Well, when I think of Stillness [as I've learned from spiritual teachers, such as Eckhart Tolle, certain Taoist texts, etc.] it isn't in relation to psychologically altering one's perception of a concept, namely time. Remember, time is merely a man-made concept, a chronological measurement of the Grand Flow of the River. And I do mean The River.
When I focus on Stillness, it is to "remember" That which I am. It's easy to fall into a neurotic complex where I associate the conceptual identity that I project as "Me", with the fragmented thoughts which my mind sputters about.
Meditation at it's lightest level, reduces the neurosis of obsessive and compulsive thinking of time, of past and/or future, which arises out of that association, identification, attachment to the intellect, because the intellect only works in psychological time. Only!
Cultivating stillness is self-cultivation. This is so, because that Great Stillness that permeates all existence in the Universe is the very essence of our being, our spacious consciousness. The simple timeless awareness that exists in all myriad forms of life is the Ground. Of. Existence. It is nothing, it is no-thing. And it is That, which we are all of and from. And if the realization that we precisely are nothing-therefore-everything, including the desires, the pain, the river, the stillness, the noise, the movement, all that IS.. isn't enlightening, then I don't know what is.
-gets taken away strapped in a straight-arm jacket by men in white space suits-
YES!!
Total compassion means YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE. You are all form. You are the breath. You are the river. You are the void. YOU ARE THE DESIRE TO BE ENLIGHTENED.
YOU ARE ENLIGHTENED
That?s who he is. That?s who, what, a guru is. So any concept you can have of any relation to a guru obviously is a hype. How can you relate to something which already you and everything you?ve ever related to or could relate to...how are you going to talk about it? I met him _____ who? What? I?m going to look for the guru. HOW ABSURD!
YOU ARE IT!!
it?s really just another cop-out to be searching for the guru. He?s your fingernail. just bite your fingernail and you?re eating him alive. When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru. Speaking to you. It?s right here....always.
Here and Now
I keep doing this because I don?t think people thoroughly grok the fact that here is where it all is. after you finish the whole thing and you?ve vibrated your spine for years and done your prayanam and meditated for years and years and sat in a cave and ants have eaten your arms and legs, here you are....you?re right here again....and what your mind is you were here all the time and it?s such a cosmic joke it?s so funny your struggling to get HERE.
at this moment if you set the alarm to get up at 3:47 this morning and when the alarm rings and you get up and turn it off and say: what time is it? You?d say: NOW _____ Here! Now, where am I? Here! Then go back to sleep. get up at 9:00 tomorrow. Where am i? Here! What time is it? Now! Try 4:32. The week from next Thurs. By God. It is _ there?s no getting away from it _ that?s the way it is. That?s the eternal present. you finally figure out that it?s only the clock that?s going around...it?s doing its thing but you---you?re sitting HERE RIGHT NOW ALWAYS.
Nobody is going anywhere, nobody is coming from anywhere. We?re all here. We?re all here. In eternal time and space. We?re always going to be here. We?re just doing lila rasa. The divine dance we?re dancing. And dancing and dancing dance after dance in one body and in another body and we?re all here, we?re all staying right here.
THERE IS NOTHING TO DO
There is nowhere to go. And there is nothing to do. And we?re going to keep coming to know one another more and more free of being identified with any veil and we?re going to see more and more of other beings less identified with their veils. As you find the light in you, you begin to see the light in everyone else. as you find god in yourself there is god everywhere such a simple obvious sequence of stuff to do. somebody says oh i try meditating and I can?t and I just....I?m afraid I?m not ready and I?ve got to go.... great*sure man*go*go ahead*of course. What else is there to do? Going back into the world it?s called, it?s a good step, is I going backward or forward? I can?t do either of them*I can?t go backward and i can?t go forward. And I can?t stand still, ALL OF IT IS IRRELEVANT.
We?re all just caught in the delusion all of us caught in the illusion, being aware of it as illusion and yet SO MUCH in it! if you have ever watched a beautiful Zen monk. a very old monk who is really THERE, ore HERE, really here, whichever, you watch him...he?s cooking food, he?s lifting stones he?s moving you watch him walk and it?s like nobody?s walking. the legs are going, and the whole thing is happening but nothing is happening, no matter what is happening! And that?s what blows your mind when we get out of the kinds of heads we?ve got going that don?t allow us to really understand how this can be.
RETURN TO THE ROOTS
You live out your karma. The best I can tell you about karma is: if you are pure spirit, you are NOT matter!...you are that eternal spirit....well: if each of us is that very old being...and not this young body, or this body that is going through this life, why don?t we REMEMBER? Why don?t we remember it all?? Why can?t we read the entire Akashic Record???? 1--because of our attachments to the physical plane of reality.... 2--because of the powers of our identification with our own body-senses and thoughts.
if you could go into a meditation room close up your ears * sit down * center * go * IN * IN * IN * IN further in, oh much further in, oh you?ve just begun keep going back in don?t linger to smell the pretty sunflower, don?t linger to hold on to the ecstasy of bliss, keep going in behind the senses. behind your thoughts and if you can go back in far enough you will see everything you?ve identified with ?HIM? you will see...your own personality, your own body your own life drama...it?s very awesome. the point is that we have gone out and out and out and we have sought and sought and sought and found much but it hasn?t been enough! And now by merely turning the process inward you go in and in and in until you come to the place where guru rimpoche sits.
And what is this place? Hindus call it the ATMAN. And what is the atman? The bhagavadam, one of the holy books of india says:
The atman or divine self is separate from the body it is one without a second pure,
self~luminous without attributes, free all~pervading it is the eternal witness blessed is he who knows this atman for
Though an embodied being he shall be free from the changes and qualities pertaining to the body he alone is ever
United with me.
This is the place of pure being. That inner place where you dwell, you just be. There is nothing to be done in that place. From that place then, it all happens, it manifests in perfect harmony with the universe. Because you are the laws of the universe. YOU ARE THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE!
This is what mans journey into consciousness is all about...this is OM (home) its going OM. this is the place! Becoming one with GOD returning it?s the return to the roots that the two talks about, it is the stillness * the calmness * the fulfillment. When you make love and experience the ecstasy of unity...that?s the place! When you experience a great achievement. and you feel a moment of exhilaration...that?s the place! When you see a moment of poetry in a flower or in words or in art the way it?s supposed to be...this is the place! RIGHT HERE! It?s Buddha consciousness. It?s Christ consciousness. Jesus says:
I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE
When the Buddha says: you give up attachment and you finish with the illusion, THIS IS THE PLACE!
Still,
you do your thing
live your life in the world
the water goes down the stream
you chop the wood and carry the water
you do your thing you mind does it?s thing
your sense their thing but...
you
are not attached, because you sat in from of the candle flame
until there was just you and the candle flame
and then finally
you extricated yourself from the attachment
to your own thoughts
to the tyranny of the ?drunken monkey?
even to the thoughts of I and candle flame
not so that you would never think again
i mean few people who know me
don?t appreciate the fact that i think
and have keen discrimination and i have not lost my mind
and i am a sophisticated aware being
and yet
behind every word
is a mantra
going inside my head
in which i am sitting
calmly watching this whole drama unfold
the thinking mind is a perfect servant and a lousy master, I am watching he~who~speaks * I am watching they~who~listen * I am watching thinking * thoughts are clouds * the entire process from this place inside is always calm. A place in which the flame never flickers. And as I learn to live in this eternally calm place it gets deeper and deeper and calmer and calmer and wiser and wiser and lighter and lighter and I am more love and I become more and more like the sun. Just the process of claming, centering, centering, calming extricating myself from the drama.
So long as one feels
That he is the doer
He cannot escape
From the wheel of births and deaths.
That doesn?t mean that I?m lying in bed doing nothing* that?s drama as much as this book is drama*** drama is drama is drama is drama. Desire is drama. Breathing is drama. Thought is drama, emotions are drama, and all form is drama. It?s all part of the drama.
?I have no scruple of change
nor fear of death
i was never born
nor had i parents...?
What does that mean? what it means is: when you clear away all the underbrush, when you go back and back not for the fun of it or for the powers involved but to go back to be who you really are who you are turns out to be spirit, turns out not to be matter at all.
NO MATTER NEVER MIND NO MIND NEVER MATTER
Either way it works.
Round trip
Mind creates matter. the causal plane is the world of ideas that creates the universe right at the top of the causal plane is what we call the godhead its the first place into the universe of form its the first world of form its the place where the mind that is body manifested into the universe his thought manifested into all the lower levels of the causal place all the astral planes and the physical plane and when you go back back back you go to that place where you become one with the Godhead you are GOD you are the IDEA that lies behind the universe you are literally it you?re not making believe you?re it you are it.
In order to become a fully realized being you must delight in the exquisiteness at every single level you must take joy in your maleness or femaleness at the same moment that you realize that you are both male and female it?s that far out! but then you go through the final door and you go from form into the formless into the void into the beyond the beyond when you have crossed the ocean of samskara, the ocean of illusion, the ocean of attachment, call it what you will, it?s the same ocean when you have crossed through all from you enter the state of formlessness, it is eternally quiet, it is eternally quiet. it never was.
?push far enough into the void hold fast enough to quietness and of the ten thousand things, non can be
worked on by you I have beheld them wither they go back see all things howsoever they flourish return to the roots
from which they grew. This return to the roots is called quietness. Quietness is called submission to
fate what has submitted to fate becomes part of the always so to know the always so is to be
illumined not to know it means to go blindly into disaster?
So says Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching. To go you?ve got to go the whole trip. all the way to the back before you get to the place where you see that behind all this there is all this in its OM. in its unmanifest form. always, eternally, you perceive that NOTHING is really happening at all NOTHING ever happens NOTHING is going to happen, there?s NOTHING you?ve got to do, there?s no doer to do it anyway.
and then: you?re in the void then the Buddha nature sees there are many beings whose veils are very thin and you can come back and teach them through your being that?s the bodhisattva role. Because you finally understand that: though it is all illusion...it never was and never will be...at every level at which you exist you?re part of everybody else. Because: IT?S ALL ONE BEING.
REALLY!
The Ground of ALL Existence and Experience IS in each and every one of YOU! THE GROUND IS THE SIMPLE TIMELESS AWARENESS.
GOD IS THE GROUND. YOU ARE ALL THE GROUND.
YOU ARE ALL GOD.
~Love~
-kicks and writhes as the Men in White drag me away to my padded cell-
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Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
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