Operative Wisdom

Trickster's Lie

Does not *contents* indicate *container* ? Does not *container* indicate *contained* ? Does not *contained* indicate a separation of that which is contained from that which is not contained ? Which would exclude *everything* as being *contents* ? May I offer that The Void IS Nothing and IS Everything, as there is Unity AS Diversity. For AS The Void there is no separation.

"Judgments", "critical thinking" or otherwise, IS conditioned thinking. The flesh can burn or decay or change into some other form without the slightest effect on it's doing so, *pain* is in the mind. Pain is not recognized by the form, it is the mind that recognizes pain. Hence the saying: *it's all in your head*. Hence the saying in Alice In Wonderland: *Feed your Head*. "As a man thinketh, so is he".

This so called "negative energy" is not an entity in itself but rather the emanation of our own conditioned ideas and images and meanings -- fear being but one of those self-generating self-perpetuating self-fulfilling conditioned notions. Indeed, the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind is more Real than most would like to admit -- for WE ourselves are the Grand Trickster harbored in our conditioned notions. This is why the Grand Trickster is so hard to find, for we will not go Within and root out this Cause or our Suffering. We will give all even life itself for some cause honorable or otherwise, but will refuse to give up even a minor Cause of our Suffering. There will always be Suffering as long as we cling to the Cause (conditioned thinking) of that Suffering. When we get rid of the Cause (conditioned thinking) of our Suffering we will no longer Suffer. A very simple equation, but the most arduous and painful task humanity will ever have to face because the *Cure* is more *Painful* than the vermin we must wrench out.

Indeed, a baby has embarked upon a new adventure that is some times called *physical manifestation*. Being quite dependent on others also engaged in the adventure, the baby will rely upon others for is comfort and lack of pain for the baby has better things to occupy itself with than such inconveniences, for the baby has no way of manipulating the circumstances that it is in. Depending on the age of the baby, the younger the baby the less the concept of comfort or pain. All the baby "knows" is that it needs no inconveniences because it has this new adventure to Observe. We should take note of such offerings of this Wise Sage the baby and BE more of an Observer than a generator of the Causes of our Suffering. Indeed, animals are more Inwardly Awake than conditioned humanity, but not more Evolved. Humanity is just Sleeping, and the animal kingdom is not.

With such blatant *handwriting on the wall* I too wonder how such obvious signs are not seen. It all boils down to the fact that our conditioned thinking affixes us with blinders so we will not notice the signs. We are controllers of the Universe, Gods in our own right, we can not admit that we have been wrong all these centuries -- even if it kills us. Which it is doing. We CAN Save the world -- one person at a time -- starting with ourself.

Awakening is simply an occurrence, not "something that we do" through effort or intent, by discarding toxic conditioned thinking. We should not sell ourselves short for the knowledge of what another "thinks" when the Truth is to be found in what they Understand or the lack of the same, in what we can term a Mirror of Truth. This is what is meant by the futility of conditioned belief systems who tarry at the periphery. TRUTH is all there IS (or should be). In matters of Spirit or Inner Consciousness, ask nothing less of another and of ourselves but of the Wholistic Essence of Truth. A non-conditioned individual is Truth personified. That is what Jesus meant when he said, "I am the Truth, the Life, and the Way....".

Awakening is when Inner Awareness, a Direct Impersonal Seeing of "What-IS", begins to operate. When this occurs there is an energetic change and can not fit into a "framework". The framework referred to is the dualistic matrix of conditioned thought. It accounts for the horrendous nature of a world inhabited by the Sleeping masses. It is the realm where many dream they are awake while their outer imposed hypnotic trance state deepens allowing them to evade responsibility for their personal contribution to a world of never ending wars, famine, poverty and exploitation of fellow man. That is the nature of the thought based conditioned world of mankind. An Awakened man/woman of TRUTH is anathema to the positive imaged misdirecting dreams which mask the real Hell that is going on. The disturbance felt in such a relationship is the Awakening process (not to be confused with "Awakened State").

This would seem to imply that Awakening is subject to a certain degree to Cause and Effect or Karma. And conditioned thinking's inference/implication upon inference/implication arrives at yet another inference/implication. Yes, that is the "automatic pilot" of the instrument of intellect operating at the linear plane of technical thought when compensating for one who "flies Spiritually Blind". The Sleeping, when looking at the Moment, will not see an "ego-self" that could ever do anything. It is all about Waking-Up and Helping others to do the same. The "ego-self" is neither agency nor catalyst. The Truth DOes that, given a momentary absence of the Sleeping state, an "Opening". This is a glimpse beyond conceptual frameworks, however may give an appearance of a framework when considered from a conditioned perception.

The sense of there being a 'self' that experiences Awakening is dependent on a dualistic conceptual framework. Especially since a dualistic or conceptual framework is the agency of Sleep and can not express (let alone See) it otherwise. Seen from Sleep, Awakening is defined as the opposite of Sleep, it is actually the absence of the toxic conditioned thinking and projections and distortions comprising Sleep, "a conceptual framework" and other thought-driven phenomena.

All one needs to do is stop thinking, open their eyes, and SEE "WHAT IS" without twisting it according to one's preconditioned judgments. In other words, let the Wholistic Essence of Awareness AS the Moment Acting in Atonement (Direct Perception AS the Living Moment of NOW) form the words used in communication. Before Awakening, the momentum of our words is distinctly arising out of the dead realm of memory-based conditioned knowledge. We can camouflage it at the letter of the word level of empty rhetoric, but there is not a thing we can do to cover up the self/other deception at the dualistic letter of the word level when being observed by one Spiritually or Inwardly Sighted.

Look at who rules the world of mankind. Are they not the conditioned Intellectuals ? Are they not the worshippers of the "false god of conditioned knowledge" ? Now do we understand the meaning of the "Blind Leading the Blind" ?

Indeed this testing implies judging, yet implies that IF indeed anyone is to judge anything, our stupidity and ignorance and greed and seeming power and conditioned notions of all sorts should be judged. Implied, testing for drugs will give you drug users, but what about Sleep users/walkers (programmed humanity). So, again, it is the meaning behind and between the words that are the Pointers to be looked toward the direction they Point rather than fixing our gaze on the words themselves. For the same language, the same words, are used by the Sleeping that are used by those Awakening. So it would be more *Enlightening* to look at from where any given word was uttered rather than the word itself, for the word is not Truth though the word can Point to Truth.

Sleeping is Sleeping, ignorance and stupidity is ignorance and stupidity. No one needs to determine that, it is what it is. Sleeping, we can not see Sleeping or ignorance or stupidity for this is what we ARE. Awakening we can see these things because they are what we WERE. For the same language, the same words, are used by the Sleeping that are used by those Awakening. So it would be more *Enlightening* to look at from where any given word was uttered rather than the word itself, for the word is not Truth though the word can Point to Truth.

This is very True of the Sleeping for they know not what Awakening is, so they are always having to re-group and *re-judge* their thinking and behavior. But *when you have been there* and you see someone *where you were*, there is no judgement to let someone know *where they are*. It is more of a Realization that "that is where I was, and there is where that is".

Indeed, there is Beauty and Divinity in All. Yet if one hops like frog and crokes like a frog and swims like a frog and looks like a frog and thinks like a frog and acts like a frog and only does froglike things, one is most likely a frog. "As a man thinketh, so is he".

Indeed, there is Beauty and Divinity in All. But the frog does not choose to be a frog, it simply is a frog. What-IS is What-IS. And if one hops like frog and crokes like a frog and swims like a frog and looks like a frog and thinks like a frog and acts like a frog and only does froglike things, one is most likely a frog. "As a man thinketh, so is he".

Sleeping we *judge*, Awakening we Recognize and Understand.

I would say, that you *think* that those you come in contact with is either for YOU or against YOU. Perhaps you are an innocent bystander who just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Such negativity generally repels people and either encourages them to react or run. BUT, if you were up to the *challenge*, affronting negativity with Compassion and Love and Understanding and Empathy and GoodWill is rich ground for Working on Unfolding your own Awakening.

Hurt ? You are still *there* ? Catch up to the Moment, before you miss all of them. As long as you are *there*, you can not be *Here* NOW. *Catch The Wave* before the Sea gets calm.

As long as you know that you are not emanating a negative energy but rather a quality of energy that is Compassion and Love and all Positive, and regardless whether you react or run, you are returning the energy that they emanate. Are you not ? BUT, if you take up the challenge and *respond* with the energy of Compassion and Live and Understanding and GoodWill that you ARE, it will weaken the wall of negativity that they surround themselves with. The Key is not to reflect their energy back to them but rather emanate your own. May I offer: not to think of Life in terms of "me or them", for in essence you are them as they are you. May I further offer the last words of a Supreme Awakening Master Magi of yore which echoes in the words of many other Awakening Sages and rings in my ears always: "Abandon Concepts, Realize All-Encompassing Emptiness, and dissolve All Duality !".

You will react or respond to different people different ways. Perhaps toward some you emanate positive energy and others no energy and other negative energy. Sleeping, we have likes and dislikes and place different values on different people and so we react or respond to them differently. Awakening, all people are people and there is no real distinction between them other than some need more Help and Service than others.

Do you not have enough burdens of your own, that you have to take on the burdens of others ? They won ! For you see, by reacting with negativity to negativity those emanating negativity drug you into their negative realm and so won you over to negativity. On the other hand, if you were to respond with Compassion and Understanding and Love to negativity, you would be breaking down their negativity and winning them over to the more positive perception. There is a lot of negativity out there, but by Saving ourselves from such negativity we are taking a step in Saving the world.

It IS your business -- the business of your Awakening. Awakening is very positive, so making it your business to overcome negativity either in yourself or others is very enriching and rewarding. Is Awakening not worth the effort ? Besides, those emanating negativity need your Help and Service to Save themselves.

To exist to exist, is a purpose ? We are therefore we are, is a revelation ? What you see is not all of What-IS. What you see is but an Illusionary figment of what we are conditioned to *think* What-IS but is far afield of the Truth and Reality of the matter.

You ARE your body, as all else IS What-IS. Nothing is separate from anything, as there is no dual nature of ourselves. There could not be manifested form (existence, the body) if we were not that form. We ARE the consciousness animating that body that we ARE.

The ego/personality/perspective is nothing more than our conditioned ideas and images and meanings controlling and manipulating our thing and behavior. Illusion, as it were, to rationalize our Blindness in such matters as Awakening. So we do not really destroy the ego, but rather Realize that it is a conditioned notion and stop clinging to it as a viable modus operandi. Ego/personality/perspective is but a contrivance of our own conditioned notions projected into/onto What-IS, therefore avoiding What-IS Truth and Reality. So ego is not destroyed but rather Realized not to be.

Indeed, I too have noticed that when things come they come and when they go they go. Could this too be a revelation ?

It would seem that this would depend upon one's concept of life and death. For all is Life, even seeming death. As all is Death, even seeming Life. Sleeping, there is no living for all is death. Awakening, there is no death for all is Life. So it would seem that the matter would depend on whether we are Sleeping or Awakening, would it not ?

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We not only have to deal with our own conditioned notions, and since we do not live in a vacuum we have to deal with the various influences of our environment. For most of the time we can not simply smile and roll our eyes and continue on our way. Most times it is required to attend to another being in the Moment that we are in. But first, understand that another has no power to let you or not let you do anything, it is entirely in YOUR focus. YOU and YOU alone have the power to be distracted or not. We can not blame another for distracting us, we must take the responsibility to do something about it ourselves. Aside from that, how can anything that is AS the Moment, that is happening the very Moment, be a distraction form the Moment ? Attending to What-IS in the Moment, and responding to it as though it is the very first Moment of the rest of our lives, IS in the Moment or in the NOW. Indeed, the amount of Moments experienced in a single day is staggering. That is, staggering IF we try to experience them all at once by observing them from one of these Moments that has passed. When we observe each Moment all by itself as though it were the entirety of eternity, it is but a single Moment to experience and respond to accordingly and skillfully.

The follow-up question would be: where are you when you are drawn from the NOW by these seeming distractions ? When we are AS the Moment, whatever experience IS that Moment, is NOW.

NOW you see what wretch you were. NOW you see how wretched Sleeping is. NOW you Realize why we must Wake-Up. But a clue: your *example* will be more convincing than your words. For if you tell another to focus their attention AS the present Moment, AS the NOW, you must BE in the present Moment responding to their entrance in that Moment that you are AS -- seeming to you a distraction. But is actually simply shifting your attention from What-IS happening at one Moment to What-IS happening in the next Moment. The Moment is the Moment, so when your attention is drawn from one experience to the next it is simply a shift of attention from one Moment to the next Moment. Realize this and you will always be AS the Moment.

We must not be too hard on the Sleeping, and by that same token we should not be too hard on ourselves. Judge not another, as you would not judge yourself. Indeed the burden of Helping and Serving others in their Awakening is like a rock that we accept to carry, the cross we accept to bare. Yet only a seeming weight, for once you are more sure of your own Awakening there will be no weights or baggage at all. Trudge on, you are about to enter the Gateless Gate and Observe the legless frog jumping.

*WHACK* Give up your Awakening to the Grand Trickster ? He would like that. It would no doubt be easier if we had someone to blame for our ignorance. But alas, there is no one to blame that we are ignorant, rather we are to blame if we do noting about it. For 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. *WHACK*

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Since nothing is permanent so anything we attach Any importance to is an Illusion by such the Match, The *thing* is a *thing* and as Real as your Ring But it is the Attachment and Clinging to the *thing*. -- Yogajyotii

That is the Grand Illusion as Humanity's condition For we are what we think thus Dualistic Rendition, Dualism another of the Baggage we must Let Go Thinking conditioned notions a condition will Grow. -- Yogajyotii

The Grand Illusion is not in that all is some Illusion Rather that our Identifying with it is the Confusion, You take it to extreme and miss the Point oh why When it becomes *our* truth it is a Trickster's Lie. -- Yogajyotii

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