What is the 'it' that is getting better?
...an affair for many years' if (only) everyone thought it's getting better.' Now I see that everything is perfect as it is and yet am still teased by this and promoting it. Think positive and notice how the world will respond, as it is a reflection of our own feelings.
So much kindness and caring.
Let's turn to 'thinking positive' and move into it until it
reveals more which will come with the absence of any thoughts whatsoever. What is then felt is genuine
and very powerful.
And promoting the positive or perfection
will not have to compete with the reality of universal suffering. Also gently test not using 'good-bad' which then takes everything to another level. Try in yourself first, then use not your seeing or thinking.
Experience your being.
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process...everything so new... my journey, come to discover guidance from certain individuals...you and... are supposed to talk... this is one purpose I am aware of... movement all over the world, certain people
chosen to lead it... and unite... I am meant to connect certain people together, call...
To be indeed guided, is inward
to what already exists and therefore not a journey,
a realization. This person a teacher? Then, exhaust that 'guide,' and be careful with meditative practices. Honor the place of no movements
and you will see there is no one who has not been chosen, any equation disappears. When no
emphasis is being shown how to meditate, there is sweet-talk influencing, and ego is left unchallenged
impeding your more meaningful purpose.
Ask what is nothing new,
so incredibly old and unbelievably beautiful?
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don't need a guru (teacher)
And let programming and conditioning be
your only teacher until the end of the body's days, often some very harsh teachings! Unfortunately,
most of us never saw our parents deliberately in a very quiet-place routine, therefore we were never shown the 'how' of growing within that.
Where were we also taught
not to question?
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silence practised. At home sometimes
I look at the clock, hours have disappeared.
My mind can function on several levels
at once. When driving my car the silence comes,
so wonderful
When deeply silent, is there any body there?
And you are operating a lethal machine?
Ground yourself, no trance-like states!
Chopping wood, only chop wood, carry water, carry water. Be alert, focus only on driving, lightly noticing any distractions and your breathing.
Have you learned the basics,
through which exists the opportunity for a healthy consciousness for all beings? Going deep is a certain time of day practice and of specific duration!
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your writing is abit patronizing
It might appear so when one
has never been seriously challenged by various aspects of formal meditation.
A freshness and humbling displays in child-like ways as a Sufi heart throws itself about. To remain
silent and be remiss not to nudge?
Yes I guess I am being fresh .
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Grist for the Mill has intrigued me
and I can't express enough how strong the familiar cord was struck. I would very much enjoy hearing your thoughts and stories!
Grist for the Mill begins & Ram Dass
to this day resonates with the fact we are all being continually tested. He dared to pursue consciousness studies other than a chemical one, and to share.
He spoke twice in Seattle over 15 years ago,
with much devotion to his teacher Neem Karoli Baba.
Through this teacher he was also taught by one who
renounced speaking other than with a small chalkboard. The first time what was most surprising
is he waited at the door answering all questions
until everyone was finished (much earlier an across the room fleeting glance in the eyes.) Later regret
not lingering, until it was he who left.
Months later, he was appearing for the Seva
Foundation and I had waited over an hour in one
of two long 'hug' lines being called to an abrupt end.
My hair was cut monastery-short. He was very tired, turned, looked and said 'one last one.' It was like embracing a rock, and it was squeezing me back! Kissing him on the cheek and giving thanks for all the work done on himself was met with grace.
Years later, when facing
unkind publicity by another 'teacher,' grace again was shining. Not long ago a stroke was followed by a declaration about not having taken medication.
Of such is he; and still the humor.
At the time, his wry comments
about meditating, smoothed a rough edge somehow,
sending a few of us 'rock'ing with laughter.
On another note ~ Maharaj with a
daughter close to death, while in her company talking, words were said which started her laughing,
as her body died.
So how do you respond to intrigue?
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With your superb manners and giving attitude,
I know your business will grow and prosper!
Namaste.
Most of the business of awakening
is with popular beliefs, so it's impossible to win any popularity contest.
A Yoda can see the Skywalker
attachments; was the wisdom upbringing as the other younglings? Evil and ignorance ~ of what does the 'dark side' consist, anything more than the unknown? Is one born a killer or what has been buried inside?
Yoda only thought he failed.
Namaste 'to honor the God within,' however, it is also necessary to practice exactly that.
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fundamentalist family... don't want to
do the same as they all do and say any spiritual path but my own is a mistake!... feel they would find real value in some of the teachings I've found... make
what I've learned available to them, but only if they're ready, without being judgmental about their beliefs.
How can I find a way to offer assistance
and still accept that they are on their own best path
or at least condemn them with great love.
Attachments to spiritual paths can
be easily found almost anywhere as a result of belief systems, not deep self exploration~ and is that which has been programmed not experienced. How is assistance offered when one is not asked?
Check into what is this that says when another is
ready, or can't help being judgmental... this great love "the condemner," without condemning oneself!
Do basics, come back with questions to all;
as you've noticed the only thing in Pandora's 'vault' is like sunshine... and the door doesn't exist.
Formally practicing a return to
before judgments were introduced is very revealing showing one how to determine real from the false.
First learn how for oneself... then whatever is in you
will be a natural light for others so that they might discover for themselves and not be lead around by
anyone's layering or manipulating.
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...cocaine, a true cancer with... worse than it's ever been... extreme pain in my heart
Extreme pain is speaking loudly for
attention and growing pains of the heart point to that which has not been fully explored. Inattention? The heart cannot be broken; follow-up this opportunity for personal growth. The way of the head, of logic, intellect,
ultimately reveals their flaws, often endlessly.
For instance, the head is quick to condemn,
the heart never. Head sets timetables, expectations, seethes with anger, spinning endless stories.
Are not all parents still children as well?
Notice what happens
when you avoid doing some homework with old thought patterns and how merciless and misleading they are, chattering endlessly.
What about your potential
and how to go about the realization of That?
Every care taken with the Self ripples...
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occasionally lose my car in the parking lot
Space is OK. Body is moving by habit,pause,
you are very there. Temporarily in timelessness,
place destination at center of time-piece with hands. Note what time the hour hand is pointing
at the car as you leave, ex: when parked in front
of office entrance, the car is at 6 o'clock; when in
back lot of building, same entrance, it is at 12 o'clock.
Return very very slowly, practice.
An electronic key to auto-honk horn quick locator but
do without and watch what happens with practice.
What can never be lost?
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