Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Try It For A Day

It cannot be communicated through words. It cannot be impressed into another human being. It is something that is for each of us to find out for ourselves.
What is the value of ending suffering in ourselves?
I think that most people enjoy this as a concept only. Something to believe in but not to manifest actually. What takes place if one was to consider actually manifesting this? To actually end suffering in ourselves. What does that imply?
There would first have to be an intense awareness of what is going on within ourselves. An intense awareness to see the mechanics of how we create suffering and once seen, to not touch them, to remove all energy from it, to not engage the mechanics of suffering by thinking about it, and then by going into drama about it.
What are the mechanics of suffering?
It is all coontained within this sense of identity, this sense of 'me' and what it wants, craves, protects, hates, loves. The endless opinions, judgments, and criticisms, likes and dislikes that flow from it. The identifications with mind made concepts like nationality, race, ideology and belief.
Contained within all these, lie the seeds of separation and suffering. Separation from each other and the suffering of being alone, unloved.
Can a human being remove all energy around those thoughts and not touch them at all, just observe them and see their pattern and motive?
Is that possible?
What would be the qualitative change to one's life if that was done?
Try it for a day and see.

Monday, July 20, 2009

The Prison

There seem to be endless opinions about life, people and the world that flow through my mind. Thought moves like a river and never ceases, full of opinions, criticisms and judgments. Thought has complete ideas about life, opaque images about what actually is, which creates a reality in which the ego reacts. It is a self-created hologram that has no actual relationship to what is, it only relates to its own projections and interpretations of what is. This non-relationship is true for everything that the ego encounters within the movement called life.
This is the prison that must be dissolved.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Being Alone

The world that has been created by the conditioned mind of humankind does not value the emerging, unconditioned consciousness. The old mind, the layer upon layer of systems, strategies and conflicts, cannot even recognize the unconditioned mind. It has no value.
There is a point in which the old mind, after going through intense pain, realizes that it does not have the capacity to find happiness, to touch the real. When it has this realization, it knows that it has to come to a complete stop, for a mind that is confused only creates more confusion. This complete stop is not without its ordeals, for the old mind has incredible momentum and energy driving it. It is the mind of all humanity, after all. It is in this space that the feeling of being utterly alone is at its most acute, for the society and the world of humankind continues to move and the one who is at an end has come to a stop. There is an intense temptation and an urgency to re-connect with the society for the feeling of being alone is painful and full of unknown fear, however the fact of the matter remains that to turn back is just turning back into a dead world of empty illusion, utterly devoid of real life. It is the ancient myth of leaving the Underworld where the one who is leaving is told that they cannot look back, or they will be trapped forever within the dark, empty depths. The one has to walk forward and not listen to the calls and cries telling them to turn back. They must leave it without a shred of hesitancy or doubt.
It is the realm in between where one is utterly alone that is the challenge, the shedding of the skin, the transformation.