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

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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: 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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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 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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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

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

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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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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