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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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A truly beautiful picture :peace:


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Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction?
Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Kickle]
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May 28th

Before you meditate this morning, ask yourself this question: Is it true that peace is not already here in this moment? As you begin to ask that question seriously, you may start to see certain beliefs pop up that are keeping you locked into the idea that you are somehow separate from peace, God, enlightenment or whatever it is you are seeking. The idea of separateness is entirely thought-created. You literally think into existence the notion that there is a "you" separate from that which you seek. You dream up the idea that you must do something before you can attain something else. In that way, you give yourself more time, which just means more mind. Time is mind. Investigate this for yourself. Notice that you cannot entertain the thought of future attainment without thinking.

Do you see that thought tells you that you need to meditate in order to achieve something? Those thoughts are the only thing obscuring the realization that peace is all there is. God is all there is. Enlightenment is all there is. Under the movement of seeking towards the concepts of peace, God, and enlightenment, the actual truth to which those words are pointing is already here now. Spiritual practices die on their own when it is realized that there is nothing you could ever do to get closer to the divine. You are not separate from it.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 29th

While at work today, notice space. Notice the space within the body, all around you, and in every room. Notice the space between your fingers and around your arm and hands as you reach for an object.

Notice each step wherever you go, even to the bathroom. Just notice one foot in front of the other. Notice the body as it moves towards or away from something or somebody. Notice each time your thoughts appear to be somewhere else, in some dream of time, while life is here in this moment. Notice that you have no control or choice about any of these things. They just happen.

Notice the breath coming in and out of your chest. Notice your head turn when a co-worker calls you by name. Notice any tendency to resist or judge your co-worker while she is speaking to you. Notice that you are the aware space in which your co-worker appears.

Every time you notice what is already happening, attention is here in the space of now. You are recognizing that you are the timeless awareness that is noticing. Don't think of this as a practice in time. Don't believe the idea that you are noticing or being mindful so that you will reach enlightenment later. That's just another thought. Notice that thought. Noticing does not happen in time. Time is arising in the awareness that is noticing.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 30th

No matter what concept is used to point to the ultimate truth, that concept is not it. The words 'this,' God, oneness, non-duality, Brahman, the Tao, enlightenment, liberation, presence, and the divine are merely representations, all of which belong to the world of dualistic form. The truth involves not only form, but also a formless realm that cannot be described. It cannot be described because it is truly without form, meaning beyond or deeper than the level of ideas. It is the transparent essence of life permeating everything. This formless essence appears obscured when there is attachment to the words pointing to this essence.

If you stood next to a tree with a paintbrush and canvas and you painted that tree as realistically as you could, the painting would never be the actual tree. It would lack its formless essence. In the same way, no thought about this truth is the actual truth. At best, it is a representation.

In seeing that this truth is not in the words, the mind stops trying to "get it." It sees that no attempt to understand the truth conceptually will reveal the truth. In that seeing, what is being pointed to with words is revealed to be none other than what you are. This realization is the indescribable truth to which the words God, non-duality, Brahman, the Tao, enlightenment, liberation, presence, and the divine are pointing.

While the truth cannot be reached through a concept, this is not an invitation to drop the search either. Merely believing that you are indescribable is another concept in itself. This truth has to be seen for yourself.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 31st

Oneness is not some fancy belief system or grand philosophy. It is beyond thought. It is a truth that cannot be expressed. It is simply lived effortlessly, naturally, and lovingly.

Kabir once said, "Many understand the drop merging into the ocean but few understand the ocean merging into the drop." Beyond the conceptualization and the experience of oneness, there is an embodiment of oneness. This is the living truth of oneness, embodied in the human form. As the old saying goes, "you will know him by his fruits." It is easy to walk around uttering fancy words such as "it's all one" or "all there is, is being" or even claiming to have experienced this for yourself. But the degree to which one is living in separation and conflict with others and resisting or escaping from what is in this moment is most telling.

The embodiment of oneness is an exalted way of pointing to simple presence itself. When life in this moment is without resistance, conflict, and separation-when love and peace infuse each action and relationship-oneness is embodied. The ocean has merged into the drop.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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June 1st

Man will not find the truth through an idea. He will only chase after the idea. There are a lot of spiritual ideas out there and a lot of clever ways of pointing to truth. But truth is only ever right now because life is only right now. Truth is timeless. 'This' is it.

When spiritual concepts are heard, there is a tendency to identify with the concepts and store them away as memory. There is nothing wrong with memorizing concepts. That is the mind's natural function. But if the ideas are taken to be truth, there is no looking beyond ideas, thought tends to stay stuck in a cycle of seeking confirmation of its content. So the Christian goes looking for Christ. The Hindu looks for Brahman. The Buddhist looks for Buddha nature. This is the "me" looking to confirm its story.

The truth to which all these words are pointing is present awareness. You are the presence from which these ideas come and go. Instead of blindly believing spiritual ideas, question them.

See that the word "truth" is, itself, an idea. Ideas are merely representations, abstractions. Let ideas point you to this moment, then let them die. See that the presence you are in this moment is appearing as every idea. In recognizing that even the greatest ideas about truth are forms appearing and disappearing in formless, present awareness, actual truth is revealed.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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June 2nd

Searching has the element of time in it. It is based on the idea that there is a "you" that must engage in some method or practice to find enlightenment in time (tomorrow or next year). Be clear that time is mind. The notion of "future" arises only as a present thought. Searching happens when this is not seen and instead, the mind chases after concepts. It's like being on a treadmill. It feels like you are going somewhere but really you are just moving your legs, exhausting yourself.

Noticing has a totally different quality than searching. It takes no time at all. Noticing is the present seeing of what is actually here now. What is here is a timeless space in which everything is happening-thoughts, emotions, experiences, states, and situations. This aware space sees the concept "you" searching for the concept "enlightenment" in some other concept called "future." In that sense, time arises in that timeless space. That is just another way of saying that mind itself arises in that space.

So, what is enlightenment if it is not a concept? Is it even real? Yes. Enlightenment is the present recognition that your true identity is this aware space from which thoughts arise, not the thoughts that arise in that space, and that the thoughts do not have a separate existence from the space.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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June 3rd

Does your search for truth involve only mentally weighing and comparing ideas against one another? In searching with the mind, you pick whatever belief provides mental security and a sense of self. You buy into beliefs in order to protect yourself from having to fully face the fear of the unknown. But truth is not about feeling secure. It is about what is true.

Are you afraid that your core beliefs will be threatened if you question them? Anything that is threatened or destroyed by mere questioning is not real. It is only a belief you are holding onto so that you do not have to fully face your fear of the void.

Hidden within every belief is doubt and fear. Doubt is mental uncertainty about your belief that is repressed so that the belief can continue. Fear is like the energetic glue in the body that holds the belief together. In questioning a belief, awareness is finally able to see the hidden mental doubt and the fear that unconsciously fuels the belief. By seeing fear directly, without the veil of mental analysis, the fear is seen to be merely raw energy. In that seeing, fear dissipates naturally. It is seen that there was a false self invested in that belief. As the belief falls away, there you are, pure presence. Free of the need for a false mind-created self based soley in fear. That is truth.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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I just wanted to drop in to say that these meditations are fantastic.  :thumbup:


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: deCypher]
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June 4th

Simple presence is the total allowing of what is already happening. As you get ready for work or to go wherever you are going this morning, notice what is happening totally beyond your control. Thoughts are appearing. Emotions are happening. Perhaps there is tiredness or grumpiness, but it's just happening involuntarily. You aren't choosing any of these things.

As you are getting ready, notice that your arm involuntarily and spontaneously moves towards the closet to find clothes to wear. You don't have to give the command, "Arm! Move to the closet!" The moving of the arm just happens. Notice that, even if there was a thought prior to moving the arm such as, "I need to find something to wear," that thought arose spontaneously and involuntary also. It came out of nowhere.

Life is happening completely on its own. The mental voice that arises to resist, manipulate, and change what is happening is what creates the suffering and seeking. It creates the illusion that you have control over what is happening. In seeing that even the voice that arises to resist, manipulate, and change happens beyond your control, there can be a natural resting into what is. That is simple presence. No one brings it about. It happens completely on its own through noticing that life is happening to you. You are not bringing it about. In that seeing, the suffering and seeking energy is released.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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June 5th

Be clear about what awareness is. Take a moment to pick two objects within your view in the room. Make sure the objects are at least three feet apart. Let's say it's a lamp and a door. When you are looking only at the door, there is focused attention. For the most part, attention is directed primarily at the object while the surrounding objects seem vague in the periphery.

Now, instead of focusing on one of the particular objects, notice the space that holds or allows both objects but is focused on neither object. This is a gentle space that simply allows. It isn't focused on the lamp or on the door. This space just recognizes itself as that which allows those two objects, and all other objects in the room, to just be as they are. This is spacious awareness. It is what knows the present moment directly. This is what you are.

When you notice thoughts, emotions, experiences, states, or other objects or movements, it is not an invitation to place focused attention on those objects or movements. It is an invitation to recognize this spacious awareness and see that these things are appearing and disappearing in it. As you become comfortable knowing that this awareness is what you are, it is realized that the objects or movements in awareness are not separate from awareness.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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June 6th

It is easy to turn our practice into a philosophy or spiritual path leading to some future attainment. The mind gets preoccupied in the drive to understand conceptually or to have a powerful spiritual experience or shift. Turning the realization to which these words are pointing into a philosophy or spiritual path is an act of mental reductionism. These words are pointing to simple presence, which is available only now. This presence is not a thought or a goal in time. Thoughts and goals arise from presence.

Although the recognition that presence is what you are may happen gradually, the only point of entry, so to speak, is this moment.

The recognition is apparently delayed by trying to figure out non-duality through thought and by seeking some future attainment of it. The recognition is only available when focus turns away from trying to mentally grasp spiritual awakening and chase future attainment, and towards the simple presence that is aware of what is arising right now.

In seeing what is arising right now, it appears that identification with spiritual ideas and goals delays or obscures presence. This presence is immediately available as the very life that you are before you try to grasp what that means conceptually or reach towards some future experience. In reality, that presence cannot be truly delayed or obscured by anything because it is appearing as everything, including as every thought and goal.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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June 7th

People claim to want peace. They engage in spiritual methods, adopt belief systems, protest wars, express opinions, join groups devoted to bringing inner or outer peace and take other actions to bring about peace in their lives or for the world.

Most efforts to bring about peace involve doing some action now in the hope that it will bring about peace at some future point. Peace cannot be found in the future. "Future" is just a presently arising thought.

The peace that is being pointed to is so directly and immediately available that it is overlooked every time there is identification with thought, emotion, or some other finite form that is arising including the idea that you must do something now in order to find peace later. Peace is rest and this rest is realized only in this moment in the direct recognition of present, formless awareness. In that recognition, it is seen that every movement comes from that restful awareness and is not separate from it. In that seeing, there is no longer identification with the movement. Everything, every movement, is allowed to be exactly as it is.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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June 8th

Thought dreams up a center known as "me." That dream is all about what happened in the past to "me," and how I am not satisfied with what is happening right now to "me."

The word humility points to the absence of attachment to that stream of thought. In this realization, thoughts still arise but the energy of attachment releases. It is realized that there is no center to life. There is great love and freedom in that release.

You can philosophize for years about the meaning of the word humility without ever tasting the real truth to which the word points. To realize humility, simply notice in each moment when thought is in past, future, or resistance to now. Notice thoughts of wanting to be right, wanting to be someone special in relation to someone else including higher, better, smarter, or more spiritual than another. Notice thought's tendency to "one-up" someone, especially in a debate.

In being aware of this thought movement, its self-centered nature is seen. The sense of a separate self is seen as a dream of thought. What is left is awareness. Awareness is naturally humble. The story of "you" cannot achieve humility. Humility happens only in the absence of attachment to that story.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Dude is this awesome.
Thanks man keek it up !:laugh:


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: rainhawk]
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"You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being, then you get displeased to be only a limited creature, then you begin spiritual practices to transcend those non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them?"

-Ramana Maharshi

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Nice one.

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Middleman]
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June 9th

There are many spiritual methods and belief systems that promise future fulfillment, hapiness, money, or success. If you look closely, the whole idea that you can gain something from spirituality is based on a false premise, which is that there is some "you" who lacks something.

Although you may be able to employ practices or hold beliefs that make you happier or more successful, mature spirituality is realizing that life is not about you or what you can get. As long as you seek enlightenment, enlightenment is unavailable. In seeking, you act from the false concept that you are a separate self that lacks something. It is that very concept that creates the need for a search.

Enlightenment is the realization that there is no one who can become enlightened. There is only life and you are THAT. No division at all. In that seeing, your entire resistance to what is vanishes and the deepest truth of spirituality is revealed. The truth is impossible to express. But be clear that it isn't about personal gain. If anything, it is about the loss of something. The loss of your self. In that loss, there is great freedom, love, joy, and peace.


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