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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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Beautiful.
The loss of the ego. The false mind made identity. Wow..

Love it... Thanks man


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: bodhicitta]
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wow, I wish i had a friend sending me those emails!


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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: PantheistSite.com]
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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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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: bodhicitta]
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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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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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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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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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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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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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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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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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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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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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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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Re: Daily Meditations With Appleorange May 6th [Re: appleorange]
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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

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7TEP3HLA

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