Bring in the New Year Knowing!

    There is nothing that covers you or veils you...unless you believe it to be so. Stop believing! Bring in the New Year with the energy of excitement that you know that you know!

Seamless...

        I go where I go, I move where I move... it is seamless, be there.

Rejoice!

With every distracted moment regardless of your outward focal point... stillness, silence, deep peace remains. That which you are has never left you. Rejoice in knowing the truth!

Underneath...

                 Underneath a restless, agitated mind is complete stillness...always.
Know that you know this.

stepping stones...

    For the spiritual seeker one arrives where the dualistic nature of the world no longer holds an interest. This initial step is not to be mistaken for "there is nothing here for me" rather knowingly know what was once a held belief in a separate identity no longer has a strong hold on you....trust this loosening to reveal a deeper understanding of what Is. If one feels a sense of complete neutrality towards all things/situations... be patient and rest assure there is nothing neutral about your abundant loving nature!

Lean into the present...

                              There are infinite ways to experience yourself. Why not choose peace, happiness, bliss, joy? Why not choose the clarity that each moment presents? When it is seen that each present moment is soooo much more peaceful, more joyful, more passionate than any thought that mind can churn up, you will begin to be aligned with the fullest essence (expression) that you are. Your radiant expansiveness is seen and you will feel more alive than ever before...it's like you have been living with the dimmer switch turned way down and now the dimmer switch is fully cranked with more abundant light to shine and expand! Lighten up! Each moment chosen defines how you live. Let your lovable Self lean into the present.

Uproot... tap into your capacity!

   Uproot what no longer serves you...you can ignore thought and you can inquirer deeper into a thought that you identify with...where you are judgmental, bias, separate, comparing, measuring, justifying, etc..

   When you go deeper into a thought/idea where you believe you are separate, personal, you are seeing from only one point of you, from seeing that you are attached to a single point of view, you have the capacity to be abundant with points of views...see if there is a way of perceiving/seeing a situation with a point of view that resonates for you (feels in-balance) that has no opposites, no right or wrong, no moral compass...just see without a thought of judgement, bias, comparison, measuring...and see if a peace, a happiness arises within you...you are that!

Be still, quiet...

How you see yourself is how you see the world or "That what you feel within is what you feel without." ACIM

This is a good barometer check to see how one may or not be with identifying with thought. Don't let thought be the see 'er or feeling that is arising within you, be still, quiet and let what is natural see and feel within and without your very presence.

Changeless Fall splendor...

   As you watch/witness the Fall season naturally change into splendid colors, leaves dropping as melodic notes with the winds, trees having no choice but to expose their silhouetted beauty, arrival of the northern birds etc ... that which is watching is changeless, you are that!

Habits...Stillness

The one that can see the habit of thoughts in oneself is the one to Be...still, quiet, joyful!

Drop the old paradigm...

   Life is not about options, patterns, lessons, achievements, more experiences to be had etc...this type of verbiage and thought only keeps one on the single personal train track of a singular point of view of living. If there is apparent value for you with these thoughts, beliefs... then it is best to continue with this singular personal framework until a loosening happens and this framework no longer has a pull for you.
   When you are ready to drop the old paradigm there will be a dis-ease with everything as you know it...smile and remain light hearted..you are becoming aware of dropping the old paradigm, all conditioned thoughts no longer work for you and awakening into the truth of who you are is brimming forth....you are ripe to witness the unfolding of your true creative expression coming into this world. Your creative expression is anew every moment...if there becomes a personal gain or motivation with/behind your creative expression  know that the personal I has taken charge...knowing and seeing this dissolves it...

Take a Walk On The Wild Side...

   We all have been taught to be other than we are because the others did not know who they were themselves thus the cycle of humanity...but now you know or at least there is a crack, a glitch in your matrix that is sensing something else, an awakening to a deeper knowing that there is much more...so go for it! Take a walk on the wild side...wake up!

   Waking up does not mean that you fall into the abyss of bliss and live from lululalla land...waking up to the truth of who you are allows life to flow through and all things are taken care of effortlessly (much more fluidly than a personal I doing it!) responses and actions are taken when deemed, there is no quandary of; should I, shouldn't I, maybe or some other analysis or opinion of circumstances. Mind (personal I) will jump into the boxing ring and will want to spar on all matters...let mind fizzle itself out and do not participate in all its shenanigans of taking charge...instead Take a

Walk on the Wild Side and Wake Up!

"Take a Walk On The Wild Side" song tittle by Lou Reed

Pretend No More...

    Stop pretending to be other than you are right now. Pull back, let go, stop investing in outward circumstances that seem to dictate who you are and what you think is your life right now. Fall back into what you have always been and can never not be. You are bliss, perfect peace, radiant joy, happiness....this is not felt but known. Who you are is not a mystery... your mind (that is desperately trying to get this) can only know this intellectually...who you are is a direct knowing outside of mind. Live your precious expression from here! To be perfectly aligned with all that is is effortless, expansive, creative and alive with loving life for life itself. Know that you are all this and more.
 .... Sooo stop pretending that you are other than you are!

Unspeakable Love...

   Unspeakable love, thats you, me and every person on this planet. We are all one Self that can be known as unspeakable love. Let yourself be reminded of this continually, seeing others only as unspeakable love. Be aware that your unspeakable love is always emanating...go there!

Ripe...

    You are already ripe! You were never unripe, broken or in need of fixing. That which you truly are is changeless perfection...it has never left you, it can't because that is what you are. You can not find yourself because you already are. So whats the issue here? Seeing what you are not. From this understanding accompanied with grace that is already you the veil of a believed separate self loosens and evaporates. It is from here that life is lived and enjoyed regardless of what the outer movement is presenting.

Me Oh My....

    My house, my cloths, my shoes, my hat, my wife, my mate, my car, my cat, my purse, my work, my book, my art, my children, my monies, my tools, my career, my practice, my body, my meditation, my food, my feelings, my hopes, my dreams....Oh my...this is ownership with the personal my/I identity.

The personal I will always have an attachment/ownership to all things, emotions and thoughts of things.

Mantra; Me oh my said the spider to the fly
              Let one see all ownership die. Blessings.

Are you ready?

Life is to be enjoyed...not burdened with obstacles, pain, suffering and short term happiness. If you are dependent on seeing yourself as a separate personal you then so be it but if you have had enough, you are ready to inquire as to where the origin of the "I thought" comes from. All thought that you know at this moment is conditioned...drop conditioned thought and seriously stay with inquiring within as to where in you does the "I thought" originate...and then drop this conditioned question too!

A Dream...

What the world presents to you is a dream...even the awakening, enlightenment, self realization, all happens within the dream.

Who you are has never left you...

If what life presents is disturbing you in any way...you are identified with the personal separate self. You are only knowing yourself to be separate and all is personal. Can you see that you are holding onto a concept that you are separate and the separate you has separate thoughts being believed? If you can see this...there will be a space in you known from the source of who you truly are and you will sense the peace that you are....this has never left you...you are that peace.

What you know....

If you can watch your thoughts, be aware of your thinking mind...than you must know that you are not your thoughts...

Nothing has to be given up. Just realize that whatever you “know” is different from who you are.- Nisargadatta Maharaja

Workings of Thought...

    No matter what thought spits out, throws your way or is in your face with ... you are not your thoughts.  A reaction, stance, defense, justification with thought will only ensure your identity with thought and keep the belief running that you are a separate self. Investigate and discover the workings of thought and see how thought runs like a continual loop all day long. Mind doesn't matter what thoughts are running, mind is a program that can only run thoughts. All thoughts are fleeting, impermanent with no real substance, they are just thoughts from memory past, future or imagined. And you are none of this. Who am I without thought? Ahhh here is the true beginning of Self inquiry!

Turn Within...

   When we are lost driving we stop and look within for clearer directions from a map, another person or cyber directions. The same applies when you are aware that you are lost in knowing the truth of who you truly are...stop looking out there go within as the answer lies there and only there.

   No one, no thing, no book, no retreat, no teaching can bring you to the truth... only you can discover this for yourself. Self is teaching self to wake up!

Shake it Off...

    How do you shake off what you know is not really you...stop being interested in thought. It's that simple.

    What we call the world we live in is discovered to be a world of projected and believed thought(s). When we are in deep sleep, where do we go? In deep sleep there are no thoughts running to create a world of thought(s), thus there is no world, no personal I until you awake and thought kicks in again.

   In Self inquiry one will discover there is only subject, there is  no subjective objective world...no thing is dependent on anything. It can be said there is an I, a oneness and here only subject is known.

   Check in for yourself to see how one operates on thoughts of others and your own thoughts, you will discover that thoughts are running the show and your following the dance of thoughts step by step. Go inward, let thoughts pass. Make space for the true nature that you are!

Let everything soften...

 

   

   Let all perceptions soften, let your thoughts soften, let your body soften...allow soft space to be present in-between the frames of thought.

Teaching...

   Consciousness (Divine, Essence...what ever word works use) is teaching itself to awaken within the dream and you are Consciousness! Don't be fooled, you are the teacher/student here, it is truly, the only authentic teaching there is...and its free.

 

Meditation Diet...

    Meditation is nothing more than managing the mind. We go on a health diet to manage the body why not go on a health diet to manage the mind...actually do both and the results will be amazing. Here are a few helpful health tips for the mind diet:

1) Recognize when you are in the personal I story, even if it is full on and you are running with it, recognizing creates space for something else to move through.

2) Recognize when you are about to respond/react to a personal I story, pull back (if you can) retreat, and see what arises when you do no-thing.

3) Watch thoughts and don't engage with thoughts, your body will naturally take care of all that it needs.

4) Recognize the desire to make someone, something or a situation better, accept was is. Fighting the tide is futile, it only creates more work, friction and heaviness.

5) Having a mantra helps the addiction to thoughts. When thoughts have you caught up in the personal I story go to your mantra, this will give the mind something to chew on.

6) Drop attachment to thoughts and memories. Thoughts and memories are fine, it is the attachment to them that causes suffering.
Happy dieting!

   

You Already Are...

                         You can not become anything because you already are.

    The idea of becoming anything ensures the personal I is in charge, its roots are anchored and off one go's to becoming something with a tittle.

    If there is a burning desire to become something it is best to do it and let this desire burn itself out. If you can see that desire is running to become something, watch it and see if you can detect where the desire is originating from within you. All thoughts of desire arise from a self-lacking thought. If truly seen you are opening to the freedom within.

              You can not become anything because you already are. Know that you know.

One thought...

    All life as you know it from the personal I (ego) perspective arises from one thought "I am separate." I am this and you are that.

    This one thought; ensures a world of suffering, gives way to causes and effects, subjects and objects... out of this one singular thought "I am separate" this world is created. And as long as the "I am separate" thought is running and believed in there will always be the diversity and suffering that appears to exist now.

There is much in the way being offered as stepping stones to the truth now, take advantage in what is being offered!

Words...

                                     All words relate to form and time... you are neither.
                                                Look without naming.
                                                Listen without adding.

Heaven and Hell...

    It can be said that the difference between heaven and hell is that hell is believing that this world is real and heaven is knowing that it is not. "Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, here in lies the pace of God."

Responsibility...

     When one arrives at the juncture of completely letting everything go mind will say you are not being responsible...let that go too!

One in the same...

 

   
   For certain the one thing we all have in common with humanity and all things is that we are all one in the same. Forms may have different appearances and may appear to have different functions but in truth we are all one in the same. See this and you are home free.

Who Am I....

   You cannot know the truth of who you are through thought (aka.thinking) because you are not a thought, remain undefinable.

Life...

                     The sacredness of life is knowing that you are life itself.

Touched...

    When you have been deeply touched by another be it child, animal, nature, friend, family, stranger, art, music etc. there is a moment that holds you speechless and action less and you might say with a smile or tear "that was touching." This is when you have touched upon or become aware of your own essence, that is the same shared essence in everyone and everything. The moment of speechlessness and action less is the stillness that you are. Stay touched by each present moment, there may not be a smile or tear with each moment but you will be touched countless times and the world will be touched by you.

Broken...

   Feeling broken is a dyer straight painful experience had by the personal I and yet also an opportunity to drop all thoughts of life as you know it. That is how it happened for me. At a time of severe suffering and pain, life as I knew it suddenly made absolutely no sense whats so ever. Everything I had been taught and believed made absolutely no sense. What was the point of existence if one suffered to this degree and knowing that others suffer even more...why? How could such a creation that suffered so, be worth anything to a creator who witnessed such suffering in ones creations? Who would possibly create such abilities for one to suffer so and call it life? Why would one want to continue to live under such painful suffering and for what purpose? These were my questions that prompted the lead into Self inquiry. It was at this time that all my thoughts and beliefs as I knew and understood them, literally had no space or place within me. My panoramic view of life was shattered along with the clarity that any attempts to put things back was an unattainable goal.  While this experience was being had the natural external life around me ironically filled me with what I can only describe as joy. This delightful joy moved through me from:watching birds and listening to their songs, living plants shinning with perfection, movement was grace, smells delightful, appearances of the sky was an ever-changing masterpiece, the purity of my young children kept me quietly breathing, my physical bodies ability to move with strength, insightful visions...all and more was apparent with a deep stillness while my suffering thought system was being broken.

   Many years later the path of Self inquiry answered my questions. A solid anchored belief that I am a separate body, separate personal being simply is not so. There were countless times my mind played tricks and countless times I would navigate differently spinning my wheels in Egoville. It's OK to feel broken but know that there is another avenue present just for you that is not broken and full of joy!
 

Lift the shade...

    Life happens now... one big continual now. When our attention is with thought we cannot be with life now as thought pulls one to past or future, it is like a shade that has been pulled down over you and the now life of joy, peace and absolute love is not seen nor known.

   When the personal I has your attention the separate personal I is navigating thoughts that keeps one swinging between past and future. Life's presence is always here and now, your presence is always here and now, life and you are not separate. Trust that this is the only constant you can count on with no dependency/relationship to past and future. You are the life that is the one big continual now. Lift the shade and light the world now!

Drop thought...

    The personal I can only imagine itself as an "awakened" being.
The personal I can never know itself as an "awakened" being because the personal I is made up of thoughts and who you most deeply are is not a thought. The discovery of the true Self does not happen through thought at all, it happens when there is no thought.

     You may not be (fully) aware of your own divine consciousness but you can be aware of who you are not.Trust knowing that you know the truth of who you are.

    Deepen the awareness of held conditioned thoughts of who you are not. Anything personal is a separate self concept running in your mind believing that you are personal and separate and you are neither. Try to see where the origin of a separate self (personal you) thought is coming from and let it go as if letting go of a helium filled ballon. What you will find is a myriad of conditioned thoughts of a personal separate you from the time you were a little one and even prior ....such is the silliness of upside down living. This inquiry  brings a deeper understanding of how the personal separate self works, along with with a knowing that it is not you.

Involvement...

We have all heard or given this advice one time or another  "Don't get involved."

Apply this "Don't get involved." to the personal I thought. Any involvement in the separate me, myself and I results in short lived happiness and suffering.

Bloom...

                                        Bloom as you are not what you think you should be.

Making Space...

    That which you are (Essence, Divine, Consciousness) moves through you always, it has never left nor will. How is it that I am unaware of this? Because the belief in a separate, personal I is believed and taken for your reality. The best one can do is see conditioned thought(s) that underly all motivation, see how cause & effect operate within you....action and reaction to any situation are all measurable gages in becoming aware of a conditioned belief system that you are operating from. From here an understanding can be seen how one lives from the program  of "I am separate & life is personal"...if this is truly seen, space is made within you and you will directly know of this space, it will feel peaceful and a relief is had. Expand this space! How do I expand this space? Keep seeing how conditioned thought runs, for most it is automatic but one can "crack the grid" and make space.

     Awakening, Enlightenment, Self Realization is the removal of the dualistic, separate I, personal self lens. You still have to pay your bills and get to work on time! And the external world still operates as it has been.... But where your looking from NOW is done with an ease and lightness. Nothing is taken personally.

The Idea...

     Consciousness, Essence, Divine that you are experiences itself as form, that is all that is happening. Consciousness, Essence, Divine that you are moves through your form as the experincer not you. That is why Jesus said "Of my own self I can do nothing." Meaning, the separate personal I can do nothing because it is not real, it is only an "idea" that you are separate. It is believing in this "idea" that you are separate that causes suffering and the the life of a dualistic nature. See this and you are free from suffering.

                 What moves through you is more powerful than anything you could imagine!

Enough...

 Can you let this moment be enough for you? Can you let this moment, right now be enough for you?

   Go deeper within and let all thought of desires to change this moment pass, slide by and let the moment be enough...because this moment IS enough for you! Each moment is always enough because you are each moment.

Loose yourself to know yourself...

    You will loose yourself to know yourself. There is a death of the personality, the separate I as you know yourself while the body is still alive.

Flick of a Switch....

    If your one who conserves energy by turning off the light switch when leaving a room, then you can use the same style by switching off your thoughts and resting in quiet, changeless stillness...just as a room becomes quiet once the light switch is turned off.

Trust that you have the option to "flick the switch" to your quiet, changeless divine Self now and always.

    If you are trying to make your yourself better and make life happen you are operating under the personal I egoic construct and you can count on suffering. Every thought that you identify as you, every story that you own and every possession you own as a representation of you is not who you truly are...these things all are taken in as ownership of a separate personal I belief system ("system" is the key word here).

A Course In Miracles sums it up perfectly "Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, here in lies the peace of God."