Filtered light

It is as if the pure light of being enters the mind and becomes so refracted by memory, wishes, habit and other distortions, that the result for many, is just a dull body.

Convinced you are the unreal

No one is apart from absolute perfection. They just become better and better at convincing themselves that they are not (absolute perfection)!

Experience now

Are you experiencing pleasure or pain right now? There is likely a mixture. There may be pleasure in taking time to relax but there may be some pain in the mind or in the body, really there are endless possibilities and all resulting in some mixture of these emotions.

Take a moment though to ask yourself what it is that rests behind both of these complementary poles. Both are experience, right now, both are being and both require awareness.

You may have memories of pain and pleasure, you may crave pleasure or wish to avoid future pain. When you have found a level existing behind both poles though, you are content with the experience of now as you know that all other experience, past or future is only the same.

Seeking the seeker

Get on a train and don't get off until you have arrived where you are.

The last gain is nothing

Nothing is gained in awakening. You have nothing to hold. You're gone.

In having nothing, you have it all. You recognise your true self as the root, as me. As I.

Nothing is loved, All is love.

Nothing is there, the potential for infinity.

A universe contained in potential void.

One I in iiiiiiiiiii's

At root, the self. Manifested as a trillion forms.

All forms are the self. Associating with the unreal.

Awakening is to see both the true I and the i-ego. Then become so sure that i-ego is a construct that it vanishes, leaving you only as the one I.

This could prove a shock.

Pride

Pride is a flaw not a quality.

War

Embrace war and evil.

Sounds odd, yet to embrace them will aid in their removal. If you oppose them, you enforce them. Take them on board, consider them. It was someone who was against something who brought about war. So only those who embrace all can put an end to it.

How you look

I carve a disc from stone, later I decide to carve out the middle so I now have a ring shape.

Have I added to it or removed from it? I have added form, added space, added surface, removed stone, removed form.

The hole is made of stone and is made of space. The hole contains no stone and the stone ring contains space.

Good and Bad

Stone is carved into two shapes. One is beautiful to you, one ugly. There also remains some uncarved stone for the Taoist to appreciate.

So people have chosen the ones they like and decided if they do not like others.

All are made of stone.

Truth is no matter how it is defined

A group of six were asked to all describe truth.

The science minded gave a great and well defined version of truth.

The religious minded gave a wonderful painting of truth.

Another science person spoke of a valid and convincing organic viewpoint.

A different spiritual person wowed the group with words on peace.

A child in the group gave a lovely simple version of truth.

Although all of these versions of truth were spoken, and everyone found wonder and merit in them all - The actual truth they attempted to define, never altered a bit.

Transient mind

The mind it comes, it goes, it is transient - it does not mean a thing.

Be aware of awareness until awareness remains.

The mind will come and go, it is transient, it does not mean a thing.

Live in bliss

The true self, awareness, gives rise to the all powerful consciousness that brings forth a powerful mind. This mind gives rise to an infinite dream worlds and dreamers.

When you are dead or asleep the mind is manufacturing all of these universes and worlds and people. The self, you, is always the root of this infinite show, you are more than that, you are beyond that.

When you wake as a human, you are the little 'i' and you give your little i consciousness to the mind world.

I tell you over and over to look the other way, to bliss. By all means enjoy the world of the mind, but never forget your root, never forget your self. This way you can live in bliss.

Awareness is wasted on the mind too often

You are constantly aware. You could be no other way as that is what you are! Awareness itself.

As has been said many many times, the mind is a puppet show, constantly vying for attention by giving you what you least expect, or just what you did expect, but never what you crave. As you reach for peace, the mind throws up a new idea, wish or memory, like an attention seeker it will do anything to have your attention.

Your attention is precious, it is the root to being. Don't waste awareness on the mind.

By all means appreciate the majesty of your creation, but don't hold on to the unreal.

Getting to the real subject

Everyone can see that if there were no subjective ego self then there would be no world to see.

By the same logic, and some people instinctively know this to be true, but many will not see it: If there were no true self, there would be no world at all, no people, no stars, no universe, no potential for anything.

You may easily see that you are an ego self who on dying will no longer see the world.

You may be one of the few who know their true self to be the only self, the one that was here before the mind, the world and the body.