Apr’ 16
You fear the unknown, of imagined threats that you believe are outside of you, out of your control. Yet your own body, too, is full of mysteries and dangers… yet you are not afraid of it for you take it as a world of your own. But what you do not realise is that the entire world and the universe you perceive is a world of your own making; of what you make it to be. Let go of any idea of control – you were never in control – nature controls itself, quite perfectly, and in perfect harmony. You would only get in the way.
You may say you have two bodies; the personal of many parts, and the universal. The personal, born and dies every moment, comes and goes and bound to change. But the universal, behind, now and beyond is always with you… as you are; part and one with life’s great flow. You are so blinded by what is personal that you do not see beyond it; a blindness that will not end by itself – but by your hand, skilfully, deliberately. When the illusion of duality is understood and abandoned you know yourself, at-one, in free and perfect state. All ideas of separation, between the personal and universal are no more.
Pain is physical, suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is merely a signal that the body is in danger and requires attention. Similarly, suffering warns us that the structure of fixed ideas, memories and habits, which we call the person, is in threat of loss or change. Most, if not all suffering is in the desire and stress of wanting… to be somewhere else. Pain, the call for attention, is essential for the survival of the body; nothing compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of your unwillingness to let go, to move on, to flow with life.
You may believe that you are mentally and physically at peace, but this may not be the ultimate state. To know yourself is to be at-one. You will recognize that you have returned to your natural state by a complete absence of desire and fear. After all, at the root of all desire and fear is the feeling you are incomplete, fear of loss, and far from home. In true love’s embrace, do you not feel at home, at one, and complete? At-one with yourself and the eternal flow of life, you have no need beyond that which you are.
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All self-concern is a symptom of mental distortion which disappears as soon as you discover you never left home in the first place. You may find that the search for home and all the challenges that go with it is like climbing a mountain, only to find when you get there, the mountain is not, and never was.
You can learn to accept both pleasure and pain as they come, embracing both while they last, to let them go as they must. Physical pain calls for attention. The bliss is in the conscious acceptance and in awareness of it, in not shrinking or in any way turning away. All happiness is rooted in boundless awareness. The more we live in awareness, unbound, unattached, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance – these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.
In our ignorance pleasure is readily accepted, while all the powers of mind and body reject pain. As the acceptance of pain is the denial of the illusory mind, and the mind stands in the way of true happiness, the wholehearted acceptance of pain releases the springs of happiness. The great joy of adventure and discovery depends on it.
In boundless awareness, unattached, observer only, you will not suffer. You will see the world as a show, a most entertaining show indeed. The cause of suffering is in the attachment of the perceiver with the perceived. Out of attachment desire is born, and with desire blind action – seeking to preserve and gain. Look around and you will see – suffering is a man-made thing. We look around and see the suffering of others. Descriptions are many and contradictory, but in reality all is one, complete.
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Reality is simple – all at one – harmony is the eternal law, nothing compels you to suffer. It is only when you try to describe and explain that you find that it is beyond separation, beyond words. There is only the source, the route of all being, dark in itself yet making everything shine. Unperceived it causes perception. Unfelt it causes feeling. Unthinkable it causes thought. Non-being, it gives birth to being. Like a screen in a cinema, it is the immovable background of motion which are but fleeting images playing on the screen of the mind. Once you are there, and know yourself… you are at home everywhere. Reflect back on your life for a moment… while your body, mind and the world around you has gone through many changes, the you that you are is just the same as it ever was.
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