Saturday, April 25, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
GOOD HEALTH & TRUE SELF
How is it that good health and true self are related? Both, interestingly if not remarkably enough, conceal themselves from awareness when they are fully and really what they are, one's modes of being robustly alive in the world. When health and self are absent from awareness as a concern that requires attention, then you know that you are fully present in the now, at one with the world.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
FREEDOM AND ENLIGHTENMENT
Happiness is freedom in the world.
Joy is freedom from the world.
Bliss is freedom beyond the world.
Enlightenment is neither freedom from nor freedom toward anything. It is the non-conditional, non-relational, indeterminable, undefinable existence of Self as itself, unique, absolute. It is the Infinite One unlimited and transcendent of all freedoms, that which gives freedom its own quality of freedom.
Joy is freedom from the world.
Bliss is freedom beyond the world.
Enlightenment is neither freedom from nor freedom toward anything. It is the non-conditional, non-relational, indeterminable, undefinable existence of Self as itself, unique, absolute. It is the Infinite One unlimited and transcendent of all freedoms, that which gives freedom its own quality of freedom.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
CREATING DUALITY, LACK AND SUFFERING
If there is no "real" outside the self, then everything is within everything immanently. There is no two, only one. The "real" and we ourselves can't help but be here now at least without extraordinary effort to escape it.
Everything is here/now. Everything is for the first time. Some reality may appear to be on the outside, or an absolute transcendence. Or I may appear to be on the outside looking in at others living the good life; or, the love, joy and peace may appear to be beyond my present being or reality; or, transcendence, spirit or divinity may appear to be other than my very own true nature. But how such self-deception of ourselves by ourselves?
The duality and consequent lack occurs as such only because I create it in an imaginary act to be so and then suffer this imaginary creation as my own deficit. I then feel that I am missing something of importance and, yes, I suffer.
I let what appears in imagination be thought as real. Isn't it odd: an imagined reality thought to be real and that thought believed in as real. So these unexperienced thoughts which don't occur in relation to real experience become more real as a mental construct than what appears in my actual experience here and now.
If joy, peace and love are imagined to be outside me in some other person, conditions or state of being, then how I create my suffering now can't be understood and dissolved. If, however, I let myself experience what I am experiencing as the only reality, then and only then can I move beyond suffering.
Suffering arises in escaping the now whether in pursuing pleasures or escaping pains. This is where apparent separation arises. If I do manage to escape the now through drugs, daydreaming, striving for some imagined goal, etc., it is only an escape to that fantasy that soon ends like an afternoon movie from which we must leave and walk out of into the harshness of daylight. Of course daylight really isn't harsh unless we avoid it in favor of "artificial light." In like manner, when the movie and drama of the mind is preferred over the experience of life in the world, then life too becomes harsh like the daylight when the movie lets out. So relish it all, here and now as one's own true self, the pain, the pleasure and of course the remainder of life which is the all: thus no duality, no lack, no suffering.
Everything is here/now. Everything is for the first time. Some reality may appear to be on the outside, or an absolute transcendence. Or I may appear to be on the outside looking in at others living the good life; or, the love, joy and peace may appear to be beyond my present being or reality; or, transcendence, spirit or divinity may appear to be other than my very own true nature. But how such self-deception of ourselves by ourselves?
The duality and consequent lack occurs as such only because I create it in an imaginary act to be so and then suffer this imaginary creation as my own deficit. I then feel that I am missing something of importance and, yes, I suffer.
I let what appears in imagination be thought as real. Isn't it odd: an imagined reality thought to be real and that thought believed in as real. So these unexperienced thoughts which don't occur in relation to real experience become more real as a mental construct than what appears in my actual experience here and now.
If joy, peace and love are imagined to be outside me in some other person, conditions or state of being, then how I create my suffering now can't be understood and dissolved. If, however, I let myself experience what I am experiencing as the only reality, then and only then can I move beyond suffering.
Suffering arises in escaping the now whether in pursuing pleasures or escaping pains. This is where apparent separation arises. If I do manage to escape the now through drugs, daydreaming, striving for some imagined goal, etc., it is only an escape to that fantasy that soon ends like an afternoon movie from which we must leave and walk out of into the harshness of daylight. Of course daylight really isn't harsh unless we avoid it in favor of "artificial light." In like manner, when the movie and drama of the mind is preferred over the experience of life in the world, then life too becomes harsh like the daylight when the movie lets out. So relish it all, here and now as one's own true self, the pain, the pleasure and of course the remainder of life which is the all: thus no duality, no lack, no suffering.
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