November 27, 2009
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Now is the Time..
I don’t write much anymore….and to some extent I consider that a failure to keep the dream alive.
These days I find myself so wrapped up in my own temporal egoic existence
that to leave it almost makes me insecure.
This is a most definite indication
that I am identifying with my mind
and lost to the insanity that inflicts the vast majority of mankind.
The sincere reality of this is that….
Identifying with ones thoughts = ego = insecurity = is a FATAL flaw
that if we follow it as species we will fall behind the reality of the moment and our existence will be relegated to a thin layer of disturbed soil in the fossil record.
We haven been given the greatest of gifts by our father
my father, your father the one from which all presence flows…
It is the light that creates order from chaos…life into being
Our own PRESENCE
and we do not understand ….or value or even realize the power that
IS …..is flowing thru us now …..much less how to use it …
to unite, bring peace and end suffering …..
let love become what we are…and not just a believe in our minds
but to live it …..
It is never to late to exchange the path we are on…but I tell you wait no longer…
The time for this change must begin Now….
as it has always been…
A few times in history we followed those who carried the light
and It was just enough to carry us thru some bad times …
and when the times improved we became comfortable and lost the path.
I write this not for you …actually it is for me to remember
a year from know if i am still alive I will read back and see if I even understand what I was telling myself…
and then I will know…
but you are welcome to come along for the ride
and if you hear the one …that is writing to you Now…
Then you will have taken the first step in awakening …
It’s way past the time to start….in fact the starting gun went off long ago and we have fallen so far behind that the true experience of presence is no more that an idea in your minds…a believe at best and not what it truly is…
self evident reality…plain and simple …and right in your face …all along
reach for it and no one can stop you from gaining it…
I watch every day as the ones I love the most suffers from the insecurity which arises from the snares of egoic attachment. You suffer so much, and it brings tears to my eyes. You believe that you are the image of you that you hold in your mind.
But you are so much more than the mind can ever imagine.
You are the witness of your thoughts, not the thinker, or the thoughts themselves.
Yet the historical momentum of the egoic mind is enormous….
both for each of us individually, and for the entire species collectively.
Who am I to stand before it and say,
Stop….awaken to the truth….we are free in each moment to decide
To love one another as the family we truly are …
each of us brothers and sisters, fathers, daughters and sons
but it is so comfortable just to pretend everything will be ok
don’t kid your self ….in fact stop lying to the one that matters most
YOU
You pitiful creatures of self doubt……
Your own insecurity is the blanket you pull over you heads at night…to keep YOU safe
but that YOU is not your inner most self….
It is the illusion you have created to protect your self
from the harsh realities of the egoic world we find ourselves in.
Sucks actually….but there you have it.
Drop the security blanket
Awaken to who you truly are!
And you will notice instantly,
all of your temporal problems and worries will vanish like dust in the wind.
Who am i to say these thing to you…
I am you
you are me
We haven been given the greatest of gifts by our father
My father, your father, the one from which all presence flows
It is the light that creates order from chaos…life into being
Our own PRESENCE
and we do not understand ….or value or even realize the power that
IS …..is flowing thru us now …..much less how to use it…
To unite, bring peace and end suffering
let love become what we are…
and not just a believe in our minds
but to live it
It is never to late to change the path we are on…
but I tell you wait no longer
The time for this change must begin Now
as it has always been
A few times in history we followed those who carried the light
and It was just enough to carry us thru some bad times
and when the times improved we became comfortable and lost the path.
I write this not for you …actually it is for me to remember
a year from know if i am still alive I will read back and see if I even understand what I was telling myself
and then I will know
but you are welcome to come along for the ride
and if you hear the one …that is writing to you Now
Then you will have taken the first step in awakening
It’s way past the time to start….in fact the starting gun went off long ago and we have fallen so far behind that the true experience of presence is no more that an idea in your minds…a believe at best and not what it truly is
self evident reality…plain and simple …and right in your face …all along
reach for it and no one can stop you from gaining it
if you need encouragement I will try to give it
or perhaps a place to begin
Place all of you intention in the felt moment of immediate experience
let go of the blanket….and see that it is the blanket itself that is keeping you from
experiencing the joy of being
Now know this….I don’t want you to believe me…. or to read this and perhaps find a sort of tactic agreement. That won’t change a damn thing.
It is too late to set like a Post turtle..and do nothing.
(Post turtle — texas slang: “Ya know when yer drivin down the road and ya come across a fencepost with a turtle balanced on top? That’s a post turtle. Ya know it didn’t get there by itself, it don’t belong there, it can’t get nothin done while it’s up there, and you just wanna help get the poor thang down.”)
[It is with some degree of amusement, no, actual terror, that I note that this term is being used to describe some of our political leaders. Today's leaders pretend they know the way, and promise us change, but in fact they are mere puppets of the collective egoic consciousness, and the saddest thing is, they don't even know it.]
Tired of reading yet? Just stop when you can disidentify with your thoughts. I’m going on writing, going on to say this in a variety of ways. Continue reading if you wish.
Everyone suffers from insecurity in one form or another. Insecurity is the single, most harmful egoic delusions because it requires you to believe in the illusion of who you think you are. Then, to make matters worse, it tells you that there is some fatal flaw in that model of what you believe about yourself. You might as well shoot yourself in the foot and then try to get to work on time.
Insecurity arises from the image you have of yourself in your mind. Your intellect knows you are here only temporarily, a momentary being perhaps, if you are aware, but mortal all the same. Your ego promises to keep you alive, but that is the great deception that lures us all into its grasp. Because you see, the ego is part of the survival mechanisms of a biological system which was a necessary stage in our evolutionary development, but we must outgrow it if we are to ascend to the next level.
It is that vert identification with the ego which prevents you from existing in the moment — and the moment is in fact one, indivisible, eternal moment. Eternal life — in the moment — is your birthright as a child of the father and is always yours NOW if you will only stop listening to the constant babbling of the ego. Of course the ego speaks of survival, but it is referring to survival of your physical body, the “mind-body complex”, and that is not who you truly are. The key to eternal life is found by placing your attention in the felt moment of immediate experience.
Futhermore, the waste of attention given to the illusion of the ego is the waste of the vital energy you need to be aware of choice you have. In my experience, it requires a lot of energy to stay present. If you choose to put your attention (identification) on the ego, that means you have chosen, by your own authority and free will, to reject the presence that has been given to you by the father. And that choice will surely lead to your death — death of the body.
Did he not say, over and over,
“Know these words. Be what I am teaching, and you will not taste death”?
Yes, every single spiritual teacher worth mentioning has made the premise of momentary consciousness the fundamental apex of their teaching —
the one and only way to connect directly with God – that mystical, ethereal beingness,
which is the true escape from the egoic, biological cycle of birth, growth, and death.
Don’t seek God in the past, or look forward to finding God in the future when you die. Rather, keep seeking until you find that his presence is already with us.
It’s funny, that those who would preach God’s words speak about him as if they knew what they were talking about. The real truth is the meaning of “God” itself, through ages and ages of misuse, has lost all of its inherent authority. God is not an image in our mind, nor can he ever be.
Everyone seeks God, but no one seems to find him.
Terance died before I could meet him…
But his presence remains
Listen to what he is saying and you will find
culture = ego…and we are both pointing to the same reality..
Comments (23)
Hi.
You may say father son holy ghost
I may say me myself I
what’s the difference,
dig?
As a child I was taught that god was neither he nor she.
As an adult, I in existence question.
I believe in nature.
Divine presence, sometimes.
Universal energy, Ommmm.
Welcome back.
Now, let’s go!!
Yep “He” is a convenience of grammar, no gender is intended, in fact, it is not helpful at all.
Thank you for reminding me …..as you have done so very well, for so very long …
Your presence is always a gift to me.
God power abides inside us to the extent we allow it why so few find the presence the last place the ~~~~y want to look weave as we go hope you had a good Thanksgiving blessings beck
Wandering about in my own thoughts has always proved to be a waste of time. When I do that I miss my real life.
We’re the sum of what we think because if we think depressive things we become depressive if we think light hearted things we can become light hearted although mostly if i think anything at all i am usually not feeling very well. or worried about something or other. dreams can be the same ways too…
You are
what you eat.
You are
what you think.
I write
to stay sane.
Have missed you
write more.
@C_L_O_G - perfect! You hit the nail on the head and drove it home….
@NightlyDreams - Your point is valid that if you hold negative images in your mind, depression is sure to follow …
“although mostly if i think anything at all i am usually not feeling very well. or worried about something or other”
yep that kinda sums it up….
the mind is not something we understand well ….if you see it as more like a radio tower that can both send out thoughts and recieve information,
Then allowing the mind to be still… enables one to recieve…the trick is finding the right vibration to listen to… going past the loud static of egoic noise can be hard but if you keep at it you will find a higher pure signal of love and peace…it gets easer to do with practice…
And I do need more practive ..sometimes I can do it but not of my mind is filled with clutter.
@Dosmangoes -
maybe it’s because you have stopped writing so much? Maybe writing helped you focus on what you wanted and were able to stop the clutter that way?
I read with very interest for long writing as always…wish Obama isn’t only puppet of the collective egoic consciousness…I like zen spirit of momentary and temporarily life…everything is untill die but leave seed…and chained with continu generation…perhaps same destiny with other species…human’s history is a little part of history of cosmos may be…so we human need God untill this world continu…as like as baby need father and mother for life…God made us imcomplete..and many language ,too….
This was awesome, Mangoes… There are so many gems in this post that a fella could spend hours meditating on.
I would really like to read more about McKenna, too. I read this book back in the summer, Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas, and it drew heavily on some of McKenna’s stuff about Sirius-B… hah, I thought it was pretty freakin fascinating.
Looking forward to reading more of your stuff, man. Our society needs this type of meditation.
Peace of Heart, my Friend, Always Peace of Heart~
These are the days of miracle and wonder, yes?
Anyway, here’s a LINK to some Ken Wilber…philosopher of our new era. I think you would find it quite interesting.
LINK
LIke it. HAve you heard from Z?
Now that you remind me ….not in a long time…hummm
I didn’t say ” Happy New Year ! ” to you…
The way you present your message reminds me very much of my favorite columnist on nolanchart.com, Jahfre Fire Eater. He offers up this idea that people are always trying to look for a “struggle from” our current situation. That premise is fundamentally a flawed one that doesn’t take into account the bitter reality that struggle will always remain. It’s the mindset that needs to be put into a framework that we have the “freedom to” participate and create the change we wish to see.
Similar to your idea of letting go of our temporal egoic existence, realizing that we have the “freedom to” will challenge ourselves to be thrust into an extraordinary undertaking. If there ever was a time that we were able to reach critical mass, these ideas will provide a basis to reach it sooner.
I really appreciate your words. They were a good refresher course for targeting what else needs to be done.
I believe the soul is nourished through the choices we make and how we respect people and the world around us. Giving that responsibility up to those that revel in and who are pursuant of the collective egoic consciousness (ie. the Gubmint) defeats the soul and perpetuates the bankrupting of both the people’s finances and civil liberties. You give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.
Look at how they flaunt their control. They know we won’t do anything about it, so they’ll give corporate legal fictions an even greater ability to trump the common person through this new campaign finance ruling, and supposed “conservatives” are okay with this. Nothing else should be expected, really. Politickers have always been about their own kind. But screw that. A change is a comin’ – political or spiritual or both.
Have you read any of Daniel Pinchbeck’s stuff – Breaking Open the Head or 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl? Bery Bery Good Books to check out if you get the chance.
That’s all. Just wanted to say what’s up, Mr.S.
This was absolutely amazing!
The funny thing is (I call it funny, because now that I look back at it, it seems amusing), when I came across your post, my head was lodged in the past, angry and loathing,… reviewing memories that just seemed to… put me in a rut. Reading through your post, and watching that amazing video quite literally projected me away from that darkness, and into realization of the present, with no pain of recollection, or anxiety of possibly revisiting it.
Thank you, man! Thank you!
… I will remember this post for days to come!
Hi
Well, I’m still here, and here for good. My last niece turned 18 and I decided to figure out what was happening with all my neices and nephews instead of getting in contact with them one at a time, which I thought would set them against one another and their parents who I took time out of my busy childhood to rear. Yea, I’m a little pe-oed. They are all off to college and after a year of world citizen journalism, I’m back. I’m pretty sure.
Your words are soothing and unsettling at the same time.