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Your Own Hell

Yes, one of the few things you can be definitely sure of. The Door Opens rather easily actually, once we let go of a couple conditioned notions. But then the Door seems to swell right up and we can not get it closed all the way again. And yes, as paradoxical as it seems, we do try to get it closed because Clear Vision gets in the way of many Sleeping activities. This Clear Vision allows us to See through the Illusions that others *think* are Real, which is cumbersome in relations and family matters. We can no longer see as they see, and no matter how hard we try or how many masks we wear to hide it hoping to block it out somehow we will always be plagued by that Realization (that Aha). UNTIL we embrace our Awakening and Surrender our whole BEing to it. THEN we Realize that this Clear Vision that we were trying to avoid can actually enhance our relationships with everyday friends and family, not disrupt or complicate them. In this way we can better Guide rather than be controlled and manipulated. And perhaps our example will serve as a clue to others that Waking-Up form their Slumber may be quite an advantage.

When people answer the question of what they are thinking with "nothing", they actually mean "nothing in particular". For we are conditioned to fear the Silence of the mind, as we are programmed to need those constant arising thoughts of this and that to maintain our identity. "As a man thinketh, so is he". This is why we find it hard to stay IN/AS the Moment, for there are no automatic arising thoughts IN/AS the Moment. It is a fear ingrained so deeply that it is one of the latter conditioned notion we let go of. The constantly churning mind of contrivances and cleverness is one of the rules of successful identification and any endeavor we undertake as humans in our interaction and relationship with everything in our perceived world. So to establish Silence of mind, to dwell in the Void, to Realize the Oneness of Nothingness, is a cardinal sin to the Sleeping world.

The new born, what are it's thoughts ? Does it think ? When you ask the new born your question of what it is thinking, and it looks at you as though you are an alien, it is telling you "Nothing" and it really means it. For mental Nothingness is so natural, so pristine, so Clean and Clear, so un-dualistic, and Nothing to distract one from What-IS in the very instant Moment. Above the clouds, traveling faster than the speed of sound, gazing into the sheer blank space with Nothing to see and Nothing to hear and no thoughts arising, dwarfed by such Wonder, awed by such Nothingness, figuratively we can reach with our whole BEing and touch the face of God. For it is in Nothing that All IS. As it is in All that Nothing IS. Ask the new born Guru.

While we have to remind ourself to be Aware and while we have to draw our attention to the Moment, it is indeed a form of *practice*. And while we practice for the Real Thing, it is not yet the Real Thing. Practice is necessary, as meditation practices and meditation sessions are necessary. Further, Awakening is like True Mediation in that when we ARE the Real Thing or when we ARE Awakening or when we ARE the Meditative state of BEing we put aside the practice and BE that which we ARE. You see, practice connotes a separation between the practice and the practitioner and that which is being practiced for. Yet, True Meditation and True Awakening dictates that we must BE Meditation and BE Awakening. In this way our practice is BEing the Meditative state of BEing and BEing the Awakening that we ARE. The practice is not the Awakening yet the Awakening is the practice. That is, they must be one in the same yet we must not confuse the one for the other. All too often people mistake the practice for the Awakening, so their whole life is just a practice run. Like a mime, one goes through the motions all their life but never gets to savor the Taste of the Real Awakening.

*Wake Up* from the Slumber of conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts that stand in the way of our Awakening. Though it is True that there is too much *Mystique* and *window dressing* within the so called *Spiritual Study* or *Spiritual Path* to the point that it is misleading. For though there is seeming intricacies unattainable threaded in the offerings it is because one is paying too much attention to the finger than where the finger Points. Too often we mistake the route for the Path or the practice for the Journey or the offerings for the Way. The Third Eye Meditation article did not say anyone was profane now, but rather that it was hitherto unreleased information due to humanity being profane before it's release.

Now, let me state that humanity is still quite profane in that he would use any information to enhance his own station in the world at the expense of others. It happens to still be a *dog eat dog world* out there in the streets of everyday life. And though much information has been uncovered and presented for all to *view*, it is and always will be written in such a way that the profane will only understand some of it to a particular depth. Only those Awakening will be able to Fully Understand it's Whole Truth. So you see, it is not I nor any writing that hides anything but rather the Observer has yet to Awaken the Eyes to See and the Ears to Hear. Wisdom and Insight and Awakening is as natural as the nose on your face, closer to you than you yourself are. For indeed we must "know thyself", we must Realize our True Nature of Awakening.

It is in the Open and Honest Observation of our reactions and why we react and for what purpose we react that we can glean some Insights into ourself.

Ah, now though I can not Point to it I can Point to where it is not. Awareness is not where conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts are. So, it would seem, that Awareness is where conditioned ideas and images and notions of all sorts are not. So, it would seem, further, that Clearing out the conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions is a start in the Right direction. As we let go of conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions the more Aware we ARE. That is, as we let go of conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions the more Awareness we can BE and the Clearer our BEing. When we are not our conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions we ARE Awareness. Clarity, it would seem, is the Key and we can not BE Clear when we are cluttered with conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions.

Awareness IS the senses as it IS our whole BEing. It is just that our Awareness is Veiled by our conditioned Illusions, so we Realize it not. Awareness is not thought.

First, you can not "practice Awareness". Secondly, that for which you seek will always elude you. So, it would seem, that we must let go of the conditioned notions and BE the Awareness and Enlightenment that we ARE. So, it would seem, that practice is the living of life AS it IS without projecting our conditioned folly into/onto our Direct Experience of Life Lived and Enlightenment is BEing the Awareness that we ARE as a result. That is, practice What-IS and BE Enlightenment. Awareness practices to attain Enlightenment are a fool's game that has increased the number of millionaires but has not Saved anyone. No one Saves us but ourself, and to do that we must be Free of the conditioned Chains that imprison us. I say Free *of* rather than Free *from* because our conditioned notions are not our Natural state of BEing but rather add-ons that we cling to. So it is a matter of letting them go and BEing Free to BE our True Nature of Awareness. So in a sense we are not actually changing, but rather getting back to our Natural state of BEing.

And as Reward for Work well done For all desire that has been shun, For Service and for self-denial To strive for others all the while, To forfeit rest, and under pains' uncease One loses oneself and finds one's Self and enters into Peace.

Awareness, on the other hand, is the continuous Clarity of whatever IS as it is Directly Experienced. Not instantaneous but rather continuously Clear, not perception but rather Understanding, not radar-like but rather the totality or wholeness of Awareness, not happening but rather What-IS. Indeed, as Awareness, we have nothing to do with it because we do not project our preconceptions into/onto it.

Indeed, one must be IN/AS the very instant Present Moment for one to BE Awareness. Our full Attention must BE the Present Moment and not anywhere else. For there is no actual Awareness anywhere else, as nowhere else is Real. Awareness is only where Reality and Truth IS, which can only be Realized IN/AS the Moment or the Present or NOW. Hopefully continued from Moment to Moment, Present to Present, Now to Now.

Simply agreeing to disagree resolves nothing, examples being that we still have wars and conflict and hatred and selfishness and increased crime and delusion. When we agree to disagree we establish a duality of each can have their own particular reality and truth. There are many versions of practice but there can not be many versions of Reality and many versions of Truth. For Reality and Truth are quite the same regardless of the particular practice or the particular route or the particular individual Awakening. All routes, all practices, must somewhere blend to a single Path or the particular route or practice is not heading in the correct direction due to being Veiled by our conditioned notions. There is a diversity in Unity but there can not be simply a diversity. IF, that is, we are to start Awakening.

In fact, the "undoing" or the letting go of our dearly beloved conditioned notions that Veil our True Nature thereby preventing us from Realizing that it is who we ARE is the most arduous and Painful undertaking that one ever has to endure. As the worn out cliche goes: "No Pain, No Gain". I would say that this aspect of our Awakening is well Pointed out in the Bhagavad Gita in Arjuna's Struggles to Win his Battles. If the Grand Trickster is a *push-over*, you might want to take a closer look at that picture. You see, some of those pesky conditioned notions are rooted so deeply that we have to reach way in and wrench them out as they cling so tightly to our beliefs and desires. A bloody Operation that leaves one helplessly without one's security blanket of permanence and something to hold on to -- lost IN/AS the abby of the Void and the Silence. THEN we can Realize who we ARE. IN/AS the Void we See, IN/AS the Silence we Hear, IN/AS Awakening we ARE.

First, it is YOU who Understands. Not the I-entity or person-entity established by our conditioned ideas and images and meanings, but rather the True Nature that you ARE -- THAT is who (misnomer) Understands. And you are correct, it is a certain Clarity of Vision -- not vision with the eyes but rather Vision of the BEing. This is an instantaneous Recognition and Awareness and Understanding not by any cognitive prowess but rather every cell and every fiber that makes up the body/mind complex as True Nature Sees precisely What-IS. A wordless thoughtless motionless Realization of Reality that is gleaned in that very instant Moment then hopefully Moment to Moment. Indeed, one must have at least half a brain (cognition) to be able to read the arrows written on the wall, but when one turns to look in the direction that the arrows Point, one sets one's bag of mental tricks to the side and IN/AS the Silence of Mind one Hears as IN/AS the Void of Thoughts one Sees as IN/AS Awakening of one's True Nature one IS What-IS the very Reality of the Moment. The Reckoning is when the two again becomes One. The *proof* is in the jump of a legless frog.

There are a number of similarities between butts and personal truths. For those who live in Arabia have different laws and different truths than those living in Canada or Russia or USA or anywhere else. Throughout the history of this planet these different laws and personal truths have been the cause of many wars and conflicts and strife and selfishness and a myriad of other ills that we face every day. Why can we not establish Peace and a sense of Brotherhood between various countries and peoples ? What is wrong with this picture ? Are the personal truths worth the ills we face each day ?

According to Vadanta or even Advaita (Eastern schools of thought), Consciousness is Form and Form is Consciousness. That is, all is Consciousness. At it's subtle rudimentary level (atomic level if you will) this is quite True, substantiating that All is One. At this subtle level of Consciousness entropy does not effect this Consciousness, whereas the grosser the form of this Consciousness the more entropy effects it. So at the gross level Form will come and go (so to speak), yet the subtle level of that Form continues to Evolve/Involve Eternally. Since time immemerable we appear time and time again in physical Form yet we are the same continuous Consciousness that we were even before the manifestation of physical Form, just a little more Evolved/Involved each progressive appearance.

We are where we are in this progression of Evolution/Involution, always have been and always will be Conscious of all other Evolved/Involved Form though we do not Recognize it due to our conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts. We are Conscious of all else that is Conscious because All IS Consciousness. Even holds up to Reason and Logic, though Consciousness is neither.

The nature of language itself is dualistic, so no matter what the expression is it will sound dualistic though the message between and behind the language may be otherwise. This is why we must always look beyond the *letter of the word*. For when we cling to words we lose sight of what they were used for, thinking that the word is actually that which we used the word for. That which is named is not that which is named, but rather simply the name. So the line, "There was only myself and you", would be likened to the seeming three persons of "me, myself, and I". For when we seek God outside of us we only find our projected notions, yet when we seek Within for our conditioned notions we find God. And "deleting the old tapes", letting go of our conditioned notions, is the most arduous and Painful undertaking that we will ever have to endure. And the hardest part is looking into the Mirror of Truth and seeing what hideous creature our conditioned notions has created. When we admit that the reflection is the hideous creature that we have become, then we can take steps to Cut away those defilements with the Sword of Truth.

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There is but One Path, it IS the Path of Awakening. All else is but individual Routes to that Path or Illusions of our own conditioned thinking. There can be similar Routes, but either we are ON The Path or we are not.

Likewise, if there is but One Path there can be only One Action and One Perception. Is it not the *different truths* and *different paths* and *different actions* and *different perceptions* that is at the root of our Suffering and wars and conflict ? For it is in this *ownership* of OUR Truth and OUR Action and OUR Perception and OUR Path that we lose Sight of The Truth and The Action and The Perception and The Path. When humanity Truly Understands THIS, he may start Awakening. The Key is to continue that Moment, Moment to Moment, why limit ourselves to "a moment" ? For only IN/AS the Moment is there Truth, for only IN/AS the Moment is there Reality, for only IN/AS the Moment is there True Action, for only IN/AS the Moment is there Awakening, for only IN/AS the Moment is there The Path.

There is Light and there is the absence of Light -- there is no other condition. IN/AS Light, we Serve humanity. IN/AS the absence of Light, IN/AS our conditioned modus operandi, we serve our own Illusions. *Dark* is only a term to describe a particular school of thought, a particular practice, and has little to do with Light or the absence of Light. Such dualistic thinking is at the root of conditioned notions that so abound in humanity, and therefore one of it's greatest ills. And keeps him separate from himself. Since there is but One True Action, there can only BE Service. Each of us are Helped by others Giving, by others Serving, and so we in turn must Help and Give and Serve. It IS Awakening.

Matter, physical manifestation, is already Awake naturally, it is conditioned humanity who is Sleeping and who must Wake-UP from the Slumber that the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind keeps him Dreaming that he is other than he IS.

It can not be *found*, it can only be Realized. Such Realization results from us Truly Openly and Honestly Observing ourselves, our actions and reactions, our habitual thinking and behavior, our conditioned notions and how they control and manipulate us, the rise and fall of our emotions, and much more. THIS is when you are Looking into the Mirror of Truth. A hideous sight and painful experience, and thus most turn away and grip tighter to the chains that bind them. And become more emersed in the false security of their conditionings.

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.

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Conditioning will always rise to the occasion For the very Illusion of phenomenal causation, These are the chains that will be glad to bind Only you have the key to the lock you can't find. -- Yogajyotii

It is our greatest fear that we may very well lose Our very creation of which is what we choose, For it is our's and our's alone to give us our life Without these very possessions there is strife. -- Yogajyotii

This gives you pleasure but it also gives Pain Is this not the very notion that is much insane, And it will not just go away on it's own accord We must realize it's something we can't afford. -- Yogajyotii

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