Taking a step back and look again!

 It’s not easy to leave a conditioned mind behind because when we are under its influence, we are that. 

We have a super power though; to realize the futility of going on and return to the Original Mind. That’s the parable of the prodigal son, or as the 13th century monk Meister Eckhart put it, “God is at Home. We have gone for a walk.”

Surrender is another expression for taking a step back and falling into what we have always been: Consciousness manifesting and observing our creation. In surrender we manifest and observe without a conditioned mind. 

What can “you” and “I” do in order to be That? We may not have any degree of freedom once our conditioned mind kicks in but we have a superpower, observation! Observe the agenda, the reaching for and avoiding and look again!

The Power of Equanimity

 The foremost and fundamental means for realizing the Self is dispassion. Without dispassion true realization cannot be had.

Sri Brahmajna Ma

The 17th century philosopher Spinoza had the observation that every emotion we experience has an idea behind it, often expressed as a mental image. Along the Way there is equanimity of mind, but connecting with the higher frequencies cannot be attained by suppressing what we feel strongly about. The way forward is self inquiry and the ability to spot these implicit belief sets and seeing the emptiness behind it.

Self-awareness is “your” job!

 What prevents us or pressures us at all times 

and everywhere in various forms 

is our own confusion or misunderstanding. 

There is no other distortion at all.

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

Awareness is Oneness with what is. It’s a manifestation and an observation. It’s being. It’s not a mystical thing. It’s who we are.

Alas, we call ourselves human beings for a reason. Sometimes the programming of our ancestors, society and our experiences kick in.

When we are unaware of the bio-robot nothing can be done, but when we realize that we are the cause of our discontent, self-awareness arises.

Awareness, self-awareness and unconscious behavior alternate for most awakening folks to varying degrees. Do we get better at being?

The Power of Now dictates that Awareness always prevails, with or without our conscious participation. Waking or dreaming happens within this “Field.”

The illusionary self has only one degree of freedom and that’s observation. Self-awareness is “your” job while Awareness removes the “you.”

Spiritual purpose

 Life has a purpose for “you,”

and “you” aid your spiritual quest by living it.

Yet, life is a play of Consciousness and 

in the here and now there is no “you.”

Here is the paradox—

life has a purpose

and there is none! 

Walking in the field of completeness

 A seeming reflex arises,

"This isn't enough,

not exciting enough,

not what I was looking for.”

Conditioning looking for something more intense, more special, more conclusive;

whole,

nothing missing,

just this.

(Walking in the field of completeness, by Baerbel Marlena Simon)

I catch myself in the conditioned looking, expecting and regretting state and I ask, “wait, how did I get here and more importantly, how can I be walking in the field of completeness that Baerbel Marlena Simon describes instead? One step outside, a look and a scent of lilac and the field of completeness is back. Nature does this to me. Everyone has a portal to the higher state of being, be it a person, a mission or an event.

More generally though, how can we find this field of completeness inside? See the conditioning, stay with it and fall into the inner silence and love. No striving gets us to who we are and always have been because we overlook at that moment of searching that we are already walking in the field of completeness. As Meister Eckhart discovered, “God is at Home. We have gone for a walk!” Silence, love and contentment are inside. Return!

To say, “be detached” is meaningless

 The 17th century philosopher Spinoza had the amazing insight that every emotion is directly linked to an idea behind it, which often manifests itself as a mental image. 

To say, be detached, is meaningless as we would simply repress an emotion that longs to express itself, but to inquire into the idea or mental image behind it works wonders to look through the idea we have about the world, or mostly, about ourselves.

When we inquire into the nature of our beliefs and self identity we often find a memory that shaped us. Reliving this memory, getting our arms around it, understanding it and eventually, letting go of it, dismantles our self-image.

Would you choose love and happiness or emotional highs and lows?

 It’s being or having.

It’s “I am that I am” or a world of pleasure and pain.

It’s love and happiness versus emotional highs and lows.

No matter how much “you” try, there will always be a feeling of discontentment: A lost love, a body ailment, a compulsion, financial or relationship struggles, etc. The purpose of the current state of incompleteness and discontent is to show “you” to look for something new. What are the self-imposed interferences which keep you from the state of silence and love? 

How to get access to the manifesting state of the Field of Infinite Possibilities? “You” can’t, yet, what “you” aspire to get is already present. Success is guaranteed! What irony it would be if Awakening is not followed by Wakefulness. Yet, don’t rest in the presence of inner conflicts and discontentment. Authenticity and sincerity guides “you” on the self inquiry path.