March 2016
‘All things emerge and exist by nature’s qualities, and perish by themselves subject to no plan or purpose but for nature’s flow toward harmony and rest. All parts are one with all. To know the part is to know all as the chariot is one with all its parts’. All parts depend on the Central-Hub, the Golden-Mean, for its manifest existence. ~ Tao-Te-Ching
All is Nature’s great show. A universal field in action, the flow and maintenance of harmony and peace. It is ineradicable. Once understood and fulfilled all concern ceases. Physical life becomes effortless, below the level of attention.
The world of form and substance, visible and invisible to the mind, consciousness and senses, and the laws and qualities of nature are rooted, formed and nourished in the field of the unmanifest. It is as if as a thought, a vision emerging in the mind as the need arises yet the mind is untouched; a cloud emerges in the sky, the sky untouched.
‘All action is driven by the laws of nature’ – B’Gita Ch: 13
We live according to nature’s bequest of qualities and instincts – B’Gita Ch: 4
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All action is the play of form by the will of nature in harmony with its qualities. The Eternal, from which all arises, free of duality takes no sides, and the balance is naturally sustained.
In keeping with eternal law all things are born, rise and flourish, share existence, decline and fade, always in relative steady balance and harmony. Divine, they return as they began as all rivers flow back to the sea. As the waves depend on the sea for existence and flow by nature’s course, yet the sea itself remains untouched; so all things depend on the One, the Universal, the source of all, for their being and non-being, their rise and decline.
No one can change the course of Nature, for it is bound by the very laws of universal governance, as it was is and always will be. Change of form, its substance and destiny may be, but the governing laws remain… mother, father, Yin and Yang – child yet to be born.
‘The universe depends on the Universal, Eternal Self for its existence. The Universal finds its enjoyment through the senses’ ~ B’Gita Ch: 15
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, God just loves to see a show,
So much so he plays all parts. We provide the form and make up,
and nature she conducts the show ~ ram
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Gaining existence means losing nonexistence, the formless, the unmanifest. Existence gained brings form, visibility of beauty, fragility and decline. As an image in nature’s field, in that field we are made, rise, flourish and fade not by will or accident, but universal law in action, and the magical path from the unmanifest to the manifest. All in accord with eternal, natural physics, natural law.
Everything conforms naturally as it should. There are no Miracles… it is just Nature doing what it does with what is has, without deviation, and what you do every moment of your life.
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Thoughts and actions of man are dependent on the qualities of nature’s laws, and manifest as Purity, Passion and Ignorance.
- In purity, the goodness of wisdom brings happiness
- Passion in duality brings commotion, and
- In ignorance, obscuring wisdom, leads to a life of discontent.
By awaking to the light of purity, the divide between the wisdom of the true heart and the pleasures of the senses is revealed. The choiceless unconditional presence and acceptance of the ‘True Heart’ free of fear and desire, and the sensory world, the choice-full world of mind and body.
Every man faces both. ‘The mind of the wise man draws him to the good, the flesh of the ignorant draws him to the pleasant’ ~ (Katha-Upanishad). ‘Diverging roads; one called wisdom, the other called ignorance’.
‘One who is good, leaves no sign, fault or trace, yet all will follow, and none is cast away. This is named Essential Subtlety.’ Tao-Ta-Ching Ch:27
It is not hard to discern the difference when faced with difficult decisions of choice. Just ask ‘What would a wise man do?’ – By choosing an icon of wisdom outside and beyond yourself, the fears and pleasures of mind and body are, for the moment, forgotten, and the wisdom of right action is revealed. It may not be easy to follow, but you do know. It is the voice of your true heart, the wisdom of your soul. Happiness is on the other side of discipline, and skilful choice.
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‘Nature compels us to act. Worship the qualities of nature, let them be your guide, they will nourish you’ – B’Gita Ch: 3
‘It is only the qualities that act. He who understands that, and shuns not the qualities with an attitude of indifference, attains divine nature and remains calm’. – B’Gita Ch: 14
All corporeal life and matter is so intimately linked and lives according to nature’s bequest of qualities and instincts. All is compelled to follow and act in accord with universal, natural will.
When the child in you is frustrated or denied, it kicks. Do not restrict or condemn, just look at the kicking to its cause. As painful as it may be there are no remedies but one, the search for remedies must cease. In anger or pain, just watch. Mindfulness, external but one with the event is the first step to understanding true knowledge and freedom. “The truth will set you free”. Physical events will go on but you will see that they have no more importance than dreams in sleep, or stories on a page.
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In the world you inhabit you must accept its ways, for its ways are your ways. Your needs and demands have created them. Your desires are so complex and contradictory it is no wonder that the world you create is also complex and contradictory. The good of the ‘True Heart’, your Soul, will set you free; simplicity itself. To live at-one with your True Heart is enlightened.
To know what is, you must accept what is, which can be frightening. But first you must accept yourself which is even more frightening. Your being ‘as a person’ depends on violence. Your very body is a battlefield, full of the dead and dying. Existence in separateness implies violence; manifest survival depends on it. Do you realise that as long as you choose to maintain a separate self to defend you must be violent? The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further. What helps is attentive, mindful understanding. When you see yourself as one, not separate, the will and need for violence will cease.
Look at yourself in mindfulness, do not describe yourself. This does not mean a silent mind. That may not, for you now, be possible. Words and ideas are like furniture in a room; the space around them is forever silent. You are that space, looking from within the eternal silence ~ your True Heart. Nature, form and substance will reveal itself for what it is, not what you think it to be.
‘Natural form contains complete and supreme knowledge in its leaves for those who can see. Understand one thing well, and you have arrived’ ~ (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
Look at the being you believe you are and remember – you are not what you see. High reason makes it clear ‘…that that sees cannot be that, that is seen’. ‘This I am not – what am I?’ is the movement of self-enquiry. There are no other means to liberation, all means delay. Resolutely reject what you are not, till all that is not falls away to reveal the ‘not-a-thing-ness’ of the self that you are, beyond mind, ideas and concepts.
Nature – Accept it as it is. To know what is, is to accept what is. Be still and see that all is as it should be. In this moment in time and space the entire universe is contained; holographic, every point contains the whole. In your dream there are affections which seem real and everlasting – you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; the true heart of love is love of all; choiceless, unconditional, all embracing.
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