Grace...Happy New Year

Step into the New Year in the embodiment of Grace for that is what you are. Grace needs no identification as you already are Grace! 

Your here and now are gifts that you as Grace offer to this world at every moment. Thank you!

Drop the story...

      When you see that you are not the myriad of stories you think you are and truly drop the "story" identification you will see that nothing ever happened to you. Ahhhh... liberation and freedom are yours (as they have always been)!

NOW...

Now, the "now" that many teachers refer too is not a moment in time. You are the now! The now is seamless...see for yourself. 
When you awoke this morning it was now.
When you sipped your coffee/tea/juice it was now.
When you showered it was now.
Reading this blog is now.
The "now" is always present. Drop into the now...Now!

Ps The reverse spelling is won! 

Yes and No...

   Let every "yes" and every "no" that arises in you come from love and understanding. Know the difference of an ego "yes and "no" and the "yes and "no" that arises from the heart.

Know that you know unequivocally the truth of a "yes" and "no" response!

Root...

       Here, now is the root of your being. Start each moment from knowing you are here, now. It is the only experience that you can know for sure. I am here, now.

Be changeless...

      Thought imposes a concept/naming on everything we see, hear, taste and touch. All things named are marly concepts/ideas placed on objects becoming subjective and/or objective...all from mind.
Observe how mind works, see it's quick conditioning of naming, see how it always appears to know something... Be the observer who is aware of how mind comes and goes. Be the changeless observer who does not come and go.

Knowing no lack, no limitation...

To know the truth of who you are is to look at everything that you are not. Your truth knows no lack nor limitation. If you are feeling any lack or limitation than this needs to be delved into.

Locating the root/source where a believed lack or limitation is held allows one to see through all beliefs of lack and limitations as a smoke screen.The light in you that is already shinning is known and there is deep peace, joy!

Know that you know.

Natural Living...

    Awakening is not the peak, the end all be all, in fact it is just the beginning of knowing your true nature (one might say the first step). From here there is a rewiring, a consolidation of sorts with perceptions, sensing and feelings. In the dawn of awakening, peace, joy, bliss infinite love are known, from this knowing understanding begins the expansion of the true human being.

Make no war...

  Make no war or justification with your thoughts and you will know the ease of thoughts coming and going. Make no war with your thoughts and all resistance disappears. 

Express Your True Self...

   Knowing your true nature and expressing this to the best of your ability is the greatest gift one can give to humanity.

Love...

   Love is the absence of any distance. Falling in love, loving a friend, child, animal, neighbor, co-worker, those whom we meet and don't don't know, etc. are all the same love that knows no distance. Expressions and relationships with each individual body/mind will be different yet the essence of love (that which you truly are) is always ever present.

As love, human~kind is expressed in a myriad of kind ways. As human~beings, it is the beingness, the common ground that we all share, known as love!

Story...

   You are not the story of your past, present or future. You were never a story. Drop the story tale living and you will smile at the nonsense of it all!

Go no where...

      It is only in the present moment where you will discover your true nature. Go no where internally nor externally. Be still, present and alive!

The Light...

   You are always drawn to the light. Every object, persons and situation that has a pull for you is showing you the light. You are in love with the light. Mind may tell you otherwise but you are a grown up now and know better.

                       You are the ever present awareness that is aware. Who is truly reading these words...

Freedom...

        You are free the moment you stop identifying as a separate self. 

Q.) How does one stop identifying as a separate self?

A.) Go prior or go to the source before thought, feelings and sensations.

Q.) How does one go prior or go to the source before thought, feelings and sensations?

A.) Be still, quiet, where ever you are, let thoughts, feelings and sensations happen, let it all move through you, let it all come and go and place your attention on that which is the knower, the known of  all thoughts, feelings and sensations.

In time there will be no thought, feeling, sensation that can bother nor touch you and from here you will taste and know freedom.

Landscape...

   You do not awake each day and appear in the landscape of life. You are part of the landscape of life. See this and know that you know.

Truth...

    To truly seek the truth one will be challenged with each belief one holds. It is from here that one begins to taste and know freedom. Be absolutely honest with your seeking truth. 

    Bettering yourself is mind trying to be better. Seeking truth is seeking the the true nature of that which you are. Be absolutely clear on the difference here.

    What changes externally can never touch you. When your attention is given to a thought and it is believed in, this believed thought super imposes (veils) reality and it appears that you are experiencing a personal self in relationship to an outside world. Can you see this?

   You are the deep, still, unchanging silence that allows everything. You are playing in the finite world but you are not of it.

You are the Light...

   You are the light that is always shinning! If the moon says "I am the warm light that shines upon the earth." Do you believe this? No. The moon merely reflects the sun's light that is always shinning.

   You are not a reflection nor a relative truth, you are truly the Light that is always shinning. The sun never says hmmm I think I will shine today, it's nature is to shine, always...just as your true nature is. Know that you know and shine on!

Knowing...

      The only thing you can ever be sure of IS awareness. Test this out for yourself. Anything else other than awareness will be a conditioned idea, perception, thought. Have a great "awareness"day!

Awareness of Being...

           Awareness of Being is simply being aware of that which you are, Awareness. Awareness Itself is unchanging, infinite knowing Awareness.
            You are aware of seeing.
            You are aware of hearing.
            You are aware of tasting.
            You are aware of smelling.
            You are aware of thoughts.
            You are aware of feelings.
            You are aware of sensations.
Being Aware is what you are....stay Aware! 

Silence...

                  Everything arises from silence, returns to silence is silence.
                             You are silence... Get to know yourself!


ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, from Latin silentium, fromsilere ‘be silent.’

Silence...

   Pure silence is always is present. When you give your attention to a concept (thought) you are out of pure present silence and in the past. Drop back into silence, it is here where the heart is opened and peace resides.

Just as the sun is always shinning, one must turn to the sun to see its light... so must you turn inward to silence where the heart is always shinning to know your own light.

Moments...

   Wanting any moment to be other than it is, is resistance. The ever present moment happens before you can even decide if you like it or not...it is only thought that interjects an idea onto the moment...let all moments rest as they are...when you do it is here that you bloom and shine like a sunflower!

 

Who...

There is no personal self seeing ...then who is seeing?
There in no personal self hearing ...then who is hearing?
There is no personal self sensing ...then who is sensing?
There is no personal self that is moving ...then who is moving?
Who is it that is aware of it all with this form?

Self Inquiry begins here. Be still, be patient, be quiet and the answers above are revealed.

Peace...

   When you are no longer invested in your thoughts, it is here that deep peace can arise. What action that needs to happen will come from your natural self... not a thought.

Meeting Yourself...

Always...you meet yourself in everyone and everything. Hence the understanding/knowing of abundance!

Sticks and stones...

             "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."

   This was an ever present saying of mine (and everyone else's) as a youngster when ever my feelings were hurt or when I had no 'come back' for a situation that involved name calling. How much truth it holds!

By definition words are; a single distinct conceptual unit of language, comprising inflected and variant forms. Nothing more.

 There is no word(s) that can hurt, scar or cause us pain unless we give it meaning/belief to do so. On who's behalf do words affect? This is Self Inquiry.

Turning inward...

   Self Inquiry takes the place of turning inward and seeing the true nature of a separate self (a mind/body) that we believe ourselves to be. Once we are divested of all the separate self's imposed limitations it is from here that the true infinite limitless self is known.

Awakening...

      Awakening, enlightenment is not an event that happens. It is not something that will happen to you. It is simply a knowing awareness that you are aware of awareness itself. You can do this right now. Relax, again relax, relax again... are you aware? Yes! How do you know your aware? The senses tell you that you are aware, any subject object brought in is the mind defining the moment and attention is with thought. Be aware, its simple, because you are awareness Itself, you never have not been awareness. The mind would prefer an experience much more grandiose...Be Awareness.

Rest here...

   If you understand the metaphors;
              You are the water not the wave.
              You are the sky not the clouds.
Than you can understand, You are consciousness not thought nor object, you are it all. Rest here.

Guarantee...

There is nothing external that can give you lasting happiness and peace no matter what you create or have been given. To believe this to be so is the separate self seeking external desires, that at best are temporary. Can you see this?

Can you catch yourself saying I will finally be at peace when, I will be truly happy when, I will be in a better place when, I will be better off when I...

The good news is, You are the peace you seek. You are the happiness you desire! Rest in this knowingness... truly an eternal guarantee!

Always OK...

     You are always OK, in fact the natural you is always deep peace, stillness, happiness...you are never not the natural you. Mistaken identity is merely a misunderstanding of who you think you are. Know that you know. There is not a "you" that discovers this, it is this mistaken identity of a "you" that falls, melts away revealing your natural Self that has never left. Ode to Joy, there is nothing else!

Shine...

        Thoughts have been running the show for a long time. Let all thought gently drop into  quietness, sink like a weighted lure... from this place see what transpires, inspires. It is here the true nature of the Self is revealed, known. It is here that your Being shines...it has always been shinning!

Knock knock...

                                                       Knock knock.
                                                       Who's there?
                                                        I AM.
                                                        I AM who?

      Discover this for yourself and you will delight in the best "knock knock" joke ever!

Always...

No matter how torn, worn, stepped on, used, abused, broken and devastated you may feel...Know without a shadow of a doubt that you are truly none of it. Deep within, Always, you are peace. This peace has never left you and never will.

Distraction Attraction...

                          See the laws of distraction attraction at play and you are out of it...
                                               You will delight in what arises from here!

Coming and going...

    Much of ones life is spent coming and going...just as all feelings and thoughts come and go too. Discover what does not come and go within you, and you will discover deep serenity that has always been...you are that!

Choice...

                       All choices are nothing more than a thought...you are not your thoughts.

Dropping...

"All that you give you give to yourself." In dropping the personal separate self identity this is understood...and all is effortless.

Dropping...

    If you are caught in your own drama or offering support of another's drama you are deepening the concept of a personal separate self. Drop the concept of a personal separate self, from this dropping you can only offer love and be love, a far greater gift to all humanity!

Beauty...Love...

       All things are beauty, all others are love. 
       Love and beauty are one in the same.

No Disturbance...

  There are no circumstances that can disturb the peace and happiness that you are. So... if you are disturbed by your circumstances then who is it that is being disturbed? Look into this deeply and identify the one who is being disturbed. What do you find? You are not that!

You...

   You are always peace, You are always happiness, You are always bliss, You are always stillness, You are always abundant... you are Always! You cannot not be what you truly are ... so what's up? Drop all thought, and let your senses be purely present. See, hear, taste, smell and touch without a single thought identifying, classifying, categorizing, analyzing, judging and you will know your true natural Self! Loving life for life itself is simple... be still, quiet and smile.

Me, Myself and I...

   A concept, by definition is an abstract idea; a general notion. It's origin comes from 'thought, frame of mind, imagination': from Latin 'something conceived.' Me, Myself and I is nothing more than a concept, an idea believed to be real. Inquire into this concept...

Thoughts...

    All thoughts are independent to your existence. All thoughts come and go...they are like ripples on the the surface of water looking for water and you are the water.

 

Knowing...

      The only thing that is truly happening is Awareness being aware of itself through the play of form. You are that Awareness and nothing else.

      The direct experience of knowing your true self is not an experience that can be known through the separate self identity (mind/body), it is in essence the Awareness that simply knows itself here, now. There is not a knower who knows, there is only knowing!

There is no activity or practice that can enlighten, awaken or transform you, as you already Are! Yet an activity or practice can help you see what you are not. 

Impact...

                                         Thoughts only impact the personal I (ego).