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End The Hypocrisy

Do not mistake a Fact for a model. What-IS is simply What-IS, either we See it or we do not -- blinded by conditioned models. I do not mean not to glimpse Reality along the Way. What really gets us interested in Awakening is those gimps'. All I indicate is that we can not rest until we get ALL the conditioned notions out of our mode of operation. We can not pick and choose, if they are toxic to our Awakening we must let them go. Regardless of how Painful that might be.

Yes, perhaps I do make letting go of our conditioned notions out to be a Painful arduous task but that is because it IS. It is not a simple matter of just dwelling in/on Bliss. The only seeming Bliss that the Sleeping dwell in/on is their Dreams. Every Wise Sage and every Wise Teacher since time immemerable has said that we must get rid of the conditionings/influences that we harbor that controls and manipulates our thinking and behavior. And they all said that getting rid of it was not a bowl of cherries. And they all said that if we do not let it go we can not wake up. I am not saying anything new, all I am doing is putting up-to-date terms to it.

Ah, the very crux of most folly. When one is AS the Moment, one can tell by the way others express themselves that they have never been there (though they Talk a lot about being there). Most try to beguile others with the language of the topic, but few really know what they Talk about -- they just know the Talk.

I would say that we best Save ourself before we take up the Mantel of Saving the world. For when we Save just one person (ourself) we have taken a giant step toward Saving the world. That very example serves as a Guide for those "who have the Eyes to See and the Ears to Hear". And actually we ourself are the only one we can Save, for everyone must Save themselves, everyone must Walk the Way for themselves. The way of our conditioned notions is a closed mind, full to the very brim. So it would seem that our Salvation is in Emptying the mind thereby Opening it to Awakening. I can suggest Nothing, as Nothing is all that must BE if we are to start Awakening. Not because it is a suggestion, but rather because it is so.

The word game of conditioned ideas and images and meanings and concepts of all sorts do indeed abound. Conditioned conceptualizations and intellectualizations and rationalizations do indeed run rampant in the conditioned modus operandi. By letting go of the conditioned notions the so called ego is left stranded in the NetherWorld. Kali Yuga is already making it difficult to Save ourself (Help ourself), so we only add to such Work with our conditionings. And the Grand Cosmic Cycle is not going to wait for us.

Most "pretend", a very few have the Eyes to See *the writing on the wall* and so take up the arduous and Painful task of ridding themselves of their conditioned notion in the Grand Effort of Saving themselves. Those few ARE Awakening, the many *think* they are secure in their delusions. Legends in their own mind.

Conditioned thoughts continually arise adding to the clutter or *monkey-mind*. And we follow those notions. And are distracted, and dissuaded, and beguiled by them. And so we remain comfortably Sleeping. Sleeping, our seeming reality is actually nothing more than a Dream. As is the Sleeping realm. Unconsciousness is controlled and manipulated by arising conditioned thoughts.

Phenomenality is the confusion, which is no mystery. Sleeping all is a mystery, yet Awakening Clarity leaves naught for mystery. It is those rose colored glasses that color and distort What-IS. The Trickster does indeed enjoy slight of hand. Phenomenal love affair, which is far afield of Real Love. Actual Love IS and is not in league with self. Self is an aspect of conditioned notions and therefore can not Transcend, as it is the self that must be Transcended (let go of). Both Transcendence and self-ness are contrivances of phenomenality, so all of that must be let go of in order to establish an Open non-existent perception to BE whatever IS.

Why complicate that which is simple ? Such complications only lead to further Suffering. That which we run toward is that which we run form. We are closer to that which we Seek than we are to ourself, for no matter where we go there we are. When we look for ourself we only find our projected conditioned notions because we are always looking in the wrong place. There is nowhere to run to and nothing to find when we get there. The meeting is the Dream, where all our contrivances come to pass. The Grand Trickster makes curtain of it.

"The Self" can not love but rather can only BE. Let alone love some Illusion. Though indeed, the conditioned self loves only itself for it can know not actual Love. Compassion is a better word to use for it does not connote any aspect of phenomenality, whereas love is always associated with the phenomenal realm. For love is not without it's limitations and conditions, whereas Compassion is most Universal or Cosmic if you will. Where there is mystery there is no Awareness, except of course in our self-perpetuated Dream.

The Moment (the NOW) is so Void and so Silent and so Unobtrusive that there is no deepening for there is nothing to deepen nor anything/anyone to go deeper. The Moment IS without any projected notions AS it IS. When you get to the Moment there is only What-IS/AS that Moment.

There is but One thing that can be done Awakening, which is BE the True Nature we ARE. So indeed, there is no speech nor falling nor love nor Innocence nor traffic cops -- as we ARE speech and Innocence and falling and love and traffic cops. That which is separate from you, IS-NOT. That which we ARE simply IS AS IS.

There is nothing to negate, but there is much *added* baggage of conditioned notions that stand in the way of our Awakening that we have to let go of. Am I making clear the difference ? That is, we do not let go of "everything" but rather just the items in the baggage that are the Causes of our Suffering. We would not want to let go of the skills and knowledge-base we embrace Life with. We would not want to let go of that which we have found to be so, through trial and error, of the means of functionality AS Life. We are IN the world, the trick is not to be OF the world. I am not indicating to let go of those conditionings that are needed to maintain the physical form or it's functionality. I was indicating to let go of the contrived notions and beliefs that distort our perception and cause Fear and Judgement and Supremacy. The noumenon that establishes a *slant* on the phenomenon.

The so called "surface nature" or "human nature" is nothing more than contrived rationalizations (excuses) for our Sleeping ineptitude. The Grand Trickster does not want the Seeker to be suspicious of his teachings. In fact, he Talks the Talk and wears the mask convincing the Seeker that Truth and Reality is but drivel and to hold that suspect. And most fall for it. It is the quick fix, no muss or fuss, no work, no Pain. What makes us suspicious of the Grand Trickster is when we get a glimpse of ourself, the programmed controlled manipulated robot we have become, that we are still the greedy selfish warmongers we have been since time immemerable, due to the Trickster's modus operandi. Once we get suspicious of the Grand Trickster we start Observing his every thought and move. And we start Seeing the rose garden he leads us through for the thistle patch it is. If we are up to the task, we go nose to nose toe to toe with the Grand Trickster and duke it out. If we are not up to the task, we cover our heads up and go back to Sleep. And a little hint: if our Battles with the Grand Trickster is a walk in the park, all of humanity would be Enlightened already.

I am afraid that the more one works on Awakening the further they get from it. Working on letting go of conditioned notions is working on Awakening indirectly, but the objective can not be to work on Awakening. One does not arise and then the other. We do not have to work on Awakening, it is already ready. Working on not Sleeping simply UnVeils it. Perhaps likened to emptying a swimming pool to have a good look at the bottom. The bottom is already there and we can even see it in a distorted way. The more water we extract from the pool the Clearer the bottom becomes. So too it is with extricating conditioned notions so as to Realize/Recognize Awakening Clearly.

Simply because Awakening there are no wants or desires or attachments to this or that, so we do not make a determination as to what is to be done. So we are left with whatever it is to be done.

"As a man thinketh, so is he". Dallying with concepts is the problem, holding on to dearly beloved notions and reworking them to fit the situation. As long as you harbor these concepts, reworked over and over again, they will hold you back from Awakening. You have to Empty the contents of the mind so as to dwell AS Silence. All this mental busywork keeps the Attention on the busywork and not AS Awakening. When the Attention, when you whole BEing IS/AS Awakening, THEN you will BE Awakening. Key is not to divide the Attention, for it is the Grand Trickster who divides so as to conquer.

The conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts generates the concepts and not the other way around. We are *creators* of one thing, our Suffering. All else is a product of our conditionings. It is the letting go of automatically arising thoughts that is the object of working on not Sleeping.

Concepts are an aspect of a conditioned perception of life. Life is AS it IS, the conditioned mind Veils that Fact with concepts. There is nothing Real about a concept other than in our deluded mind. The "Grand Purpose" is one of those concepts that we cling to, that we also must let go of. Concepts are not entities in themselves, they are but fabrications of our conditionings. You must "drop the stick". You keep beating yourself up with these concepts, do you not see that they are the stumbling blocks that you yourself toss before you ?

That which we name, that which we contrive, that which we conceptualize and/or intellectualize and/or rationalize, is but our conditioned projections into/onto What-IS. When we let go of the mental programming we are able to Embrace Life AS it IS. We must know what we know, and know that we know it. As we must know what we do not know, and know that we do not know it. And we must know the difference. To be intelligent you must learn something new each day, yet to be Wise you must forget something that you have leaned each day. An Empty mind is a Clear mind.

Consciousness is one of those words, like Love, that we can shape to our liking like the Transformer toy. Yet, IF All IS Consciousness, how can Consciousness question Consciousness about an apparent Consciousness separate from Consciousness ? IF All IS Consciousness, are not All conditions also Consciousness ? Does a hammer question itself as to whether there is a hammer separate from itself as hammer or consider an independent hammerhood ? Is it not the perceiver *thinking* that he is separate from that which is perceived that we *think* that there is a Consciousness separate from Consciousness ? Perhaps the foot would question why the hammer keeps pounding it. But then, when we let go of the hammer the foot may feel better about BEing a foot.

All IS Consciousness. Perhaps one could say "interdependent", but not one causing the other for both are Consciousness. Consciousness does not cause Consciousness but rather IS Consciousness. It is in the separation that makes one seem to cause the other.

Indeed, no matter where you go there you are. Since the 5 Aggregates are Consciousness, for All is Consciousness, as Consciousness only arises when Consciousness arises. We are conditioned to *think* that there are separate Consciousnesses that can arise independent of each other.

Indeed, when Consciousness does not arise Consciousness does not arise. For in order for Consciousness to arise Consciousness must arise. Though, actually, even the absence of Consciousness is Consciousness so only figuratively does anything "pass away". Siddhartha was simply conveying that the seeming separate Multiplicity is actually still the Union. That is, as each multiple aspect of Consciousness arises seeming to have an Identity of it's own it is not independent of the Union -- All IS Consciousness. And as each seeming multiple aspect of Consciousness is no longer present it's seeming independence is not present also. Yet the integrity of the Union or Whole (Consciousness) is still Union or Whole. It is our conditioned notion of separation that we *think* that there are parts making up the Whole.

Merely multiple aspects of Consciousness. Is the flame separate from the fire ? Is the fire separate from that which burns ? Is Consciousness separate from Consciousness ? *You* and *I* are conditioned concepts that arise and fall with our conditioned thoughts and conditioned emotions. Only Consciousness remains Consciousness. When we let the conditioned programmed modus operandi go there is no *you* and no *I*. So: "Who am I ?" or "Who are You ?" or "Are We ?" Are not "objects" Consciousness IF All IS Consciousness ? Only AS Consciousness can there be any arising since All IS Consciousness. Each and every multiple aspect is still Consciousness, not this or that "kind". We flavor *things* with our projected conditioned notions. Water is still water whether you call it water or wave or drop or whatever. Consciousness can neither be dependant or independent of Consciousness for Consciousness IS Consciousness.

Let go of the *we* and *you* and *I* and simply BE the Consciousness that IS All. For indeed, the *we* and *you* and *I* are doomed, though they are kept alive via conditionings. Consciousness -- Ever anew Eternal Infinite Present Moment Consciousness. And though we can Talk "about" it, the Talk is but Pointers so as to BE (Walk) that ever anew Eternal Infinite Present Moment Consciousness.

When there is no mirror there is no reflection, as when there is no reflection there is no mirror. So can the reflection be separate from the mirror ? The only thing separate from What-IS is separation. When there IS but One, as multiple as it may seem, how can there be anything separate from it ? That is, we contrive a "Consciousness Of" via our Sleeping modus operandi. For there is only Consciousness AS Consciousness.

*You* or *I* can not find out. It is only when we let go of the hammer do we Realize that there is no *you* or *I* or Aggregates at all. We can not state What-IS but rather Point to What-IS by stating What-ISNOT. This is what many a Wise Sage has done and we mistake their statements of this order as being What-IS. Such Teachings are but lessons for us, their life is the message to us.

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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. 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. AS the Void we simply See, as AS the Silence we simply Hear, as AS 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.

We all wade through the same cesspool, we all fall into the same rut-holes, we are all taken in by the same bandits of conditioned thinking that rob us of ourSelf. For someone to say "watch out for that rut-hole" is Help for some and not for others, but when someone says "damn it, I just fell into that rut-hole you said to watch out for and I skinned my knee" is Help for others. Help works in mysterious ways.

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Takes a long time to find defilements not only a few Yet the Realization is instantaneous what we must do, Remain singularly focussed not being distracted Lest the Grand Trickster's disease be contracted. -- Yogajyotii

Nothing to Fear but Fear itself for no one to Fear There is just YOU and your Awakening right Here, Those conditioned notions Seek out and Destroy And it is your True Nature that you must Employ. -- Yogajyotii

Your Awakening is a Boiling pot of Energy And nothing said it's about what you must BE, Not in your studies or practice yet seen in a glance It's not the Talk you Talk but the Dance you Dance. -- Yogajyotii

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