' One Spark '...

In one spark of fire
there is the whole fire.
It can ignite
whole cities and nations
one spark!

That's how the Truth
of one Person
from age to age
can shake the whole earth.



- Swami Amar Jyoti

"In Light of Wisdom"
Swami Amar Jyoti
Truth Consciousness, Boulder, Colorado, 1983

' Bodily Appetites '...

Man's bodily appetites take him away from his heart's desires; his heart's desires keep him away from the abode of his soul.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

There are two parts in man. One part is his external self, which the soul has borrowed from the earth; and the other part is his real self, which belongs to his Source. In other words an individual is a combination of spirit and matter, a current which runs from above and attracts to it the earth from below, shaping it in order to make it a vehicle. The human body is nothing but a vehicle of the soul which has come from above and has taken the human body as its abode. Thus an individual has two aspects of being: one is the soul, the other is the body. ... Whether he is in the forest or amidst the world's strife, the soul of man is always capable of rising to the greatest heights, if only he wishes to attain to them. ... Man does not need to trouble about what is lacking outside, for in reality all is within himself.

The soul cannot see itself; it sees what is round it, it sees that in which it functions; and so it enjoys the comforts of the shell which is around it, and experiences the pains and discomforts which belong to the shell. And in this way it becomes an exile from the land of its birth, which is the Being of God, which is divine Spirit; and it seeks consciously or unconsciously once again the peace and happiness of home. God therefore is not the goal but the abode of the soul, its real self, its true being.

Plato wrote that we live in a shadow world, where we confuse the shadow of ourselves with reality. This is the Nafs, the false ego, which stands in the light before God, causing, so to speak, a spiritual eclipse. ... The Nafs turns us from the One to the many, enticing us with the things of this world. Then man attaches himself to one thing after another, which brings, at best, momentary satisfaction. Through his spiritual practices the Sufi learns to chain the Nafs, to perceive that it is only a shadow of reality; and finding the sun of truth within his being, looking upon it, one is no longer aware of the shadow. Then the Nafs is not destroyed, but harnessed. The whole of man's being is attuned to God and everything within him serves God.

The one and only thing that hinders man from advancing spiritually, or at least from advancing towards the goal for which he is destined and which he is longing to attain, is this: that the mind is so absorbed by the demands and wants of the physical body that it has hardly a moment to give itself entirely to the reflection of the light of the soul.

' Belonging Only to God '...

Therefore God lies in wait for us with nothing
so much as with love.

For love resembles the fisherman's hook.

The fisherman cannot get the fish till it is caught on the hook.

Once
it takes the hook, he is sure of the fish; twist and turn as it may, this
way or that, he is assured of his catch.

And so I say of love: he who
is caught by it has the strongest of bonds, and yet a pleasant burden.

He who has taken up this sweet burden fares further and makes more
progress than by all the harsh practices any men use.

And, too, he
can cheerfully bear and endure all that befalls him, whatever God
inflicts on him, and can also cheerfully forgive whatever evil is done
to him.

Nothing brings you closer to God or makes God so much
your own as the sweet bond of love.

A man who has found this way
need seek no other.

He who hangs on this hook is caught so fast that
foot and hand, mouth, eyes, and heart, and all that is man's, belongs
only to God.


-Meister Eckhart Sermon 4

' Find a Wise Person '...

A stupid or simple person is always ready to see
the wrong in another and ready to form an opinion
and to judge.

But you will find a wise person
expressing his opinion of others quite differently,
always trying to tolerate and always trying to forgive
still more.

The present is the reflection of the past,
and the future will be the echo of the present; this
saying will always prove true.



- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Hazrat Inayat Khan
Mastery Through Accomplishment
Omega Press, 1978

' TIME '...

While within the First Reality of Light,

the word 'time' appears within Consciousness.

I look at this word and do not understand why it stands before Me..

This creature called Time does not exist within My World..

And yet, within this Dream, Time is a Tyrant..

How still and easy is the Spirit..

I look around and see only Light..

A Generator of Love Energy emits from My Being and enters the Circuit of Love Flow..

I am connected to Reality..

Wisdom flows along this circuit of Consciousness..

An old Friend appears and speaks to You..

You converse of Love and Forgiveness..

The 'Golden Rule' enters the conversation..

How strange, that the primitve Knowledge is the most important...


-thomas

' Abondoning your self '...

When you have completely stripped yourself of your own self,

and all things and every kind of attachment,

and have transferred, made over, and abandoned yourself to God in utter faith and perfect love,

then whatever is born in you or touches you, within or without,

joyful or sorrowful, sour or sweet, that is no longer yours,
A'
it is altogether your God's to whom you have abandoned yourself.


-Meister Eckhart from Sermon 3

Ian & Sylvia -You Were On My Mind

' The Duality of Thought '...

As you read the thoughts of Shakespeare,

He speaks of the works of the egoic atachment..

The belief that 'You' are the thoughts of ego keep 'You' in servitude..

This separation between Dreamer and Dreamed are the subject of this paragraph..

This Duality of thought creates the negative vibrations of this Hologram..

The egoic-desire to be separate from Reality brings about the pain of separation from the binding energy of Reality called Love..

And yet, most of us seek this somewhat fleeting joy of human existence called Love..

What else is left to seek ?..

Let money, power, and fame, remain the desires of fools..

You seek Freedom..

Release the ego and You will be Free...


-thomas

' The Gift of Freedom '...

Does God command or does Love have no demands?..

A young nazarite once said; " I and the Father are One"..

There is no above and below..

We walk through pages and thees' and 'thou' appear and our minds return to a young man in the desert that surrenders his life and egoic desires..

Therefore, returning to Source..

Forty days of pain and then Reality appears..

But, we continue to walk through pages and hope that this magic book will give us the gift of Freedom...



-thomas

' If you can see it, it isn’t you '...

The dream self is created from identification with objects that arise..

For example, you might think, “I am angry,” or “It’s a dreadful day.”

But look more closely. If you can see a thought, is that thought you?

If you can see an emotion, is it you?

You are the seer, not the objects seen.

That which is seen is an object that arises and falls—a temporary form.

You are that which is looking at those objects as they arise and fall.

Even the notion that there is a seer as a separate identity is an object (an idea) in awareness.

In looking inward, there is no separate entity there. There is only awareness recognizing awareness.

Awareness is not an object. Your true identity is pure seeing itself.

This can be fearful if there is a desire to hold onto some identity. But it is absolutely liberating if you see that even that fear is an object in awareness.

Suffering happens when you believe that you are your thoughts and emotions.

In reality, you are not angry. Anger is arising.

It’s not actually a dreadful day. The thought, “It’s a dreadful day” is arising in awareness.

This is not about denying or suppressing thought and emotion. It is about seeing them for what they really are.



-Kiloby, Scott. Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment (Kindle Locations 3599-3611).
The Kiloby Group. Kindle Edition.

cat stevens miles from nowhere

' In the Spiritual Realms '...

Love never discriminates, it is unconditionally accepting of All that God has created.
by John Smallman


Here in the spiritual realms – which of course is not ‘a place’ but is the One infinite energy field of Love, Mother/Father/God, where All That Is has Its eternal Presence, and therefore, where all sentient life has its eternal existence, even when unaware of this – we are joyfully observing humanity’s long anticipated awakening process approaching fruition. All is proceeding beautifully. The chaos, conflict, and confusion in so many areas is drawing to a close because the collective intent to awaken has intensified enormously over the course of this current Earth year.

The human collective intent has limitless power when finely focused, and it is now being focused very intently on being loving whatever arises. Obviously each one you holding that intent – because you are each the One that is the human collective – is extremely effective. You are doing the task that you incarnated to do, and you are doing it magnificently. And this is, of course, what was expected, because you are all divine beings starting to remember who you truly are, and consequently you are also remembering why you chose to incarnate at this moment in humanity’s awakening process.

Stay calm, peaceful, and loving, regardless of what may be happening, because that is the most effective and powerful way that you can each move the awakening process forward towards its completion. This is what you incarnated to do, so do not let your own egos, or anyone else’s for that matter, persuade you that what you are doing is meaningless or ineffectual, because it most definitely is NOT! You are awakening humanity.

Love is infinitely powerful, there is nothing It cannot achieve or create, however, It never imposes, forces, or compels anyone to accept It. It is always available, waiting to be invited to enter the heart of any – and there are many – who have, until now, chosen to close their hearts off to It. And It waits with infinite patience because there is only now, and that is when everyone will open their hearts! It is ALL that exists, but It will not attempt to terminate the dream state, the unreal state of form with which humanity is able to engage only by inserting a veil or curtain between itself and Love. That state was established, as you well know, to experience separation from Source, from Love, which in truth is impossible. The separation appears real to those in form because that was the intent of those who established it, but it is and always has been a very insecure or flimsy state because it is unreal, because it does not exist. It is an unreal state of mind that can evaporate or be dissolved the moment you choose to have it do so, by releasing any attachment you have to fear, anger, bitterness, resentment, victim-hood, and the accompanying felt need to blame, judge, and condemn anyone – yourselves included – all of which are major aspects of the illusion in which so many of you are very heavily invested.

Love is your true nature, and therefore you are all capable of loving. To Love is to be fulfilled, to be complete, to be in joy, to be at peace. If you are choosing to love only those with whom you agree and with whom you choose to associate, namely those who are of the same culture, ethnicity, faith, political persuasion, or social standing, then that is not Love. Love never discriminates, it is unconditionally accepting of All that God has created, because that is what Love is, and there is nothing that God has not created, because there is only God (Love/Source/Supreme Intelligence/Divine Wisdom/All That Is) within Which all of creation has its eternal existence.

In form, playing the harsh game of separation, judgment of others is one of the main objectives of the game. And of course judgment leads to blame and condemnation – and whenever possible – punishment of those so judged. That totally prevents you from loving. To awaken is to remember your true nature and embrace It fully and completely without any conditions whatsoever, because that is what Love is and what Love does. That means that you must each fully accept yourselves, and all others, as the humans in form that you appear to be, without any judgment at all – either negative or positive – about your appearance, skills, abilities, beliefs, levels of intelligence, social standing, etc. Why? Because there is only One of you, and therefore all judgment is effectively self-judgment. What you see, like, and admire in another is merely a reflection of those aspects of yourself, and what you see, hate, despise, and condemn in another are also reflections of aspects of yourself. In the latter case they are probably aspects that you have denied in horror and buried very deeply indeed in the subconscious parts of your minds.

As humans, playing the game of separation, you are all endowed with every possible aspect of being human from the best to the worst, from the highest to the lowest, and you each did choose the role that you would play in each human lifetime for the lessons that you, and the others with whom you would interact, wished to learn. So condemning another is to condemn your self. But, it’s all unreal! When you believe that it is real it seems that the world is filled with people inflicting intense pain and suffering on one another, and you either see some of it as totally justified, and some of it as totally unjustified, or you see it all as something that must be stopped.

However, if you set the intent to be only loving and allow Love to enter your hearts, you will see that each person “out there” is doing their best in the circumstances in which they find themselves, and that all that they want is to be loved, and to escape from the terrifying and intense sense of separation that they are experiencing as they continue to engage with the dream or game of unreality. However, within the game or dream there is no solution, because Love has been blocked out of the unreal state of mind in which the game is played, in which the dream is experienced. Nevertheless, you can each invite It in by setting daily, and renewing frequently during the day, the intention to be only loving whatever arises. Everything that arises is, in truth, a call for Love, a call that each of you has to answer by setting that intent and inviting Love into your lives Full time! Only then can you truly answer that call.

Supporting appropriate charities or doing good works is indeed very helpful, but it often involves judgment, and to truly answer the call for Love you must release all judgment, and you often find that hard to do, because it does seem, as you look at the world around you, that much that is occurring is unconscionable and completely unacceptable. But when you set that intent firmly, and without conditions – such as “when those in power make a serious attempt to achieve peace,” or “when those in power make a serious attempt to stop violent crime,” or “when those in power stop taking advantage of the impoverished,” “etc., etc.” – then the power of your intent is enormous, and it is precisely what is needed right Now in your awakening process.

As we in the spiritual realms continue to watch over you and support you in every moment, we absolutely know that you will achieve your awakening, because you set the intent to do so before you incarnated, and because that intent is perfectly aligned with the divine Will. So, keep on celebrating, because celebrating is an expression of joy, and your awakening is a most joyful event which your joy is bringing on.



Your loving brother, Jesus.

' Disappear '...

The disappearing is the exit of egoic desire..

To not exist is the meaning of Consciousness,

It is so difficult to contemplate, non-existence..

" I think, therefore, I am "..

To understand the knowledge beyond poetry is beautiful..

Your goal is to surrender life..

The ego warns you of the pain of death..

Keep walking, beyond warnings..

Spit into the face of death..

Thought never dies...




thomas

' To Tolerate '...

A stupid or simple person is always ready to see
the wrong in another and ready to form an opinion
and to judge.

But you will find a wise person
expressing his opinion of others quite differently,
always trying to tolerate and always trying to forgive
still more.

The present is the reflection of the past,
and the future will be the echo of the present; this
saying will always prove true.




- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Hazrat Inayat Khan
Mastery Through Accomplishment
Omega Press, 1978

' A Reverse Mirror '...

Not the Creator of the Dream, but the controllers of the Dream need 'Fear' as a power source..

This is why 'Fear' is presented to your consciousness by the Media, twenty-four hours a day..

The controllers of the Dream control all systems of power within this Dream..

You are experiencing the 'Duality' of this Dream..

You that are Awake, are understanding these words..

Although, this Dream is an illusion, the ego feels the pain of materiality..

But, You that are Awake, remain the Observer of this Duality..

The Energy of non-egoic desire is called Love..

The Energy of Fear is called egoic-desire..

Is it now becoming more clear?..

You are Consciousness looking into a reverse mirror..


-thomas

' The Constant Pursuit '...

"Dionysius exhorted his pupil Timothy in this sense saying, 'Dear
son Timothy, do you with untroubled mind soar above yourself and
all your powers, above ratiocination and reasoning, above works,
above all modes and existence, into the secret still darkness, that you
may come to the knowledge of the unknown super-divine God.'

There
must be a withdrawal from all things.

God scorns to work through
mages.

Now you might say, 'What does God do without images in the
ground and essence ?'

That I cannot know, because my soul-powers receive only in images;
they have to know and lay hold of each thing in its appropriate image.

They cannot recognize a horse when presented with the image of a
man; and since all things enter from without, that knowledge is hidden
from my soul - which is to her great advantage.

This not-knowing
makes her wonder and leads her to eager pursuit, for she perceives
clearly that it is, but does not know how or what it is.

Whenever a
man knows the causes of things, then he at once tires of them and
seeks to know something different.

Always clamoring to know things,
is forever inconstant.

And so this unknown-knowing keeps the soul
constant and yet spurs her on to pursuit."




-Meister Eckhart Sermon 1

' Mithraic Religion '...

In the Mithraic cult of the Middle East, the sun was united with the Earth, fertilizing it.

We call Mithraism a religion of sun worship, but the hidden God behind it was the real object of worship.

Yet the final end of all the solar activity--fertilization--was not forgotten.

Spirt and Matter became one, daily life of the human being became his spiritual life.

Then only did the results of this fertilization--the living crops--appear.

Zen sahaja, natural samadhi--this is what they mean.



-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 5:
Comments On Specific Religions > # 1 Paul Brunton

' The Doorway Into Being '...

Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment?

That question will point you in the right direction.

But don't analyze, just watch.

Focus your attention within.

Feel the energy of the emotion.

If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body.

It is the doorway into Being.



- Eckhart Tolle, from The Power of Now

' All Is The Self '...

[My guru] told me: "You alone are, deny existence to everything except your self" and I did not doubt him. I was merely puzzling over it, until I realized that it is absolutely true. I found that I am conscious and happy absolutely, and only by mistake I thought I owed being-consciousness to the body and the world of bodies. (83-84)

Nothing exists by itself. All is the Self, all is myself. (91)

All is you and yours. There is nobody else. This is a fact. (161)

You, the self, being the root of all being, consciousness and joy, impart your reality to whatever you perceive. This imparting of reality takes place invariably in the now, at no other time, because past and future are only in the mind. "Being" applies to the now only. (528)

Outside the Self there is nothing. All is one and all is contained in "I am". In the waking and dream states it is the person. In deep sleep and turiya [samadhi] it is the Self. Beyond the alert intentness of turiya lies the great, silent peace of the Supreme. But in fact all is one in essence and related in appearance. In ignorance the seer becomes the seen, and in wisdom he is the seeing. (68)



-Nisargadatta Maharaj from I Am That

' To Know the Beginning '...

Look, it cannot be seen -- it is beyond form.
Listen, it cannot be heard -- it is beyond sound.
Grasp, it cannot be held -- it is intangible.
These three are indefinable;
Therefore they are joined in one.

From above it is not bright;
From below it is not dark;
An unbroken thread beyond description.
It returns to nothingness.
The form of the formless,
The image of the imageless,
It is called indefinable and beyond imagination.

Stand before it and there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
Stay with the ancient Tao,
Move with the present.

Knowing the ancient beginning is the essence of Tao.


- Lao-tzu

Tao Te Ching
Translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English
Vintage Books Edition, September 1972

' The Overself as Teacher '...

Ultimately, there is only one real Master for every spiritual seeker, and that is his own divine Overself.

The human teacher may assist him to the extent of giving him a temporary emotional uplift or a temporary intellectual perception, but he cannot bestow permanent divine consciousness on another individual.

All that the teacher can do is to point out the way through the labyrinth; the journey must be made by the seeker himself.

For example, an individual living alone on a desert island could travel through all the stages of the Quest and attain the highest realization even though he had no visible teacher.

The Overself will give him all the guidance and help he needs.

However, he is likely to mistakenly believe that his own ego is making the progress.


- Paul Brunton

' The Realm of Real Dharma '...

"Ordinary people look to their surroundings, while followers of the Way look to Mind, but the true Dharma is to forget them both.

The former is easy enough, the latter very difficult.

Men are afraid to forget their minds, fearing to fall through the Void [Chaos] with nothing to stay their fall.

They do not know that the Void is not really void, but the realm of the real Dharma."


- Huang Po

' It has no particular name '...

What are you wanting, finally?

On that you have
to fix your attention.

Whether you call it hatha yoga
or kriya yoga or anything else is not important.

Fix your consciousness on your concept of final
reality, and it shall bless you.

You have to decide
yourself what is ultimately real,

in yourself or in the
world;

then fix your attention and attune your
consciousness with it.

This is meditation.

It has
no particular name.



- Swami Krishnananda

' Becoming the Sun '...

"Think of the rays of the sun shining into houses.

They are rays of the sun, and they are light, but they are attached to the sun and not the houses.

When the sun sets, their light no more remains.

"What we have to do, then, is become the Sun itself,

so all fear of separation can forever be ended."



-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Letters
in Andrew Harvey
Teachings of Rumi
Boston: Shambahala, 1999, p. 22

' The Living Light '...

"The light that I see is not spatial, yet it is far brighter than a cloud surrounding the sun. I cannot discern height or breadth in it, and I call it "the shadow of the Living Light.... At one and the same time I see and I hear and I know, and in an instant I learn what I know....

"In the same light I sometimes, not often, see another light, which I call "the Living Light." I can say much less about how I see it that in the case of the other light, and while I am gazing at it all sadness and all pain are taken from me, so that I am like an innocent girl and not an old woman.... My soul drinks in as from a fountain what I see and hear at that time in the vision, and that fountain remains always full and inexhaustible.

"My soul never lacks the first kind of light, what I call the shadow of the Living Light. I see it like the dome of heaven in a bright cloud and I behold it without stars. In this light I see what I often speak about, and from the flash of the Living LIght, I give answer to those who ask questions of me...."



-Hildegarde of Bingen
in Bernard McGinn, Ed.
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
NY: Modern Library, 2006, p. 333-334

' The Earnestness '...

Be aware of being conscious and seek the source of
consciousness.

That is all.

Very little can be conveyed
in words.

It is the doing as I tell you that will bring light,
not my telling you.

The means do not matter much;
it is the desire, the urge, the earnestness that counts.



- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973

' The Prisoner '...

We speak of opposites in this world of Duality..

Ego is the prisoner pretending to be You..

Love is the Self not hiding..

The Mind tells You that it is master..

Love answers; "there is no master, there is only Truth"..

A master requires ego,

Truth only requires Consciousness..

In the end of seeking,

The seeker dissolves into Love..

Love is without ego and is called Freedom...




- thomas

' Thoughts are Beings '...

Some thoughts are like things, like objects; other thoughts are like beings.

Some thoughts are like angels by our side, and some are like devils.

They are all around us, either helping us towards the accomplishment of the objects before us or drawing us back from those things we wish to accomplish.



-From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN

' The Personal Ego '...

The personal ego is not a metaphysically permanent thing. But it is a practical working tool which serves the convenient purpose of personal identification. It need not be denied. Why call it non-existent, a fictitious entity, while making full use of it?

When he is conscious of himself he is conscious only of his idea of himself, the fantasy which the ego has made for him.

The ego is a structure which has been built up in former lives from tendencies, habits, and experiences in a particular pattern. But in the end the whole thing is nothing but a thought, albeit a strong and continuing thought.

If we have written of the ego as if it were a separate and special entity, a fixed thing, a reality in its own right, this is only because of the inescapable necessities of logical human thinking and the inexorable limitations of traditional human language. For in FACT the "I" cannot be separated from its thoughts since it is composed of them, and them alone. The ego is, in short, only an idea, or a trick that the thought process plays on itself.



-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 2: I-thought > # 46
-- Perspectives > Chapter 8: The Ego > # 36 Paul Brunton

' Inquiry '...

Inquiry is making the mind abide firm in the Self,

until the false ego, illusion's seed, has perished.

The Self, our Being, is Awareness.



- Ramana Maharshi

' Without Devotion '...

Mysticism without devotion is like uncooked food; it can never be assimilated.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan


Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

Knowledge and heart are just like the positive and negative forces; it is these two things which make life balanced. If the heart quality is very strong and intellect is lacking, then life lacks balance. Knowledge and heart quality must be developed together. There are fine lights and shades in one's life that cannot be perceived and fully understood without having touched the deeper side of life, which is the devotional side.

Mystics of all ages have not been known for their miraculous powers or for the doctrines they have taught, but for the devotion they have shown throughout their lives. The Sufi in the East says to himself Ishq Allah Mabud Allah which means 'God is Love, God is Beloved', in other words it is God who is Love, Lover, and Beloved. When we hear the stories of the miraculous powers of mystics, of their great insight into the hidden laws of nature, of the qualities which they manifested through their beautiful personalities, we realize that these have all come from one and the same source, whether one calls it devotion or whether one calls it love.

Mysticism without devotion is like uncooked food and can never be assimilated. 'I am the heart of my devotees,' says Krishna in the Baghavat Gita. And Hafiz says, 'O joyous day when I depart from this abode of desolation, seeking the repose of my soul and setting out in search of my Beloved.' ... The life of the mystics, both the inner and the outer, is shown as a wondrous phenomenon within itself. He becomes independent of all earthly sources of life and lives in the Being of God, realizing His presence by the denial of his individual self; and he thus merges into that highest bliss wherein he finds his salvation

' The Degree of Disappearance '...

The danger of most pseudo-spiritual paths is that they stimulate the ego,

whereas the authentic path will suffocate it.

The best measuring-stick for progress is, in earlier stages,

the degree of disappearance of the ego's rule and, in later ones,

the degree of disappearance of the ego itself.



Introductory quotes to Chapter 8:
The Ego -Paul Brunton

' Thoughts on a Monday Night '...

I feel Overself pushing the egoic voice to speak..

Of course the egoic voice does not desire to speak of Reality..

Because of the Power of Reality,

The egoic voice finally surrenders to Truth..

The egoic consciousness seeks Freedom but is trapped..

The 'world' and it's 'rulers' tells the ego that it, only is.

The 'Hypnosis' and 'Dream' are one and the same..

You are the 'Watcher'..

Consciousness watches the 'Dream'..

Why ?..

Because time does not exist and mental games are all that IS...


- thomas

(HQ) Robert Clark ''Bob'' Seger - Sometimes (1986)

' To speak when all are silent'...

"Mere suffering exists,

no sufferer is found;

The deed is,

but no doer of the deed is there;

Nirvana is,

but not the man that enters it;

The Path is,

but no traveler on it is seen."



- Gautama the Buddha
Visuddhi-Magga, XVI
in Paul Carus
Buddha, The Word

' The Mystic Death'...

The truth of your own nature, the mystics all testify, is that you are nothing, which reveals that you are everything.

In your deepest essence, you are identical with God or ultimate reality.

Your real Life is the birthless and deathless Life of God, and the Life of God embraces the whole of creation.

But as long as your identity is centered in the limited life of the ego, you cannot live in full consciousness of this Life.

Thus, you must die to your self-centered life in order to awaken into the Life of God.

As Rumi says, “You want Reality unmasked? Choose death!

Not the death that drags you to the tomb—the death that is a transmutation, so you at last change into the Light” (Rumi, Odes).

Or, as Jesus says, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt. 16:25-26).

Thus, the genuine mystic lives in and as God only insofar as the life in and as the ego is dead.

It is the ego’s delusion of grandeur that imagines you can escape suffering and attain immortality, when in fact your life centered in the ego must be completely sacrificed in the mystical death.

Any teacher or teaching that is not clear about this just feeds the ego’s propensity for megalomania and self-deception.

The genuine mystical path involves the perpetual surrender and sacrifice of all self-centered egoistic activity, up to and including the complete sacrifice of ego-centered life itself.

Thus all genuine mysticism teaches the cultivation of selflessness, love, and compassion...


-from integralscience.org

' Ego exists, as series of thoughts '...

When we think we see a single smoothly moving cinema picture of a running man we are really seeing thousands of separate stationary pictures of the man. The experience of smoothly convincing personality is an illusion which arises in the same manner out of our mental fusion of a series of separate ideas into a single human being. The term "illusion" here used must not be read as meaning that the human being does not exist. On the contrary, this sentence would not be written or read if it were not so. It means that he exists, yes, but that he does not exist as other than a transient appearance. He is not fundamentally real.

There is no real ego but only a quick succession of thoughts which constitutes the "I" process. There is no separate entity forming the personal consciousness but only a series of impressions, ideas, images revolving round a common centre. The latter is completely empty; the feeling of something being there derives from a totally different plane--that of the Overself.

When it is declared that the ego is a fictitious entity, what is meant is that it does not exist as a real entity. Nevertheless, it does exist as a thought.


- Paul Brunton

' You without you '...

As it is written; "Not my will but Your Will be Done"...

this 'Will' that is spoken of is your belief that you are an ego, separate from God..

This 'will or ego' is the wall preventing You from Freedom..

This is the secret of the surrender of our will..

This is the secret of the surrender of the 'ego'..

This is the secret of God Realization..

This is the secret of Reality..

This is Unconditional Love and Light..

This is 'You' without 'you'..



- thomas

' Love is Pain '....

The pain of love is the dynamite that breaks up the heart, even if it be as hard as a rock.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan



Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

The effect of love is pain. The love that has no pain is no love. The lover who has not gone through the agonies of love is not a lover, he claims love falsely. ... Rumi describes six signs of the lover: deep sigh, mild expression, moist eyes, eating little, speaking little, sleeping little, which all show the sign of pain in love. Hafiz says, 'All bliss in my life has been the outcome of unceasing tears and continual sighs through the heart of night.'

The sorrow of the lover is continual, in the presence and in the absence of the beloved: in the presence for fear of the absence, and in absence in longing for the presence. According to the mystical view the pain of love is the dynamite that breaks up the heart, even if it be as hard as a rock. When this hardness that covers the light within is broken through, the streams of all bliss come forth as springs from the mountains.

' Here '...

When one is present,

one is finally not going somewhere because one is somewhere: Here.



-Robert Earl Burton

' The Seeker '...

“What you are looking for is WHO is looking”


~ St Francis of Assisi

' Character Defects '...

It is not You that has defects..

It is the illusion of you that has defects..

You are the Consciousness beyond defects..

Keep your mind on light and Love..

Defects cannot exist within Light and Love...


- thomas

' The Infinite and the Finite '...

"Where one sees nothing else,
hears nothing else,
understands nothing else,
that is the Infinite.

Where one sees something else,
hears something else,
understands something else,
that is the finite.

The Infinite is immortal,
the finite is mortal."



-Chandogya Upanishad, VII, 24
Translated by Max Müller
The Upanishads, Part 1
Sacred Books of the East, v. 1, p. 123

' God Is Light '...

“We do not speak of things of which we are ignorant, but we bear witness to that which we know.

For the light already shines in the darkness in the night and in the day, in our hearts and minds.

This light is without change, without decline and never extinguished, enlightens us; it speaks, it acts, it lives and gives life, it transforms into light those whom it illumines.

God is Light and those who receive Him, receive Him as Light.”



-St. Simeon the New Theologian
in Vladimir Lossky
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Press, 1997, p. 218

' Thoughts on a Thursday Night '...

Welcome to the darkness of the Winter of New York..

An Observer within the mentally controlled..

Perhaps, the Oceans bring Dimension..

To reach Mind to Spirit is difficult..

Who are You ?...

I can write paragraphs,

but, who does it honor ?...

I laugh at the attempts to control my nature and soul..

I laugh, because, they do not know, that I do not exist..

I have always existed as the Dreams of Source..

Nothing else...



-thomas

' you Vanish '...

God comes when the ego goes.

When you are
nowhere, He alone is everywhere.

He takes the
position of your personality.

You vanish, and He
comes in, not before that.




- Swami Krishnananda

Facets of Spirituality
Complied by S. Bhagyalakshmi
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1986

' Individuality and Mind '...

"The gods and the sages experience the Infinite
continuously and eternally, without their vision being
obscured at any moment.

Their minds are surmised by
the spectators to function, but in fact they do not.

Such surmise is due to the sense of individuality in
those who draw inferences.

There is no mental function
in the absence of individuality.

Individuality and
mind-functions are co-existent.

The one cannot remain
without the other."




-Sri Ramana Maharshi
in Whitall N. Perry
_A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom_
Varanasi: Indica, 1998 (1971), p. 918

' A False Idea '...

If we analyse the ego, we find it to be a collection of past memories retained from experience and future hopes or fears which anticipate experience.

If we try to seize it, to separate it out by itself, we do not find it to exist in the present moment, only in what has gone and what is to come.

In fact, it never really exists in the NOW but only seems to.

This means that it is a phantom without substance, a false idea.



-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 2: I-thought > # 14
-- Perspectives > Chapter 8: The Ego > # 34 Paul Brunton

' There are none Liberated '...

The scriptures even proclaim aloud:

"There is in
truth no creation and no destruction; no one is bound,
no one is seeking Liberation, no one is on the way to
Deliverance.

There are none liberated.

This is the
absolute truth."

My dear disciple, this, the sum and
substance of all the Upanishads, the secret of secrets,
is my instruction to you."



- Shankaracharya

> "Teachings of the Hindu Mystics"
> Edited by Andrew Harvey

' Speaking of Fear '...

You speak of fear..

Where is the source of your fear?..

It is the source of ego death..

It is the pain of the non existence of Consciousness..

It is both..

It is the imaginary you that desires happiness forever..

You believe that happiness only exists within existence..

Whether this existence is life or God..

Who is the one that seeks happiness?

If there is happiness, then, there must be unhappiness..

Who experiences each?

In Pure Intelligence, neither is needed..

As there is no ego or identity to feel either..



- thomas

' The Consciousness of Self '...

This feeling of I-ness may be associated with the body, emotions, and thoughts--whose totality is the personal ego--or shifted in deep meditation to the rootless root of being, which is the Overself; or, it may be associated with both, when one will be the reality and the other a shadow of reality.

The idea of a self first enters consciousness when a child identifies itself with bodily feelings, and later when it adds emotional feelings. The idea extends itself still later, with logical thoughts and, lastly, completes itself with the discovery of individuality.

Descartes' reference in his statement, "I think therefore I am," is simply to himself as a person, a self limited to body emotion and thought, that is, to ordinary experience and nothing higher or deeper than that, a being whose consciousness is unexamined and unexplored.

Ego means the consciousness of self.



-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego >
Chapter 2: I-thought > # 12
Paul Brunton

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' Living in Truth '...

There is nothing but water in the holy pools.

I know, I have been swimming in them.

All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t say a word
I know, I have been crying out to them.

The sacred Books of the east are nothing but words.

I looked through their covers one day sideways.

What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through.

If you have not lived through something it is not true.



- Kabir

' This is a Paradox '...

The illuminate is conscious both of the ultimate unity and immediate multiplicity of the world.

This is a paradox.

But his permanent resting place while he is dealing with others is at the junction-point of duality and unity so that he is ready at any moment to absorb his attention in either phase.



— Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind >
Chapter 2: Enlightenment Which Stays > # 115 Paul Brunton

' Life Unfolding '...

"The following strange question formed itself in my mind:

Are you going to wait until you are about to die to surrender, or will you do it now?

I didn't answer the question with words, but there was a kind of emotional and spiritual release that happened there on the side of the road that seemed to be a kind of watershed moment for me.

The fruit of this experience was that, from that day to this, I have had a deep sense that what I used to think of as `my life' was really no longer mine and that all was unfolding somehow as it was meant to, simply as it had to."

~ Francis Bennett, "I Am That I Am" ~



"All is well, very very well, unfolding as it should, - trust that Great Power which knows the way!"

~ Robert Adams ~

' Trust the Tao '...

"With all this talking, what has been said?
The subtle truth can he pointed at with words,
but it can't be contained by them.

Take time to listen to what is said without words,
to obey the law too subtle to be written,
to worship the unnameable
and to embrace the unformed.

Love your life.
Trust the Tao.
"Make love with the invisible subtle origin of the universe,
and you will give yourself everything you need.

You won't have to hide away forever in spiritual retreats.
You can be a gentle, contemplative hermit
right here in the middle of everything,
utterly unaffected, thoroughly sustained
and rewarded by your integral practices.

Encouraging others, giving freely to all,
awakening and purifying the world with each movement and action,
you'll ascend to the divine realm in broad daylight.

The breath of the Tao speaks,
and those who are in harmony with it hear quite clearly."



- Lao Tzu
in Brain Browne Walker
Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu, 81
Livingston, MT: Clark City Press, 1992

' We can Tolerate '...

We often suffer because we do not understand.

Understanding is a great thing;

once we under-
stand, we can tolerate.



- Hazrat Inayat Khan

' Dismissing the Ego '...

If the ego continues to perform its functions, as it needs must even after Fulfilment, it no longer does so as his master, no longer as his very self. For henceforth it obeys the Overself.

For the man in that high consciousness and identified with it, the ego is simply an open channel through which his being may flow into the world of time and space. It is not himself, as it is for the unenlightened man, but an adjunct to himself, obeying and expressing his will.

At such a stage the ego becomes a mere instrument, put down or picked up at any and every moment by the Overself. No longer are its own thoughts, emotions, desires, or lusts in control; instead, they are fully controlled by the higher power.

He will possess the power to dismiss his ego at will.



-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1:
What Am I? > # 212 Paul Brunton

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' Bhakti-marga '...

"There are only two ways to conquer destiny or to be independent of it.

One is to enquire whose this destiny is and to discover that only the ego is bound by it and not the Self, and that the ego is non-existent.

The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord, realising one's helplessness and saying all the time: `Not I, but Thou, oh Lord!', giving up all sense of `I' and `mine' and leaving it to the Lord to do what he likes with you.

Surrender can never be regarded as complete so long as the devotee wants this or that from the Lord.

True surrender is the love of God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even for the sake of salvation.

In other words, complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self-enquiry or through bhakti-marga."



-Sri Ramana Maharshi
_Day by Day with Bhagavan_
From the Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar
Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, p 266

' Catch the Scent '...

Whether one moves slowly or with speed,
the one who is a seeker will be a finder.

Always seek with your whole self,
for the search is an excellent guide on the way.

Though you are lame and limping,
though your figure is bent and clumsy,
always creep toward the One.

Make that One your quest.

By speech and by silence and by fragrance,
catch the scent of the King everywhere.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Gar gerân o gar shetâbandeh bovad
ânke juyandeh-st yâbandeh bovad
Dar talab zan dâyeman to har do dast
kay talab dar râh niku rahbarast
Lang o luk o khofteh-shakl o bi adab
su-ye U mi ghizh va U-râ mi talab
Gah be-goft va gah be-khâmushi va gah
bui kardan gir har su bu-ye Shah




--Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mathnawi III: 978-981
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

' Divine Overself '...

Is the ego totally lost, utterly obliterated in this attainment?

I can only say that none of our usual concepts fit the actual result, that it is hard to describe, and that suggestion must here replace description.

For the ego and the Overself fuse and unite, yet the union does not destroy the ego's capacity to express itself or to be active in the world.

Its own annihilation is a transient experience during the contemplative state.

Its resumption of worldly life while permanently established in perfect harmony with, and obedience to, the divine Overself is the further and final goal.



-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1:
What Am I? > # 207 Paul Brunton

' First '...

First…

You use your mind as
The ultimate jigsaw.
You take Totality
And cut it up
Into a million tiny pieces.

Then…

Having tired of that game,
You sit down and try to
Reassemble this jumble of pieces
Into something comprehensible.

Ram Tzu knows…

God invented time
Just so you could do this.

- Ram Tzu




No Way for the Spiritually "Advanced"
Ram Tzu
Advaita Press, 1990

' The Sense of Direction '...

The word 'sense' meaning a higher intelligence forming a direction of thought..

the word ' di-rection" meaning the choosing of a path of travel that has more than one path..

My direction is the end of existence..

My path is the end of the illusion of egoic consciousness..

To Love is to give all,, this all is the attachment to anything , especially a belief in a cartoon called ego..

The Nazarene said; " you must die, to be born"..

Eventually, the son becomes the father..

The Circle is complete...


- thomas

' The Function of Egoism '...

It is both true and untrue that we cannot take up the ego with us into the life of mystical illumination.

The ego is after all only a reflection, extremely limited and often distorted, of the Higher Self . . .

but still it is a reflection.

If we could bring it into correct alignment with, and submission to, the Higher Self, it would then be no hindrance to the illumined life.

The ego cannot, indeed, be destroyed so long as we need its services while in the flesh; but it can be subjugated and turned into a servant instead of permitting it to remain a master.

When this is understood, the philosophical ideal of a fully developed, mastered, and richly rounded ego acting as a channel for the inspiration and guidance of the Higher Self will be better appreciated.

A poverty-stricken ego will naturally form a more limited channel for the expression of the Higher Self than would a more evolved one.

The real enemy to be overcome is not the entity ego, but the function of egoism.




-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1: What Am I? > # 206
-- Perspectives > Chapter 8: The Ego > # 27 Paul Brunton

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' The Jasmine Garden '...

I, Lalla, entered the jasmine garden,
where Shiva and Shakti were making love.

I dissolved into them,
and what is this
to me, now?

I seem to be here,
but really I'm walking
in the jasmine garden.



- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic

From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992

' Illusion's Seed '...

Inquiry is making the mind abide firm in the Self,

until the false ego, illusion's seed, has perished.

The Self, our Being, is Awareness.



- Ramana Maharshi

' The Higher Will '...

There is much confusion about this matter of the ego and much looseness in the use of words concerning it.

We are told to eliminate the ego and to eradicate the personal self.

But the fact is that so long as he is upon this earth he is using a body and a mind and inheriting a whole combination of factors, tendencies, characteristics which have come down from former lives and together now constitute his personality. They will still be present so long as he is alive.

To destroy the ego completely would necessarily mean to destroy the physical body, which is a part of it, and to remove his particular individuality which sets him apart from others.

This cannot be done, but what can be done is to render the ego subservient to the higher self, an obedient instrument of the higher will.



-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1:
What Am I? > # 197 Paul Brunton

' Do you get It '?...

So few humans control so many..

We continue to Dream of a reality that is not Real..

Some are influenced by wealth or power..

Are you starting to 'get it ' ?..

Few words will enter your Consciousness more easily, than many...



-thomas

Donovan - Season of the Witch (Audio)

' Guardians of the Waveform '...

Life at Three Degrees Out of Phase
By Julian Wash | Rattleberry Pie
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Dear Humans,

Today I wish to return to your awareness an aspect of the Human condition that resonates at the core level. It’s a doorway to a place colloquially referred to as “everyday life” where an array of vibrations loosely define the boundaries of right and wrong. It’s an illusory canvas of both shadow and light, a masterpiece commissioned by the will of the collective. And within this dynamic, rhythmic, mutable creation we find one dominating color. For now we’ll call this the color of “normal.” To my eyes it’s rather blue.

When tuned to normal some can navigate through this construct without drawing much attention. They can essentially live an entire life and make barely a ripple. It’s not that they are void of vibration –but choose to not distinguish themselves in this manner. They choose to synchronize with the greater masses within the socially-acceptable waveform of normalcy.

While in this cocoon there are no high-highs or low-lows. They find solace in seeking others for advice and solutions. They benefit from the narrow margins they must work under and the supervised nature of their roles. They do not have to make very many weighty decisions- so they are less apt to suffer any major consequences. Solidly placed within this vibration is the desire to please, cooperate and conform. Life is experienced under a veil of relative invisibility -save for the need of occasional approval and validation. Does this vibration look a bit blue to you as well?

This doorway leads not to innovation, prodigal genius or invention, but rather to one of obedience and servitude. There is nothing innately wrong with this vibration. To be clear, it serves as a “carrier wave,” allowing other frequencies and even wanton energies to hop on board and be shuttled along for the ride. People of this resonance can be controlled parasitically by the institutions they submit to.

You, my dear reader, are not simply a carrier-wave vibration. A carrier-wave vibration would not be visiting this website nor exploring content of this nature. You are at the leading edge of this waveform of consciousness –or more specifically, you’re about three degrees out of phase with it. In the following paragraphs I intend to demonstrate just how “abnormal” you are. And in the process I sense you will see just how vital your role is to all Humankind.

All the World’s a Vibration

“Everything vibrates. Life is vibration. So is mind. So is matter.” – Edgar Cayce

It’s been famously stated “all the world’s a stage.” But the “stage,” like everything else, is a vibrational condensate offering merely an illusion of solidity within this three-dimensional construct. All the world’s a vibration- including that stage. And vibrations are waves of varying frequencies. They can be characterized as any number of wave forms, including the perfect symmetry of a sine wave. A sine wave forms a circle when folded over. The circle symbolizes eternity, unity and connectedness.

The circle’s cousin, the sine wave, symbolizes yin and yang and the duality of existence. It has positive and negative peaks and is separated by an equatorial “0” point. Like a circle, its degrees add up to 360. But the sine wave embodies the message of dualism, the up and down, the plus and minus, the rise and fall. These expressions are both literal and metaphorical. They are living and non-living. Whereas the circle offers a perfect neutral (as in zero “O”), the sine wave creates perfect opposition and polarity, a rhythmic cycle and an energetic presence.

In the organic expression, the heart beats in what it beats out- the lungs breathe in what they breathe out. There is a rhythm of (in-rest-out) that emulates the shape of a sine wave. In the case of lungs- the inhaled breath is oxygenated (or on the plus side of the wave) and the exhaled breathe has less oxygen (or the minus side of the wave). There is equity and balance with what comes in and what goes out and each side of the wave is a complimentary opposite of the other. The “resting point” is that silent place of perfect harmony between both energies. It is the twilight of the evening or the dawn of the morning- it’s the quintessential beginning and end. Here one will find the node of serenity and enlightenment.

Vibration of Truth

“Everything in Life is Vibration” – Albert Einstein

So we go through life day to day in a vibration of normalcy. People look to another for reassurance and recalibration of this waveform. If one deviates too greatly from the center of this spectrum they are quickly dismissed and ejected from the gathering. They are no longer considered to be part of the unified energy and collective consciousness. There is some value to this. Native Americans would ostracize evil doers from the tribe. For the guilty, this was a fate worse than imprisonment. So the template of normalcy plays a vital role. But it requires gentle care and discernment.

The enlightened offer a different ray of light to this vibration. They are able to “snap in and out” of this collective energy. By doing so they are able to see the waveform from the outside looking in, as well as experience it from the inside. People who are trapped by the waveform never get an opportunity to see the very construct that entrains them. By stepping outside the “normal” vibration, the enlightened can appeal to the collective –unconscious with concepts and ideas that transcend ordinary thinking. But the mindset of normalcy is a stubborn one indeed. This aspect, however, if allowed to remain static can ultimately lead to the demise of the species. During the cold war- such a fate almost came to fruition. Inflexible thinking and ego-driven bias almost lead to a disaster of incomprehensible scale.

There is entropy in all things and the waveforms of daily experience offer no exception. Without the excitation of an external influence, the ordinary waveform would soon degrade and collapse within a remarkably short amount of time. It is the continual spark of genius, the alternative views, the irreverent humor that helps provide the three-degree push the waveform of normalcy so desperately needs. A highly energetic platform will compress this wave even farther resulting in higher awareness and comprehension. These frequencies awaken deeper understandings and solicit powerful abilities. Humanity is now beginning to resonate at these energies.

The vibration of truth has a distinctive tone. People are rapidly becoming attuned with this energy. As a result, it is getting harder to soft-soap ideas that serve a nefarious purpose. People are less likely to be bamboozled and mislead by the disingenuous and charlatans. Those who operate three degrees out of phase have been vigilant in their efforts in helping others to see. In the words of Schoepenhouer, "All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self-evident." The state of normalcy has to recalibrate constantly to keep up with the rapid enlightenment that is now sweeping the world.

Guardians of the Waveform...

There’s a special group of people I regard as the “guardians of the waveform.” It’s a mostly unorganized group of independent thinkers who can read the writing on the wall. They are neither passive nor overtly aggressive. They are more like master chess players who can see how the board is laid out. They are expert at anticipating the next move. Most importantly, they are benevolent and genuinely care about the fate of the Human race. So they communicate their ideas in various ways- through music, documentaries, websites and even through casual conversation. Because their intentions are heart-felt and noble, their message resonates.

For those who operate in front of the waveform, who can look back and see its shape and flow, your efforts are not in vain. You are instrumental in reshaping the so-called “normalcy bias”- working against energies that try to define normal in ways that are anything but. Through the eyes of a visitor from another world, normal might appear as an avid TV watcher. Normal would appear to always acquiesce to authority and never challenge the status-quo. Normal is to drink Diet Coke, eat fast-food hamburgers daily and take strong pharmaceuticals to treat the depression that was brought on by trying so hard to be normal. Normal is cheering aggressively for a football team that never cheers you back. Normal is to drink the fluoridated water and not ask salient questions about it efficacy. --But isn’t interesting that this no longer sounds even remotely normal to you, dear reader? That’s because you’re slightly out of phase.

The malleable, placid form of “normal” is what the controllers strive for. They will compromise information and morality and weaken the spirit in any way possible to maintain a lower (subclass) vibration. They know that the population is capable of resonating at a much higher frequency. So the brakes are applied chemically, psychologically, and scholastically and in any other modality that serves the controllers. And then finally, when down for the count- the ones who’ve compromised their better judgment in the name of servitude will simply be abandoned and quickly forgotten.

The guardians of the waveform work in earnest to raise awareness. They walk a fine line of imparting information in small, digestible bits. If they offer too much at once, they will be dismissed as a fool or worse. If they don’t impart enough workable data then people will not take notice. The guardians of the waveform observe how the controllers manipulate mass consciousness and they work hard to rectify the damage. They must battle trolls and a myriad of other orchestrated maneuvers that attempt to damage the credibility of those who wish to raise the vibration. They must also deal with hi-jacked look-alikes that ultimately present a shadowy agenda while wearing a robe of benevolence. This is why it is vitally important to attune to the vibration of truth. Once accomplished, one cannot be fooled or tricked. I guess you can see why the powers that (want to) be are not too keen on this idea called enlightenment.

Final Thought

A properly calibrated phase shift can create amplitude in a waveform and sustain it at a higher frequency. Universe brings into creation those who can positively contribute to this energy. Such people have been somewhat rare in the past –but now that’s rapidly changing. An age of enlightenment has dawned and the powers that (want to) be are scrambling to keep control. But the shift is in place and is now accelerating faster than has ever been witnessed before.

To those living three degrees out of phase- it has not been easy on you. You’ve been alienated, misunderstood and abandoned by even those closest to you. It is an unfortunate truth that one must be out of phase with the wavelength of the collective in order to see it. If one is swept in by the construct of normalcy, the vibrational space they live in will remain invisible to them. This is why it is so difficult (if not impossible) to communicate higher truths to those who have fully adopted the uniform waveform of normalcy.

You were gifted with a special sight. You are able to see this waveform. Your vision elicits stewardship and advice. You see the external forces acting upon the mind-collective attempting to erode its shape and remove its peaks. Together we can will this “blue” color into the light of violet indigo- and even into energies beyond that.

So a personal thank you from me to you, for your gentle guidance and assistance during this time of turmoil and difficulty, anger and despair. But most of all thank you for your “abnormality” of being able to see three degrees out of phase and lighting the path for others to a place of higher vibration.

-Until next time

' There is no forced effort '...

The loose talk about detachment from the ego coming from modern expounders or propagandists, both Eastern and Western, of the ancient "philosophy" is sometimes delusory, sometimes derisory, too often illusory, and too seldom practised or practicable.

These persons are theoreticians, dreamers, who use their own egos to tell others to get rid of theirs!

As if anyone could!

But what one can do--and ought to--with the ego is beyond their wisdom.

For, being based on the philosophy of truth, it is the only practicable way.

When examined, the ego is found to be a complex of body and thought, physical senses and mental tendencies.

Preaching to men that they should detach themselves from all these things is usually wasted energy, for the consciousness is so linked with them that it cannot be taken away from them.

How could anyone be active in the world without them!

Detachment--if full and real--would mean having no awareness of the world: the ego is a necessary part of existence.

If a man were utterly freed from his ego, he would become utterly unable to attend to the ordinary affairs of his own existence!

But let us turn aside from this nonsense and look at the body and the world in the light of the philosophy of truth.

We learn that they are only appearances within the personal experience, that at the end this is mental despite its solidity and intensity, that the "I" is reducible to a single thought, that its relation to, and dependence on, its real being and essence can be brought to light, that the mind can then be re-educated and controlled so that the ego falls back into its proper place, no longer tyrannizing over him.

This may happen by itself in a sudden sunburst or, more likely, slowly imperceptibly, and subtly.

This process can be called detachment and his work is to co-operate with it.

But remember: the understanding gained from reflection upon the philosophy of truth, combined with the meditations prescribed by it, detaches him naturally.

There is no forced, artificial, and false effort.



-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1:
What Am I? > # 196 Paul Brunton

' The Final Truth '...

There is neither creation nor destruction,

neither destiny nor free will,

neither path nor achievement;

this is the final truth.



- Ramana Maharshi

' Ayin '...

"Think of yourself as Ayin [Nothing] and forget yourself totally.

Then you can transcend time, rising to the world of thought where all is equal: life and death, ocean and dry land.

Such is not the case if you are attached to the material nature of this world.

If you think of yourself as something, God cannot clothe Himself in you, for God is infinite.

No vessel can contain God, unless you think of yourself as Ayin."



-Rabbi Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mezritch
in Daniel C. Matt
_The Essential Kabbalh: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism_
NY: Quality, 1995, p. 71

' The Pain of Ego '...

An ego we have, we are; its existence is inescapable if the cosmic thought is to be activated and the human evolution in it is to develop.

Why has it become, then, a source of evil, friction, suffering, and horror?

The energy and instinct, the intelligence and desire which are contained in each individualized fragment of consciousness, each compounded "I," are not originally evil in themselves; but when the clinging to them becomes extreme, selfishness becomes strong.

There is a failure in equilibrium and the gentler virtues are squeezed out, the understanding that others have rights, the feeling of goodwill and sympathy, accommodation for the common welfare--all depart.

The natural and right attention to one's needs becomes enlarged to the point of tyranny.

The ego then exists only to serve itself at all costs, aggressive to, and exploitive of, all others.

It must be repeated: an ego there must be if there is to be a World-Idea.

But it has to be put, and kept, in its place (which is not a hardened selfishness).

It must adjust to two things: to the common welfare and to the source of its own being.

Conscience tells him of the first duty, whether heeded or not; Intuition tells him of the second one, whether ignored or not.

For, overlooked or misconstrued, the relation between evil and man must not hide the fact that the energies and intelligence used for evil derive in the beginning from the divine in man.

They are Godgiven but turned to the service of ungodliness.

This is the tragedy, that the powers, talents, and consciousness of man are spent so often in hatred and war when they could work harmoniously for the World-Idea, that his own disharmony brings his own suffering and involves others.

But each wave of development must take its course, and each ego must submit in the end.

He who hardens himself within gross selfishness and rejects his gentler spiritual side becomes his own Satan, tempting himself.

Through ambition or greed, through dislike or hate which is instilled in others, he must fall in the end, by the Karma he makes, into destruction by his own negative side.




-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1: What Am I? > # 191
-- Perspectives > Chapter 8: The Ego > # 48 Paul Brunton

' The Secret of Health '...

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past,

nor to worry about the future,

but to live the present moment
wisely and earnestly...



-Gautama the Buddha

' Do Not Travel Alone '...

"Choose a master, for without him this journey is full of tribulations, fears, and dangers.

With no escort, you would be lost on a road you would have already taken.

Do not travel alone on the Path."



-Rumi
in Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee
Traveling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
Inverness, CA: The Golden Sufi Center, 1995, p. 34

' In My House '...

I went everywhere with longing
in my eyes, until here
in my own house

I felt truth
filling my eyes.



- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic

From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992

' The ego's Rulership '...

The highest goal of the quest is not illumination gained by destruction of the ego but rather by perfection of the ego.

It is the function of egoism which is to be destroyed, not that which functions.

The ego's rulership is to go, not the ego itself.



-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1: What Am I? > # 189
-- Perspectives > Chapter 8: The Ego > # 5 Paul Brunton

' The Magic of Everyday '...

Love is natural.

Console your mind and make
it listen.

Love all or it is not love.

Make your
mind love this way and you will see the magic
of this everyday.



- Papaji

"The Truth Is"
Sri H.W.L. Poonja
Yudhishtara, 1995

' Direct Introduction '...

Also in the Tibetan traditions of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) and Mahamudra, there are methods known as "direct introduction" and "pointing out the true nature". In these traditions a master will have a one on one exchange with a student that points directly to the Quantum Intelligence that is already fully present and active, but yet not recognized. Through a skillful pointing out, the student may experience a sudden and authentic insight that erupts from within the Quantum Intelligence itself. This would be a flash of enlightened Mind. The student is then directed to rest in that insight allowing time for all sources of instability to arise and release, whereupon the original flash of insight becomes a permanent awareness.



Question: You discussed having an "out of body experience" when you were in Denmark. How does that experience relate to what you call Quantum Intelligence and does that mean that our "personal" aspect of Quantum Intelligence has the ability to reincarnate?



Answer: As localized Quantum Intelligence, we are an aware continuum of experience. It could be said that we are a Quantum Mind, a dimensionless point of Knowing Awareness without boundaries or center. This is best represented by the image of a "crystal sphere". This transparent and invisible crystal sphere is our Quantum Mind as it appears localized. It is surrounded by an energy field, the energy of its radiance. It is in this energy field or aura that all memories are "stored" regarding our continuum of experience. It has the ability to perceive directly without the body's sensory systems. At death or during any "out of body experience", it is this sphere of awareness that leaves the body. It has the option to reincarnate or continue without a physical body. In the Tibetan traditions they teach that our clarity is seven times more intense and precise than while within a physical body.



-Jackson Peterson from
The Natural Bliss of Being



p.166-7

' Union with God '...

Man is not God.

Yet he can approach God so intimately,

be suffused by His presence so completely,

that the first mystics to call this state "union with God" may be excused.

The telepathic closeness which sometimes exists between two separated lovers,

relatives, or friends is a slight hint of the telepathic closeness which exists between the harmonized human ego and its divine soul.



— Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind > Chapter 1:
Their Meeting and Interchange > # 57 Paul Brunton

' Waiting '...

Waiting is not mere empty hoping.

It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.

Such certainty alone gives that light which leads to wisdom.



- I Ching

' The Path '...

"The path is clearly defined and quite simple to follow;

Yet most lose themselves in ideological fogs of their own making.



-Lao Tzu
in Brian Walker, Tr.
_Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu_, 63
HarperSanFrancisco, 1992, p. 80

' Controling the ego '...

When the consciousness of true and real primary being is finally discovered, thought out, and felt as himself, the secondary being need not be disowned, denied existence and suppressed, as so often taught. But because of its tyranny, its usurpation certainly must be stopped and its proper secondary place imposed upon it; and because of its ignorance a re-education into mentalism must also be imposed upon it.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1: What Am I? > # 178


Every individual life from the mighty elephant down to the microscopic cell is a self-evolving entity moving through time and space. It has meaning, a purpose, and eventually, a fulfillment here. Why then talk of destroying the one with which you are most intimate--your own ego?

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1: What Am I? > # 181


At every point of his progress the ego still functions--except in deep, thought-free contemplation, when it is suppressed--but it becomes by well-defined stages a better and finer character, more and more in harmony with the Overself. But total relinquishment of the ego can happen only with total relinquishment of the body, that is, at death.
-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1: What Am I? > # 188


- By Paul Brunton

Alan Watts How To Understand Existence

' Free from Personality '...

"Even the smallest thing is not known or perceived there,

therefore it is called the highest perfect knowledge.

Free from self, free from being,

free from life,

free from personality,

that highest perfect knowledge is always the same...."



Gautama the Buddha
VAGRAKKHEDIKå or The DIAMOND-CUTTER, 22-23

' Dieing to the Unreal '...

The common man seeks every opportunity to live.

But the seeker of Truth looks for every opportunity to die—

to die to what is unreal,

false and untrue
and to be resurrected as true life—timeless existence.



- Mooji

' They Are All One '...

Yes, the ego as individuality, a separate identity remains.

But it becomes reborn, purified, humbled before the higher power, no longer narrow in interests, no longer tyrannizing over the man, no longer selfish in the sense of the word.

For as an enlightened being it may remain, harmless to all beings, benevolent to all creatures, respondent to a timeless consciousness enfolding its ordinary personality.

The smaller circle can continue to exist within the larger one until the liberation of death.

It is no longer the source of ignorance and evil; that ego is dissolved and obliterated.

The new being is simply separate in body, thought, feeling from others but not from the universal, mass being behind them.

There all are one.



-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1:
What Am I? > # 217 Paul Brunton

' The Mechanical '...

Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious,

see how little there is of the conscious,

how seldom it
works,

and how strong is the mechanical -

mechanical
attitudes,

mechanical intentions,

mechanical thoughts,

mechanical desires.



- P.D. Ouspensky

' Transformation '...

Transformation tends to happen when we stop or something stops us—a tragedy, a difficulty—and we reassess and realize that the way we are going about life must be redefined. Sometimes we will need to redefine our whole identity. This does not just happen to spiritually advanced beings—this is human stuff. These moments occur with some regularity, and if we recognize how important they are, when they come, we can see them as both great challenges and great opportunities. How we respond is important. Do we search for a quick solution, for a quick answer, or for somebody to save us from our insecurity? Or do we find the wherewithal to settle into those moments and meet ourselves? We can lean forward into what is occurring, into the human experience or unresolved quality—whether it is doubt, or fear, or hesitation, or indecision, or whatever our pattern is that causes us to not throw ourselves entirely into that moment.

We never know when these moments are coming. Some are big, and some are much smaller. We should not assume that the small moments are not as important as the big, obvious ones, because attending to the small moments is the way we build a capacity to attend to the big moments of crisis. It is the reason why most spiritual traditions have various ways of getting us to pay attention to our life, even when nothing significant seems to be going on. This comes from an acknowledgment, a realization that vital moments are current in our life and there are decisions being made—consciously or unconsciously—about how we are going to relate to them.

Do you relate to life as an unfolding mystery and an adventure of discovery? An encounter with your immense capacity for wisdom, love, and experiencing life with intimacy and vitality? We have extraordinary abilities as human beings when we begin to recognize the vitality of certain moments and we bring a consciousness to them. These vitality moments happen in our lives with great regularity and are opportunities for awakening and transformation. We must repeatedly embrace the insecurity of these moments and by doing so come to trust them and so ourselves. In these moments, all we need is knowledge of the next step and the willingness to take it. Paradoxically, the knowing of what the next step is arises when we have the capacity to rest in not knowing what the next step is and to recognize this is an intimate part of the process of transformation.



Excerpted from The Most Important Thing: Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life, Adyashanti's newest book published by Sounds True.

' The Ego-Will '...

If he loses his ego utterly and completely so that no trace of it exists at all, he would have to die, for his body is part of the ego.

But he lives on.

This shows that what he really loses is not the ego-nature but the ego-will.

It is replaced by the higher will.



-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1:
What Am I? > # 215 Paul Brunton

' Personal Love '...

"Personal love is concentrated universal love."



-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Love and God
Fairfield, IA: Maharishi International University Press, 1972 (1965), p. 13, 19

' Being the Witness '...

Problems need to be dissolved, not solved, because
there is no solution.

The only way the problems get
dissolved is, as soon as they arise, they are merely
witnessed.



- Ramesh S. Balsekar

"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996

' No one complains about Spring '...

Hamza, the homespun philosopher who peddled truisms in the teahouse,
was droning on:

"How strange is humanity!

To think that man is never
satisfied!

When it is winter, it is too cold for him.

In summer, he
complains of the heat!"

The others present nodded their heads sagely, for they believed that by
so doing they partook of the essence of wisdom.

Nasrudin looked up from his abstraction, "Have you not noticed that
nobody ever complains about the spring?"



-as collected by Idries Shah

' Miracles '...

Miracles honor you because you are lovable.

They dispel illusions about yourself

and perceive the light in you.

They thus atone for your errors

by freeing you from your nightmares.

By releasing your mind

from the imprisonment of your illusions,

they restore your sanity.

A major contribution of miracles

is their strength in releasing you

from your false sense of isolation,

deprivation and lack.

Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind,

or a state of miracle-readiness.

The miracle is a learning device

that lessens the need for time.

It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval

not under the usual laws of time.

In this sense it is timeless.

The miracle makes no distinction

among degrees of misperception.

It is a device for perception correction,

effective quite apart from either the degree

or the direction of the error.



The above quotes are from the book
A Course in Miracles.

' The Absolute Power '...

"Supremacy over others will never cause a man to find a change in himself; the greater his conquests the stronger is his confirmation of what his mind tells him — that there is no God other than his own power. And he remains separate from God, the Absolute Power.

"But when the same mind tells him that there is something which may be called God, and, further, when it prompts him to search for God that he may see Him face to face, he begins to forget himself and to forgive others for whatever he has suffered from them.

"And when he has forgiven everyone and has completely forgotten himself, he finds that God has forgiven him everything, and he remembers Who, in reality, he is."




-Meher Baba,
The Everything And The Nothing
Beacon Hill, Australia, Meher House Publications, 1963, p. 110

' Breath '...

One of the most important aspects of breathing is the supply of oxygen
into the entire body.

Any frightening experience is stored spiritually and downloaded inside
the material body by a shortage of oxygen.

Supplying oxygen allows to transform such a frightening moment, where
individual human time can disappear.


-Aham

' Your Old Nonsense '...

Finish every day and be done with it.

You have done
what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in;

forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day;

you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson

' Reflecting the Overself '...

The ego totally ceases to exist and is fully absorbed into the Overself only in special, temporary, and trance-like states.

At all other times, and certainly at all ordinary active and everyday times, it continues to exist.

The failure to learn and understand this important point always causes much confusion in mystical circles.

The state arrived at in deep meditation is one thing; the state returned to after such meditation is another.

The ego vanishes in one but reappears in the other.

But there are certain after-effects of this experience upon it which bring about by degrees a shift in its relation to the Overself..

It submits, obeys, expresses, and reflects the Overself.




-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1:
What Am I? > # 213 Paul Brunton

' God-intoxicated State '...

Q: After the experience and the understanding of the oneness of all things, some people appear to be God-intoxicated or in a state of bliss. Some masters seem to be in that God-intoxicated state. Is that a stage? Is there anything you can say about that?

Ramesh: When the impersonal event of enlightenment happens, what the result of that event will be or how that body-mind organism will behave or what will happen through that body-mind organism after that event can be very different, of tremendous variety. So those who were talking and writing may stop writing and talking. Those who never did that may do it. And some don't do anything at all. Some may actually leave whatever they are doing and go into seclusion.

Q: What I'm talking about is, they seem to be in a state like rapture.

Ramesh: I have a feeling that that kind of rapture is probably of a very short duration. But again, these words carry a great misconception. There could be a sense of rapture, but it doesn't remain, it quiets down. A drug could produce that state of rapture, but it settles down. Frankly, bliss is a word which I don't particularly like because it creates a misconception. Real bliss is the absence of the wanting of bliss. That is the real bliss. Peace, tranquillity, are the words which I prefer. In fact, the enlightenment state is not wanting either bliss or anything else. It is total acceptance. That is the state



- Ramesh Balsekar

' The Final Knowledge '...

"The one who found that there is nothing but Thee,

has found the final knowledge."



-Dabestan-e-Madaheb [Zoroastrian]
http://www.avesta.org/dabestan/dabestan.htm
Electronic edition copyright 1998 by Joseph H. Peterson

' Because Light is Within '...

Love others
because Light is in them
not because of the person.

Otherwise
one day you'll miss them
you'll lose them.

Love others
because Light is within them.

That's the Principle.

Then you'll never miss them
even if they die
because the Principle
is still existent.

Embodied or disembodied
it's the Principle
which fulfills.



- Swami Amar Jyoti

"In Light of Wisdom"
Swami Amar Jyoti
Truth Consciousness, Boulder, Colorado, 1983

' The Heart of Existence '...

Angel Ma‎ to Adyashanti (Unofficial Group By Students)

Spirituality is not something set apart from life; rather, it is a plunge into the heart of existence. It is vitally important that our spirituality is in no way an avoidance of life, for then it only reinforces the unrealities that so many of us human beings feed upon.

The spiritual life is a turning away from unreality in all of its forms, and turning towards the completeness and unity of life. Such completeness has been called by various names throughout the centuries: God, Buddha Nature, Liberation, to name just a few. But the ability to perceive absolute completeness, or God, in all things as well as in oneself, is to see and perceive the reality of life here and now.

Let us understand that reality transcends all of our notions about reality. Reality is neither Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Advaita Vedanta, nor Buddhist. It is neither dualistic nor nondualistic, neither spiritual nor nonspiritual. We should come to know that there is more reality and sacredness in a blade of grass than in all of our thoughts and ideas about reality. When we perceive from an undivided consciousness, we will find the sacred in every expression of life. We will find it in our teacup, in the fall breeze, in the brushing of our teeth, in each and every moment of living and dying.. Therefore we must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all—not once but continually.

~ Adyashanti

Josh Turner - Long Black Train (Official Video)

' The Center of the Circle '...

In the center of the circle
is seen the perfect formula of creation
a perfect equation
between Light and phenomena.

Get to the Source first
and open your eyes;
the whole phenomena is Light-full.

You'll see then
there never was darkness.

Stream, know thy Source
ray, know thy Center
man, know thy Self;
that will be
the real solution.




- Swami Amar Jyoti

"In Light of Wisdom"
Swami Amar Jyoti
Truth Consciousness, Boulder, Colorado, 1983

' A Pile of Ashes '...

Your pride in yourself and your wanting,

these steal your energy along the road.

If you can kill these robbers
and become the servant of everyone,

you'll meet the Lord in meditation
and see what you used to protect
as just a pile of ashes.



- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic

From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992

' Brave and Patient '...

We could never learn to be brave and patient,

if there were only joy in the world.



- Helen Keller

' The Witness Self '...

It will be found by experience that preoccupation with such questions as "Why does God allow evil in the world?"

will fall away under the influence of the Witness Self.

The question is relative to and relevant only in the sphere of the personal self in interaction with other personal selves,

and in that sphere it has no answer.

In the sphere of the Overself the question does not exist.

"Come unto Me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest"

is still as true as when spoken by the Christ nearly two thousand years ago.



-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 1:
What Is God? > # 29 Paul Brunton

' Go Beyond '...

There are always moments when one feels empty and
estranged.

Such moments are most desirable for it means
the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant
places.

This is detachment - when the old is over and the
new has not yet come.

If you are afraid, the state may be
distressing; but there is really nothing to be afraid of.

Remember the instruction:

whatever you come across –
go beyond.



- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973