Ego

Just how does Enlightenment/Self-Realization/No-Mind/Liberation happen?


• Lao Tzu's famous poetic Tao Te Ching starts with the words "A way that can be walked is not The Way."

• Realize that it has nothing to do with the intellect or scientific proof, but that of firsthand experiential verification.

• Realize that to truly know, rather than knowing ABOUT, involves BEING that which is to be known.

• Realize that the truth doesn't need the approval of the human ego in order to be truth. Absolute Truth already is what it is. It can't be created by the mind.

• Realize that because of karma, free will and reincarnation, EVERYTHING is perfect as it is, despite all the prevalent negativities in the world.

• Realize that everyone is simply being the level of "truth" that they are currently aware of, and that the truth is only for those who want it.

• Realize that people can't help being that which they are. "Forgive them, for they know not what they do."

• In The Words of Gandhi, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world", and "..lose yourself in the service of others".

• Realize that because everybody and everything is One, we change the world in far greater unseen ways as a result of what we ARE, compared to what we do.

• Realize that separation, duality, polarity and opposites do not actually exist. All is One, which is Self, which just Is.

• Realize that there is no duality of "love" and "evil". There are only varying degrees of the absence of Love/Truth.

• Realize that space, distance, form and time are illusions created by limited, relative and faulty physical senses and ways of thinking.

• Realize that the physical body and the autonomous random repetitive thoughts of the mind are not the real "me" at all.

• Realize that you are the Awareness that is aware of the mind and its comings and goings. The more it's watched, the more it disappears.

• Realize that everything and everyone is One. The observer and the observed are One. The knower and the known are One.

• A Course in Miracles says "...you both HAVE everything and ARE everything."

• Realize that there is no duality, no opposites and no polarity. Nothing can exist outside of Existence, otherwise it wouldn't exist. All is God/Self/Buddha/Atman.

• Realize that even what the mind conceives and conceptualizes as being "nothing", void, unmanifest or formlessness, is still within Existence.

• In the highly evolved The Zen Teaching of Huang Po on the Transmission of Mind, it says "It is an existence which is no existence, a non-existence which is nevertheless existence. So this true Void does in some marvelous way 'exist'."

• Realize that there can only be varying degrees of things within Existence, like degrees on a thermometer.

• Realize that there is no individuality; no "you", "me", "this", "that", "here", "there", "inner", "outer", etc.

• Realize that there is no individual "me", "myself", "mine" or "I."

• Realize that there is no "doer" doing anything, because that would imply there is an "individual" to do something.

• Realize that since All is One, there can be no "other", which means All is Self, or All is I.

• Realize that Enlightenment happens by ITSELF when the little self is left to fall away like a disrobed peice of clothing.

• Realize that there is absolutely NOTHING to be gotten, grasped, gained, obtained or attained because The Absolute/Self/Buddha/God already Is.

• Realize that Awareness, Consciousness and knowing don't require words, concepts, thoughts or thinking.

• Realize that EVERYTHING is an irrelevant concept. All thought and thinking is essentially worthless because Silent Awareness is all-knowing.

• It's really just as "simple" as losing interest in all thought and thinking, right now, and not identifying thoughts as "me", right now.

• Realize that without the ego/mind interfering, everything just IS. Nothing more, nothing less. All perceptions, views, opinions, beliefs, likes and dislikes are irrelevant.

• Realize that The Absolute is not subject to change and even "Is" is an irrelevant concept.

• Realize all of this... but not with words and concepts. Just let go

greybeard wrote:Talk given by "me" on a new web site "Wash Your Brain"
The site is to assist and support people waking up.

Chris

http://www.washyourbrain.org/Wash_Your_Brain/home/Entries/2011/7/27_WAKING_UP!.html

Thank you for sharing that new blog Chris .
Good work .
Great to listen to you

Love from me
mudra

Egoless Relatedness

When two or more people meet who have awakened to the evolutionary impulse, there is the potential for egoless relatedness. And that is what those of us at the leading edge who want to push the boundaries of our own spiritual development need to discover. We have to find a way to meet one another in a place we've never been before, in a higher state of consciousness and a higher stage of development that are unhindered by the influence of the narcissistic ego and the less enlightened values of our modern and postmodern culture. Anyone can experience egoless consciousness in the stillness and solitude of deep meditation. It is easy to be egoless when there's no relationship. But if we want to catalyze evolution in consciousness and culture, in the world of time and space, we need to make the heroic effort to go beyond ego not only when we are sitting quietly but, most importantly, while we are creatively interacting with one another, in the midst of all the complexity of human life.

~ Andrew Cohen

Love Always
mudra

"In spiritual work there is no tangible worldly gain to be acquired, but there is instead an inner reward of pleasure, satisfaction, delight, and even joy.
Goals replace gains as motives.

Spiritual reality is a greater source of pleasure and satisfaction than the world can supply.
It is an endless and always available in the present instead of the future. It is actually more exciting to live on the crest of the current moment instead of on the back of the wave, which is the past, or on the front of the wave which is the future. There is greater freedom from living on the exciting edge of the moment than being a prisoner of the past or having expectation of the future.

If the goal of life is to do the very best one can do at each unfolding moment of existence, then, through spiritual work, one has already escaped the primary cause of suffering. In the stop-frame of the radical present,there is no life story to react to or edit. With this one pointedness of mind it becomes obvious that everything is merely “is as it is” without comment or adjectives.

If in the exact passing moment of each instant, there is a a complete willingness to totally surrender to it, one can suddenly, in a flash, transcending th ego, and the way opens for Realization wherein the Light of God as Self reveals the Source of all Existence and Reality. If the ego has neither past, present, nor future to focus on, it falls silent.
It is replaced by the Silence of the Presence, and thus, the way to sudden enlightenment is available at all times. It occurs naturally when the fascination with the story of the “me” of the past, present, or future is relinquished. The illusion of “Now” is replaced by th reality of “Always”

Question If that strict spiritual practice was followed exactly, wouldn't the “me” die?

Answer Yes it would, When it occurs, there will be no funeral because in Reality, there never was a “me”; it was simply an illusion all the time. When the “me” dies then the real “i” is born into awareness, which is the Unborn----the source of consciousness and existence."


Copied from page 94, I. Reality and Subjectivity by Dr David Hawkins


Chris

David Sereda

His film the voice

You need to be able to download torent

Chris


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I found the youtube videos Chris

David Sereda - The Voice: The Cosmos and the Quantum Universe

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPahkBLAqY&feature=related

part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kQKozu8u2o&feature=related[center]

Love from me
mudra

Eckhart Tolle on karma



http://dev.redwerks.org/ettv/2011/07/eckhart-on-karma/

Some interesting clips here


http://www.eckharttolletv.com/free/#/087008766/Current-Issue-Preview--Evolution-of-Awareness-A-Conversation-With-Neale-Donald-Walsch-Eckhart-Tolle

Buddhism and Christianity
Beautiful talk

Chris

Thanks to Mudra
Young and enlightened
Now is the time
Chris

"Reality does not operate within the framework of ego, and therefore we actually don't know where our lives are headed or what each moment means. In Zen this is called "don't know mind." By coming to know the completely groundless quality of existence, we can learn to see and trust the unanticipated wisdom in each unfolding moment."

-- Dr. Reggie Ray

Love Always
mudra

Chris in your honor I am posting this clip here:

Brilliant man and brilliant words and truth here...

It`s a kind of a miracle for me to travel few thousand miles to see you and to find out this gem which reminds of our conversations. And this is what I always felt ,though tried to escape it only to always return to this very truth that is stated here:




You don`t have to do anything to be enlightened except stop being unenlightened...

The Third Tenet: Face Everything and Avoid Nothing

The Third Tenet of Evolutionary Enlightenment is Face Everything and Avoid Nothing. This tenet points us to our potential to experience unobstructed awareness—awareness that is free from the psychological self-protective habit of avoidance. If you are bold in your spiritual intention, if you dare to heroically aspire to take responsibility for evolution's next step, you simply cannot afford to have your awareness obscured by the ego's need to avoid. Indeed, for those of us who have awakened to the impulse to evolve, and who understand, at least to some degree, that the destiny of the interior of the cosmos is dependent upon our conscious evolution, then cultivating clarity, transparency, and inner freedom becomes a matter of great urgency. If you are deeply committed to this evolutionary endeavor, you will want to face everything and avoid nothing, because the last thing you want to do is to act out of some unconscious motive in such a way that would obstruct your own higher development. You practice the third tenet as if your life depends on it, because when your life is dedicated to the evolution of consciousness and culture, it does.

~ Andrew Cohen

Love Always
mudra

Q one hears the statement that everyone is already enlightened. How is that to be understood?

A It means that the Self is present and potentially discoverable as the basis and essence of ones existence.
The statement is actually an impossibility because it incorrectly defines the understanding of enlightenment, and it also presents the the fallacy of the hypothetical.

To be enlightened is to know the Truth; consequently the the statement that there is a knowingness of Truth in that which does not know the Truth is an incorrect statement .

What could be said to be realistic about the statement is that ultimate Truth awaits within to be discovered.
If seen for what it really is, all languaging is a paradox because nothing can be as it I said to be.
Revelation is a revealed knowingness . It is understood without words or concepts, such as meaning or significance which are merely abstractions.
Neither the Universe or anything in the Universe means anything

Its existence is its meaning

The mind is accustomed to obtaining, getting, deriving, or discovering meaning or information.
In the state of enlightenment all is self revealing of its essence as its existence.

Everything is already what it means.

Truth is the radical solution to epistemology. Ultimately everything is knowable only by virtue of the identity of being it. The conundrums of epistemology can be solve only by elimination of thought because all language is a paradox.
One can take any word and trace it to its roots. How does the the word originate? From where? Is the word the same thing as its meaning? By asking such questions, one is eventually confronted with the ultimate paradox of duality. The radical Reality is that to understand the essence of anything is to know God.
One might say that all languaging is a substitute for God.

Copied from "I" By Dr David Hawkins page 347

Human languages on Earth are much difficult tool to present real information.
Being enlightened is being in light , being in the information, living it ,feeling it.
Darkness is absence of that. It`s second hand life.

Hence God is sending always souls to aid humans to return to light ,to live it.

October 28th Awakening as one

One love / for change.

If you go to u tube you will find
A series of songs by musicians and singers throughout the world.

They have never met yet they play and sing in unison and harmony-- we can do the same.
Its time.

With love Chris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08

Thank You Chris . Love this concept of people uniting across the world through music .
Always very inspiring to listen to them .



Love Always
mudra

Eckhart Tolle interview---- short

Ongoing battle between you and you.

You alone with your ego "friend" helping you out...(yes right!).

The never-ending game when you are a looser.

More you evolve more ego becomes sophisticated.

Re: Enlightenment: The Ego, what is it? How to transcend it.

The Creator wants us to know that we are one with Him.
We are sent challenges each and every day in order that with humility we can seek His help in all things large and small.
Religions teach " Love God and our fellow man"--- all of them.
Love the sinner not the sin.
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"
Through forgiveness, we are forgiven.
Through surrender to Gods will the barriers that the ego has placed between us and knowing the true Self which we already are become surmountable.
Love all serve all is the key to unconditional love.

Enlightenment is the removal of ignorance.
When ignorance of our true Self is removed, the Self shine forth illumined and the world looks entirely different.
Perception is changed by this metamorphism.
The caterpillar has become the butterfly.
The sages say that the whole purpose of life is to be enlightened and thus transcend the wheel of karma and therefore the need to reincarnate over and over again is removed.
Jesus on the cross said "God forgive them for they know not what they do"
In other words they are spiritually ignorant-- they dont know they are one with God.
Time spent removing ignorance is time best spent.
How to remove the ignorance?

Listen to the words of those who are free of ignorance- those who are in the state called enlightenment.
There is a certain energy conveyed by their words, the process is called entrainment, ultimately the Grace of God will happen.
The state of enlightenment has been well documented for thousand of years.
The first know written information on this is in the Vedic literature and has been handed down free to all in many forms via enlightened teachers through out the ages.
They all say the same thing.
We are all waves of the Divine ocean.
Seek and we find that to be true.

Namaste (I greet the God within you)

From a question and answer session with Dr David Hawkins
Page 347 “I” Reality and Subjectivity.

“Q:One hears the statement that everyone is already enlightened : How is that to be understood?

A: It mean the Self is present and potentially discoverable as the basis of one's existence.
The statement is actually an impossibility because it incorrectly defines the understanding of enlightenment, and it also presents the fallacy of the hypothetical.
To be enlightened is to know the Truth, consequently, the statement that there is a knowingness of Truth in that which does not know the Truth is an incorrect statement

What could be said to be realistic about the statement is that ultimate Truth awaits within to be discovered.
If seen If seen for what it is , all languaging is a paradox because nothing can actually be said to be.

Revelation is revealed knowingness. It is understood without without words or concepts, such as meaning or significance which are merely abstractions.
Neither the Universe or anything in the Universe means anything
The mind is accustomed to obtaining getting deriving or discovering meaning or information
In the state of enlightenment all is self revealing of its essence as its existence.
Everything is already what it means.”



There are many authors who talk about enlightenment but are not in that state.
Talking about is not it. (though the information has value)
How can you take people some where you have not been?
If one is serious about the path of enlightenment, the the teaching flowing through such a one is essential as the words carry the energy of enlightenment.

The obstacles are removed and the state naturally shines forth.
Chris
Namaste

Blueprints for awakening


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l3YfquGrHR0#!

I AM THAT
Dialogues of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj


That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings, who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being -- I am that.
Amritbindu Upanishad


That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman -- that thou art.
Sankaracharya


The seeker is he who is in search of himself.

Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The ‘I am this’ is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality.

To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not.

Discover all that you are not -- body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that -- nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.

The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise that you are the limitless being.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj


http://prahlad.org/gallery/nisargada...html#chapter70

http://prahlad.org/gallery/nisargada...html#chapter70