Erin Ohlsen © 2002
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~ RECENTLY PUBLISHED ~
Beginners Mind, Healthy Stress...
Updated February 16, 2013
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I have been looking for someone to point me in the right direction. I've heard that when I am ready one will appear... feels like desert, so dry...intention is to see the truth.
There is a fathomless nourishing well inside, hiding in the energy by which the consciousness exists. It is no mistake you are curious and questioning as we are here in gift form to explore. Only appears dry because you keep looking outward
for answers, the truth of which can never be spoken in words.
The most important work we can do is become enlightened.
I am looking within, meditating... years...there is nothing there.
Oh yes there is! That emptiness is quite a prize
often referred to as a jewel, eventually showing facets as with a diamond. This work happens within existence, as body gently experiences silence or a quieting of the distracting mind train.
In other words, ask yourself what is
the seeming nothingness in relation to facets of realization?
And what may depend on individual fearlessness?
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You are a student of Nisargadatta?
Of awareness.
With deep reflection one begins to
realize what awareness is. Also, very deep awareness is inclusive of love, whereas it is not always the other way around...therefore, which is source?
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(young diabetic father) ...diet from doctor,
no pasta etc, losing weight, so exhausted, tired. Am resting.
When missing glycemic food
index facts, critical advice
is omitted.
For example, it is the quality of the carbohydrates,
not the quantity, as outlined by Jean Carper in
New Glucose Revolution: The Authoritative Guide
and Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller in New Glucose Revolution: Life Plan etc. Question ASAP popular focus by doctors on only weight and dieting and find an endocrinologist who knows about the hi-load glycemic index.
This is not just another diet, it is about staying alive
not forever masking your true sugar count with drugs.
The drugs may be necessary now, but obscure
dangerous underlying problems.
Diabetes diverts energy into life saving therefore big fatigue. More lethal than any street gang, are slow hidden stabs, organs dying. Back to smarter not harder!
Bravo resting ~ now more deeply. Meditate with a beginners mind for many surprising benefits. Exercise, break into a sweat! Monitor your vehicle keenly. Rewards start naturally.
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assume you are interested in non-duality, read any Tony Parsons? "As It Is" profound, the main implication of it being nothing needs to be or can be done because what we call 'me' is just an appearance in consciousness, consciousness being our true nature. Life is something that is happening without any personal involvement - the doer is just a dream. "A Duet of One" by Ramesh Balsekar also extremely illuminating.
Yes, but the interest is to explore duality thoroughly,
so nonduality and enlightenment are not misleading mystical stories. One will know what is what, not superficially from another's ideas or philosophical treatisies.
The a, b, c's in I Am That (homework to be done)
happen meditatively, as Nisargadatta says repeatedly.
Any experience other than directly through your own existence is false by implication.
Furthermore, consciousness is not our true nature,
nor is it 'all there is.' There is that from where all comes, definitely not only consciousness; you are that as well or
how are you existing.
There is indeed personal involvement,
especially with how to discern the illusive. The 'main event' more than illuminates ~ accepting 'what is' complacency further insulates that which thinks its knows.
Challenge yourself, come empty-handed.
Question layering and dead ends choosing that which penetrates the false ~ so it in turn disappears and
the real can be known as such.
What did Nisargadatta finally do with all belief systems?
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"...am student of Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism...
love books that help me to overcome what I see as somewhat dogmatic interpretations of spiritual matters such as
the ones you are offering...
Since your consciousness 'book' is rewritten
all the time and the very best cannot be out there somewhere, hopefully you are consistently investing first in what is nearest.
Much can be seen in the nature of animals,
especially the human monkey mind. Even body frog, dog, or sometimes cat etc 'meditative positions' while appearing to limit, in actuality also do precisely the opposite.
All teachers convey with a 'style' from previous imprinting, culture and personal-ity, most adding to philosophical knowledge, and not much undoing. Backwards 'undoing' occurs nicely from zen to tibetan to yogi and the mystical, as a long ago 'rosetta stone'
already in you polishes your being into diamonds.
Be particular, choose an alive teacher
with experience with 'rosettas.'
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recommended reading "I Am That." I'm trying to walk
the path of enlightenment. It seems impossible in this culture, but I'm compelled
With meditative practises very little is impossible.
Begin a formal meditation rather than trying to "do what conditioned mind imagines as the enlightened path." Check very patiently for feelings. While cultures are not conducive to an individual's well being, your organism is well equipped. It just needs to know how to accurately enable fairly quick results, as opposed to being left without what is next after 'flowered words are waved about.' Unfortunately endless books not only enrich eloquent speakers but keep a reader falsely satisfied with promise but no shifts in consciousness, and thoughts 'it' will be in the next book out there somewhere.
Would common sense not indicate
there would be some work here? Billions of births have produced so few leaders yet most recognized the importance of practices. Nisargadatta often points to earnestness and meditation steps requiring 'absolute' commitment,
the rewards of which no words can describe.
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Do you have any "place" or program of meditation for the interested.
...considering "Vipassana," ...have never put an "earnest" effort into meditation, although have spent much time in the past 20 years apparently getting ready...guess it's time to get down to it or forever dream on.
Everything... previously absorbed in other studies put so simply, straight forward, with clarity, and the very essence of every paragaraph urging right action to investigation of the
veracity of the words.
...an extraordinary experience of "insight," fully conscious, for about one hour, inspired, I think by, and as I was reading "I Am That." I had heard many times of others getting "there" for a time, but had never myself related to such an experience.
"I Am That," seemed like candy... devoured this past week...wanted more, thus the additional order.
Recognizing inertia is very rare.
Consciousness direct and not limited by any one teaching
~ self paced. Embracing and honoring all gifts (Buddhist middle road? Question any roads, or all roads?
Or the ‘road by which you came?’)
Question which came before,
where potential flourishes in dreams and insights.
The mystery of formal routine practice is absolutely irreplacable and involves polishing facets of mental mechanisms, thereby affecting the body consciousness. You will then know it’s not the getting there but what is already there being revealed.
When confronting inertia start with the body simply deeply resting where the chattering is without the labeling right or wrong, as you are already ‘in the place.’
'Beginner's is just a beginning...
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