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What is there to "learn" that you do not already know, though you can not Recognize it ? When the learner IS that which is seemed to be learned, THEN one Realizes that there was never anything to learn for there was never a learner. For to have something to learn we must establish a learner, which is established by our conditioned dualistic notion that there is something outside yourself to be learned. What is learned is our conditioned ideas and images and notions that Veil our Awakening, which we have to un-learn in order that we may start Awakening to the Fact that there was nothing to learn in the first place.

Not only do you not have to "save the world", you could not even if you wanted to. For no one Saves us but ourself, no one can and no one may, others can Point to the Path, but we ourself must Walk the Way.

It is True that we should not endeavor to fix that which is not broken. But something is broken -- the connection of our True Nature with every aspect of our life. For that connection to BE, we must Live our True Nature. And to do that we have to let go of our conditioned notions that establish a gap in that connection. So we have to fix this broken connection, for if we never fix it we will never establish this connection and BE our True Nature.

"Am" as we are, programmed conditioned controlled manipulated automatons directed via our own foolish notions of this and that. Truly Looking into the Mirror of Truth is to Painful, and fixing the defilements we See therein that we ARE is too arduous a task so we simply go back to Sleep.

It has been said that if we want to be intelligent we must learn something new each day, yet if we want to be Wise we must forget something new we have learned each day. Know what you know and know that you know it. Also know what you do not know and know that you do not know it. And know the difference between the two. BE Well, but BE Mindful.

Even in the Hallowed Halls of Intelligentsia, the word is spreading that *perhaps* we might consider taking a closer look at our thinking and behavior and the course of the trek we have been on. *Perhaps* we might consider taking a closer look at the Grand Trickster's seeming authority. *Perhaps* we might be in "Deep Crap". As the Wise offering Pointed out, we can not go back the way we came -- that route lead us into this mire. And we really can not halt the Flow of the manifested realm, but we can start heading in a different direction IF we acknowledge the Fact that we have been and still are "Screwing Up".

Not lonely, but rather Alone. We can never really be lonely for there is always something or someone that will serve as company in one way or another. Aloneness is another matter, for we all are actually Alone in this Solitary Journey of Awakening. WE must tread the Path, WE must Walk the Way, WE and WE Alone Save ourself.

From Moment to Moment from day to day from year to year from incarnation to incarnation, we Evolve/Involve both physically and Spiritually to a level or degree of Awakening when we no longer have to return to this physical realm. And at this time in this Dark Age Kali Yuga it is not Wise to *put off until tomorrow what we should do today*.

I think you will find that the times that these experiences that you have described take place are during times of confusion due to the Opening of Deeper Insights. That is, when you were at a stage of taking further steps in your Awakening. Stages, steps, when we feel most Alone. So these "strange thoughts" are glimpses of the Totality that you ARE. Fleeting glimpses of What-IS. Pay them no Attention, but rather acknowledge that they come and go and let them come and go. Be pleased that you are glimpsing such. When you feel comfortable with your so called new Insights these experiences will fade away. And perhaps never again to plague you for you are finally stepping onto the True Path of Truth and Reality and ready to Walk the Way of Awakening. I am honored that you let me Help and Serve you in this most important step in your Awakening.

Anyone can see that the lot of humanity is Suffering, and we can even Recognize the Causes of that Suffering and Work on ourself to improve that sorry lot of Suffering both for ourself and others. But we are still beguiled by the hype of the Aquarian Age of Discovery and the hype that "things are getting better". Yet when we stop and look at the various cycles that humanity has gone through, namely it's Aquarian and Dark Ages, and Realize that we are in the very beginnings of yet the Darkest of Dark Ages the Kali Yuga, and Realize that we are AGAIN Blindly racing into the SAME madness of yesteryear, Realizing that the Grand Trickster is the Four Horsemen riding us into the Cantos of Hell, we Hear a Wake-Up Call.

We want to *Sound the Alarm*, as Paul Revere did during the USA Revolution a few hundred years ago, so we "ride boldly ride, the Shade replied", but alas, where to sound, who will Hear ? So we Gather, in the hopes that these little groups of Light will eventually get together so as to intensify their Radiance. For indeed as the Darkness prevails further, Light will gather in the so called Underground so as to preserve the Needed Refuge for not yet Awakening Seekers of Truth and Reality. In fact, it has already begun, as the deluded many over-run the Awakening few. A *Doomsday Prophecy* ? Perhaps.......... but one that can be lessened, at least or ourself. For no one Saves us but ourself, no one can and no one may, others can Point to the Path, but we ourself must Walk the Way.

Indeed Pointers are all that can be offered by another for our Journey on the Path is a most solitary Walk that only we can Walk. It is in your own personal relationship with The Divine Source of Consciousness that Truth is Realized. That which you Live after all of the talk is done...... is your own personal Inner Consciousness Within Manifesting Without. THEN you can Help Pointing others.

"There" is nowhere to *go* for you are always where you ARE, non-localized by "here" or "there". "Here" keeps you trapped in the past and "there" keeps you trapped in the future, unable to enjoy the present Moment. It is all in our head, the Illusion of *this* and *that* and "here" and "there". When we stop *thinking* about it, we simply ARE simply DOing what must be done IN What-IS -- whatever and whenever and wherever that me BE. As Ramesh Balsekar has said, "The sage lives in complete apprehension of the fact that there is no individual doing anything, whether it be writing, walking, talking or anything else. Thus, he may be said to walk a thousand miles without setting a foot outside of his house or speak for forty years without saying a word."

The first stumbling block is *your* reality, for Reality can not be possessed as *yours*. *Your* reality is but a contrivance of the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind, so *your* reality can be contrived any way you *desire* it to be. And as long as *your* reality is lived within the confines of your conditioned mind it can be "more peaceful, loving and happy and less fearful" -- in your mind. Yet, when *your* reality tries to co-exist with Reality there is an obvious *tilt* of the pin-ball game we have been playing in your mind. Perhaps not obvious to us, for our conditioned thinking and behavior is our reality and our world (so to speak). When Reality IS, AS it IS, without us projecting our conditioned notions into/onto it, Reality IS "more peaceful, loving and happy and less fearful". For it is our conditioned ideas and images and meanings that make *our* reality not peaceful and not loving and not happy and quite fearful. Reality IS Peace and IS Loving and IS Happy and IS no Fear, so it is a matter of Waking-Up to the Fact that *our* reality is but a contrivance IN our mind establishing no peace and no loving and no happiness and much fear.

And why do we "remain unable" to See the Causes of his Suffering ? Is it because we can not ? Or is it because we refuse to Look ? A very Painful Sight ? To Look into the Mirror of Truth and See what a worthless programmed conditioned used and abused controlled and manipulated robot that he has become ? Are we not accountable ? Are we not responsible ? Or are we just lazy ? Or are we just tired of the Struggle ? Well, we should have read the *fine print* when we signed up for physical incarnation. Because right there in the fine print on the last page way at the bottom it says "No one Saves you but yourself, no one can and no one may, others can Point to the Path, but you yourself must Walk the Way, So Just Do It".

But like all good intentions and Inner Urges, we Sleeping automatons manifest such inclinations outside ourself *thinking* that we are going to find ourself *out there*. We are not *out there* so why look *out there* ? Yet perhaps that is why we look *out there* because we know that we are not there, for we are too afraid to actually find ourself. So we spend our whole life looking for ourself where we are not, conditioned away from locating ourself because we do not want the Pain. So we avoid the Pain. It is always knocking at our door, but we are afraid to even crack the door to see who is knocking, for we know that once we open that door to the Cosmic Dance that we will never get it completely closed again. So we keep the door closed, even though the knocking just about drives us crazy. Only when the knocking does drive us to the edge of madness do we fling open the door wide...... and Dance.

We can keep the door closed, we can avoid the Pain, but we miss the Dance -- the Wondrous Cosmic Dance...... of Awakening.

Though it is not funny, that is the way of the Sleeping -- to *believe* that something or someone can Save them from their Suffering. Yet, paradoxically, that very Fact IS a Cause of their Suffering. Did Jesus not say to be a Lamp unto ourself ? Did he not say that God would Help those who Help themselves ? Did he not tell his disciples that they must not be influenced by others ? Did he not tell his disciples that he would soon be leaving them and they would have to continue their Awakening on their own ? Sounds to me that he was saying 'no one Saves us but ourself, no one can and no one may, others can Point to the Path, but we ourself must Walk the Way'. It appears that you came across another of the False Prophets that Jesus mentioned who would come in his name and deceive people. Their are millions of them Dear Friend, one on every street corner.

Yes, such adherence to the notion that our Awakening is somehow Cosmically being Unfolded for us *advancing* us to some *higher* Dimension of Awareness is founded on the conditioned notion that our Salvation will be officiated by someone or something outside ourself. It is also founded on the Fear generated by the Actual What-IS and our escape from it. We are conditioned not to want to Save ourself, we are conditioned to *think* some higher authority will Save us. Besides, it is too Painful and arduous a task to Save ourself. We are conditioned not to see the handwriting on the wall, Blinded by our Fear that what we see is what we get because what we see is what you mentioned but we do not want to get that. Hence the Need to Wake-Up.

It is in these early ages that the Seeds must be Planted. This is where Foundations are shaken and new ones poured. And though those Seeds must be Sewn ever so subtly, if one such Seed Blossoms as a magnificent Awakening our labors are rewarded ten fold. For at those early ages, to divert or even cause confusion in the conditioned thinking of the Sleeping is better than hording the Seeds ourself.

Waking-Up is indeed quite simple, like falling off a log. It is actually quite Natural. Our task is to get to a state of BEing that is Natural, which requires the most Painful and arduous undertaking of our life. We have to Reach way deep Within and root out each and every defiling conditioned idea and image and meaning and notion that prevents us from Waking-Up. These foolish cherished notions that we have become extremely dependant on and very dear to us MUST be wrenched from the very core of our existence. THIS is our Struggle with these very Causes of our Suffering. Our Search for the Holy Grail is none other than our Search for the Philosopher's Stone or our Search for our True Nature. When we Realize it, when we Remember it, we ARE our True Nature. When we ARE our True Nature of Divine Consciousness, we ARE Awakening.

So, step by step, Realization by Realization, Aha by Aha, we Unfold our True Divine Nature of Infinite Truth and Infinite Reality and Infinite Compassion and Infinite Empathy. No pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, no statue in our image, no great following, simply the ever anew Realization of the Wonder of What-IS Truth and Reality. And, there is a certain satisfaction in knowing that you have beaten the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind. There is Peace and Tranquility, but the Price of such state of BEing is too costly for most. The Price is that we must let go of the Grand Trickster our conditioned thinking and behavior, which most refuse to pay.

So.......... if you are Ready to pay the Price, Ready to turn your conditioned world upside down, Ready to forsake your conditioned ideas and images and meanings, Ready to relentlessly struggle to let go of your conditioned notions, Ready to *believe* nothing and do whatever must be done to Directly Experience What-IS IN the Moment, Ready to abandon intellect and past and future and focus your Attention IN/ON/AS the Present Moment from Moment to Moment, THEN starting your Awakening is forthcoming.

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The Sleeping are both optimistic and pessimistic, whereas those Awakening are Altruistic. There is no future as there is no past, for our only Reality is this very Moment NOW. Optimism for the Sleeping is mere wishful thinking, while Awakening we embrace What-IS rather than what we *hope* will be. Sleeping we thrive on chasing after our conditioned perception of enlightenment in the hopes that there is this to attain. Yet that which we chase will always elude us, as Awakening is not a goal but rather a state of BEing...... NOW.

Optimism should not prevent one from seeing dangers and defects, but it will prevent one from Seeing the Moment. For the Moment can not be seen, it can only be embraced and Directly Experienced. But he must Recognize them in himself, for only in the Self-Observation of our own conditioned ideas and images and meanings can we See our own "wrong motives, or distorted intensions" and let them go. THIS is Awakening, and through Compassion and Empathy we can Help and Serve others in their Awakening.

Sleeping we train and program and condition to control and manipulate, and so we accept such training and programming and conditioning ourself. Awakening we can only Compassionately Help and Serve. Sleeping we conduct ourselves as businessmen and *judge* whether the prize is worth the risk. Awakening we do what must be done IN the Moment, Understanding that we have no choice in the matter for it must be done. No risk, no chance, no concern as to outcome though we Understand the outcome, just BEing and DOing What-IS to BE and be DOne in the Moment from Moment to Moment.

"The Art of War", the bible of modern day businessmen. The rationalizations of the Grand Trickster in contriving a "Spirituality of Materiality". Sleeping, everything is outside and around us. Awakening, everything is no-thing for All IS us. We are the barers of our own Cross, we are the Sacrifice to be Crucified in our own Crucifixion, we are the Arisen as we Resurrect from the ashes of our own conditioned notions.

Sleeping we have co-workers in our business-place, whereas Awakening we offer Compassion and Empathy and Help and Service to all in need. We have no plan nor a goal, but rather the Self-Observation in the Mirror of Truth of the conditioned programmed controlled manipulated automatons we are and do what must be done to Free ourself from this Cause of our Suffering. That is not a goal, but rather a Reckoning with the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind.

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