October 1, 2006
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This is one of my first posts from
2/18/2004 at 12:07 AM
(things in parentheses are words i use now)
As Wayne Dyer stated so eloquently
we are our thoughts
and since that is a self-manifesting reality
I say to you
let them go
your thoughts
which become your self
and say
Yes
Yes….
to becoming one
With all that is
Do you think (believe) you are aware (present)
Just because
you ‘think’ you are?
Thinking is the thorn of causality
which tears us out of the Now
and anchors us to form.
Being free of thought
is so compulsively resisted
by that unconscious self….
that the struggle becomes
the very innermost fear,
that of nonexistence(death) itself.
“You”
know thoughts to be an illusion
but you can not think about it
least you become again trapped
within your own mind..
Being Aware without thought
is the liberating realization
That you can choose
to place you attention in the now
and become…..
through the felt unity of being….
the consciousness that is dawning
within each of us.
To rise above the level of thought
is the next stage
in the evolution of the human condition
and ..
it is with a sense of urgency that I say
~~~ the time is now~~~
Morhpeus once said:
“Some things change and some thing don’t”
and that quote interests me often
Alan Watts once said this…
“The difficulty for most of us
in the modern world
is that the old-fashioned idea of God
has become incredible or implausible.”
now let me “play” with this
for just a moment…
and write in his language
A “belief” is a model, or myth
in which we try to make sense of the world…
as we think about it,
write about it
describe it
and understand it.
’Faith’ in a ‘belief’ however
is missing the point entirely
The authentic authority
of Faith
Is derived solely from an attitude
Which is the very opposite of clinging to belief,
…of holding on.
Faith as a quality of presence….
Is to let go
And become open to truth
And just what is truth?
Don’t put your hand on a bible
and swear to ‘tell’ the truth…
You can’t
’Truth’ is not a concept,
nor a word
or something to believe in.
Truth is the reality touched only lightly
with your direct perception
yet paradoxically with out any conceptualization
Found in a state of open trusting
Faith
Faith is lived…
Lived in the moment of immediate experience
and that is?
Well now It’s
whatever it turns out
to be!
the mind will resist this
Watch as the mind tells you
that the external world exists
altogether independently of you.
yet go beyond the mind
and you will realize
This illusion of belief
is not
The TRUTH
Yet
no one can show you the truth
no one can tell you the truth
you must see it for yourself
As a felt realization of your presence
that is not a thought
and arises from a state of wonder
without form
that is
in a sense a timeless remembrance
a deep abiding knowing
you are
connected with everything and
constantly changing
with it
you are..
One with all that Is.
Comments (14)
xanga was gifted with my presence august 8 2003… wonder if they are regretting anything now?
man.. i shudder when i look back on my old entries. maybe because I was /really/ outside
of my mind when i wrote a lot of them, heh heh.
i liked that picture of failure.. ‘looks like it’s about to go free falling off into a chasm.
I could do with a lot more free falling.
“you must see it for yourself” that maxim can be applied to philosophy, therapy, rehab..
whatever. It’s a serious dose of /truth/, for sure.
it took me a long while to wrap my brain around this article. And it’s hard to retain.
But it’s a badass meditation. Shade and water.
so now you have gone back to the beginning. Why?…
John and the Xanga crew made it impossible for ME toFeynman back in time:rolleyes:
i remember when i first started to read your blogs a couple of months ago, i could not relate, but i liked your crystal pictures…im understanding a bit more (or a bit less?) and still like your crystal pictures… :p :sunny:
ive just begun to do mandalas from pictures of beach rocks. i just started to have memories return to me of wanting to tell the stories hidden in stone…
I can see why it might be good to save things written…and it is interesting to look back.Your ideas have been consistent and well formed over time. ryc trust me in a week or two my site will look as cluttered with mia thoughts and doodles as it ever has…
Did you see my little trip…had to link it because as i might have mistakenly led you to believe up top…i cannot COPY & PASTE like you did here:mad:
RYC—The criminalization of drugs serves a twofold purpose…it outlaws “undesirables,” and creates a police state/prison industry. You think someone should do a study as to WHY societies where drug usage is decriminalized are SMARTER on the whole than Amerikkklans???
What stays the same and what changes??? a good thing to think on..in a life time I see one constant is the person minus much of what we see as the person but beyond that? I can see how one page here could leave one musing for weeks.
:sunny:
:spinning: I’ve been a fan of yours since 2004. I started xanga in Jan.,04. Not sure exactly when I first came to your site but I’m still here. :yes::sunny::goodjob:
this great divide commic is nice ! :sleepy:
Armish christian make deep impact for me..
Ryc I have never been to the Carribean….I went to Europe once to meet family….. my thought is I would probably fit right in down in Jamaica… Europe and I on the other hand are not a good fit:)
i sometimes worry if the act of belief actually taints the purity of the truth right from the start. i guess it all comes down to honesty.