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What Is It Worth

Truth needs no back up, it IS as it IS. Yet, granted, one must BE Truth in order to Recognize and Realize it. That is, we must have the Eyes to See and the Ears to Hear Truth in order for us to See or Hear it. To establish such Eyes and Ears we would have to let go of the conditioned ideas that Veil our Eyes and Ears.

Truth is neither right or wrong, it simply IS as it IS -- nothing more or nothing less. When we dilute it with our own conditioned projections we end up with some hap-hassed contrivance. This we Judge as to what suits our conditioned liking, which makes it a conditioned opinion. Which is not Truth but rather our foolish conditioned rendition of Truth. Which is the mainstay of the war-mongers and profiteers on conflict and hate and greed and all the rest of the Causes of our Suffering. Our *opinion* has little or nothing to do with Truth. Yet 'our' truth, our conditioned perception of that truth, will always prevent us from Recognizing and Realizing Truth.

*Meditative State of Mind* is emanated in every aspect of our life. So we eventually become that *Meditative State of Mind* in everything we do or say or think. Everywhere, all the time, continuously. *Meditative State of Mind* is emanated in every aspect of our life. So we eventually become that *Meditative State of Mind* in everything we do or say or think. Everywhere, all the time, continuously. THIS is BEing the Moment, BEing NOW.

Do not blame anyone for your conditioned state of mind, for to be correct in such blaming you would have to blame the whole world and everyone in it. No, there is no one to blame for our conditioned Blindness, but WE are to blame if WE do nothing about rectifying the situation.

Each life situation is different for each person, so naturally the conditionings will be embedded in different ways, but FACT is that each and every one of us are conditioned to think and behave the SAME way. FACT is, no one got left out -- we are all equally conditioned and equally Blind. Now, when we start to rectify the situation of our own conditioned Blindness THEN we can start to See. Sorry Richard, you did not get something that others did not get. We are very Sharing when it comes to conditioned ideas and images and meaning and notions of all sorts. Misery does like company.

The task at hand is to do something about it. We can only do that ourself, and we can only do it right here and NOW. Clinging to the past, clinging to the need to blame, will prevent you from doing anything about it because we can only do that ourself, and we can only do it right here and NOW.

There is no one to blame but ourself IF we do nothing to rectify our conditioned mind.

Are you Observing this anger, this resentment, this built up frustration about not being able to go back to the past to change things, this built up frustration about wishing you could go back ? Observe it and see the futility in it, then *let it go*.

Our conditioned need to blame our Suffering and our conditioned mind on other than ourself. FACT is that WE do it and WE let it grow and bloom and WE set back and HOPE that some Savior will come along and lift us out of the mire that WE have freely wallowed in. Sorry Richard, if YOU want Salvation form YOUR conditioned state of Suffering then YOU have to be your Savior. 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.

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

We need one who will Point us to our Awakening, to Truth, to Reality. Obviously, Sleeping, as the bulk of humanity has portrayed, we can not know him for we are so easily beguiled by those who *think* and *profess* that they are Masters of the Wisdom. So the True Teacher will be known as much by what he does not do as by what he does, perhaps moreso.

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 croaks 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 frogly things, one is most likely a frog. "As a man thinketh, so is he".

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 we must Recognize them in ourself, for only in the Self-Observation of our own conditioned ideas and images and meanings can we See our own "wrong motives, or distorted intentions" 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/AS 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.

Again, "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.

This description is of a dualistic materialist and not an idealist. Sleeping, one may live somewhere, even the eternal. Awakening, we ARE the eternal so there can be no conditioned notion of death to fear. Talking the Talk is not the same as Walking the Walk. Labeling ourself with all the Divine attributes to beguile others as much Sleeping as ourself, we engender a false *hero worship* not unlike most organized religions. Awakening is not about some contrived images, but rather BEing who we ARE this very present Moment from Moment to Moment. Awakening there is no time for rest for we are continually bombarded with conditioned ideas and images and notions of all sorts, so we must continually persist and persevere. Commanders are Sleeping, Servants are Awakening. Sleeping we obey the Grand Trickster, Awakening we do what must be done. Awakening we ARE Compassion and Empathy and Understanding and very much an irritation to Sleep, though such irritation is not intended but is a Natural demarcation.

Awakening, we would not beguile nor would be beguiled -- not to follow nor to be followed. Those Awakening only hold up the Mirror of Truth so that we can see what hideous controlled and manipulated automatons we are, for we already know what must be done to change that Reflection.

But actually Awakening is letting go of the Causes of our Suffering that Veils our Realization of the Awareness that we ARE. Not an expansion but rather an uncovering of the layer upon layer of conditioned nonsense that Blinds us from Recognizing our Awakening.

Many espouse their versions of Truth and Reality and so called Spirituality in opposition to others who espouse their versions of Truth and Reality and so called Spirituality. Raising their particular Icon to the pedestal of Godhood knocking the other's Icon off that pedestal. Belief systems pitted against belief systems. This is the breeding grounds of war and conflict and hate and greed and all of the Causes of our Suffering. And such rivalry gets vehemently more fearsome and more deadly as we fight for our place upon the pedestal. Siddhartha himself predicted that a day would have to come to pass that we would Realize that we must destroy the pedestal and discard the Icons and embrace each other as *people* and not at odds with each other as *belief systems* before we could Truly start Awakening. Did he also not say that if a Buddha was notice along the road to kill it ? Meaning, of course, to destroy all statues and icons of himself. Was not Siddhartha's simple message: "Believe nothing ! Belief is a confession of ignorance ! Therefore do not even believe what even I tell you ! All I can do is to teach you to enlighten yourselves. Your first duty is to abolish your ignorance, and only you yourselves can do this."

The baggage being the ways of the Sleeping world, which includes our conditioned need for judging others. This is most difficult for there are no Wise Awakening Sages are always handy, we are just people trying to *get it together* with other people trying to do the same thing. So do not judge, as you do not want to be judged, as the Sleeping realm judges. That is, do unto others as you would wish others to do unto you.

Indeed, this is why I mention that we would be further ahead to Realize and Understand to where and from where words come from. For as you said, the Sleeping will understand a given word one way and the Awakening will Understand it in a different way. Yet, bare in mind, that though the Awakening Understand a given word from the vantage point of Awakening they also Understand the word as it is understood in the Sleeping realm for they were once there. So please do not fear words here, but rather look beyond the normal Sleeping understanding of them and look to where they Point.

So, would you say that your thoughts/actions are a *reaction* more than a *response* ? That the reaction contained more of the conditioned part than the Awakening part ? This is fertile ground for Self-Observation, is it not ? These are some of the things we must Openly and Honestly Observe in our thinking and behavior, is it not ? When and ONLY when we Walk the Walk are we Open and Honest with ourself and others. When we are just Talking the Talk we are not Open or Honest with either ourself or others.

And what would this liberation be ? Liberated from what ? Liberated from the Causes of our Suffering ? Are not those Causes our conditioned notions about good and evil and right and wrong ?

Are we not all Buddhas, yet have been distracted by our conditioned notions so we do not Remember such ? Uncover the Light that we ARE by removing the bushel we are hiding it under, so that others may See as well. *Aha* -- is it not ? Each and every Aha adds up to continued Awakening, does it not ? Let There BE Light -- Always IN/AS All Ways.

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Indeed, the *intent* of any so called caring and helping regardless of who is offering it renders such caring and helping as True or not. So the question is: is the caring and helping useful in our Awakening or some other twisted ulterior motive ? If it is a Veil to our Awakening, get rid of it.

Many so called Light Workers mouth the words of others professing our Divine Nature, *believing* that there is such a thing as Divine Nature. Fearing that perhaps we are not Divine at all. ONLY after removing the defilements (Veils or conditioned notions) that distort our True Reflection in the Mirror of Truth, will we have even a clue as to what our True Nature IS. Indeed, quite Divine, but we can not Realize that for ourselves when we are satisfied with (still harboring the defilements of) the distorted Reflection in the Mirror of Truth. As your response so aptly points out in the forwarded letter. Yet, I would say that Unfolding is underway -- the hardest step to take is the first.

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

That is, you fool yourself by thinking that there are two of you. It is a game dualists play to substantiate their validity of dualism. There is even a part in the Grand Trickster's Play where we portray dual aspects of ourselves to others. The fact of the matter is that there is only One of you, and the seeming others are but Masks we wear. This becomes quite obvious as we start our Awakening for *There Can BE Only One*. Awakening is letting go of the Masks and BEing who you Really ARE and not the multitude of Masks we wear. So the Wisdom is not in the Masks or words, but rather beyond behind between the Masks or words. When we come face to face with ourself we Realize that there is just ourself and the baggage that we carry around. When we Realize THAT, we Realize that when we let go of the baggage we will be left with ourself. A scary thought to be sure.

We must be careful as to what we look for, for when we find what we look for we have missed Awakening. Awakening can not be looked for because it can not be found. Awakening can not be given nor taken because it can not be possessed. It is a Realization that ONLY comes AFTER our conditioned notions are not part of the baggage that we carry around with us.

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For all of the Freedom IS nothing left to let go Nothing to possess and no rambling to and fro, As there really is no one to either think or so do It's all about Observing the Observer IN/AS you. -- Yogajyotii

All Wise Sages Teach to have an Empty mind As do all Sacred Texts of Wisdom that we find, So let go conditioned notions before they breed So why reinvent the wheel you must take heed. -- Yogajyotii

Is it worth the Understanding is it worth the Bliss Is it worth no Causes of Suffering is it worth this, Is it worth the Freedom ever anew yourself BE Is it worth the Self-Knowledge is it worth to See. -- Yogajyotii

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