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Daily Meditations With Appleorange
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A friend emails me something to meditate upon everyday and I thought I would begin sharing his emails with all of you on here.

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Do not think of being as an object. Thought deals mainly in objects. Through the use of concepts, the mind divides this One reality into seperate parts. This is why the spiritual search happens. The mind believes that there is a person (object) separate from being (another object). This creates the misconception that you must take steps in time to recognize being. That is the time-bound spiritual search.

Don't think of being as a noun. Consider it a verb, as in be-ing. What does it mean to just be?

Be-ing is a timeless essence. It has no beginning or end because it is not an object. It is tempting to say that this being permeates everything. But that really isn't accurate. This being is none other than everything. It is an essence be-ing every thought, state, emotion, and experience. The very movement of trying to understand, conceptually, this reflection is being be-ing a movement in thought.

Being is not about a denial of doing things. In being, it is recognized that there is no doer. Doing continues to happen. But there is a realization that there is no person separate from being who needs to find something. There is only being be-ing the thought that this finding needs to happen.


Edited by c0sm0nautt (05/08/10 11:26 AM)

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Be your Self :thumbup:


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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I used to have a bumper sticker than said "Enjoy Being" :thumbup:

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Arden]
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Thats the joke of all this, awakening is just fully Being
Most beings are still 99% focused on becoming, become this, get bored, become that...
The next book, the next philosophy, the  idea of 'growth' itself...

Finding total satisfaction in the fact that you exist is happiness, and extreme gratitude  :grin:


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Edited by Chronic7 (05/07/10 02:57 PM)

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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If there is no doer, what can anyone do to see there is no doer?
If there is no doer, what can anyone do to make it seem as though there is?


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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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Exactly
No identity as doing, only Being



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Edited by Chronic7 (05/07/10 03:09 PM)

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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But that also means that if you do identify as being a doer, you're not really the one doing it.
And there is nothing you can do about that situation.


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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: Chronic7]
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Chronic777 said:
Thats the joke of all this, awakening is just fully Being
Most beings are still 99% focused on becoming, become this, get bored, become that...
The next book, the next philosophy, the  idea of 'growth' itself...

Finding total satisfaction in the fact that you exist is happiness, and extreme gratitude  :grin:


People are chasing ashrams around India, or expensive yoga classes, or esoteric scriptures in Sanskrit... only to later arrive at the enlightening ability to wash dishes just for the beautiful sake of washing dishes. :grin:

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Kickle]
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Kickle said:
But that also means that if you do identify as being a doer, you're not really the one doing it.
And there is nothing you can do about that situation.


Theres nothing you can do apart from see that there is nothing you can do
And that is a great seeing

Although beings just feel that they have to do something, have to hold to something
I'd say hold to the one thing that breaks holds on everything, hold to the Self
But its not attachment, as its like saying hold to space, theres nothing to sink your claws into

The more the mind can hold to the Self the more space, clarity & happiness manifest as experience
But dont hold to them either, just to the Self!


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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But changing from doing to seeing is doing something.
It is a change that you cause.
Which is all I've ever heard the word "do" to mean; causing change, making happen.

And if that's the case, then we can do things.
We can be doers.

If we can't do anything, we're puppets to circumstances/karma.
Until the right stuff comes along, we're helpless.

Further, if we cannot do anything, how can we possibly better our karma?
We can't do anything to better or worsen it.

Edited by Kickle (05/08/10 01:55 PM)

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

Notice the desire to suppress, deny, avoid, or escape so-called "negative" feelings and states such as anger, sadness, boredom, loneliness, anxiety, grief, lack, and frustration. Also, notice the desire to maintain or recreate so-called "positive" feelings and states such as love, joy, happiness, contentment and excitement.

This movement to avoid the negative and seek the positive is the spiritual search. Whenever that movement is happening, a spiritual search is in place.

Oneness does not deny anything. Everything is included. Oneness is not about reaching a future positive state. It is the recognition that what you are is nothing being everything, every state and emotion.

In noticing this movement to avoid the negative and seek the positive in the moment it arises, the movement quiets. What is happening in that quieting is a recognition of what you really are. You are an unnamable, unchanging opening (also called 'being' or 'non-dual awareness') that never moves or changes. In recognizing what you really are, it is seen that these movements are temporary expressions that appear in that opening. These movements, whenever they appear, are included and seen as not other than what you are.

In this noticing, it is realized that there is nowhere to go. There is only this opening and whatever is appearing in it. Everything is allowed to be exactly as it is, whether it feels good or bad. That is the end of the search.


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

In regards to enlightenment or non-duality, it can appear that teachers and books are pointing to a state in which one sits quietly without much thought arising and without much happening. A moment of sitting quietly without thought and action is just a passing state. Although that state is possible, 'This' includes everything.

Almost anything that is said about enlightenment is a trap because it is not a particular experience, state, idea, or feeling.

'This' is a boundless quiet essence appearing as everything that happens. Every form, thought, feeling, experience, and state. 'This' is One appearing as many. 'This' includes obnoxious rap music, creating artistic projects, cooking an elaborate meal, taking a vacation, working all day, engaging in a passionate hobby, walking through the loud city streets with hundreds of people around you, agonizing in pain from an illness or injury and anything and everything else.

It is a present realization that includes even the story of being a separate person, but one that is ultimately free from the attachment to that story. In that seeing, who you really are, beyond your name, form, and history, lives itself fully in this life in whatever way that happens naturally and effortlessly. It may be sitting quietly without thought. It may be feeling frustrated at work. Whatever is happening to no one. That is real freedom.


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

Understanding cause and effect can be confusing if not seen from the proper perspective. The mind deals only in cause and effect. It deals in story, in time. In thought, there is a "you" who has come from the "past" and is going towards a "future." It seems logical to believe that "you" can reach enlightenment, happiness, or something else in the future, that there is action you can take today to reach something tomorrow.

All of that is purely conceptual. There is a timeless awareness here that sees the story of cause and effect as an appearance in awareness. The story of cause and effect arises uncaused. It arises involuntarily and spontaneously.

The notion of a "you" that is coming to some "future state" is merely a product of involuntary, dualistic thought. Thought is not independent of awareness. Without awareness, the story of cause and effect cannot arise. Recognizing timeless awareness is the doorway to non-dual realization. Recognizing timeless awareness is not a doing in time. You cannot do something now to reach awareness later. Timeless awareness is not subject to cause and effect. It is not subject to time. Recognizing timeless awareness is an end in and of itself: the direct, present recognition of the awake space from which the story of cause and effect involuntarily and spontaneously arises.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Kickle]
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Kickle said:
But changing from doing to seeing is doing something.
It is a change that you cause.



I don't feel that as totally true
At times i may at first have the feeling that i am 'doing' inquiry/meditation
When the meditation unfolds & i see from the correct perspective, its the centre that was drawing the mind in

Kickle said:
If we can't do anything, we're puppets to circumstances/karma.
Until the right stuff comes along, we're helpless.

Further, if we cannot do anything, how can we possibly better our karma?
We can't do anything to better or worsen it.


Its actually the idea of 'doing' that causes our sense of self to be a puppet of karma
The idea of doership is the exact same thing that accumalates karma, that sense, that feeling of doing, is what causes karma to collect
If you allow things to happen without the sense of doership then the wheel of karma is broken
The highest goal of karma, dharma, sadhana is to burn off karma, to end it, not to collect more 'better' karma

Its not that im saying you can not do anything, im saying what you truly are has never done anything
Your true nature is Awareness that is beyond the attainment of the mind

It is a commonly held truth within vedanta that the idea of doership is the very thing that keeps one on the rebirth cycle, in samsara
Im not saying 'vedanta says it, so it must be true', im just letting you know that im not talking out my arse here :wink:


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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Around the middle of this video mooji touches on the whole misunderstanding of trying 'to do' attaining 'this'



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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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What's really at the base of this dialogue, is free will.
Are you just along for the ride? Or can you control what happens?
Can you control what happens externally?
Can you control what happens internally?

If neither, you have no free will. You cannot do anything. You can only watch.

I tend to think it's not so. We can control what happens internally, at least to a certain degree. We influence it. And this in turn influences what happens externally. Which is to say that I can both do and be. Being a doer is not a bad thing IMO.


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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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Kickle said:
What's really at the base of this dialogue, is free will.
Are you just along for the ride? Or can you control what happens?
Can you control what happens externally?
Can you control what happens internally?

If neither, you have no free will. You cannot do anything. You can only watch.

I tend to think it's not so. We can control what happens internally, at least to a certain degree. We influence it. And this in turn influences what happens externally. Which is to say that I can both do and be. Being a doer is not a bad thing IMO.


The most enjoyable way of control that i've come across is paradoxically not controlling anything
In a way not controlling anything is still a kindof control, temporary effort, in that its not going with the usual mindstate
To that extent i can control what happens internally, and it does have great benefit for external things aswell
I just feel that all of that comes out of not trying to control, not holding onto anything, as then everything flourishes

There is a space that is only watching and not attached to anything, and i've found that to be myself
That this 'person' and everything it does, says, and sees, is all the creation of mind
That all this movement of illusion is happeneing by itself, theres no reason to hold to it in any way and try to control it
Theres a sortof control of the mind to remain as this original space, but that space is not controlling anything
So looking at the nature of mind is like a knot that unties itself into emptiness
The doing is an un-doing until you are totally un-done

“Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth!
House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again”
Buddha


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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To be is to do, and to do is to be, so let's all smoke a doobie. :stoned:

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Arden]
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May 10th

Stop and look at life for one moment without thought. In just that one glimpse, life does not fall away. There it is in vivid detail. No thought is necessary to describe it. In fact, no thought describes it anyway. What is, is what is, before any words come to describe or define it. This one glimpse is oneness. It is the direct experience of reality without the veil of thinking.

This reality is seamless. Although there are lines, textures, colors, and forms that create the appearance of separation, there is no true boundary between any two things. Everything seamlessly bleeds into everything else. This glimpse of the seamless oneness is a glimpse into what you really are. You are this one life before life is described and defined.

As thought returns to describe and define what is seen, notice that thought divides this one life into fragments. It pictures a sky, as if the sky is separate from the earth. It pictures a desk, as if the desk is separate from the floor. This is what thought does. It creates the appearance of boundaries that are not really there.

Reality is one seamless whole. Be clear that thought creates the illusion of separation. Once this is clear, the recognition of oneness is not obscured by thought as it returns.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 11th

You are not any thought, feeling, reaction, role, identity, title, job position, belief, perspective or any other thing that appears within the field of awareness. You are that which sees those objects. You are what is looking. Notice any and all objects that arise in the field of awareness. See that none of those objects are you. Once you realize yourself as that which is looking, and no longer mistake yourself to be any object in awareness, you know who you truly are.

You know that no description, concept, thought, story, or belief can ever capture who you truly are, not even the words "awareness" or "oneness." Even the phrase "you are what is looking" is an object in awareness. The words human being, enlightenment, child of God, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, spiritual seeker or spiritual teacher are little stories or relative truths. They too are objects floating in awareness. You are not any of those thoughts. Thoughts are abstractions. They are signs or ideas pointing to an unnamable presence that is here prior to, during, and after thoughts arise and fall. No matter what you think about life, yourself, or God, that thought is temporarily arising and falling in awareness.

Do you see that you are a mystery? Do you see that even the word "mystery" is an abstraction, a little idea arising and falling in the field of awareness?


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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There is no one in the room. All there is is what is happening.

This idea gave me a glimpse of understanding that made my eyes a little teary... Thanks for this one.  :sunny:

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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appleorange said:
Even the phrase "you are what is looking" is an object in awareness.



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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Is the idea of an 'object' an 'object' in an awareness? These are fantastic thought exercises, but they still require a syntax to be understood by whatever we are, or I are, as happening right a few seconds ago before I finished this sentence?

Can we think of the 'syntax', (mathematics for physics, dialect for locality, language for region; things that outlast the participants that express their perspective as individual), as some dormant tortoise that lives for hundreds of years opposed to ourselves as human beings that can expect nowhere above 140*365 days to look from this perspective? And is that a simile or a metaphor, according to today's syntax?

If all of this is "oneness", than is there room somewhere we, (as one), cannot see where we might find: (twoness), (threeness), (fourness), (negative nthness), (square-root of negative 1ness)? Would they all be "happening" at a similar rate?

The way this perspective sees it, many people in that room on that video stopped looking as they were given this information. That relates to this perspective as religion often does, to placate the desire to look at the uncomfortable thoughts with a looping belief, ("This is all happening, there is no one"). What if there IS another one? What if there is a (negative square-root of one) amount of other 'ones' capable of 'oneness'?

Keep this thread coming.



~Monk

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: numonkei] * 1
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Quote:
If all of this is "oneness", than is there room somewhere we, (as one), cannot see where we might find: (twoness), (threeness), (fourness), (negative nthness), (square-root of negative 1ness)? Would they all be "happening" at a similar rate?


The idea of an object is still the idea of an object in awareness. Just as the idea of awareness is still an idea in the awareness itself. Which is why you often hear of 'this' referred to as the nameless, unborn, or that which cannot be spoken of.

Lao Tzu said:

The Tao produced the One.
The One produced the two.
The two produced the three.
And the three produced The Ten Thousand Things.

While 'this' all appears separate and fragmented, no "thing" exists in and of itself apart from the totality. All divisions and separations are mind-made and exist only as a concept still within the totality itself.

Just look at your own conception for example, when did you officially become a person?

1. As an unfertilized egg?
2. A fertilized egg?
3. 2 weeks after conception?
4. 2 months after conception?
5. Or when your mother actually gave birth to you?

If we could film the process of conception, beginning with the fertilized egg and ending with the person's birth, at one point in the film could you say "stop! this is when I officially became a person!"

Or take a chair being eaten away by termites for example. If you just quietly watched termites eating away at a chair, at what point could you say "stop! this chair is officially no longer a chair!"

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Keep this thread coming.


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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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Numonkei,

Here's something you can practice in your spare time.

Next time you go outside, look at a flower. While looking at the flower imagine something in your mind, it can be anything, a car, a house, a friend, whatever.

Notice that the flower you are looking at and the image in your mind are both seen simultaneously. Where is the line that divides the thoughts in your mind from the objects you perceive outside of your self?

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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I like that exercise!

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Arden]
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Yeah, very interesting indeed.  :congrats:


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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 12th

The ego is unconscious and therefore blind to its own conflict and its habitual tendency to project that conflict out into the world. It makes itself right and others wrong including other people, religions, belief systems, political parties, and countries. The world is a reflection of the egoic mind. The healing of the conflict in the world does not occur through activism if that activism is itself oppositional and based in right versus wrong. True healing occurs through non-dual realization.

In each instance in which there is attachment to a belief that separates those who buy into the belief from those who do not, a separate identity is created. There is a sense of self invested in that belief system. You create an illusory mental boundary between yourself and others. In that moment, you are conflict itself. In seeing the conflict within your own mind the moment it arises, the mind quiets. You realize your natural state as peace. When peace is realized within, you are no longer projecting conflict out into the world.



Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 13th

The ego is simply mind movement. It is an escape from present awareness into past, future, and resistance to now. It is escape into a mental and emotional dream that creates a center called "you." This center sees itself as separate from others and from the rest of life. In order to keep self-centeredness alive, the dream has to keep dreaming itself. It does this through more escaping. Escape is resistance to what is.

Resistance, depression, and anxiety can be your greatest teacher though. It reveals the details of the mental and emotional self-centered story.

"When Heaven wants to perfect a great man, it tries him in every possible way until he comes out triumphantly from all his painful experiences."

-Mencius


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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"Life isn't yours. You are life."

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: c0sm0nautt]
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May 14th

In the egoic dream, you believe that life is supposed to be the way you think it should be. Your story of self is being projected out into the world. For example, thought tells you that the car in front of you should be driving faster. In reality, that car is moving at exactly the speed it is moving.

Thought tells you that your wife should not bitch about you never lowering the toilet seat. In reality, your wife is doing exactly what she is doing.

To argue with what is arising right now is insane. Your thoughts of others seem to be objectively true but they aren't. They result from an interpretation that is entirely personal. This personal interpretation is like a filter through which life is viewed. That filter is constantly arguing with what is. This mental arguing is a recipe for suffering and conflict. It creates a separation that is not really there.

Unconditional love, peace, and freedom are realized when you see this dream of self as it is being projected outward.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 15th

I'm writing this letter to you today as a bird. It's a good day to be a bird, spring is here, the sun is shining and I am singing a beautiful song for all the world to hear. Unfortunately, my friend is a little delusional this morning, somehow he got it into his head that he is a monk.

I exclaimed how nice it was of him to fetch me straw and help build this nest of ours, but he just cast me a glance and mumbled "what the hell are you talking about..." Since when could birds speak I say! I thought that was something only monks could do.

Let's pretend we're monks again appleorange for the sake of understanding. Bird speak is a little confusing for most.

You see, monks have bought into this idea of subjectivity and objectivity. Which basically means that they believe they are a person inside a body perceiving a world that is outside the body. The idea seems plausible enough at first, but it quickly gives way under a little scrutiny and common sense.

Imagine you are being born for the first time. It is morning in this particular case and some birds are chirping outside your window. No knowledge has come into your possession as of yet, you are a blank slate, pristine unadulterated awareness. Everything around you "just is." You're not sure what the feet in front of you even are, let alone where they end and where the bed begins. You haven't even tried to move your feet yet because you don't even know that they are "your" feet.

Your attention is suddenly drawn to the birds chirping outside. In this moment, could you say that the birds are any less you than the feet you see in front? If so, how? What could possibly differentiate your feet from the birds' song? Only the idea that they are "your" feet I imagine.

We could all be birds, but most people settle for being feet sadly, or even worse, a monk.


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

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Arden]
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May 16th

Spirituality is not separate from the rest of life. Thought tends to fragment life into illusory compartments, separated by illusory boundaries. For example, to thought, there is a clear distinction between "working" and "spiritual practice." It is very easy to believe that spirituality is happening only when you are meditating, reading a spiritual book, or chanting.

There is only one spirit, animating all of life in a beautiful array of forms. Notice the ways in which you are acting as if your spiritual life or practice is somehow separate from your work life, personal life, or family life. Only the mind makes these illusory distinctions. It believes that meditation is spiritual but work is not, or chanting is spiritual but sex is not, or a monastery is spiritual but a sidewalk is not. These illusory distinctions keep the mind fragmented and lost in its incessant compartmentalization of life into spiritual versus non-spiritual and right versus wrong. Thought then seeks those things that it believes will make the self more spiritual. The very act of spiritual searching is a denial of the spirit permeating all of life. In presence, it is realized that the idea that you must practice being spiritual or that spirit is "here" but not "there" is seen as just that... an idea.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Yes! Mooji was the icing on the cake for that one, :sun:

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: c0sm0nautt]
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Its so amazing how a subtle reminding from a being like Mooji can just wipe the mind clean instantly
Just remembering that this cavorting 'I' that poses as subjectivity, is not the pure subjectivity
Its an object that can never become Awareness
Theres no separate 'me' that can become Awareness
I am That Awareness

That is the true position, not trying to become that
Abiding as That
Oh mind...

Theres an intimate satsang at Moojis home tonight :grin:

:peace:


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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Please, send me a bag of Mooji.

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Middleman]
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Its on its way!


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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May 17th

Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 per cent
Of everything you think,
And of everything you do,
Is for yourself -
And there isn't one.

-Wei Wu Wei

There is no such thing as a problem outside of identification with thought and emotion. In the moment a problem arises, look at what is really happening. What is really happening is that thought and emotion are arguing with a present situation. Energy is directed at making the situation into a problem. This energy that identifies with thought and emotion is the separate sense of self. This self thrives on problems.

The moment that you notice a problem, notice the thoughts and emotions that are creating the problem. This is where your argument with what is manifests itself. Notice that the problem is not "out there" in life. It is "in here" in your mental and emotional interpretation. As awareness sees this energy of problem-making, that seeing sets the problem free. The problem is seen to be just an illusion.

In complete alignment with whatever is happening in this moment, no problems arise. Life flows through you fluidly and effortlessly. You then meet each situation, including challenging situations, with a clarity and level of surrender that a separate self can never attain.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 18th

During the spiritual search, the sense of being a separate self (ego) hijacks the search for truth. It looks to abstract concepts of what God is, how it can become closer to God, what spirit is, what it means to be spiritual, what enlightenment would look and feel like, how to be more present, or how it can become more spiritual in the future. These are all concepts, learned and memorized from the past. This very moment is truth itself.

How can a concept present something truer than what is actually here in this moment? Thought, at its best, can merely act as a sign or a map that points to life. Look around. Life is now. Awareness is looking for itself. Stated another way, spirit is looking for itself. But it cannot find itself in an object. It cannot find itself in a concept. When this is seen, the search is over. "Truth" is revealed. But it is seen not to be a concept. It is a realization that what is happening right now is all there is. What is happening right now is what is true.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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These really do cut right to the essence of it all. :sun:

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: c0sm0nautt]
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those pics kick ass :rockon:

thank you


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: cc2]
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May 19th

The search for enlightenment in the future is a denial of the enlightenment that is always and already present. The search is a denial of life itself.

Unless this is seen, the spiritual search can last for years. The search is purely conceptual. It is one thought (you) chasing after another thought (enlightenment). It's like a dog chasing his own tail. The search is designed to just keep going. It is not about finding. It is about continuing the search.

This cycle of thought-chasing-thought leads the mind to believe that there is a "me" coming to enlightenment in the future. When awareness sees this thought stream, that present seeing is enlightenment. The illusion of the person on a search falls away in that seeing. In the seeing, there is no more denial of life, no more denial of what is really happening, no more denial of the fact that enlightenment is what you are and what you always have been.

The concept of "you" that is chasing after a future concept of "enlightenment" is obscuring the actual enlightenment that is your true nature in this moment.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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The Unenlightened Hamster:



The Enlightened Hamster:


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 20th

Notice when thought is referencing past, future, or resistance to now. These thoughts appear in awareness. When these thoughts appear, it feels like inattention. In other words, it feels like you are not here "in the now." Could that actually be true though?

Inattention is merely an object in awareness. It is a movement of thought, a dream of past, future, or resistance to now. In noticing that movement, notice that there is often another voice that comments on the inattention. This voice says that you should not be lost in your self-centered story. The voice is trying to convince you that what is happening (i.e. inattention) should not be happening. Is that true though? Is it true that something that is happening should not be happening including inattention? Is it true that thought should not arise? Only another thought would say that thought should not arise. Are you beginning to see how this self works now?

Instead of making a new self-centered story about whether you are or are not "present" enough, just notice what is. Noticing what is, including so-called "inattention," allows what is to be just as it is. A thought within the time-bound story and the subsequent thought that tells you that you should not be lost in that story are both appearances in awareness. Be clear that you are awareness. In that clarity, it is seen that no appearance can take you away from what you are.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 21st

Does thought listen?

Imagine a friend telling you about the details of her day and rather than hearing what is being said, noisy thoughts are coming up one by one in your mind. These thoughts may be questioning certain details of her story, agreeing or disagreeing with her assessment of some situation she is telling you about, or even wandering into details of your day or whether you fed the cats this morning.

Thought does not listen. Only awareness does. Recognize that you are the aware space in which your friend is talking. Sense the present awareness of the inner body and mind. That awareness is naturally awake and quiet. It effortlessly listens. If any noisy thoughts arise while listening, simply see them. In seeing them, the inward space recognizes itself again.

When a voice arises that tells you that "you should listen more," just notice that thought. That thought isn't listening. In noticing each thought, the thought is allowed to die its natural death. Every thought arises and falls from the space. As each thought dies, what is left is the space that is truly listening. This space contains true compassion. Therefore, any response to your friend that comes from that space will be naturally compassionate.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Probably my favorite :heart: :sun:


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Kickle]
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May 22nd

Fear is a movement of energy within the body. When fear is not seen directly by awareness, it fuels mental story telling.

For example, you are someone who is horribly afraid of public speaking. Your boss demands that you give an oral presentation next week for your colleagues. As soon as you learn of this assignment, you start worrying about it.

When the mental story of next week's presentation remains unseen, you spend a week in fear, repetitively playing mental scenarios of your speech. This repetitive mental dreaming keeps you from being at peace now and interferes with your ability to prepare for the speech.

Stop right where you are and look directly at any future stories that are keeping you locked in fear. Watch those thoughts. Seeing them for what they are, a story of self, allows attention to return to this moment, where life actually is. Take your attention into the actual emotion of fear arising in the body. Simply notice that energy without mental commentary. Do not seek to avoid, escape, or think about the fear. But, if a movement to avoid, escape, or think about it does arise, simply notice that too.

Notice that the awareness that sees the feeling of fear in the body and the thoughts of future is already at peace now.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange] * 1
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Fear is never having to say you're sorry.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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This has become my favorite thread.

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: c0sm0nautt]
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Yeah, i love the reoccuring theme of 'noticing' that all appearances are arising in awareness, which isn't holding to any appearances

I def feel the power in the words :thumbup:


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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May 23rd

Bring present awareness into the body and mind throughout the day, especially when you notice thought wandering into the story of self, into past, future, and resistance to now. Notice the awareness in your toes, your legs, your butthole, your stomach, your chest, your arms, your fingers, and your head. If any mental commentary arises during inner body awareness, simply see that commentary and bring attention back into the body and mind.

When the inner space is aware of itself in this way, thought naturally quiets. It is seen that awareness throughout the body is one flowing energy field without boundaries. In noticing that the space of the inner body is one undivided space, this same undivided space is seen to be "out there", outside the body. This is the realization that there is no boundary between you and the rest of life. Thought creates this illusory boundary.

Don't think of "inner body awareness" as a practice or doing in time. Thought is what places a practice in time. If the thought arises, "I should continue practicing inner body awareness so that I can become more present," just notice it. That story is a lie. There is no becoming to awareness. Noticing inner body awareness is an end in and of itself. It is a present seeing.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Seeing what is already seeing


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Chronic7]
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May 24th

When the story of self that is lodged in thoughts of past, future, and resistance to this moment is seen to be unreal, all there is, is simple being. This realization is so utterly simple and accessible that it is often missed. It is missed because it is looked for in thought or in a particular experience. But being prior to any thought. It is also the ground of every experience and every thought.

Being does not mean "being a person who has realized something special." It is simply being appearing as everything that is happening, including the thought, "I have realized something special" and the thought, "I have not realized anything special." Being is naturally light, loving, and as free as the air. It is unencumbered by any thoughts or emotions arising from it. Yet it pushes nothing away. It does not try to stay in a place of no thought or emotion. It is not trying to have a particular experience. It appears as a spiritual experience and a moment of frustration, all the same. It is the essence of everything. There is only this simple being, which is in alignment with the flow of the present moment. It is in fact none other than that flow.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 25th

Look around. There is nothing outside this moment. There is no presence outside this moment. Can you argue with that? If there is no presence outside this moment, can God exist outside of this moment?

The separate self is a mental construct in time, contained within the thought realms of past, future, and resistance to now. Thought is mostly self-centered. It is always about you, where you have been, where you are going, and whether you have attained or will later attain a union with the God in your thoughts. Is God a thought?

When you live as if God can only be found in the future, you set yourself up for not finding God. Conceptually, you create a "you" that is separate from "God." This just fuels the spiritual search.

God is looking through your eyes. The presence that is here now, is timeless. It is eternal. It is outside of time. Therefore, it is outside of the separate self (ego). It is beyond personal will and choice. It is beyond the mind. It is beyond the conceptual ideas of "you" seeking "God."

The teaching of present moment awareness is simply saying, "come out of the stream of time and into this moment which is God."


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 26th

The major religions are pointing to one truth. In Hinduism, Maya is an illusion, that which veils the true unitary self also known as Brahman. In Buddhism, suffering is transcended and the perfect peace of mind known as Nirvana is realized. In the Tao Te Ching, the Tao is the "Great Way," where man's resistance to life subsides and a harmonization with the Tao is realized. In Christianity it is often said "let thy will be done," not "let my will be done." The word Islam itself, literally translates to surrender as well.

Each religion is pointing to a spiritual transformation where truth is revealed beyond the ego. Thought tends to believe that the truth is contained within the words of whatever religion one is following. But the words are pointing to a truth that is beyond words. The enlightenment to which these words point is the liberation from attachment to any ideas about the truth into the living realization of that truth.

This sounds very heady until you see how simple it really is. In the present moment, the truth of God, Brahman, the Tao, and Nirvana is realized to be already here, already present, and not at all separate from the awareness in which the idea of "you" appears as a thought.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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May 27th

As awareness is realized to be what you truly are, the story of you as a separate self falls away. Awareness is unconditional love. This love is that which is looking from your eyes right now. You cannot find this love in time or get it from others. It is what you are. This love loves the whole of life because it is the whole seeing itself through the vessel of the individual body and mind. In that seeing, there is no longer an investment in making things personal.

This love is not like romantic love or other kinds of conditional, attached love. Attached, conditional love exists within the field of opposites. It is all about the separate self. As a separate self, you want someone to give you what you think you need from them. As long as the person gives you what you seek, love is there. But the moment the person fails to give back the personal gratification you are seeking from the relationship, the love turns to an opposite feeling of anger or even hate.

The unconditional love that is being spoken of here is unattached and unconditional. It is already whole. It loves regardless of what happens. It isn't seeking anything from the other because it sees no other. It sees only love. The movement of seeking personal gratification in relationships is the separate sense of self. As that movement releases, unconditional love is realized.


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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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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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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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Beautiful.
The loss of the ego. The false mind made identity. Wow..

Love it... Thanks man


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wow, I wish i had a friend sending me those emails!


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I couldn't agree more Bodhi.

The past couple weeks, it's been creeping up on me that this search is not really about gaining anything. It's about learning how to let go.

It seems like the world conditions us to find happiness outside of ourselves and through things and others, we then realize that things cannot truly bring us peace, so we turn to spirituality hoping that this may finally bring the peace we so desperately need. It's almost as if the individual has to exhaust themselves and come to a point where they see with clarity that all efforts to be happy are futile.

We have to be a light to ourselves so to speak.

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being a person is so fucked up :lol:

seriously, next lifetime, i'm choosing to be a beaver.

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Funny you say beaver, because I had a dream I was a beaver! Come on now... this life has its highs and lows but overall I'd say the good outweighs the bad.

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: c0sm0nautt]
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June 10th

Whenever you encounter rejection and the feelings of diminishment that accompany it, notice that a hidden mental story is revealing itself. Rejection is showing you that there is a false image in the mind of who you are. Those who reject you are merely holding up a mirror to reveal who you think you are. It is a story. Stories are not real. This is why they can be threatened.

Let rejection teach you that you are not any story. You are the awareness from which stories arise. Rejection is always revealing the ways in which the false "me" tries to protect itself from vulnerability by holding onto a false image. A false image of self is, by its very nature, vulnerable. Notice any strategies or analysis the mind uses to avoid feeling vulnerable. Avoidance is resistance to what is. See that awareness is naturally open to whatever happens in awareness including rejection and feelings of diminishment. Avoidance and resistance are also movements that appear and disappear in awareness. These movements are none other than awareness. Everything that arises is a perfect expression of awareness.

Once you know that your true nature is awareness, you see that what you really are can never be threatened or rejected. In this seeing, life is allowed to be just as it is. There is no need for a false image anymore.


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June 11th

The greatest spiritual ideas reveal that your true nature is naturally unattached to spiritual ideas. Man has created a string of ideas including Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Non-Duality.

The real truth to which all these ideas point is inexpressible and cannot be known through the conceptual mind. It has nothing to do with attaching to some spiritual idea or persuading others of some belief. This truth cannot be defended because it cannot be owned personally. It is beyond the time-bound, thought-based story of a person. It is a realization in which your entire world collapses on itself leaving you naked.

In the willingness to see right now the ways in which you are enslaved to ideas and concepts, complete freedom and unconditional love are seen to be your true nature. This is not something the mind grasps by thinking about freedom and love. It is the direct knowing of what you are and always have been, the words merely point to this recognition.


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June 12th

Relationship is a mirror. Objects, situations, and people are acting as mirrors in which your story of self is being reflected back to you. When you enter a situation and make a judgement that it should not be happening, that situation is showing your story of self. In that moment, the story is, "I cannot be happy or at peace until this situation changes." In resisting the situation, you are keeping alive the illusion that you are separate from that situation.

In the moment you make a judgement of someone, you are defining who you are in relation. If you judge someone as attractive, the story of self is that you are also attractive or that you are ugly in comparison to that person. Hidden within thought's judgement of others is comparison between you and others. The self is trying to be someone in relation to someone else. It is seeking to be separate from the rest of life.

In truly seeing that relationship is a mirror, the movement to define a self in relation to objects, situations, and people quiets. This is sometimes called oneness because when the sense of a separate self is seen through, it is realized that there is only 'This' and you are not separate from 'This.' It is realized that the apparently separate objects, situations, and people are all reflections of 'This.'


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June 13th

"The sight is from the eye. The eye must be located somewhere. If you are seeing with the gross eyes you find others gross. If with subtle eyes (i.e., the mind) others appear subtle. If the eye becomes the Self, the Self being infinite, the eye is infinite. There is nothing else to see different from the Self."

-Ramana Maharshi


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June 14th

Notice the space of now. It is changelessly present. No matter what happens within the space, the space is always here. In this space, thoughts arise. Feelings are felt. Sensations are sensed. Sounds are heard. Experiences are experienced. But the space never changes or leaves. That space resonates with the awareness that is your true nature. It is not separate from awareness.

Is spacious awareness separate from the things that arise in it? Don't think about that question, just look in your direct experience. Notice that to even say that there is a solid boundary between space and objects, awareness and thought, silence and sound, or formlessness and form is dualistic. There is nothing wrong with dualistic concepts. They also arise in 'This.' But notice that only thought is interpreting a boundary between these dualistic opposites. Without thought, there is only 'This.'

The pointing here is not about reaching a thoughtless state. It is simply pointing to what is so immediately accessible and obvious that it is often missed. It is pointing to the fact that life is simply arising now as One Life and that separation occurs only within a dream of thought. When thought is completely believed, the world appears divided. But when thought is allowed to simply arise and fall without attachment, Oneness is realized.


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June 15th

Philosophers, theologians, moralists, sociologists - anyone who spends time considering the troubles of mankind, their wrongs, griefs, miseries, conflicts, ambitions, personal and general - have analysed these things and attributed them to almost everything from Satan to Heredity. Literature is largely composed of the problems arising from this search for the cause of what is called 'Evil'.

But you have only to sit back and think for a few moments in order to perceive that what is called 'Evil' has only one cause, a most obvious one, that is neither Satan nor Heredity nor anything in between. It is the I-concept, the notion of an individuality, of a separate self.

Take that away, and nothing deriving from it can remain - for all derive from pride, greed, envy, desire, ambition, etc., all of which are manifestations of egoism or what is commonly called self-ishness.

Were every human being suddenly to lose that notion - which we know to be unfounded and quite unreal - all these evils, indeed all 'evil', would automatically cease to exist.

That is theoretical: we know of no means of bringing that about, and it would be the famous millennium. Only an infinitesimal minority of 'individuals' have succeeded in realising that they are not such. But is there any reason why the upbringing and normal education of every child should not be directed, indeed consecrated to that end?

Such a process would not produce a millenium created by self-less men and women? No, it would not, but in whatever degree it succeeded in weakening the notion of 'self', the preoccupation with 'self', to just that degree would life on Earth come to resemble the kingdom of Heaven.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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A guided meditation with Rupert Spira

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June 16th

Anxiety rises in the emotional body in conjunction with uncertain thoughts about the future. The thoughts could be anything from concern about finishing a work project on time to the possibility of a tragic event or illness happening to you or someone you love.

Dealing with anxiety through mental strategies or medication may provide a quick fix for symptoms. But if anxiety remains un-faced, it tends to lie dormant until the next time a frightening future scenario begins to arise in the mind.

When anxiety arises, it is fueled by unconsciousness. The anxious feeling of fear in the body fuels thoughts about the frightening future scenario. When awareness does not directly see the anxious feeling, it remains unconscious. When it is unconscious, it grows or at least stays around, feeding the energy of thought. As thought remains unseen by awareness, they tend to fuel the anxious feeling in the body. This becomes a vicious cycle of suffering.

In withdrawing energy from thought and allowing awareness to directly feel anxiety in the body, awareness is meeting the cycle of suffering. This is not about a quick fix, this is about suffering openly and consciously. When it is realized that timeless awareness is what you are, then there is no longer a self who suffers in time. That is not to say that fear no longer arises, but rather it is seen that fear arises from, and is not separate from, awareness.


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June 17th

When you believe you are a separate self, every state, emotion, thought and event appears to be happening to you. Everything is interpreted as if you are the center of life. Thought is doing the interpreting. Thought is almost entirely self-centered. It dreams in dualism and individuality.

In seeing that the separate self is an illusion, the center falls away. When the center falls away, there is still the sense of the body. There is still the experiencing of states, emotions, thoughts and events. There is still the personality and individual skills and attributes. But it no longer feels as if you are the center of life. When the center goes, the separation, struggle, conflict, and searching go with it. Even if self-centered thoughts arise, they are seen as empty. There is no longer identification with a totally separate "me." There is a seeing that your identity is something much larger than the individual body and the dream self you mistakenly took yourself to be.

There are many words for this "something larger" including God, Brahman, the Tao, enlightenment, liberation, reality, or oneness. The word is not the thing it describes though. It could just as easily be called 'This.' It is not a concept. When the mind makes it into a concept, there is a pull into duality again pitting "those who get it" against "those who do not." When this happens, the center has returned.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Might want to skip to the 13min mark, the beginning starts off a little dull and cheesy.


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:awebig:

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: Middleman]
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June 18th

Everything you see, touch, taste, smell, feel, experience and think is an object; awareness is what sees those objects. It is not an object. It cannot even be named. To name it is to objectify it. It is not any concept or object because it is awake to all concepts and objects. Yet, without this unnamable source, no object can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, felt, experienced, or thought about. This source, or awareness, gives rise to every object yet the source itself can never be objectified. It is what is looking.

This source is who you are in the most fundamental sense. You are the pure seeing, the knowing prior to or behind the objects. Don't even believe this because belief is merely another object in awareness. This message is pointing to direct experience.

In direct experience, you are not anything you see, touch, taste, smell, feel, experience, or think. If you can see it, it isn't you. So look from the nothingness that sees the objects. What is looking at them? Whatever sees these objects allows them to rise and pass naturally and effortlessly. Experiences, states, emotions, and thoughts are realized to be passing objects. You are that which is looking, which remains unchanged while all objects arise and pass.


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June 19th

ONE: The universe is My dream. Every thing therein, including 'you' and 'me', is an element of that dream - from elephant to virus, from nebula to atom.
TWO: Then each of us dreams a universe? How comes it that we all dream the same universe?
ONE: Each of us does not dream a universe. Only I dream the universe. You all perceive the same universe because you are all elements in My dream.
TWO: Is that concept not - let us say - somewhat egotistic?
ONE: 'Egoism' is a dualistic concept and implies 'non-egoism'. But there is no such thing in reality as non-egoism. Therefore there is no egoism either. There is only I - and nothing else (which would be necessary) to constitute egoism.
TWO: But why is the universe your dream any more than mine?
ONE: I have already told you : 'you' do not exist except as dreamed by Me.
TWO: Supposing I reply that 'you' do not exist except as dreamed by Me?
ONE: That is unnecessary: it goes without saying.
TWO: There is evidently something I have failed to understand.
ONE: That is due to our dualistic language, inadequate to the communication of truth. We have to use the same word to convey several meanings. You are still thinking in terms of identification with a body. You are using the terms 'you' and 'me' in order to indicate the unreal elements of My dream which are holding this conversation. Unreal elements of a dream cannot dream the universe of which they are elements.
TWO: Then who dreams it?
ONE: I do. Anyone who says 'I do'. For that I is the Absolute, Reality, Consciousness Itself, Cosmic Mind, Tao. That I is One - no matter who says it.
TWO: Obscure, very obscure!
ONE: 'Obscure' my foot! It is as clear as daylight, as simple and obvious as anything within the grasp of Mind in manifestation. Only its expression is obscure - for it has been expressed in words.
TWO: So I am everything in this universe, as I am everything in the universe of my sleeping dreams, every elephant, every virus, every nebula, every atom, 'you' and 'I'?
ONE: You have understood.
TWO: What more is there to say?
ONE: Nothing whatsoever. Everything is explained, every word of every Sage and Master. That is the meaning of the Lord Buddha expressly conveyed in the Lankavatara Sutra, and Sri Krishna if he be regarded as responsible for Vedanta Advaita.


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:fonz: NICE


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: rainhawk]
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June 20th

Thinking is not bad. It is a natural and beautiful expression of awareness. Suffering and searching occur when there is identification with thought. This identification creates the separate sense of self.

The separate self is nothing more than energy within the body and mind that focuses on and contracts around the thoughts that arise. The result is repetitive, unnecessary thinking, most of which revolves around the story of "me." This story consists of essentially three thought realms: the past, the future, and resistance to now. The sense of separation is kept alive by continuously identifying with thoughts within these three realms.

The separate self is a story about how the past is unsatisfactory. The past is "me." The sense of separation is further fueled through resistance to what is happening now and through seeking some future moment when life will be better.

Spiritual awakening is not found in the future. It is a present seeing that the story of the time-bound, thought based "me" is not real. That seeing can only take place right now because time itself is part of the story. In this present realization, the energy behind the "me" story releases. The mind queits on its own. Peace and freedom are realized to be natural attributes of presence. Thoughts still arise but they are no longer identified with.


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June 21st

In which direction of Time do we live in our dreams? Is their reinterpretation by waking consciousness in its own time-sequence not the most probable explanation of their oddity? Is there then any mystery in a dream whose action leads up to a 'noise' that awakens us at the moment it actually occurs in the next room?


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June 22nd

Here's an experiment anyone can do at home to show that all which exists is consciousness and only consciousness.

Go get a teacup or a coffee cup and put it on an uncluttered area of the table or desk in front of you. Sit down with your hands in your lap. Look at the cup with a soft, open focus. Notice that there may be thoughts arising, perhaps thoughts about where the cup came from, what it is made out of, etc... Notice that these thoughts could still arise even if your eyes were closed, so they are not a direct experience of the cup. Let these thoughts pass by and attend only to the direct visual experience of the cup.

What is directly given in your visual experience of the cup? There is color and shape, which together are often called "form." Notice that you do not experience color without shape, or shape without color. Notice that what you take to be the shape of the cup is actually based on the interface between two shades of color. Looking to the edges of the cup, you can notice that where the cup ends and where the table around it begins is actually based on where one color comes to an end and another color begins.

Following your direct visual experience, you can notice that various "objective" characteristics you normally attribute to a cup are here based on color. This includes "distance," "size," "weight," "height," "depth," "roundness," "texture," "smoothness," and "hardness" are based on nothing other than regions and interfaces of color. Now, try to find the various aspects of color that stand for these supposedly objective characteristics. For example, notice that you don't see distance or weight, but they are based on associations and conclusions made from various colors. For example, consider depth: no color is experienced to be in front or in back of another color. Instead, unbroken regions of color suggest "in front of"; broken or interuppted regions of color suggest "in back of," etc. Try to experience how color suggests the other qualities.

What is realized from this experiment?

You realize this - through a series of stages, the cup you had earlier thought to be an independent physical object is actually none other than awareness itself. These stages can be seen as follows:

1. The cup is not separate from form. Visually, you experience colors and form. But vision does not directly pick up anything beyond that. It can be transformational and perhaps thrilling to realize how much does not actually appear to direct visual experience. You do not directly experience any independence of the cup. In other words, vision itself does not communicate anything like "this cup exists whether you see it or not." In fact you do not experience independence or separation at all.

You do not actually experience a cup apart from the forms (colors & shapes) that are your direct experience at this moment. You do not experience these colors and shapes pointing outside themselves to a true, physical cup lying beyond. You have no way of getting between these visual forms and a "real" cup so as to be able to compare the colors to the cup. None of that is given in your direct experience. The colors and shapes directly given in vision do not communicate that they are about the cup or that they refer to the cup or that they are caused by the cup. Aboutness, reference, and causation are not part of your direct experience. Sure, there are intellectual theories about these things, but they are not seen or given in your direct visual experience. So there is no cup given in direct experience.

2. Form is not separate from seeing. Next, you come to realize that you do not experience form apart from the faculty of seeing. You cannot separate form from seeing, even in imagination. You cannot get between seeing and form in order to make a comparison. You have no experience of pre-existing forms, some which happen to be seen, and some which happen not to be seen. An unseen form is not experienced anywhere, just like an unthought thought.

This leads to the shocking realization that you never actually see form at any time. Form is not something external that is independent of seeing; form goes into the very idea of seeing. Seeing is not a function that operates on form, it is another word for form. So you do not actually see form.

3. Seeing is not separate from witnessing awareness. Next, you come to realize that seeing itself cannot be separated from the awareness to which it arises. When seeing is present, its presence is noted by awareness. When seeing is absent, its absence is noted by awareness. Other than awareness, seeing has no independent way of arising or being experienced. You have no other access to seeing. You cannot get between awareness and seeing to watch them make contact with eachother. When seeing is not present, it is not like some actor in the wings waiting to come onstage.

This leads to another fresh realization - because seeing is not something that happens independently of awareness, you are actually not ever aware of seeing. It makes no sense to think that seeing is an object. Rather, awareness is actually another word for seeing. Because seeing has no where to go and nothing to be other than awareness, awareness is actually the nature of seeing. This same nature cascades all the way through to the supposed physical objects, which itself is nothing other than awareness. This is your direct experience at all times.


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June 23rd

Not only do we 'take on' the appearance of what we see and hear but we also take on the texture of whatever we touch - as we can now see by doing this quick experiment:

Extend your index finger and touch any object or surface that's close at hand. It can be anything - the chair, the carpet, your clothes, anything.

What is it that can be sensed here?

Is it a case of feeling the tip of your finger and the object being touched? Or rather, is there only one sensation present, that of the object at hand? The texture of the cloth, the smoothness of the wood. In fact isn't it true to say that the tip of your finger has magically transformed itself into the object you are touching? Your finger tip is that object! Your finger tip has to be empty of itself so that it can take on the texture of the object. In fact the same is true of all your skin over all your body, and of course, of all your senses.

Here is another way of showing ourselves our real and true nature, that is, emptiness for the world to happen in.


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:billymaythumbup:


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: seylm]
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Great job appleorange. I've read a lot on these subjects it never gets old, it makes me want to start meditating again.


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: bigmike7104]
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Agreed.

Any more word on the sources?



~Monk

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: numonkei]
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that is very awesome. some of my favorite reads/audio before meditation would be zen flesh zen bones on book and s.n. goenka on tape


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This thread is a beauty. :sunny:


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