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Was it the hideous reflection that you saw when you looked into the Mirror of Truth ? Were you not forewarned that it would be quite hideous and scary ? Or would it be that you *think* that the Price of *letting go of your conditionings* is higher than you are willing to Pay ? Or that the Cost would be a Cross to hard to Bare ? It has been said that we would give up everything including life itself for some cause (whether noble or not), but would be hard pressed to give up a single Causes of our Suffering.

No question is *stupid* when asked with earnest intent. But it is foolish to *react* to the Reflection of conditioned programmed automatonic puppets that our Reflection shows when we Look into the Mirror of Truth. Sleeping, we *react* -- Awakening, we *respond*. But nothing is *great* about Awakening -- is rarely found because it is so unpopular, there is no denomination of currency small enough to purchase it so it is rarely offered, buried so Deeply that it is rarely Seen, will elude any seeking for it, and like a phantom can not be held onto. It and a dollar, would not even get you a cup of coffee. It must be funny though, for those who propound it seem to be smiling most of the time.

If you are frustrated with yourself, why are you directing that frustration to everywhere else other than the cause of the frustration ? If you are frustrated with yourself, kick yourself in the butt, and keep going. Because you stumble and skin your knee, do you lay there helpless and whimpering ? To turn away from your Reflection in the Mirror of Truth is to deny it and continue Sleeping. To acknowledge and embrace that Reflection, regardless of the pain that must be borne to do so, is to Understand and "know thyself". To know yourself is to be able to Save yourself. *Knowing* is Truly Understanding, and *Saving* is Truly BEing. *Knowing yourself* is Understanding yourself, and *Saving yourself* is BEing yourself.

So you see, it is very important to Truly Understand *Aloneness* -- your Journey is a Solitary one, that must be Walked Alone. If others, even close relationships such as family, can not accept this because they can not understand it, we must Walk on as though parting ways with a stranger who happened to stop you to inquire about the direction to the nearest coffee shop. Otherwise you would be trapped in the circle of control and manipulation that Causes so much Pain and Suffering both physically and psychologically until admitted to the funny-farm. For once we Open the Door to our True Nature, we can never quite close it completely. It will always plague us until we Truly Embrace it and BE it. Do you See why Siddhartha said that it would be an almost insurmountable task to let go of the Causes of our Suffering ?

All *stumblings* in our Journey are a major Help in shaking our fixed gaze and forcing us to look around so as to Realize and Understand the Causes of our stumblings. In this way, layer by layer we peel away the Veils that keep us locked into our conditionings. You noticed these Veils before, but did not want to remove them for one seeming reason or another. And so *the cheese got more binding* and the Veils started getting under-foot, and so you tripped on them. Is it not cumbersome to Walk when you keep tripping on these Veils that are under-foot ? Cumbersome enough to Remove the Veils ?

Dwell Deeply IN recent Realizations and Understand it fully, and you Alone will Recognize what must be done to continue your Awakening. And as Arjuna found, the Course we must take IN Awakening is most often not an easy task. BE Well and Mindful.

It is in IF you *believe*. For a *belief* is no more than a cop-out because we are to afraid to Directly Experience ourselves. Either we *believe* and thereby controlled and manipulated by those *beliefs*, or we Directly Experience each Moment, Moment by Moment, AS it IS so that we can Realize The Truth and Reality of What-IS and not what we are conditioned to *think* what we are conditioned is.

Ah, the Philosopher's Stone, and in some parts, the Holy Grail. The Philosopher's Stone is a remnant of Alchemy (the Hermitic Sciences), spread worldwide from Egypt, starting with the First Kingdom, it was the migration of the first real organized system of a Solitary God so naturally is embedded in the very foundation of most world religions. Of course organized religion would have to get rid of the Mystique of Alchemy and anything pertaining to Hermes (Ancient Egypt's Solitary God), but the basic Transmutation of the base physically oriented person to the Awakening individual dedicated to the notion of a single God had to be kept under the mask of their own rendition. Of course the Mystic branch of any *One God* system, Gnosticism in the case of Christianity, broke away from the mainstay of the particular religion to dwell more on the Mystical perspective. So it is the Gnostics, Christian Alchemists, who kept the Philosopher's Stone alive and well in Christianity.

The Philosopher's Stone has never been *lost*, simply misplaced by the physical plane oriented. Though the Physical Alchemists hold that it is a necessary tool in our Transfiguration, our Awakening, our Enlightenment, many non-Alchemists have made such a Transition from Sleeping and Awakening. There are Deeper aspects of The Stone that can be used after Awakening, and The Stone being a necessary ingredient, though few True Alchemists trying to Create The Stone realize that what they say is True but that is not there Intent. Alchemy is an Honorable study, and one well worth any time spent in the study. It is a Metaphysical Study, and of little use to the physically oriented.

Indeed, modern Chemistry evolved out of Alchemy for there was such the need for a physical science. But you do not have to be a Chemist or Physicist or Mathematician or Astrologer or Astronomer or Sage of Wisdom Teachings or Shaman (which the True Alchemist must be all of and more), all you need is Openness and Honesty in The Study of The Philosopher's Stone. It may not make you an Alchemist, but it will give you a Clearer Perception of Life and our conditioned way of thinking and behavior.

If I may, who would want to spend the effort to Study anything if one would not want to glean some benefit from it ? If you Seek The Philosopher's Stone, be prepared to make some changes in your perception. Many leave the Search For The Philosopher's Stone short of their goal of Inner Transmutation, but none leave without beneficial change to their perspective of Life. 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 would 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.

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 in motion indeed, for IN Awakening there is no *good and bad* but rather whatever the Direct Experience IN 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 IN the Moment, when we respond IN Compassion rather than react in opposition, THEN there is Love. The Compassionate offering of Help due to the Recognition of Sleep IS Love.

When there is separation, there is separation, and perception has very little to do with it -- unless one is Sleeping, of course. Then it would have everything to do with it. Awakening, perception and/or perspective and/or interpretation is seen as the Masks of the Grand Trickster and has little use in offerings of Compassion and Empathy for the plight of those struggling to begin their Awakening. Indeed, we must usually *read between the lines* and not focus our True Attention on the words spoken. For to focus on each word is to distract us from Realizing that which is behind or beyond mere language. So I would not be correcting choice of words or grammatical structure, this, as you said, would be of little concern when the Intention is Communication. Statements or offerings from here are but Pointers, and it is hoped that one would focus one's attention on where the finger Points and not on the finger itself. If we Point our finger toward the heavens, and we gaze in that direction, we can See the Wonders of Life unfold before us. But if instead, when we Point toward the heavens, and we focus on our finger, we see nothing but the finger.

Is not our whole life personal experience ? Some helpful and some not so helpful, some useful and some not so useful, but all are our personal experiences. One writing their own biography would require dwelling in the past, and fooling oneself that the past is somehow as much a Reality as this very present instant Moment. Mentally constructing the past which is not Real, convincing oneself that it is Real, *believing* that such a construct is not an illusion of the conditioned mind, would, it would seem, be quite cumbersome. May I offer that the simple IS or IS-NOT is taxing enough. The past is but real only in our minds, so IN the Moment there is no past as there is no future, there is only the Moment from Moment to Moment. What has been Unfolding in the past has indeed established the Reality of this Moment, but there is but One Reality and that Reality IS right NOW. So it is only NOW that we can relate Realizations and Recognitions, and we can only relate the Realizations and Recognitions that we Directly Experience NOW. All else is but an Illusion of the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind.

The Wise Awakening Sage would identify with nothing -- not Source, not God, not ground of Being, not personal experiences or research, not anything, save the Reality of What-IS IN the Moment, Moment to Moment. That is, the Wise Awakening Sage would simply BE, projecting nothing into/onto the Direct Experience IN the Moment. There is no security to this, but rather that it simply IS, as they simply ARE

The foundation of Passion is not nuclear (physical). The foundation of Passion is a State of BEing or even a State of Mind. It is our Drive to Embrace What-IS, our Will to Embrace What-IS, Embrace Truth, Embrace Reality, Embrace our Awakening, Embrace Life, and to Embrace ourselves. THAT is Passion. We seem to direct it toward some physical realm object or idea or image or meaning, but we lose the Inner Acceleration or True Passion. We lose the Passion that Jesus spoke of. Sleeping people speak of passion in terms of lust, and this is why they do not understand Inner Passion to Embrace our Divine Nature of Awakening. Once this Inner Passion is Embraced it spills over into every aspect of our lives, in everything we do or say. And leads to much confusion for the Sleeping. They do not understand this, so it is up to us to understand that they can not understand this and simply BE ourselves and *show* them rather than concentrate on *telling* them what we mean. A picture is worth a million words. Family member or not, friend or not, loved one or not, if they refuse to fathom True Passion we must simply let them BE as we want them to let us BE. Perhaps one day they will Wake-Up. It is not our responsibility to Wake them Up for they themselves must Walk the Way, we can only be Pointers to the Path.

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YOUR story is YOUR story. Do not defame others in it's telling, but it is YOU expressing YOU. END. YOU are YOU. END. THEY are THEM. END. Passion is not about *what was* or even *what will be*, but rather *What-IS* right NOW this very instant present Moment. And it is so, Moment to Moment. END. They dwell in the past and so they are strangers to you, for YOU must Dwell IN the present. The past is not Real for it is done and gone, as the future is not Real for it is not yet. Ah but the present is What-IS, and so the only Reality that we have at our disposal. If they do not dwell with you in the present, they are strangers not only to you but also to Reality. You are not obligated to dwell in their past, for it is your obligation to maintain dwelling in the present. If they are unwilling to dwell where you ARE, smile and bid them to return when they are willing to. It is their game, and you only feed it by reacting to it. React not, stay in the present. When they give a war, do not go. Would there then still be a war ? If so, they will only have themselves to war with. END.

It is their game and not your's, so do not play it. Remain steadfast IN the present and do not be shaken to react to a past that is not Real. A mere Illusion of memory, which is not Real nor can be True. When they play their game, treat it as such -- a game. That you can not play because the rules are their rules that are founded on Illusion. You do not understand Illusion for you do not dwell in Illusion. You dwell in the present. Illusion is not Real, and you can only understand what is Real. Smile and bid them to return when they would like to dwell *with you* in the Real present. It has been said to "be in the world but do not be of the world".

May I offer, that "perfection" nor anything else can be "possessed". He who is conditioned to *think* that he "possesses" still clings to the conditioned notion that the impermanent is permanent. Further, he who "DOESN'T LACK ANYTHING WHICH WOULD CAUSE CHANGE" is he who is in constant change -- the very change you seem to *think* perfection is without. So it would seem, that he who IS as he is "supposed to" BE, therefore not lacking "anything which would cause change", he would BE perfection in a constant state of change. Would he not ? And is not that precisely What-IS ? We ARE what we ARE, and it is only our conditioned mind that *thinks* that we can interfere and interpret in our own arrogant way what What-IS should be.

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