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Behold Your Fate

The first step is recognizing that we are Sleeping -- and the next step is doing something about it.

I would say that you are getting the "real thing", but do not try to hold on to it. We can not hold on to even the Moment, for we must Experience the Moment at the Moment, Moment to Moment, or we drift back out of the present Moment by holding on to the Moment just past. Experience the Moment AS IT IS and go on to the next Moment AS IT IS. Is any Koan to be solved ? Or is a Koan to be Experienced so as to Awaken to the Meaning of the content of the Koan ? Are we to solve the Riddle of Life, or Experience it so as to Awaken AS it ? Or more accurately, Awaken as a result OF if ?

Why can you not BE who your ARE and still share your life with someone else ? Would you trade your Divine Inheritance (the Awakening of True Inner Self) for companionship ? Awakening, and BEing that Awakening True Divine Self can and should be shared with all of Humanity. Or are you speaking of the adjustments needed in a physical plane relationship ? In either case, I would say that dissatisfaction with yourself is not the question but rather perhaps a dissatisfaction with your particular situation. One can only Evaluate and Observe oneself and one's situation -- there will be the clue to your *yearning*.

It has been said, that "Until the fear of remaining exceeds the fear of changing, you won't change". People are afraid their whole life will change if they begin to live the life they really want. They are afraid they long for what they "have" even though it is not what they want. They are also afraid that they will fail at becoming what they want to become. Some are even afraid they will not like the person they find after they become this "true-to-self" person -- or that those who are close to them will not like that person. The reason you do not change is simple. You feel "safe" just the way you are. You are not very happy, but you are "content", you are comfortable. Yet, deep down, you know there is MUCH MORE to life than what you are living.

So indeed, NOW is the time to Unfold AS our Awakening and pass Insights on to future generations -- they will need all of the Help that they can get.

In the use of the word "desiring" refers to the multifaceted manifestation of Consciousness AS Form. Form is Consciousness, Consciousness is Form. Before manifestation there is only Consciousness as operant potential. And AS the very Sound of this Silence of Consciousness the operant potential for manifestation excited Consciousness. And as this manifested Consciousness evolves to greater potential of Form it naturally involves to greater potential Within. As our greater Inner potential involves we are better equipped to hide that potential, by our insidious games of conditioning. Indeed, our conditioned thinking is a natural result of our increased Inner potential and therefore IS What-IS.

When the human Kingdom was still in caves, little more than any other animal, we were not evolved enough (therefore not involved enough) to set up the conditioning that we have come to rely on. It was that very first time that the cave-dweller saw that he could elicit a predictable response by initiating a particular stimulus, did a pattern of conditioning begin. A simple example would be that he found out that if he made loud noises and waved a big stick at some other animal or some other human, that the stimulus would elicit fear -- that drove the would be invaders off. But as his involution progressed, he found out that he could also elicit this fear for personal gain (not merely survival). As he progressed his mechanisms and techniques became more complex, and even more subtle and less detectable. The short version -- but the main factor is that conditioning as well as non-conditioning is a result of the human evolution/involution manifestation of Form. So though we are "responsible", there is no one to *blame* -- yet in our slightly advanced state of evolution/involution we are to blame if we do nothing to stop this vicious cycle of conditioned thinking. As we evolved/involved we were able to establish this ill of conditioned thinking, and in our evolution/involution NOW it is time to discard this ill.

But the words you *prefer* to use does not reflect What-IS. Evolution is physical and involution is nonphysical, whereas "awakening or becoming more conscious" only reflects the nonphysical with no indication of *potential*. Involution is *potential* and not a natural progression as evolution is. Awareness IS our natural state of BEing, but we have to Work on clearing out all the conditioned garbage so that we can Realize that.

We establish a notion that we call God to explain what we do not Understand. And we condition others to *believe* the same thing. But it seems to be an exercise in futility for Consciousness to create Form only to become Conscious. Consciousness manifested into Form -- stop. Form progresses physically which also progresses the Form's impetus of potential -- stop. The impetus of potential is in the Consciousness that Form is -- stop. In our progression we contrive ways to control and manipulate the world we are in -- stop. The problem is that we have become so attached to the self-importance that we established that NOW we have to start purging ourselves of those notions that get into the way of Realizing Who we ARE and What our Real potential Really IS. This is the short version, but let it suffice for the topic at hand.

Did not yesterday turn into today at midnight ? Will not today turn into tomorrow at midnight ? Why not celebrate today as the opportunity to continue our Awakening NOW ? Indeed, January 1, 2002 (by anyone's calendar) only happens once in a lifetime of a planet or solar system, but is it any greater of an event than the very present Moment ? Is it *thought* that this ominous date in the future will afford us a greater opportunity to Awaken than NOW ? When, in our conditioned perception, the year 2002 does not mysteriously transform us into Awakening individuals will we then look to the year 3000 ? Awakening or Spiritual Transformation or Peace or Sustainability is not in *becoming* but rather AS *BEing*.

Many use this hype of the year 2002 as an excuse for not dealing with the Present. We always look ahead to *better times*, when the only time is right NOW. The Grand Trickster says "keep them hoping, keep them wishing, it is right around the corner, follow this carrot I dangle before you and I will save you". "Here's your sign" !

The Sleeping seem to *think* that they have *choices*, and in the myriad of *things* to posses we set up options whereby we can pick that which pleases us most. But the fact of the matter is that all of these *options* and *choices* are part and parcel to physical realm activity. And even then, we are conditioned to establish options and make choices. We are lead to a given response by a given stimulus. But indeed, when our Focus in OF the physical realm then we can choose between many things because our potential of attaching importance to those things are great. But when all one can understand is the physical realm, there is *no choice* but to act within the physical realm.

There is no better time to DO anything than right NOW. In fact, it is the only time that we can DO anything. Pondering the lack of DOing in the past is not part of the Moment and therefore not Real. There is no past NOW. Why waste the energy concerning ourselves with something that is not Real. If we had Focussed are energy and Awareness AS the Moment twenty years ago, instead of fiddling with choices, perhaps we could be Experiencing a tree NOW instead of wishing we could.

Because we are Sleeping. While Sleeping, we do not really *choose* pain or suffering but we choose *things* that we pay the price of pain and suffering to *posses*. Sleeping, we always have the sensation that we are falling out of bed so we have to *hold onto* any*thing* that comes into our *grasp*. Awakening, with Eyes wide Open, our Balance is quite True and the need no support and holding on to anything is useless.

Our Favored consort and comrade The Grand Trickster. You seem to be well versed in the mind-control that we are burdened with resulting from our conditioned ideas and images and notions of all sorts. And naturally our need to rid ourselves of it. Which is a major advantage in Work on ourselves in Awakening. Due to such knowledge, would it not seem reasonable that any thought or any action or even any feeling or sensing would surely be filtered through our conditioned mind to be able to interpret such ? For is not the mind our tool to fathom our experiences ?

Such filtering would be a sensoring of our experiences, and therefore a misinterpretation of even intuitional up-welling that we were to Realize. As long as there is still a shred of a conditioned notion that we cling to, our perception and understanding will be colored by it and therefore distorted. Any distortion of What-IS is not Truth nor Reality, but rather still yet another figment of our conditioned deluded mind. An Illusion, as it were. As we let go of our conditioned notions we rationalize those notions that we are too attached to in our attempts to avoid the pain of discarding them. As much of a burden as they are, as much a struggle as they are, as much suffering as they are, we cling to these defilements as though they were our very life source. And indeed, they are the life as we are conditioned to know it -- yet it is Death, the Death of Awakening. The Grand Trickster is the Slayer that must be Slain. It is only when we reach down into the pit of our very BEing and wrench the last fiber of our conditioned fantasies from out our True Source that we can even hope to start Awakening. Awakening is indeed by degree, but more a degree of our intent to rid ourselves of our conditioned notions than anything else.

And we can not afford to beguile ourselves by our own initial degrees of Awakening for our rationalizations are but anchors to keep us steadfast in the Causes of our Suffering.

It is due to the fact that we *think* that we have *choices* and we do not Realize that we are being controlled and manipulated by the world at large. Why ? In the lyrics of a song I heard, it seems that a fellow drove into a gas station with a flat tire and the attendant looked at the flat tire and the driver and said "got a flat tire?". The driver said "no, I was driving around and the other three swelled up on me -- HERE'S YOUR SIGN". Why ? They are conditioned to *choose* Sleep.

Such centering will only get one to that centering. Whatever the experience might be, that is the experience, so by experiencing one will not effect the other in any profound way. If this method worked, there would be far more Awakening individuals in the world than there are. It is not that difficult for one to delude another, but it is even easier to delude ourselves. To rid ourselves of attachments of desire and/or emotion we must Openly and Honestly look at the conditioned notions involved with these desires and/or emotions. Seeing the controlling and manipulative effects these attachments have on our thinking and behavior should be enough to discard them. THEN we can center AS the Silence ON impermanence or any other Truth and experience it with the Freedom that comes with no conditioned notions. 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.

There is nothing wrong with experiencing *pleasure*, however there is much wrong with *pursuing* it. AS the pursuit is found the conditioned desire that we are attached to and thereby stands in the way of our Awakening. It is in discarding these programmed notions that we are able to experience without any desire or projected notions of any kind into/onto the experience of any given Moment. When we project our own conditioned particular brand of perception into/onto an experience we miss the experience of What-IS in leu of experiencing our own projections. In so doing, we only experience what our minds contrive for us to experience creating our own reality or our own what-is -- which is not Reality or What-IS, but rather what the Grand Trickster the conditioned mind would lead us to *believe*.

Dualism dictates an *either/or* situation in every event that takes place before us. However to transcend dualism, to transcend *either/or*, to transcend judgement, we find that there is but one so called choice and that is to Awaken from our *slumber* and See Reality as it IS rather than what we are conditioned to *think* -- stated in the signature of that post: "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem."

AS Awakening any day is the first day of the rest of our lives, and so is neither good nor bad but simply is what it IS. Some days are just more difficult than others, but it is not up to us whether we experience the day or not. "Chasing the sunbeams" is like chasing an Illusion, in that if we were to actually grab hold of it our hand would still be empty and our effort to no avail.

But "locked in a dualism", we are conditioned to *think* that we have choices so that we can have a sense of security in the control of our lives. Paradoxically, the seeming *choices* control and manipulate our thinking and behavior so our seeming *security* is quite false.

Goals are also dualistic. So transcending dualism is not a goal, but rather a *result* of Awakening to nondualistic What-IS. Perhaps simply disregarding choices is a transcendence in itself. Perhaps discarding conditioned thinking is a transcendence in itself. Perhaps discarding dualism is transcendence.

Sleeping in a conditioned dualistic perception is not DOing, but rather *reacting*. Sleeping we react, Awakening we Act or DO. We Dream when we are Sleeping, we do not Act or DO.

I would only add that evolution is the natural progression of the physical form due to adaptations and mutations and involution is the progression of Inner *potential* for Awakening.

Evolution gives us nothing but a more useful and more adaptable form, whereas involution gives us the progress potential of thinking and learning and devising games of conditioning -- as well as the potential of Awakening.

Before form there is Consciousness as operant potential for form. My use of 'Consciousness is Form and Form is Consciousness' is the same as saying Form is Formless and Formlessness Form or "Energy at it's lowest state of evolution is Matter and Matter at it highest state of evolution is Energy". It may have been more clear to say Pure Consciousness is Form-To-BE and Form is manifested Consciousness. It is the Sound of Silence that excites Consciousness to manifest Form. It is AS the Silence that the Sound IS Heard, or the Word is Heard.

I always harp on Dwelling AS the Silence so that we can Hear. You must Dwell there to Hear the Sound. This is where the word Om or Aum actually came from -- a human verbalization of that Sound. It is not the Sound of course, but saying the word correctly does set up some wonderful vibration Within.

Why guess ? Why not Directly Experience it yourself ? Dwell AS the Silence and you will Hear it. AS the Silence we Hear, AS the Void we See, AS Awakening we ARE.

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Nothing can be "discovered", for there is no one to "discover" it. AS the Void we simply See, AS the Silence we simply Hear, 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.

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.

We do not manifest what we *want*, we manifest what we ARE. *Wanting* is a defilement to our Awakening, so want not but rather BE. There is only one *right time* and that is NOW this very Moment, Moment to Moment. Cling not to some future *right time* any more than cling to the past for neither is Real.

It is all about Awakening. Look not for an end to the Journey upon the Path for there is not one. When Awakening ends we go back to Sleep. Look not for answers for there are none, there is only Awakening. All so called answers will not be needed as you continue Awakening.

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No matter how long you Tell Lies can't be True It is just in your mind and so can Fool only you, Observe yourself and all those arising notions They are Folly and Death through the Motions. -- Yogajyotii

You have to See the conditionings you are not Lest you infect the world with your diseased Rot, Your self interest leaves Truth/Reality in it's Wake As that seeming knowledge is little more than Fake. -- Yogajyotii

You are just a programmed/manipulated automaton Chained to your Desires controlled by every one, Most Ignorant is your Plight though it is very True No one else can Save Walking the Walk is by you. -- Yogajyotii

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