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A few points to ponder Such as *mind* and *brain* and *Direct Experience*. Most consider the mind and/or even the brain as having something to do with conceptualization and/or intellectualization and/or even perception. Yet the mind is just the mind, a fantastic development of an evolved brain. The mind is but a processing utility of the brain, and has little to do with memory or conceptualization or intellectualization or perception other than processing the information resulting in memory/conceptualization/intellectualization/perception. And the brain is but an organ of the body just like the liver or heart, though different in it's capabilities and functions. So other than the instrument processing the data that results in memory/conceptualization/intellectualization/perception, the mind nor the brain are the culprits of faulty memory/conceptualization/intellectualization/perception. No guilt by proxy because unbeknownst to them is the Evil wrought in their name. That Understood, we can address the Real Cause of Illusions. Which is the conditioned contents that the mind processes. We call it the contents in the mind, but actually the mind is not a container but rather a virtual processor. The contents are the part of the memory that has been influenced in some way. That is, memory that is not of Direct Experience but rather the results of conditioned processing. The Direct Experience IS the Direct Experience all by itself, which needs no memory nor definition nor label. The Realization/Witnessing of whatever it is Directly Experienced. This is Pure Observation/Witnessing/Apperception. Do not blame the Frog for the Jump, as the Frog is just the Frog doing what Frogs do.

Direct Experience is recorded in what is known as memory, yet during Direct Experience there is not even acknowledgement that a Direct Experience is occurring. Though, it is recorded as it is Directly Experienced, thus there is memory of it as we proceed to the next/Present Moment. Though not dwelled on, as it is already part of the unreal past by the time we remember it. Each Moment is anew and thus Present, though recorded in every cell of the body and even it's aura and related aethers as All that is seen and heard and touched and tasted and sensed and otherwise Directly Experienced. Kept as a resource as we Respond to any given Moment. A Potentiality likened to perhaps a library. Not all information in a library is useful. So Work on ourself is the sorting through this resource and eliminating that which would prevent Witnessing/Observing What-IS AS it IS (that which would influence/control/manipulate thinking and behavior). It is a Purging of the resource data.

Spirituality is simply a word, that points to the Divine Union of Heaven and Hell. The Melding of the Two again made One. The Phoenix arising from the Destruction, the True Nature emerging AS What-IS. The Transmutation of base metal to Gold. Not of Death but of Life, though the two are inseparable as naught is permanent. Thus Death and Life are One, for in Death there is Life and in Life there is Death. Compassion/Empathy/Understanding/Awareness it's True Nature. Though most are conditioned to *think* it has something to do with their Illusion of a self-made God or notions of frivolous love, it is actually relevant only unto themselves. For the Spirit that is known is a False Spirit. A contrived reflection of oneself and little more. An Illusion at best. It is said that such Spirit roams the Abbeys Seeking martyrs for it's cause. Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore".

What you know about Spirituality are the very conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts that Veil the very True Understanding/Realization/Recognition of it. "Forgive them, for they know not what they do". Thus to Empty the contents harbored in the attic, then there will be no "mind" or "god" or even "spirituality". There will only BE Truth/Reality AS it IS this very anew Eternal Infinite Present Moment. Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore".

Awakening, such foolery is quite obvious -- for Wisdom is not found in the printed word, but rather Realized in the space between them.

The seeming insurmountable struggle we face is not AS Awakening, but rather the struggle to let go of that which we are not. It is indeed a cruel hateful vengeful world that we have established, and we did establish that world because we are that world. But we come to a point where we see the crime upon ourselves of this vicious circle that we ourselves have established. Then the struggle begins to dismantle this cruel hateful vengeful vicious circle, and in that dismantling we Realize the Natural Unfolding of our Awakening. That is, the more baggage we let go of (dismantle) the Lighter our step AS our Journey along the Path of Awakening.

How does the mind Realize Freedom when the mind itself is wrought by conditioned delusions ? Can the mind Free itself from itself ? Is True Realization only an activity of the mind ? What about the rest of the form, is it not Conscious ?

"Anguish" ? "Prospect" ? "Ending" ? But if "With the mind realizing freedom of all delusions wrought by words, progress toward direct apprehension of Creation can begin", how can there be "anguish" or "prospects" or "ending" ? AS the Reality of the Moment there is no "anguish" or a "prospect" of some mythical "ending". "Anguish" is left over from not completely Awakening from emotion, and "prospects" for some future event that is not AS the Moment and therefore not Real is clinging to wishful thinking, and to think that there could ever be an "ending" to the Direct Experience AS the Moment (which happens to be the only Reality that we can Directly Experience) is but the fear of losing what we think we have.

The Grand Trickster "entertains", Awakening we Dwell AS the Moment of What-IS AS it IS. To bend to our conditioned ways would keep us from Directly Experiencing whatever that Moment IS. It is mere dualism to think that "life and awareness" are separate, for Life IS Awareness and Awareness IS Life. And how could such Awakening be "opposed" to "minerals"? For all manifested form IS Life and Awareness? Ask "minerals" and they will readily attest to the Fact that "minerals" are just as much Life and Awareness as any other form (human in this case). Though indeed, it is hard to distinguish many humans from rocks. But "nonlife"? A term invented by the Grand Trickster to trick us into thinking that there is no Unity in the apparent Diversity of manifested Form. At the most subtle Observations, all manifested form is One, and therefore Life and Awareness.

But for the fish to discover water, the fish would have to "consider" itself separate from the water -- yet could there be fish without water ? When the fish Realizes that it IS water (a mere diversity of Unity), then the fish would not "consider" the duality of separation. Is the fish Aware that it is a fish ? Or is it simply BEing a fish, BEing Aware ? Likewise, is the Universe Aware that it is the Universe ? Or is it simply BEing the Universe. May I offer, that only conditioned humanity dualistically "considers" that there is a self to be Aware of. Awakening, humanity would Realize that there is only BEing Aware -- of, I might add, no particular thing including oneself.

The Grand Trickster, the conditioned mind, is the one who "tricks" us to *believe* the Illusions of ownership and fear and emotion so rampant in this physical manifestation. For pretending that we are supposed to be the conditioned controlled manipulated automatons that we are, is prostrating ourselves in front of the Grand Trickster, worshiping our conditioned mind as god.

Discarding the conditioned ego *leads* to equanimity, but there are many more conditioned notions to discard before we reach any Inner Balance. The Scales will always be tipped one way or the other until all conditioned ideas and images and meanings are set aside and we embrace the Moment AS it IS and what the Direct Experience AS that Moment Reveals to us. There is Meaning AS each Moment, but we have to Recognize that Meaning by not projecting our own conditioned notions into/onto it. But Equanimity is not a "phase" but rather a state of BEing, for a state of BEing is Limitless but a "phase" is confined to the limits of our conditioned thinking. How can a "phase", engendering limits, be Limitless ?

WE ARE the Miracle! May I offer, that there is but One Place and that is right where we ARE right NOW this very present Moment. All other places are but props set up by the Grand Trickster.

May I offer that though a True Teacher will discourage a *following* it is us who establish ourselves as *followers*. In many cases our gratitude for one Pointing out the shortcomings in our conditioned thinking and behavior actually establishes a servitude to not the resulting Awakening but rather a servitude to the one Pointing. We have a tendency to look at the finger Pointing and not at what is Pointed to. We can rationalize our adherence to a particular Teaching by convincing ourselves and others that it is merely gratitude, for in Reality we are only solidifying further our lack of Realization that we are following rather than Walking. *Reactions* are based on our false need to protect our conditioned perspective, *responding* is offering what we Realize to be True without a conditioned perspective. We can use the Wise words of another to Point to OUR Realizations for perhaps they say it better, but it is OUR Realizations that are of importance and not another's Wise words. For they are the authority for THEIR Realizations, not OUR's.

No words ARE the Truth, regardless of their Wisdom, but rather Pointers so that perhaps WE can Realize Truth. Though statements may be very Truthful and of the Wisest, Truth will never be *found* there. Truth can only be Realized by each and every one of us, when we discard our conditionings. To be very smart we have to learn at least something new every day, but to be Wise we have to forget at least something every day. Referring of course, to our conditioned notions.

I would only offer that we not fix our Attention on the *finger* and fix it on OUR resulting Realizations. One who always quotes Jesus or Buddha as verification that one has attained some measure of Awareness, I would say that one is only verifying Jesus's or Buddha's Awareness and that one has attained nothing. For it is not the finger that Points that is of importance, but rather what Realizations

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.

It has been said, figuratively of course, that on one shoulder sits an Angel and on the other shoulder sits a Devil -- could it be the illusion most call *conscience* that urges us to play a conditioned judgement game of what is *good and bad* ? The Grand Trickster indeed, for AS Awakening there is no *good and bad* but rather whatever the Direct Experience AS the Moment IS. When there is no more memory of what is good and what is bad, when there is no projecting of our likes and dislikes into/onto What-IS AS the Moment, when we respond AS Compassion rather than react in opposition, THEN there is Love. The Compassionate offering of Help due to the Recognition of Sleep IS Love.

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.

It is not a matter of *readily adjust beliefs* but rather to let go of the beliefs all together. We can not Walk the Path holding on to some belief system. And whether the atheist and agnostic admits it, they too are bound by a *belief system*, a belief in this or that or a belief that there is no this or that. A belief is a belief, by any other name is still a belief. WHEN you look around and see people, people of no particular creed or religion or school of thought, just people Working on themselves to get Free from creeds and religions and schools of thought, THEN you will see Awakening.

This is the way of *beliefs*, they can be seen as correct to each one of us in our conditioned thinking. But *beliefs* are *opinions*. One can not force Truth upon another, though both beliefs and opinions have established many wars and conflicts to force such beliefs and opinions on others -- causing much pain and Suffering. All one can do is *expose* another to Truth, for Truth can be quite infectious to those susceptible to Truth. The Sleeping, on the other hand, are usually unscathed by such exposure.

Awakening, the viewer or Observer and the view or Observed ARE one in the same. This is the underlying Unity in All diversity. Sleeping, they are separate -- hence Duality. Likewise, the doer and the deed done are one in the same for without a doer there could not be a deed done. It is in the Flow of this physical manifestation that deeds are done, as physical manifestation IS the Flow. And in order that this Flow is Smooth and Easy, each Element in this manifestation must do as the Flow does. "Go with the Flow", as it were, of this physical manifestation and not our particular conditioned notions. To do so, we must BE the Flow as we must BE the Observed as we must BE the deed done.

The AlarmClock has been going off for some time now, so would it not seem that it is about time that humanity stop reaching over and hitting the *snooze button* and continue going back to Sleep ?

Indeed, though discarding our conditioned thinking and behavior is a most painstaking and painful undertaking, as Arjuna and Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita points out, it starts with the simple matter of "Just Do It!" Sleeping, we tend to over-complicate ourselves with complexities that only serve as a web that holds us fast to Sleep. Awakening, we Realize that the infrastructure of our conditioned notions are but glitter that distract and dissuade us from the simple matter of Opening our Eyes. But even as an Observer, is not Observing 'doing' ?

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 too 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.

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It is in the Observation of ourselves and our reactions and where those reactions originate and why we would react and how/why we are controlled and manipulated by our conditionings, that we Unfold our Awakening. The observations of others can be wonderful Pointers to that which we should Observe in ourselves, but our own *reactions* is where our Attention should be if we are to Awaken. 2,500 years ago an East Indian said "Know yourself", 2,000 a Jew said "Know thyself", 1,500 years ago........ Repetition is not a new phenomena, and after all such repetitions people still do not seem to grasp that our Awakening is in Observing ourselves. To *be a Lamp unto ourself* we must Dwell Within and Openly and Honestly Observe ourself. It is sometimes called Seeing our Reflection in the Mirror of Truth, where we can not hide the conditioned automatons that we are.

Further, all *concepts* are imperfect regardless of what they are of (which includes God). Concepts evolve and degenerate and become more imperfect. When concepts are discarded is when concepts are Perfect. That is, concepts = imperfection and no concepts = Perfection. Whether they are of God or otherwise. Would then, concepts not be our problem ? It is our individual concepts of God and Truth and Reality and what have you, that is at the root of our wars and conflicts and greed and hate and Suffering. We continue to conceptualize even our concepts.

The Dreamer and the Dream, the Butterfly and the Sage. Indeed, who is to say which is which when it is all in one's head. For this is where the memory and emotions and conditionings do reside. But alas, those who have a Vision of Awakening are brushed aside as Dreamers though their's is a Vision and not a Dream. Yet only the Sleeping Dream, for the Vision is another matter. So there can be no Reality in a Dream for Dreams arise from the Sleeping, and Sleeping is not Reality. Yet indeed, the Sleeping do try to convince both themselves and others that both their Sleep and their Dream are Reality. Unbeknownst to them otherwise.

The Wise Awakening Sage would "identify" with nothing -- not "Source", not "God", not "ground of Being", not anything, save the Reality of What-IS AS the Moment, Moment to Moment. That is, the Wise Awakening Sage would simply BE, projecting nothing into/onto the Direct Experience AS the Moment. There is no "security" to this, but rather that it simply IS, as they simply ARE. They will leave no foot prints as they Walk along the rice paper, yet will uproot and change whole lives of those who are blessed by their Presence. Not even the air will be disturbed in their passing, yet mountains are moved in their Path. They are AS the Moment, they ARE the Moment.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, which includes yourself, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people (other than yourself) all of the time.

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Figuratively not actually heart is not the seat of emotions For nothing dwells there though causes many commotions, God can't be *found* for the concept of God is for naught As nothing more than the indescribable What-IS thought. -- Yogajyotii

What-IS God eludes finding/describing for IS the Totality When you Realize THAT you Realize there's no Mortality, Heart that is not a special abode with a ready made Quiz But rather that What-IS is the special abode of What-IS. -- Yogajyotii

What-IS All is Special and All is the abode of What-IS All So Realize/Recognize/BE your True Nature or you'll Fall, Consciousness/Awareness/Understanding/Compassion Is not more than Empathy/Love AS Awakened Fashion. -- Yogajyotii

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