE as Life IS -- we simply co-exist in a Unity of diversity. Sleeping: "I have these rights, and you can not violate them -- Yes, you have those rights and I will not violate them". Awakening: All for one and one for All -- no rights, just Compassion one for the other.

YOU own nothing -- a vagrant in this impermanent realm. YOU are your body, how can you possess yourself ? How can yourself be a vehicle of yourself ? You will not catch the tail that you chase. Dualistically, you can -- but dualism is a conditioned fallacy, an Illusion. Sleeping, we are always two steps ahead of and a step behind.......... ourself. Awakening, we ARE ourself.

How can you own or possess yourself ? There are many aspects of us, a couple of which is the mind and the body. But no aspect is separate from us or separate from each other. All aspects ARE us. The Grand Trickster complicates our lives to no end. It is really not complicated: *We R Us* -- quite simple.

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There's Nothing standing in your Way get off your butt You've gotten too comfortable in your conditioned rut, Therefore you're the very one who's in your own Way And there is no better time to start than this very Day. -- Yogajyotii

There is indeed the Grand Trickster but guess what When you locate him he'll be your conditioned Hut, You're too close to the Picture so you are unaware Of those very defilements that others see are there. -- Yogajyotii

Someone had to Teach you the Way it is your Due To Teach that Way to others so you will Teach too, Yet Hell will be to those who pass on the Trickster For in Deluded Passion Heat will Cause the Blister. -- Yogajyotii

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