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Even the grandest scheme you can imagine for your future or the most horrific mistake you can recall from you past is still simply a thought occurring in this, right now.
That’s all they ever are. Thoughts occurring in this timeless unfolding moment.
See this now.
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Everything is allowed here.
Everything.
The confusion, the hurt, the indignation, the tears, the fear….These things do not go away. The absence of discomfort in not what is being pointed to.
That which knows the waxing and waning of discomfort, that is what you are.
The days are shorter. Sadness arises here. Tears fall, loneliness is felt.
And through it all there is a watching. A knowing that this is a state which has arrived and will depart. I was there before this state.
There is the seeing of a strong sense of a lonely, disconnected “me”, a feeling of hopelessness and so many thoughts. A river of thoughts that I’ve taken a plunge into and I get carried away for awhile.
And yet, even this is watched.
If I am witness to this, if I am experiencing this which before was not there… then I cannot possibly be this contracted ball of suffering that has arrived and will soon depart.
And it’s very easy to see that this body-mind is simply suffering from a lack of sunlight and sleep.
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Here is a guided meditation by Mooji. Stunning in it’s directness and unyielding pointing.
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ONE WITH EVERYTHING.
It’s become a bit of a clichè. Overused, overworked, overdone without insight into what the words actually point to.
Here’s another one:
ALL IS ONE.
Hmm. Same problem.
Ask anyone who is seeking this “oneness”, this state of unicity and they will tell you, yes, that it’s a given: All is one.
But there is an error to this logic of seeking oneness when all is one. Can you see it?
If all is one, then how can oneness be sought from outside itself? That would make two: Oneness and the one who seeks it.
This isn’t a conundrum for the mind to tackle. All it takes is simple seeing.
If all is one, then the one seeking and even the seeking itself is oneness. The effort to get this, to become enlightened, to know oneness – all of these cannot be separate from oneness.
Oneness excludes nothing.
Anything that is happening, that is being experienced, felt, thought or done IS oneness. Oneness appearing as that. It cannot be any other way.
So….
the frustration of seeking?
oneness.
The anxiety over money woes?
oneness.
The elation of falling in love?
oneness.
The aggression that starts a war?
oneness.
The hum of this laptop?
oneness.
This body that rest in the seat, the fingers that tap the keys?
oneness.
The car that just went the wrong way down Haley Street?
oneness.
The distant horn of an Amtrak train?
oneness.
Oneness is appearing as everything without exception.
EVERYTHING.
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You think you are separate simply by habit. You have the habit of separation.
It’s not your fault. It’s just what humans do. At around age 2 or 3 everything the big people are telling you starts to sink in. You start believing you have a name, that you are a certain sex, a certain race. They tell you you are an American or a Française. You just can’t help believing this stuff. So many folks are telling you this.
Everyone says “you” and points in your direction, so you take the body to be you. And the word “I” begins to take the shape of the body. And thus the habit is born. The habit of believing the labels are truth.
Somehow it is overlooked that before any of this, you were, you ARE. Otherwise how could it even happen? Without the present awareness to see and experience it all, then how is it even known, this history of yours.
The mind will have fun with this. It will say “That’s daft, crazy talk”. Good. Because the mind isn’t going to figure this out.
See, before the mind and before any thoughts that the thought, “mind”, can come up with: You are there, before that. All the trappings that make up a “me”: your body, your thoughts, your sensations, your history, cannot exist unless you are there first.
What you are isn’t known yet you know that you exist.
If you think that you know what you are, then I suggest you break that habit….
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My friend Charlie Hayes like to say:
“The bad news is you will never get this, the good news is you will never get this”
Sounds a bit confusing, doesn’t it? And even in my feeble attempt to explain it results in more the confusion. The mind is incapable of getting this. The you that you think you are is simply a product of the mind. A collection of past and future thoughts occurring right now. Outside of thought, do you even exist?
The mind will try desperately to figure all of this “nobody”, “self-realization”, “enlightenment” stuff out. But it never will. And that is the frustrating part, the bad news. . Ultimately, it will give up, the good news. And in that giving up, that exhausting of the mind, there is only liberation.
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The mind that you think you own is merely a thought.
How can a thought produce thoughts?
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Words are used to point to our true nature, which is nonconceptual. Unfortunately, words and concepts is all we have to point us back to our true nature when it has been overlooked.
You will continue to overlook your own true nature if you embrace any words as truth.
Words have their usefulness, just like the map for the journey, the menu for the meal, but they can never replace the actuality of what is being pointed too.
The lines on a map make for a poor substitute for the view from the train, the menu just can’t satisfy the palette like the morsel of food.
You don’t need the map to enjoy the trek, you don’t need the menu to savor the meal and you don’t need these words to know what you are.
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Don’t read this blog to get something, to learn something.
I have nothing to give you that you don’t already have.
I’m just reminding you to look and see.