April’ 16

So, you take the world you see, hear and read about as real? What you see is real enough… it is your ideas about it, your own or those of others that is the trouble. You see a coil of rope in dim light and believe it to be a snake! The great illusion is when you believe what you think you see, and believe that it is separate from you, that it has its own separate identity; its own past, present and future. Non-Duality (Advaita), ‘Not Two’, is literally what it says. Apparent separation in time and space is not as you perceive it to be. What you perceive is in the mind, and you and the mind are one.

Timelessly, you inhabit a world of infinite potentiality; at the same time everything and nothing. ‘No-thing am I’. Otherwise you are bound by fixed ideas and opinions – not true!

Is time linear in the way we believe it? Like a story on a page it only appears so when the mind casts it into yesterday, today, tomorrow, beginnings and ends. Leave the page and the story is still there, timelessly present from beginning to end, all in this moment, here and now. Observe a sleeping man as he dreams. Does the dream to the dreamer take the same time to unfold as does the reality, ‘your reality’, of the world about him?

Is space dimensional as we experience it? Like an image in the mind or captured on film… it only appears so when projected into up and down, there and here, left and right. Roll up the film, store it in memory, and it is all nowhere else but here and now.

Perceived content of space and time can be likened to a holographic image. Every part, however you observe it contains every other. Cut the image into tiny pieces, and each in itself contains and displays the whole.

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We live in the world of illusion populated by opposites – B’Gita Ch: 7

All acquired knowledge is a form of ignorance. The most accurate map is yet only paper. All such knowledge, in word and form is in memory, an image remembered. Reality is beyond the divide between knower and known. In reality there is only knowing. Beyond the divide between seer and the seen… in reality there is no separation, only seeing.

You appear as a separate identity only as long as you conceive yourself to be so. In reality are you ever anything in particular? Is any part apart and separate from any other? Full of ideas and opinions, they only separate you into a world of opposites; of conflicting views and attitudes. Accept them for what they are… no more than propositions to be explored in the laboratory of life.

The world of absolute reality, onto which your mind has projected a world of conceived reality appears as independent of yourself, yet by simple reason that it is your own conception, it is yourself. Apparent, relative independence proves identity. Examine the motion of relative change and you will see; one cannot be without the other. Let go of your fixation on the particular and the possibilities, your possibilities are infinite; not bound by ideas about it.

The main point here is that you have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, made in your image based on memories, desires and fears, and that you have bound yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

What you perceive as knowing can only be in the mind and not in the real. Reality is not approachable as something to be known, it is already with you, and not something to reach for. The very reaching out makes you miss it. Give up the idea that you have not found it; focus all your attention to being in-the-now, and the truth will come into focus. When all that is in the mind is let go, what remains is pure awareness; pure being.

 “There is no such thing as good or bad, but thinking makes it so” ~ Wm Shakespeare

In truth, free of duality, of knower and known, seer and seen, there are no opposites. The opposite of Love is not hate for it is the heart and centre of all that is. All embracing, love has no opposite; it contains all that is and depends only on itself for existence. The opposite of Good is not bad, for in heart and mind it is itself love made visible.

Ultimately let go of all teachings, all books, anything put into words – ‘out of head into heart’, into the reality beyond words, only then can truth be revealed.

Dive deeply within yourself, your soul, your true heart, the essence of meditation, (refer Keystone Meditation) where no opinion is there to cloud your judgement… only reality. ‘Diving deeply’ is to bring all the powers of thought and mind into the present moment, away from what is not – not here… not now. Only then can you truly let-go of what is not, to reveal what is. This alone will solve all your problems, and you will find yourself in full mastery of every situation. You will not be held captive by conflicting ideas about the situation.  With all sense of boundaries and limitations gone in favour of ultimate freedom – fear, pain and the search for short lived pleasures all cease… only awareness remains.  Mind and body acts naturally, contentedly, without excess.

Do not be misled by manifestation – higher nature is above them all – B’Gita Ch: 7

Personal interest and personal concern for form and possession are the focal points of the mind in ignorance of the truth. Your daily life vibrates between desire and fear. Watch it intently and you will see how the mind conjures up innumerable names and shapes, fears and desires, like a cloud in a storm – a turbulent mind. Trace every action back to its personally centred motive, and look at the motive intently until it dissolves, bringing calm to troubled waters.

Whatever is conceived by the mind is bound to be relative and limited. The real is beyond conception and there for its own sake, and cannot be willed as something separate. What else but the inseparable-self is worth wanting? Undivided, it is where absolute peace and contentment is found. Granted, the real cannot be wanted as a thing is wanted. But by seeing the unreal as unreal, the letting go happens all by itself – no effort on your part. It is by the dissolution of what is not, the unreal, that the way is opened.

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