March 2016

Charity feeds the present from the food of past as nature consumes the past to feed the present. – B’Gita Ch: 8

Birth and death, only in the eyes of the ignorant; a continuous cycle with no space between. In reality birthless, deathless – B’Gita Ch: 9

Here and now is your home and where you live. But with dreams of past and future-yet a sleep-like veil is cast. Awake to here and now, and the difference between actual and dream comes clear; unmistakably so. By no effort of will or imagination can you interchange the two.

Now, what is it that gives this unique quality to the actual?   A moment back the remembered was actual, in a moment the actual will be the remembered. What makes the actual unique? Obviously, it is your sense of being present. In memory and anticipation the feeling is clear that it is a mental state being observed, whilst in the actual the feeling is primarily of being present, timelessly still and aware. Look closely and you will see there is no ‘moment’ in the present that can be captured; all is just flow. In stillness that you are, feel the flow.

We all depend on a perceived relative position in time and space for any sense of personal existence.   If ‘you’ were not still, relative to the passage of events in time, there would be no perception of the passing of time. Two trains side by side traveling at the same speed, to each other there would appear to be no motion. Without ‘apparent’ relative motion, the passage of time would not appear to exist.

Whenever existence and time appears, it is only because of your sense of being, here and now; free of form and motion that you carry with you timelessly. It means that you are independent of space and time. Space and time is in the mind, not in them. It is your self-identification with mind and body, which of course is limited, that gives you the feeling of relativity; finiteness. In reality you are not bound by measures of time and limits in space. There is no separation; you and the source of being are one.  “I and my father is one…”

‘The wise man does not cross the same river twice, for he can see that he is not the same man and it is not the same river. The enlightened man does not cross the river, for he is the river and the river is he; there is no separation’.

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The supreme spirit is without beginning, without qualities and imperishable – B’Gita Ch: 13

There can be no continuity in the objects of awareness. Continuity, permanency, these are illusions created from memory, mere mental projections of pattern where no pattern can be. Let go of all ideas created out of mind and memory, of temporary or permanent, body or mind, man or woman; what remains? What is the state of your mind when all separation is given up? It is not to say there are no distinctions, for without them there is no manifestation.

Your concern with future is due to fear of pain and desire of pleasure. A child just grows, s/he does not make plans for growth, a leg here, and hand there, s/he grows integrally, naturally and unconsciously; without lingering memories and fearful anticipation. Moments of sadness are quickly transformed into moments of joy. This is because s/he is free of expectation born of memory and anticipation. It is one of the peculiarities of the enlightened; that s/he is not concerned with past and future; all is bliss: all just happens by the flow of nature, by the needs of the moment, just as the swirl and motion of rivers to sea.

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