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Indeed, words are but Pointers, and not to be believed or followed or clung to in any way. 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. What "takes you there" is not fixing our gaze on the finger Pointing but rather looking in the direction that it Points then Directly Experiencing the Path ourself. Sure, we look in the direction that the finger is Pointing yet we can see nothing. Why ? Because there is this Veil of conditioned notions preventing us from Truly Seeing. We can not See past the Veil that Blinds our Sight until we let go of the Veil -- it is that simple, though letting go of this dearly beloved Veil is not a simple matter.

Regardless of Direct Experience or not, initially we do indeed find ourself fluctuating between IN the Moment and NOT being IN the Moment because we do not keep our focus IN the Moment. We are easily distracted by our conditioned notions. BEing IN the Moment is most simple, yet staying IN the Moment is the most arduous and painful task we will ever undertake. For it takes reaching Deeply Within and wrenching out each and every conditioned defilement we have grown so fond of.

This is very True of the mind, the conditioned mind, the Grand Trickster. He is what we must Silence, let go. Sleeping, "Words are merely verbal expressions of notions and ideas... all of which are conjured up by one's mind". And indeed the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind "will do whatever is necessary to steer you away from what you are seeking". Awakening, words are Pointers.

It is indeed a joy to Point, but mere intellectual parlaying serves very little purpose relative to Awakening. Though even such parlance can very well Serve those who "have the Ears to Hear and the Eyes to See" though they may not take part in the discussion.

Though indeed words are very inadequate in explaining a given Realization or Understanding, acting only as Pointers and not actually transferring the Direct Experience, it is not so much a complexity to express the Realization but rather a complexity in translating the words into Pointers. In the expressing the words make perfect sense and are obvious Pointers, but in converting those words into some sense to glean an Insight or Pointer our Rose Colored Glasses of conditioned thinking distorts or totally negates a True translation. Yes, fathoming an expressing reading between and behind and beyond the words is needed in the translating but the Grand Trickster does not allow that. The Grand Trickster only allows the understanding of the *letter of the word* and keeps one's Vision shallow or surface. So until we bid farewell to the Grand Trickster, no expressing of Truth can be Truly Understood for all such expressing will be paradox and confusion. So, I would say, to translate such expressing of Truth we must simply toss out the conditioned dictionary and pick up a new one. The new one being no dictionary at all, because we can not Truly Understand Truth or Trust or Reality or Love via our conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts projected into/onto that Understanding.

I can only express that which has been Realized to be so, which is not knowledge but rather simply the unconditioned Observation of What-IS. This does not require a trust in oneself, though indeed we must be Lamps unto ourself, but simply a Clarity in one's Observation. Clarity in the lack of conditioned notions. When observing through the Rose Colored Glasses of conditioned ideas and images and meaning we see what we want to see, what we project into/onto the observation. When we take off the Rose Colored Glasses, when we let go of our conditioned notions, we Clearly See What-IS. In our feeble way we express What-IS, but because language is not a direct medium of transference the expressing can only be a Pointer IF translated by one who also has taken off the Rose Colored Glasses that the Grand Trickster so gleefully provides.

Fear not, for it comes with the Territory. When you are understood by the Sleeping world it is due to what is expressed is also Sleeping. When we wear 3D glasses we can understand a 3D movie. Only those without the 3D glasses will Understand an expression of What-IS. I would only offer that IN BEing, there is no trust or desire or control but rather What-IS. The Direct Experience of non-self IN the Moment, neither this nor that but rather BEing What-IS IN the Moment from Moment to Moment.

I have always said that to let go of the Grand Trickster our conditioned notions is the most arduous and painful and frightening task we will ever have to undertake. Easily said but not easily done, for it involves reaching deep Within and wrenching every conditioned idea and image and meaning that we have become very fond of and dependant on out of our BEing. So painful, so frightening, so seemingly insurmountable that most turn over and go back to Sleep. They catch a glimpse of their Reflection in the Mirror of Truth and reach over and hit the snooze button. The Reflection shows too much Work, too much insecurity, too much impermanence, to much conditioned notions.

Aha by Aha, Realization by Realization, Step by Step, some very minor and some quantum leaps but it is never an over-night occurrence. Only because we are going from duality to non-duality. When we are non-duality we do not go to duality to get back to non-duality.

Indeed no one is to blame for our defiled state of affairs, yet WE are to blame when we do nothing about it. Indeed "much fuss over such a little word", but what that little word indicates is at the foundation of our Suffering -- a root Cause of that Suffering. Indeed one's "moment of Aha will arrive" but not without struggling with and letting go of our conditioned notions that stand in the way of those Ahas Realized.

Of course, Living is about Life AS it IS with all the interactions Life so abounds with. And not as an island, so it would behoove us to learn to Live together. Of course personal relationships form bonds, but not to overshadow the inherent bond of all manifest form, namely Brotherhood. Which, I would say, is not limited to humanity as one human to another but rather of one aspect of physical manifestation to another. Ceremony has and has had it's place. But what is "humanization", what is "culturization", if not the programming or conditioning for the control and manipulation of another. In times of yore such control was I am sure needed to a degree, but we do not continue to plow our fields with a horse when a tractor is made available to us. I would say that the time is long past when we should let go of those worn and weary programmed ideas and images and meanings that simply get in the way of our continued Unfolding Understanding and Awareness. When we no longer need the symbols and ceremonies, I would say that it is time we let them *Rest In Peace*.

Nothing can be "discovered", for there is no one to "discover" it. IN the Void we simply See, as IN the Silence we simply Hear, as IN Awakening we simply ARE. I would not call it an "ethic" that is Realized, though it is an ethic. I would not call it the "source" that is Realized, though it is the source. Rather, I would call it to "know thyself" (to coin a phrase).

Ah indeed, semantics is a major stumbling block to the afore mentioned humanity getting along with itself and the rest of manifest nature he is part of. But then, it is not totally semantics actually but rather the various ideas and images and meanings that we are programmed to *believe* given terms and/or words convey. And at the root of war and conflict and strife are the disagreements of which idea and image and meaning is false or true. Indeed the phallus shows up and is glorified in times of yore, as it still is to this day. Not to slight the practices of Tantra and Kundalini yoga, in Self-Realization, but these practices can be as much of a distraction as our conditioned thinking and there are more direct ways of tapping our Potentiality. Such as BEing that Potentiality.

Who is the "victim" and who is the "prey" ? We can *blame* no one for our Suffering or the Causes thereof, yet we ourselves are to blame when we do nothing about the Causes of that Suffering. Symbols are but Reminders and Pointers, in a non-literal fashion, of what we must eventually BE. Yet misinterpreted and twisted in a literal fashion to accommodate our own twisted conditioned thinking. We fail to Realize, for we are conditioned otherwise, that the symbol is not that which the symbol Points to. Therefore failing to Realize that eventually we must let go of the symbol and BE that which the symbol Point to. Indeed there has been many a Wise Sages and Wise Teachers in the past as in the present who Point to this as symbols themselves. Yet when we focus attention on the finger, the finger blocks that which the finger Points to when the finger is held to close to the eye.

I am sure that the imprint of our natural diet is imbedded in every cell of our body, though through ice ages of yore we have had to resort to a non-vegetarian diet to survive. Then generation upon generation of a non-vegetarian diet, and the lack of the natural diet being communicated, we *think* that a non-vegetarian diet is our natural diet though the imbedded vegetarian cellular memory gives rise to vegetation processing. Though the knowledge is lost the inclination is still intact.

Indeed the glorification of the hunter is still prevalent today, and has taken many forms in our interactions with each other as well as our interactions with nature itself. Not an ethical or symbiotic picture at all, this day of clenched teeth and dog eat dog environment. For THAT is what is in the streets, and it is there that changes must occur or the hallowed halls we have erected may very well come tumbling down upon us. The "dedicated servants" of culture are the "dedicated servants" of the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind. We cling to this vile culprit, the Grand Trickster, the Cause of our Suffering, as though he would Save us from our defilements -- God, as it were. We would give most anything for some cause whether it be noble or foolish, but we would not lift even a finger to let go of even a shred of the Causes of our Suffering. Yet 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.

So I would say that what is corrupt and defiling to our Natural inclination or potential of Brotherhood with all manifest form is ourselves. For we are not ruled by our Natural Pure unconditioned state of BEing, but rather the Grand Trickster our conditioned mind. I would say that we must take our Power back from this vile knave that we ourselves have Created. Is this not told in the story of Frankenstein ?

Direct Experience instead of just intellectual knowledge, THAT is the Key to Awakening. It is indeed one thing for us to hear and/or read the Wisdom offered by others, and even agree with it and Realize that it is so, but it is totally another thing to Directly Experience that Wisdom ourselves. For Wisdom is just intellectual knowledge before we actually Directly Experience that Wisdom. Wise Sages of yore can repeat Wisdom to us innumerably, but we really *do not get it* until we have actually Directly Experienced it. Yet the more of us who finally Directly Experience that Wisdom, finally *do get it*, and the more of us who Share that Direct Experience, the more likely that others will be able to Directly Experience it and therefore *get it*.

At first we react, *thinking* "no, I am not a conditioned programmed manipulated automatonic puppet, worse than a dung hill". But if we endure the *broken record* that keeps telling us to "Wake-Up, Wake-Up, Wake-Up" we eventually get the drift that MAYBE we COULD be resting a LITTLE. Indeed, Awakening is all about Open and Honest self-Observation and actually Listening rather than simply hearing. There is a major difference between hearing and Listing.

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Must we say "flower" in order to appreciate the Wonder of a flower ? Is there more to the flower than we appreciate ? Is not the sun seen in the flower, knowing that the sun must be present in the flower in order for this flower to be the wonder that it is ? Is not the rain seen in the flower, knowing that the rain must be present in the flower in order for it to be the wonder that it is ? Is not the earth seen in this flower, knowing that the earth must be present in the flower in order for this flower we appreciate is the wonder that it is ? Can we not simply drink of the flower's beauty and bathe in it's fragrance and awe at the Wholeness of Life that it IS ? Yet never give it a thought that it is a flower ?

Can this not apply to us sentient beings as well as all in the realm of manifested form ? May I offer that we embrace and enjoy whatever IS as it IS without projecting any of our need for labels onto it. For regardless of what we may decide to call it, it is still what it IS. For, as with all of manifested form, including ourself, what we see is not necessarily What-IS. Our label, our conditioned notion about that label, only distorts our Seeing What-IS so must be let go in order to Truly Realize the Wonder of even a flower. For in the True Realization of the awesome wonder of even a flower we can Realize all the Truth of the Cosmos.

The fact is that it is relying on conditioned ideas and images and meanings that are preventing an Awakening that is pushing forth to be Recognized. This Inner battle between the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind and Awakening causes much confusion and pain. For we are drawn between the false security of the conditioned known and the uncertain urgings of Awakening to let go. Letting go of those old time-driven conditioned notions will be the most arduous and painful ordeal that you will ever have to endure. But you are in good company to go through this ordeal because we all have gone though it or are going through it or about to go through it.

The awesome wonder of all that IS is already What-IS, and is as you say "is truly perfect as it is". The problem is that we are too conditioned to Realize it. We are conditioned to name it and weigh it and dissect it and intellectualize it, and then it becomes ours. And in so doing we miss the Realization of what it IS, of what we ARE, of what all IS. For you see, we not only project our conditioned notions onto/into a flower but also into/onto ourself. To quote the lines of a famous poem: "One loses oneself and finds one's Self and enters into Peace."

Everyone seems to argue about what each other believes to be Truth. Each believing that their particular beliefs are Truth. These are the seeds of war and conflict and strife and greed and control and manipulation and suffering. IF they ever Realize Truth, though there are various depths of understanding Truth due to one's stage of Evolution/Involution, they will Realize that Truth Realized by the Muslim is the Truth Realized by the Buddhist and is the Truth Realized by the Christian and whomever else who Realizes Truth. It will also be Realized that there is no Muslim or Buddhist or Christian or any other discipline IN Truth. As you said, *It simply IS*.

Indeed, if we hold the tool too close to our eye, the tool prevents us from Seeing what the tool is used for so the tool is *believed* to be what we were going to use it for. As the finger is for Pointing and not sticking in our eye.

Careful and close observation reveals that all emotional responses are thought and therefore ego based. But some are more easily discerned than others. Sometimes it is not so much that the physical effects are not easily detectable, but it is the flood of thoughts that are associated with the emotion. They fully occupy the attention and serve as a sort of "self perpetuating" mechanism for the continuance of the emotion. So it is in our perception, yet do not confuse *Appreciation* and *Compassion* and *Real Love* and the like with emotion. Though these may elicit an emotional response due to the ego, they are not emotions. This narrowing of attention is "inattention". Being Inwardly Aware of all the sensations and thoughts associated with a particular emotion breaks the cycle and the energy dissipates on it's own accord.

The "subtle" emotions are indeed harder to detect. But, still the main reason for this is the narrowing of attention to the thoughts generated by the "desire". This is one reason why "sitting" meditation has value. Without our usual distractions to occupy our minds and the goals of our activities to rationalize our behavior we are left with nothing to observe but our thoughts, emotions and physical conditions. Under these circumstances even the "subtle" is clearly visible.

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