Leave it all out there

 Body, mind and the world are one. Know this and you have gotten your arms around Oneness. You are the world, and in it, there is no role to play for the “me”.

On a quantum level, the observer collapses the wave function to the particle. The tree that falls in the forest makes no sound without the observer because there is no forest and no tree that could make a sound. Body, mind and world are one.

 

Leave it all out there. The “me” disappears when we make the right step. The right step is the first and last one. Sometimes it’s planing for the future. Sometimes it’s undoing the mistakes of the past. Sometimes we act to get the self out of the Way, and sometimes inaction is the Way. The job gets done here and now, and there is always an invite to leave the “me” out there.

 

Connect with the Presence

 There is no practice or discipline to be followed. Merely listen to me and accept that which I will tell you with firm conviction. The only thing which everyone has is the conviction that one exists—the conscious Presence. Meditation is only on that sense of Presence, nothing else. This sense of Presence is not as an individual sitting here but that sense of Presence without words. Meditate on that which knows you are sitting here. Your feeling that your body is here is identification with the body, but that which knows that this body is sitting here is the expression of the Absolute.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

Truth of the matter is that that Presence shone through on the first day of Awakening, some time in early 2008. It was just that I wouldn’t have been able to put it into words like Nisargadatta Maharaj has, and I also still experienced a return of the “me” energy which seemed arbitrary. No method connects with that Presence, but connecting with this Presence is as easy as flipping an Ipad upside down. The observer is the body-mind complex, yet, That which watches creation manifesting is present before the observer is. I am not a fan of belaboring the “I Am”. When we break through this Presence, it is as natural as breathing in and out, while when we strive for it, it seems as distant as the Andromeda galaxy. What we can do is be mindful of the thought and feeling highways that are swirling around (health, finances, job, romance, politics, etc.) They have been in the making for eons by parents, society and prior generations, but no one can force us to jump on them. Let them swirl. We connect with the Presence.

 

 

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Accept what is!

 Are you willing to be sponged out,

Erased, cancelled, made nothing?

Are you willing to be made nothing,

dipped into oblivion?

 

If not, you will never really change.

 

The phoenix renews her youth

only when she is burnt, burnt alive, burnt down

to hot and flocculent ash.

Then the small stirring of a new small bub in the nest

with strands of down like floating ash

shows that she is renewing her youth like the eagle,

immortal bird.

 

(D.H. Lawrence, Phoenix)

 

 

What an approach to deal with the demands of the ego! Acceptance of what is even when it is not very convenient to the ‘me’. Surrendering of the personal agenda to the brilliance of the moment at hand. A complete equanimity of mind in all circumstances because we have witnessed the rebirth of something magical in each vanishing again and again. That’s when the quest is over, or otherwise, as D.H Lawrence points out, nothing will ever change.

 

Awareness can be found in the mundane, and in pleasure and pain

 “Awareness is” operates on a different plane of existence as conditioned living. It’s a parallel universe of sorts, always ready to be accessed. No person can reach it, yet, we can fall into this space by simply letting go of what never was.

 

“Awareness is” comes before conditioned mind. No one is around to claim it, yet it exists. Modern brain has given us the cool facility of observing thought, feeling and action, yet, the observer who sometimes sounds spiritual is conditioned too.

 

Mindfulness is an ok tool on the Awakening quest, and can sometimes prevent us from living in self-imposed hell but it cannot lift us into Heaven. Thoughts as, “oh, that’s greed!” or “what a mean thing to say!” are also conditioned.

 

In the mundane, pleasure and pain, we have the ability to go inside and fall into a different vibration: S (ilence) E (nergy) L (ove) F (low) reign before conditioning. S-E-L-F awaits, and insight, surrender and letting go are the launching pad.

 

From glitch in the matrix to undoing the illusion

 The honeymoon is quite pleasurable for most, but then the problems creep up, the in-laws often bring their share of troubles, but after fighting demons for a while, the lucky pair rides happily together into the sunset.

A relationship is a symbol, just as children or parents are, a job, success or defeat, health or sickness, or won and lost treasures. The spiritual insight is that nothing in this body, mind, world matrix gives us happiness, but it is happy to mirror our own happiness or lack of it back to us.

 

Awakening is like a honeymoon. Number symbols like 444, 11:11, psychic powers, etc., just reflect the break in the mind-generated matrix back to us. “Look,” synchronicity argues, “a rational mind living in a separated world cannot explain these things.” Yet, the journey doesn’t end until we have managed to look through the entire illusion. We are experiencing ourselves in space and time, but the body, mind, world matrix cannot possibly show us who we are. We have to perceive “no-thing-ness” on the inside to be whole.

 

To all the friends who are awakening from the dream, wouldn’t it be a cruel act by the Creator to show us a glitch in the matrix without giving us the instructions how to leave this illusion behind for GoOD? The instructions are clear enough, go after what is meaningful to you with the sense of abundance, and face the stuff that is less pleasurable by first questioning the sense of inner scarcity. Soon it becomes clear that contentment and wholeness resides within, and nothing in this world can add to it, and no one in this world can take anything away from it.

Awareness—When the SELF plays its ACE

 This “I” that we perceive appears real enough but it is a creation of “body, mind, world” and it can be seen as that, a creation that otherwise has no influence on anything.

 

We are that which observes, creates, is—Awareness in short. We can be in unison with Awareness without being distracted by the notion of “I” or the ups and downs of our surroundings.

 

On the inside, Silence and Energy prevail, and on the outside, Love and the Flow of life can be perceived—S-E-L-F in short. Not we but S-E-L-F calls the shots and we are the Awareness behind it.

 

How to get to that state of Awareness you ask. The answer always lies in the moment at hand. Play your ACE moment by moment. Accept the present moment as is, be Curious about its message and have an Equanimous mind.

 

We conduct divine energies in the state of equanimity

 The mature man, fulfilled in wisdom,

resolute, looks with equal

detachment at a lump of dirt,

a rock, or a piece of pure gold.

(Bhagavad Gita)

 

I was lying in bed at 1 am and suddenly felt that well-familiar humming at the back of my head. Silence prevailed other than that well-familiar humming vibration. I scanned my attention through all the subjects of desire and aversion, finances, body, power, etc., and it was always the same uniform feeling of equanimity. Had you presented me the choice between a rock and a piece of gold, as it is referenced in the Bhagavad Gita, I wouldn’t have cared either way.

 

I was reminded of a story between the 19th century sage Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda. Vivekananda’s family suffered from financial distress due to the early death of his father and he ask Ramakrishna for assistance. Ramakrishna touched him and caused a deep state of samadhi in him, “Go and ask the Holy Mother yourself for assistance,” Ramakrishna said to him. Yet, each time he returned, Vivekananda had to admit that he was too busy bathing in Her Glory to ask for such a trivial thing. Three times they repeated this spectacle until finally Ramakrishna asked for this boon himself and Vivekananda’s family was financially taken care of afterwards.

 

We can consciously try to get our arms around this state of equanimity and try our best to live up to this high moral standard, but at the end of the day getting to this state is an energy event. S (ilence) E (nergy) L (ove) F (low) is a cosmic energy event in my experience. It comes when it does, and when we miss S-E-L-F for one self-interference or the other, we can always try our best to fall back into it while enjoying our human experience. At the time of writing the humming at the back of my head persists. It’s a pleasant experience of fulfillment and contentment but in no way an addictive state. Let’s see what tomorrow brings.