Non-Duality

X * 2 = 6

Me once had a little math to do..
Two trains ( one a goods train and one a passenger train ) travelling at different speeds cross a pole , one after the other . Time taken by both the trains to completely cross the pole is given, and the question for the “nephew” in his bloody workbook was to find which train was the longest.

Because me was “reputedly” good at academics the brat took the problem to me , and worse of all in front of everybody. So me pretended to mumble and rumble , crossed me fingers and said it is of course the train one - the goods train- (which was god bless correct )

Now how did I arrive at the answer ? though in India there are more people than goods, oddly, there are more carriages to a goods train than to a passenger train! And LO there was my answer…nothing to do with any math. ( just for fun mate!)

All of us seekers boys and girls know what and why “it” is deemed illusionary , and yet , still a feeling that something “still” exists strongly persists.

If we take a look at one of snippets of wei wu wei , he says an entity cannot come upon the understanding that there is no entity , for it takes an entity to understand it ( that it is not)

We all know that self and thought are two sides of the same coin , and though we realize that thought or the thinking mind is illusionary , we feel that a reality exists---somewhere something.

Parallel to it we also seem to have a strong task in hand in doing away with the feeling of a self!

This Bloody Bast@#$ is trapped

Flower blooming no mind used
Seeing this I see(be?) no mind
But then I call it how beautiful
instantly times comes and this bloody bas@#$% is caught

Ant me bites on shoulder
Me Hands lift no mind
I should immediately switch on light
To see if other ants on bed be to bite my son
In that instant this BB is jammed
I switch on the light with hands -
And now when I recollect that switching– hands definitely live on their own
In that instant BB stands for brilliant Buddha.

Reality is ……Nothing else in this world tells me I am ….
Well….. except for me.
Therefore nothing else than me is……
Ohhh what a super ego?…..
But when only I am where is my ego?
My ego is a lie that someone or something else to me is or could be or that i need one
Bang the BB is caught.

Me feet walk on day ,cigarette in hand
Then I say to myself…
Why you BB?
What tell you that you are walking and a distance is crossed?

Me focus intensely inside my legs
There ….may be a feeal of energy turning... but definitely (very) no person and no walking and no legs
Me look at hand …there no hand no cigarette.
.only a lie that I am not alone and not the only thing There is.
all lie inlcuding the feel of energy over which the image of hand imposed..a lie to cover that i am all alone...

People think sex and sexual thoughts is greates taboo..
Politicians scare of sex taboos(scandals) even than losing chair
The greatest taboo ,that we all deliberately ignore…put it in the backburner…

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Many people do not realize they are deeply seeking (True) God. True God is always Present and waiting for your attention, but if you are spending your time on seeking a new style (of clothes or personality), spending your (precious - moment to moment) time searching for the last thing that 'made' you 'happy' you are wasting that time. None of that focused conscious bodily attention (which serves the personal self Only) Serves the Divine Process of Enbrightenment (God's Realization), and ego attention/consciousness will Never Serve True God; ego consciousness is simply and only counter productive to Divine Enbrightenment. God Is Perpetually As IT Always Is, IT needs nothing, IT has Never experienced any motive to seek or search, nor does IT have more Grace and attention for one person verses another (albeit, ego expresses these kinds of qualities). IT does not Love or seek one person more than another. IT Is indifferent to all the works (evil and good) done in ITs name; IT only Knows those that are (progressively) Turning to IT for Everything, In Every moment.

One of the thorniest issues for anyone, let alone a spiritual seeker, is learning to distinguish between what is “illusory” and what is “real.”

In exploring this issue I encountered the following concepts:

Illusion: something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
Reality: something that exists independent of ideas concerning it; a real thing or fact.
Maya: the illusion of reality of sensory experience and attributes of oneself.
Delusion: a false belief or opinion.
Mirage: an optical phenomenon; something illusory, without substance or reality.
Hallucination: a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind; a false notion, belief or impression; illusion; delusion.
Reality-testing: the objective evaluation of situations that enable one to distinguish between the internal world of thoughts and the external world, and between the self and non-self.

There’s some circularity in these definitions but that simply highlights that the illusion/reality discussion can be a bit boggy.

I’m not certain when the ceasing per se ceased. I only recognized it happened after the fact when I recalled a partial statement I offered Siddha Buddha in response to one of his posts: “I no longer seek peace of mind, liberation, enlightenment, bliss, happiness or the end of suffering.”

That phrase ended up echoing in my head, as it were, for days; the truth of it just resonating within.

So how and when did this “not seeking” occur? Somewhere in between the many oscillations of transcendent awareness practice and embodied awareness practice, back and forth, to and fro, somewhere in that nonexistent pendulum arc a threshold I didn’t notice was crossed; unnoticed and yet as natural as breathing in and breathing out.

This movement occurred over time, a gradual dropping down from head into body and heart; a settling into form and embodied presence. It is the movement of awareness of experience and the description of experience, when there is that momentary lull - between trying to remember and choosing the right words – when all is one and nothing really need be said. In there somewhere I was still and a shift occurred.

There really is no preference between transcendent awareness and embodied awareness; there is just shifting perception, revealing glimpses of what is always in plain sight, obscured only by conditioned mind, assumptions and beliefs, so-called knowledge and teachings of how it is or is supposed to be. And this marketplace clamor is it also. But this is “known” and nothing new.

True Happiness is grounded in the steady-state of God’s Perpetual Heart Presence. In the moments where there is total surrender of the conscious feeling of (ego) self the individual (or collective) can Be Overwhelmed by the Divine Presence of Reality, which Perpetually Transmits Perfect Happiness. When the individual turns to God being Happy is easy. When the individual turns to the world for identity and self (ego) there is confusion, uncertainty, doubt, what-if, and maybe. The worldly self is always subject to change, ups and downs, highs and lows, and the worldly self is capable of sustaining prolonged altered states of consciousness that mimic Happiness, or drown in unHappiness.

Happiness is who we Are, and humans tend to not maintain Awareness of the natural Way of inherent humanity. Always remember that Happiness is where consciousness begins and ends; however, in the midst of inherent Happiness the whole theater of ego seems to manifest. Remember that Reality is in Its Eternal Source an Everlasting Conscious State of Being that Is Perfectly Happy. This Eternal State of Happiness is on tap to those who are ego surrendered into God's Holy Heart~Fire Presence. Thus, to the True Devotees of God, Truth, Light, and Love Happiness is Always an Immediate Freedom of God's Inherent Liberating Fire.

Awareness awakens to itself in this incarnation through this human, biological form. This creates some potential speed bumps in the awakening process. (I use this terminology for illustrative purposes only; for the purists among us it’s noted that there is no actual “me”, “you”, “I”, “awakening”, “consciousness”, etc. They are just imprecise labels.)

In this body my experience is limited by biology. My hearing comes from oscillations of air molecules hitting my ear drums and my vision from electromagnetic waves hitting my retinas and being processed in the brain. This happens without my willing or intending it to happen.

In a very real sense I have a problem defining “illusion” because in a manner of speaking all vision is an “illusion?” After all, the brain is encased in complete darkness in the skull. It doesn’t see anything. All it “knows” are tiny electrochemical signals and not much else. And yet “I” perceive the world in all shades of colors. The brain is in darkness but the mind creates light? Okay, it’s a mystery and an example of indirect knowing?

Another example: what is or is not "temperature?" Partial answer which is no answer: “the temperature indicated by the dial of a thermometer is not temperature, but rather, a response to the physics of two metals contracting and expanding differentially in a spring and how this positions a pointer on a dial of numbers. But that is not temperature, only an indirect effect of temperature.”

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"Abandon the conscious existence of this 'me' you have been worshiping. Many of you claim to worship God, and end up at church every weekend trying to save yourself from eternal damnation. And this is the breath of your (pseudo/false) spiritual life; a life based on saving yourself so that you can live forever as some kind of everlasting bodily form, in some eternal world worshiping some kind of eternal god that is other than (Identity) the one that was saved through your religion. The person spending their (precious) life on saving 'me' (your self created idea of 'me') is not worshiping God that one is worshiping their (false sense of) self. Everything that person does is for their self, to save their self, and to prevent their self from hell and suffering.

Inverted pendulum – Standing Meditation and the Void

1. As children we all played with balancing a stick on our finger . We move to keep the stick vertical – balance it- so that it doesn’t fall off.
Its a classic example of the inverted pendulum. Normal Pendulum is one which we see in the wall clocks.
Similarly when Man stands , there is dynamism inside to keep him erect and not fall off.
Just like the inverted pendulum , the weight of man is above and is balanced on a narrow base (feet)...
Like the stick on the finger.

2. Consciousness can be divided into two types of consciousness. ( for the sake of study- and specifically for the purpose of this post to get through....)

One is the mind and the other is the body. We can ( in fact should ) call it the mind consciousness and the body consciousness.

When we say body consciousness we don’t mean consciousness of the body but rather the consciousness which the body has!

This is critical. Remember.

Now similarly mind consciousness is the consciousness that the mind has.

Let me elaborate a bit more.

What is the consciousness that the mind has ( OR WHAT DO I MEAN BY CONSCIOUSNESS THAT THE MIND HAS?)......

That i am !, that i am so and so , that right now this is happening , that right then that has happened and that and this is now set to happen.

That this is a chair , that this is me, that i am now happy and that i was born in the year so and so ...and that today will be a hectic day , what a beautiful scenery etc etc etc .

Now what is the consciousness that the body has?

Truth is the only thing which is at rest and without movement~ This "truth" can also be called "That which we Are"~
We Are the screen of awareness upon which the play of life unfolds AS appearances. Each aspect of what can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, tasted and *experienced*, rises from and returns to the silent awareness (or No~Thing~ness) which we in fact Are~
One could say that silence or empty space is the birthplace of all that is manifested~ Not a dead, empty, lifeless space or silence, but one filled with endless possibility and potentiality and one that is actually Full and not separate from anything which arises within it~
What we Are does not appear and disappear, does not come and go and yet is not separate from the movement which is witnessed by the *seer*~ Seeking this silent awareness as a "place" which is free from noise and distraction completely contradicts the inherent *Awareness* which we Are~
How can we seek for that which we Are, or as St. Francis apparently said... "That which we are looking for Is what is looking"~ We can very well shut ourselves off from the world, close our doors to it's constant and sometimes annoying chaos and actually find a ^sense^ of peace and quietude, yet if it were the Peace "which surpasses all understanding", it would Not be dependent upon any circumstances or anything outside of itself to simply Be~