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Indeed the Suffering you see is very Real for the Sleeping masses controlled/manipulated by their conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts. But when you get beyond that, when you start letting all that conditioned clutter go, when you start Emptying the mind of it's Baggage, you see that "hope" is but a clinging to the Desire to dwelling in the future. You chase after that which is not, when actually that is the Baggage that you must let go. Slow down so you will be able to catch up with yourself, and BE the Present Moment that IS and you ARE. Fear of the Present lends to Desire of the future, as Fear of the Present lends to Desire of the past. When we Fear the Present, we are always a step behind or a step ahead of ourself thus can never Directly Experience Truth/Reality. Let Go, Let Live, Let BE, simply BE What-IS.

It can not be explained, it can only be Pointed to. It is our conditioned modus operandi that needs explanations and labels. The "known" is the conditioned drivel and must be let go. BEing, Walking the Walk, is indeed without effort. "Knowing" and Talking requires effort. The effort is to let go of the Grand Trickster, because while we still harbor him we can not Walk or BE or Understand/Realize/Recognize Truth/Reality AS it IS. All existence other than Robot-Man is quite Awakened. Why even give credence to conditioned drivel by calling it "entertainment". Conditioned drivel must be seen for what it is and not even paid attention to, let alone name.

Conditioned ideas and images and meanings and notions of all sorts (contents of the mind) initiate thoughts (thinking), which in turn establishes the idea that there is someone (self) to do the thinking. The clue is that when the mind is Empty, there are no thoughts and no self able to think. This is Pure Observation or Witnessing or Understanding or Realizing. You see, as long as there are conditioned contents there will always be thoughts and thus always be someone thinking them. And the someone (the self) is created by the thoughts. Without the thoughts there is no one, as without the self (someone) there are no thoughts. Indeed there can be thoughts (thinking) without a self (someone thinking), but there can not be a self (someone) without the thoughts. Though they co-habitate, the thought is generated by conditionings an instant before there is the recognition of the self. So one could say that the thought comes before the self, but where/why/what/how generates those thoughts ? And THAT is the crux of the problem of self/thoughts. It is the stupid conditioned notions (contents of mind).

And if anyone points to the creator of thoughts (thinking) other than conditioned mental contents (influences, as Jesus called them), they are avoiding the discovery and thus exposure of their own conditioned state. The real ones will recognize the varying influences condensed into *Toxic Conditioned Notions*, though they may use different terms.

Actually any learning, conditioned or otherwise, would generate self-arising thought. When the mind is still empty there is no self-arising thought, there is only observation and witnessing. It is any mental contents that generate self-arising thought, though there can be though without contents but not the self-arising type.

We have thoughts at the point when we started harboring/hording contents/ideas/images/meanings. If you do not know, there is a me. You will know when there is no me. Paradoxically, it is not recognized but is known (intuitively understood to be so, and not known knowledge). The Key is the Empty mind, the observing, the witnessing, the unprojected/unattached recognition. The less contents, the more it will be experienced. These are self-arising thoughts due to contents. Yes, you let them fly by without paying attention to them but it lets you know that there are still contents to let go.

When there are contents there will be self-arising thoughts, as when there is no contents there will not be self-arising thoughts. Where is the choice ? As needs be done, when observing and witnessing thoughts will arise due to the need to do so as response to the flow or the Moment. Memory is not lost in an Empty mind, just the contents therein. Our natural existence is without thought. But since we have a mind, thoughts indeed can be a part of it. Yes, it could be simply a response to the Moment since memory is very much in tact with an Empty mind.

But remember that just because you are not aware of it there still can be a self entity via thoughts. In Pure observation or witnessing there can be no thoughts though there is a certain recognition. Without contents thus without self-arising thoughts, the arising thoughts are due to the natural flow of the Moment as a needed response in a continually anew Dance of the Multiple aspects of Unity. Only when the Dancer IS the Dance is there no thought but rather the continuous flow of Dancing.

Do not confuse the learned, which can be called conditioned, reactions/responses to our environment with the programming of society and other people. There is a vast difference. This is a misdirection by our conditionings to lead our attention away from the fact that we are programmed controlled manipulated robots. The stuff that we naturally learn through trial and error is simply that, learning. The stuff that we are programmed by that controls and manipulates our thinking and behavior, by others for the purpose of influencing what we do and say, is conditioning. Most of this conditioning is done subliminally so we will not realize what is done to us. And naturally we pass it on to our offspring and others. You can see this behavior and thinking in all walks of life, if only you would look. But the Fear of seeing that you have become a mechanical robot is too scary to admit. Study of conditioning, especially the subliminal type, is a great asset.

Do not lump learning and conditioning together, which makes you think it is okay. Is the Suffering that conditioned notions of fear and greed and selfishness establish okay ?

We allow ourselves to be conditioned as well as conditioned without ever knowing about it. We are conditioned to allow it. We are conditioned to have a choice in the matter. We are conditioned to like being robots.

There is no choice, thus not choosing our thoughts, but thoughts arise due to the conditioned contents we harbor mentally. Not off stage but rather in the attic where we store the conditioned contents and we are never aware of it until we actually look at what the conditioned programmed controlled manipulated automatons we have become.

Thoughts are always arising from conditionings (content). But doership arises from the same place thoughts do and not that one thought is for one thing and another thought for doership or delusion. Although self-arising thought is delusional and thus even the idea of non-doership is delusion arising from conditioned contents. That is, Sleeping, any offering is but parroting and arises from intellect (which is part and parcel to conditioned contents. Empty mind = no self-arising thoughts and thus any *apparent* thoughts are actually only the exchange of memory within the organism (Consciousness). Much the same as the way cells communicate with each other within the body. A Flow of what needs to be done within the Moment by any aspect of that Moment, and nothing more. You may Talk the Talk, but there may be telltale holes in your Walk.

We must give up control but control is not an illusion. Control is what occurs when we have conditioned contents cluttering up the mind. To give up control you have to give up the illusion that control is an illusion.

We are responsible for what we say or do, but that does not have to involve someone doing or say it. The most Enlightened do and say, but they only say and do what must be said and done and take no credit for doing or saying it even though they are responsible for it. That is, we can take the blame but we can not take the credit.

Save yourself from ourselves. Saved from the conditioned contents that control and manipulate our thinking and behavior. So even though Consciously there is no doer, physically there has to be otherwise all manifested form is but an illusion. Talkers, parrots, take the statement of Wise Sages that "all is an illusion" to mean that phenomenality does not exist only in our head. The Sages did not mean that. What they meant was that our *perception* of manifested form is an illusion. Our attachment to it, our thinking it is permanent, based on our conditioned contents of mind. Walkers Understand this, Talker just say it and misunderstand it. It is all founded on the contents of the mind.

We have no volition, thus we have no want. Thoughts will always control us when there are self-arising thoughts. You can not control the thought. Wherever there is a self-arising thought it is in control. Trying to control the thoughts is a rationalization for letting there be thoughts. A Waste. Let go of the thoughts and there is no more trying and no more control.

Of course we are responsible for what we do and say. It is foolish to think we are not, as it is foolish to think that manifest form is illusion. We take the blame but we do not take the credit. That is, there is doing and there is a doer but neither the doing nor the doer is acknowledged as such, but rather being done what must be done. We do not take ownership of the doing though it is foolish to think that we did not do it. Of course we did it but we do not have to broadcast it or even pat ourself on the back for doing it. It must be done and it was done, and nothing else to consider. I am speaking about an Awakening perspective. With conditioned contents functioning as our modus operandi we take ownership and/or deny it. We take ownership by denying it. Awakening there is no ownership to accept or deny. It just needed doing and got done. We can not see it because the conditioned contents harbored will not let us see it. It all boils down to the conditioned contents of the mind, and Sages from Siddhartha and before to modern ones have said FIRST get rid of conditionings. Do the self appointed gurus think they know more about the situation ? No, they are just too Fearful to let the contents go. Others like and agree with what they say because they are just as Fearful. The Blind leading the Blind.

We do not wake up before getting rid of the contents, and we do not get rid of the contents before we see it. So, at first, we are very much Sleeping. Then someone adds something else to that contents, such as "hey, what's all this clutter in your attic ?". Or you get so fed up with the way things are that you start looking for a better way. In both cases there has to be a certain Evolution/Involution already established. Which most of humanity has already established. So for the most part it depends on how indoctrinated the contents, and how fearful the person of letting it go. That is, you have to be *ready* before you could even consider someone's notion or go looking for some better way. But at this point you are still very much controlled and manipulated by self-arising conditioned thoughts, a doing, a self, an identity, carrying around the contents in mind. But due to your particular level of established Wakefulness you lean more toward looking at the clutter and toward going and looking. It all depends on the contents, but it also depends on whether you are able/ready to see it. THEN you go to work to do whatever needs to be done to get rid of it. Those who are not ready to see it, will not, and ague tooth and nail that "it's no big thing" or that it is "human nature". But their peers have gotten them into a new fad, nonduality, advaita, whatever. So they learn the Talk, and Talk the Talk, and convince the others who do the same thing that they are "right on". And even argue about it. Another clue -- how many *real ones* argue ?

If we do not cling to them why are they still around, as they have no glue on them ? If we can let them go, then we must be the ones hanging onto them. And we can let them go, as we can Empty the mind of the conditioned clutter, people have been doing it for a long time. You do not think so because you are too afraid to, you are too conditioned to. You hold on to them for dear life thinking that you will miss life, and paradoxically in doing so you miss Life. Those conditioned notions can be dispensed with, yet in order for you to Truly find out whether this is so you will have to give it a whirl and see for yourself. Otherwise you will have to remain in the darkness of the *belief* that it is impossible. Just take a look at Sages of yore as well as those who are considered to be Awake today and you will find that in their own words their own way they all say that we must get rid of the conditionings. Some of the ones of today even use the word conditionings, while the ones of yore used such words as "influences" or "defilements" or "beliefs" or whatever. But they all say to get them out of your head. So are you the New Messiah bringing the Real Truth of the matter, that all other Sages were only close ?

In Reality there is no Real inside/outside, there is only What-IS. Yet, there is a vast multiplicity that IS this Unity and thus each and every Multiple aspect is unique. And though our own conditioned notions should not be projected into/onto any of these Multiple aspects, there is a differentiation of one aspect to another. Thus though the underlying Bridge is indeed a Oneness, that which is not one aspect is another (one is outside the other). The same differentiation of Yin and Yan. And of course for the purposes of communications, using language as the medium, there is no way around this *seeming* separation. Confined to ourself only, of course All IS One, but when talking to another there is another to talk to. Each of us establish this seeming separation by talking, so to suggest that there is no inside/outside while talking is a fallacy. The Moment that someone opens their mouth to utter a word they have established the other, though we must not cling to this establishment but rather Recognize that it is a medium for us to communicate with each other.

That Inner Yearning is none other than the True Nature trying to push forth. Which is always suppressed by the contents of our mind (conditioned programs we think and live by). Yet IF the Evolved/Involved True Nature is strong enough due to not quite as much suppression in both this incarnation and previous ones, it will gain a foot hold and a certain supremacy making it more difficult for us to Lie to ourself. To a point that we get real tired of Lying to ourself so we go Seeking for what this Yearning is about. A Few actually come face to face with it and Embrace it BEing that True Nature. Most are so Frightened by it that they turn tail and Run so they can keep wearing their Masks and study the words so they can Talk the Game. They even eventually fool themselves into thinking the Talk (Game) is the Walk. So the Suffering continues and they wonder why. You can fool a few many times, as you can fool many a few times, but you can not continue to fool the many forever. You just Fool yourself.

You leave a trail so that you can backtrack when you realize that the light at the end of the tunnel is a Train. Due to the conditioned contents we harbor mentally we misunderstand the simplest of Pointers, twisting them into just about anything we Desire. You see, though there are many Route to/upon the Path there can BE only One Path Awakening. When Krishna said that "all paths lead to me" he meant that many routes lead to One Path or the Many lead to One. So because of the wording, as most get hung up on the words thus not able to see the space between the words, the word Path is misconstrued to mean in a distorted conditioned way that everyone can have their own path. Why do you think there are still wars, and conflict, and greed, and selfishness, and corruption, and crime, and every other ill we are plagued with daily ?

It is true that "as a man thinketh, so is he". But when we Empty the conditioned contents harbored in the mind, we are not thinking so we are no-thought or no-self. Thus "as a man does not think, *he* is not".

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Do not *believe* or even *accept* Wise Words offered, but rather Dwell on it and let it feed your Awakening, and see what YOU Realize. Is the muddy water starting to Clear up any ?

Indeed we must keep an eye on where we are going so we will get to where we must go and take account of where we have been so as not to repeat faltering, but since Reality is only AS the Present Moment our Attention must always BE in the Present Moment NOW.

Enlightenment is an ever Unfoldment of Clarity of Awareness -- being able to see through Illusions, being able to see True and Reality. It is not a *goal* but rather a continuous Evolution/Involution of Consciousness/Awareness. This is the fallacy of Enlightenment, that there is some goal to attain. Enlightenment is professed to be and interpreted as a *noun*, whereas it is actually a *verb*. For Enlightenment is not the name of a Nirvanic state but rather ever in action, an ever Unfolding, an ever Evolution/Involution, an ever Awakening. We are not to attain it but rather BE it.

All Direct Experiences are a "peak experience", one not "superior" to the other. For you see, the basic foundational premise that we must FIRST let go of conditioned notions has not been satisfied, so indeed any of our experiences are but projections of our conditioned notions. And so we can judge and label and choose and compare. When we let go of the conditioned notions and Still the mind, THEN we can Directly Experience Enlightenment ever anew each Moment, THEN we can Directly Experience Enlightenment in every aspect of our life from Moment to Moment.

Conditioned notions start popping into your mind, that was not first Silenced (or deleted from the startup menu). THERE is the Key to your Lock. THERE is the Map to your Maze. THERE is the Folly of your "peak experience".

Not one of those who we fools *think* are the *Enlightened Ones* ever stated that they were, so how could we fools *think* that we could be even for an instant ? THERE is your trap. As a child we think we know everything, yet when we get a little older we think that perhaps there are a couple of things we do not know, yet as we Learn how much there is to know we Realize that we actually know nothing. Since we Realize how stupid we are we tend to *believe* some fool notion so we can at least say that we believe something. And so we Sleep, hoping that someday something or someone will Save us.

Our mind does nothing other that be the mind or the operating platform. Our conditioned notions, our conditioned thoughts that we did not let go of "does this devious little trick". Which we were supposed to let go of a long time ago.

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The Trickster makes you think you have a Chance But Truth be known you don't know how to Dance, You pantomime all the steps but never know Why But if it is relief from your Suffering why do you Cry. -- Yogajyotii

You must pay Attention to what really matters most And stop all that Chasing of the ever Illusive Ghost, Just Openly Honestly Observer yourself every way About every conditioning you think and do and say. -- Yogajyotii

What wanted may not be needed so BE Receptive Because you are not Separate it is a Big Collective, Take off those Blinders of your wants and be Freed To Accept the very Eternal Infinite Truth you Need. -- Yogajyotii

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