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Why do you indicate that Love requires attachment ? Love is Love and has nothing to do with attachment. There are many precious things in our life that would induce the Realization of a loss or absence if taken from our ability to enjoy them. But nothing in the physical realm can be permanently held on to, this realm is too transitory or too impermanent. So it would seem that we establish our own Suffering by *thinking* that this realm is anything other than it is. We are here in this physical realm to experience it, and experience it to it's fullest we should. But hinging one's emotional stability on the *wish* that anything in this realm will stay a part of the part of the realm that is at our disposal to experience is but a fool's game. What must be Realized is that any single major or minor form in the physical realm may not be here past this very instant present Moment. Realizing this, we can experience to the fullest and enjoy to the maximum AS this very instant present Moment -- all else is but an Illusion of the mind. So experience and enjoy What-IS right NOW, and whatever we experienced and enjoyed in a past Moment is no longer in the present Moment we again experience and enjoy What-IS in the present NOW. With no thought of what was in the past that is not in the present.

It is "illusionary and self-imposed" and so it does exist *in our conditioned mind*. Yet nowhere else. In projecting our conditioned notions into/onto whatever it is that we are observing, we are actually establishing our perception of the observation. When we stop projecting our conditioned notion onto/into everything we Realize that everything simply IS as it IS, which is quite simple and straight forward and not in conflict with anything else. In fact, uncannily obvious. AS the Silence we Hear, AS the Void we See, AS Awakening we ARE, AS All IS.

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.

Of course, we can Dwell in any particular level of Consciousness AS meditation. There are many areas of our Inner True Self that we must eventually investigate and Realize, and we will most generally do this area or level by area or level. As we Awaken AS our True Self we Realize that there is a whole world Within to Experience, not just the Silencing of conditioned thinking. A world hitherto, while Sleeping, we did not realize existed. First we Wake-Up to the fact that we have been operating in a delusion that the illusion that we are conditioned to perceive is real. Once we Wake-Up to that, we embark ON the Journey of Awakening -- or we could say a Journey of continually Realizing. This has been termed by some, Self-Realization or Self-Realized Awareness of *What IS* both of what we are Aware OF AS the Moment and the Awareness OF the True Self. Nothing "extra" or "sensory" about it and not a *happening*, but rather an Unfolding -- an AWAKENING. This is when we bring toxic conditioned thinking and behavior to it's RECKONING and overcome it's stranglehold on us.

One other thing, talking of Reincarnation in using the word *Rebirth*, do not confuse *Rebirth* with *Reincarnation* -- for technically we are talking of two different aspects of What-IS.

Awakening is not about exchanging one belief system for another, or converting from one to another, it is about seeing the control and manipulation in belief systems and no longer leaning on them as a crutch or false sense of security. It is about telling yourself that you do not have to believe in anything because you are going to find out for yourself. This is not to say that you oppose beliefs (though it would seem), for opposing beliefs is as much a belief as beliefs. It is about beliefs being non-existent. It is about letting them go. It is about non-recognition, rather than opposition. It is about letting go of anything that controls and manipulates your thinking and behavior.

Only because we are going from duality to non-duality does it seem duality is a starting point. 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 'desire' 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.

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 your 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 in the Emptying of oneself of any conditioning that is not related to rote skills of preservation. It is in Emptying the contents of our social thinking. It is Dwelling AS Silence of no arising thoughts. It is Observing the Moment as it IS rather than projecting likes or dislikes or judgements or meanings into/onto it. Beyond that, it is all about studying the methods and practices of conditioning both overt and subliminal and openly and honestly making the connection of how conditioned ideas and meanings and values control and manipulate our thinking and behavior. That is when one Realizes how toxic conditioning is to our Awakening. For if we are controlled and manipulated, how can we BE Free to Dwell Within ?

As an added note: conditioning is not toxic to Sleeping.

So you are finding that discarding our conditioned thinking is a arduous task ! Well, you are in good company because Siddhartha said the same thing. He indicated that discarding the Causes of our Suffering would be the most difficult task we would face. We are conditioned to enjoy them and attach ourselves to them as though they were Real. A very difficult task indeed, to give up all of those nice conditioned values and judgements and beliefs. They are our security-blanket. They are our thrills and pleasures. They are the very ideas and images and meanings that make up the fabric of our social order. The problem is that all of these wonderful notions are the Causes of our Suffering (wars, conflict, aggression, deprivation, etc, etc, etc, etc). I did not intend to indicate that dropping our conditioned thinking would be a simple task, but *words* have a tendency to do that.

Awakening IS a bit-by-bit realization-by-realization Unfoldment and NOT a *quick-fix*. So there must be a discipline of sorts and a determination not to be beguiled by the Grand Trickster the mind. My concern with *processes* or *quests* is that most (99.99%) get so involved with the process or system of beliefs that they start *thinking* that the process or system or even the quest IS the Awakening, and so all they are doing is substituting one process or one quest or one system for another. Needless to say, Awakening never gets a chance to Unfold. On the other hand, gleaning Insights from these processes and quests and systems, and Observing these as they are and not getting attached to them, Awakening will naturally Unfold (slowly). *IF* conditioned notions have been discarded. For no matter what the process or quest or system, if we Observe it with the rose-colored glasses of conditioned ideas and images and meaning, we will have side-stepped Awakening.

*Try* no more. For you will not find what you look for. For what you Seek IS where you ARE this very present instant Moment. So I would say to discard the *trying* as well as the conditioned thinking. The Key is in Observing YOU and what YOU think about various experiences and how YOU react to these experiences. Try it, forget what you *know* about YOU and just Observe YOU. What makes YOU tick, why do YOU act the way YOU do, why do YOU *think* the thoughts YOU think -- scrutinize every thought and every action -- Observe YOU as YOU. When you confront a situation (the given Moment), thoughts will arise, before you take any action Observe those thoughts and ask yourself *why* you are thinking this and for what purpose. As you recognize how these thoughts control and manipulate you, you will soon be discarding them. When you get to a point of no thoughts arising as you confront a situation, just Observing the situation AS IT IS for WHAT IT IS, then you will start to Realize What-IS or Awakening.

NOW is not a concept but rather an actuality right this very instant present Moment. You see, there is but one instance of Reality. Yesterday is but a memory and tomorrow is but an anticipation, neither of which can be considered Real for they either do not exist yet or they have already existed and are now gone. True Reality rests AS this very instant present Moment. So indeed, giving our total attention to this Moment will be giving our attention to Reality. It is our conditioned thinking, the contrivances of the Grand Trickster the mind, that affords us the luxury of focussing our attention everywhere OTHER THAN where we are. Due to the efforts of the Grand Trickster we are disenchanted with where we are so we focus attention on areas where we are not, which gives us relief from the disenchantment of where we are. But why are we disenchanted ? Because we are not WHO we are. But rather a product of the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind. May I offer, we must Observe ourselves and our thoughts and our intentions and why such thoughts and intentions arise. In so doing, we can perhaps figure out who we are and where we should be.

Dwelling AS the Moment, Dwelling AS the NOW, is merely Dwelling AS What-IS. That is, with no projected ideas or images or meanings or feelings or memories into/onto What-IS AS the Moment. When we Experience NOW, there is no feeling of loss but rather there is loss. The experience IS the experience and nothing more or less. When we start to project feeling and emotions and ideas and images and meanings and judgements into/onto any given experience we miss the experience. For then we experience the image or feeling or idea or whatever. These arising thoughts and ideas and images and all sorts of social conditioned thinking and behavior keeps us from experiencing the experience and thereby keeps us from experiencing the Moment or the NOW. To Dwell AS the NOW one must discard the conditioned thinking and behavior that Veils our Divine Nature of Awakening.

What feeling can be hurt when there is no feelings AS the NOW ? IF one is AS the Moment and relates that experience of the Moment, and if another is hurt by the expression of the experience, I would say that whoever was hurt did not understand due to conditioned thinking. Such a *reaction* would no doubt elicit further clarification as a *response*. The Key is whether there would be a *response* or whether there would be a *reaction*. Responses are based on Awakening and Reactions are based on conditioned thinking. May I offer, that Death IS in the control and manipulation of conditioned thinking, and Life IS Awakening NOW. It is in the comparisons or the comparing that we can not appreciate. For AS the Moment, we do not compare for we do not Judge. We appreciate What-IS AS the Moment. Do not be deluded by *thinking* there is a *choice* AS the NOW, for there is no such animal. AS the Moment there is only Action appropriated by our Awareness of the experience. *Prizing* such choices are the direct *reaction* of conditioned thinking. No such thing, however, of "too much of a good thing!" when AS the experience AS the Moment.

NOW IS Life, conditioned thinking is but an *aspect* (an addition at that). May I offer, that Dwelling AS the Moment IS Seeing "the whole picture" and it is by "DOing this". Conditioned thinking is like looking at the finger that is pointing at something that was the intent of the pointing. We can See vast distant glimmers in the heavens when we point to them, but if we get the finger to close to the eye all we see is the finger.

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 would only offer that AS BEing, there is no trust or desire or control but rather What-IS. The Direct Experience of non-self AS the Moment, neither this nor that but rather BEing What-IS AS the Moment from Moment to Moment.

Indeed ! 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 -- a picture we like to keep in the attic. And the longer we wait to clear up the Reflection in the Mirror of Truth, the more defiled we become and the more difficult the task of Awakening will be.

Aha by Aha, Realization by Realization, Step by Step, some very minor and some quantum leaps but it is never an over-night occurrence.

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Indeed the problem is in the various meanings of the loosely used word *Truth*. For Truth can not be held as one's own, can not be possessed, can not be contained, and can not be found. Truth stands alone and is Realized as it IS without our conditioned projected meanings into/onto it. If it is Truth, it must be the very same from one individual to the other. Otherwise it is merely one's conditioned notion of what he is conditioned to *think* is Truth, therefore has very little to do with Truth. Personal so called Truth is nothing more than one's projected conditionings, which change from one social system and belief system to the next. This is *perception*, *conditioned perception*, and not Truth. Much Suffering and hate and conflict and war is founded on these conditioned notions of this *personal truth*.

We can not *approach* Truth, we must BE Truth. When we try to contain Truth in *thinking*, we push our Realization and Recognition of Truth away from us. It is when we stop thinking *about* Truth and stop perceiving thinking *as* Truth and Dwell AS the Reality of the Moment, Moment to Moment, do we Recognize that our conditioned ideas and images and meaning are not Truth. For AS that Moment, Moment to Moment, without our conditioned notions projected into/onto it is when we Realize Truth.

Our Direct Experiences AS they ARE without us projecting our conditioned notions into/onto them IS Awakening -- which, I would say, is the ultimate in True Success. Is it not our conditioned notions that establish an experience to be a failure or a success ? So by letting go of the conditioned notions, would not all Direct Experiences be a success without any failures ? Life is to Live, Life is to BE, whatever that Life IS -- if this be done Moment to Moment, THIS is success. Is not whether we *like* the experience or not simply our conditioned notions again degrading our experiences ? You see, The Grand Trickster would have you live life as he see it and not AS it IS. So if we live life as The Grand Trickster sees it, then indeed all experiences are failures. On the other hand, if we Live Life AS it IS then ALL experiences are True Successes.

If one is earnest about Practicalizing that which is mostly understood mentally, one can when and only when one Walks the Talk. BEing those Wise Pointers that we intellectually Learn. Would we be shunned by our associates ? Mostly. Would we care ? Not really. Would we be able to Directly Experience what is meant that this Path is a solitary Journey ? Yes. But the Inner/Spiritual Quest is but a game IF we can not equate Awakening to and implement it in our day to day life. A game not unlike any other game we play with both ourself and the world at large.

Because we can read such platitudes, such Words of Wisdom, are we Awakening ? Because we can understand such platitudes, such Words of Wisdom, are we Awakening ? Because we can repeat such platitudes, such Words of Wisdom, are we Awakening ? We can thump our Scripture forever plus a day -- we can look like a duck and walk like a duck and even talk like a duck, but all we can BE is the Quack.

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It IS what it IS AS it IS and nothing more So it is mere distraction to wonder what it is for, You can't Truly Live Life projecting your notions They are based not on Fact but on emotions. -- Yogajyotii

Let go of those conditioned notions to get Free Of the Desire for the phenomenal so you can BE, Each step you take toward your Awakening Gets you closer to the Source of it's Beckoning. -- Yogajyotii

Occupy your Attention with the Present Moment anew Reflected in your every thoughts and behavior too, It is most simple just be without the future and past Though a most arduous Battle it is all that will last. -- Yogajyotii

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