Imagine that you are floating weightlessly
in the vast ocean of limitless space . . .
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Now imagine that this vast ocean of limitless space
suddenly vanishes!
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Where are you now?
Tag: liberation
Pendulum of Change
You are not the pendulum of change:
Thoughts, moods, sensations, perceptions,
Swinging back and forth, this way and that.
You are that which knows the pendulum of change.
Notice this fact, and you are home:
The Changeless One.
Ignore The Ignorer
If you are seeking liberation, awakening, enlightenment, the Divine Spirit within, you can start by ignoring your thoughts. A thought appears in your mind and you ignore it, just as you would ignore someone trying to interrupt you during an important conversation.
You can also ignore your feelings. You feel a dark mood coming on and you ignore it. It comes and goes like a storm cloud in the sky. Even if you feel a great happiness arising, as hard as it may seem, you ignore it.
Likewise, ignore sensations or perceptions, an itch on your back or the scent of a flower.
Ignore all memories, mental images, thoughts of the past or future, pleasant or unpleasant feelings, any pleasurable or painful sensation that arises in your body, and any sight, sound, taste, texture, or smell of the world.
Ignore it all. Then . . . ignore the ignorer!
To Discover Your
Essential Being
Ignore your
Thoughts
Feelings
Sensations
&
Perceptions
Then . . .
Ignore
The
Ignorer
Who are you now?
What are you now?
Where are you now?
It may sound rather bleak, but when you ignore all appearances, the real – that which exists before, during, and after all appearances come and go – reveals itself.
This is true bliss.
Unique Manifestations
Each one of us is a unique manifestation of Oneness, the aware knowing presence at the core of our being. Embrace this fact and all will be well. Actually, all is well regardless.
You Can’t Get There From Here
When a lost flatlander drives up to a Vermont farmhouse and asks for directions, the crafty Vermonter will often respond with, ‘You can’t get there from here,’ then laugh and give them impeccable directions to their destination.
‘You can’t get there from here.’ The same can be said of the spiritual seeker in search of awakening, liberation, enlightenment, satori, salvation, or whatever name they give for the never-ending quest they have been on for years, possibly decades.
A ‘you’ that seeks enlightenment through whatever chosen means is doomed to fail.
THERE IS NO ‘YOU’ THAT CAN DO ANYTHING.
Recognize this irrefutable fact and the thought of liberation becomes a joke, granted, a wonderful joke – because you realize the joke is on you, and there is no you, so . . .
You can’t get there, that is, to liberation, from here, because ‘you’ are an illusion. ‘You’ can’t go anywhere or do anything. Just as a shadow, inextricably linked to its source, cannot take off on its own, the fictitious ‘you’ cannot separate itself from its source, ever-present awareness, to seek anything. ‘You’ is made up of temporary manifestations of pure awareness, the source of our being, so, in fact, ‘you’ are already there, or here, or, as the Beatles sing, ‘Here, there, and everywhere.’
Here, there, and everywhere obviously encompasses everything. In other words, you are IT. And at your core you are no different from anyone else, so we are all IT.
Time to CELEBRATE!
Sending Love, Peace, and Happiness from All of Us to All of Us.
All ONE of us.
Before
Before
Space
I am
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Before
Time
I am
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Before
The World
I am
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Before
The Breath
I am
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Before
The Heartbeat
I am
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Before
The Word
I am
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Before
Sights, Sounds,
Tastes, Textures, & Smells
I am
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If I am before
All Things
Then who am I?
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I am the I am
Before the
I am
Don’t Take It Personally
We take things personally when, in fact, there is no person, no individual self, to take anything, or, for that matter, to give anything. This causes a dilemma, especially when it comes to relationships.
When someone addresses your ‘person’ they are really addressing a phantom, a shadow, and all attempts at clear communication are futile. Actually, in most cases, it’s phantom addressing phantom – two people coming from the limited point of view of an individual self. This is frustrating to everyone, often leading to major disagreements and, ultimately, separation, which makes perfect sense when we already live as separate beings.
This is particularly true when we are trying to ‘make things right’ – when we’re dissatisfied with how we are being treated and want to make sure that the other knows where we’re coming from – and, more than likely, to correct their behavior so that we feel better about our . . . phantom self.
When we take things personally we are kowtowing to an illusionary conditioned self that has innumerable likes and dislikes – an infinite number of deeply ingrained conditions that must be met in order for it to feel satisfied and happy. This is not a formula for liberation, happiness, and love, for our self or others.
Take a deep look at your own individual person and experience the irrefutable fact that there isn’t one. We find a mind consisting of passing thoughts and images, a body composed of perishable tissue and bone – all ever-changing attributes with no real lasting value.
And then look at who is doing the looking. Discover the source of being – an aware presence that knows the coming and going of all things, yet doesn’t come and go with them. It is not an individual person, a phantom self, or any ‘thing’, but an essence, a vibration of infinite light and eternal love. And each one of us contains this source of being. Actually, we don’t contain it – the source of being, by definition, contains us.
When we communicate from this source of being, as this source of being, whomever we address, we address as this very same source of being. It’s a unique expression of infinite and eternal aware presence addressing a unique expression of infinite and eternal aware presence.
See this, know this, be this, and you can’t help but fall in love with everyone and everything.
Beloved . . . Be love . . . Be loved
THIS STILLNESS
This stillness, its quiet, with no beginning,
this silence before the word,
before it could be said, all in the One Moment
lit by the morning, aging into light,
as the autumn promises with its resplendencies
the return of another summer,
the transformation from darkness
into transparency of this, given
so we might understand
this awesome This,
the one eye seeing this fragility,
this delicious tasting,
no matter how brief.
~ RC Williams (1931-2015)
I Fall To Pieces
When I, the separate self, take an honest look at my makeup, I fall to pieces. All I see, all I find, are fragments. Nothing of any substance can I call my own.
It turns out that the I that I have always thought I am is the wrong I! It is not an individual I made up of passing thoughts, emotions, sensations, and perceptions. How mistaken could I be?
It’s the only I there is. The only I that can be. The I that knows all things, yet itself cannot be known. The I that cannot be found, yet is everywhere. The I that is beyond thought, beyond appearance.
This I cannot fall to pieces, cannot be divided in any way. It would be like trying to cut the sky in half.
It’s Only The Separate Self
It’s only the separate self that feels challenged by an uncomfortable situation. That feels resistance, frustration, fear, anxiety, anger, and hate.
It’s only the separate self that needs to be right.
It’s only the separate self that needs to hear things in the correct tone of voice.
It’s only the separate self that thinks others are projecting their thoughts and feelings onto them.
It’s only the separate self that feels put upon and misunderstood.
It’s only the separate self, the thought that says, ‘I am this, I am that,’ that sees itself as separate, divided from the outside world of others and things.
And yet when we look in earnest for this separate self, our experience shows us that there isn’t one.
A separate self cannot be found, yet we live our lives under its spell.
Self-esteem is shattered or aggrandized, relationships are overly possessive or torn apart, wars are waged, and senseless destruction, internal and external, prevails, and all on behalf of a non-existent entity.
See the truth, the truth of your own experience, that there is no self – only fleeting thoughts, emotions, sensations, and perceptions – and therefore no other. No inside. No outside. All that can be found is limitless consciousness, the source of all experience.
Our true identity is this limitless consciousness, this one and only limitless consciousness. Our essential nature is that of boundless and loving openness. We have nothing to achieve, nothing to fear, and no belief to cling to. We, you, I, are free.
Centerless Center 