June 2015

All problems are imaginary.  What problems can there be which the mind did not create?  Life and death do not create problems; pains and pleasures come and go, experienced and forgotten.  While we choose to live, problems in life are a natural part of life – to be, to exist with a name and form is painful but can be most enjoyable.

Our very nature is to love so even the painful is lovable. It is memory and anticipation (the false heart) that creates problems of attainment or avoidance, coloured by like and dislike.  Truth and love (the True Heart) are man’s real nature and mind and heart are the means of its expression.  Mind and heart cannot work in darkness.  They need the light of pure awareness to function rightly.

It is the instinct to explore and the love of the unknown that brings us into existence, however painful that might be.  The will to be the particular makes you into a person with all its conceived, personal past and future. Out of love for corporate existence one is born and once born, one gets involved in destiny.

Look at some great man, what a wonderful man he was!  And yet how troubled was his life and limited its fruits.  How utterly dependent is the personality of man and how indifferent is its world.  And yet we desire it and protect it for its very insignificance.  Being and becoming is inevitable; but our home is beyond, inspiring an unending search until found.

All effort at control springs from the mind, and will merely subject us to the dictates of memory – a good servant, bad master.  It effectively prevents discovery. It is selfishness due to a self-identification with the body that is the main problem, and the cause of all the other problems.  And selfishness cannot be removed by effort, only by clear insight into its causes and effects.

As a river flows naturally to the sea, ‘Going with the flow’ is our natural state.  Effort is a sign of conflict between incompatible desires, and should be seen as they are, then only do they dissolve.  What remains is that which cannot change.  The great peace, the deep silence, the hidden beauty of reality remains.  While it cannot be conveyed through words, it is waiting for you to experience for yourself.

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