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The aware Awareness that sees everything as ItSelf
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This blog is maintained by Pete Sumner, a spiritual mentor based
at Gurukula in Fremantle, Western Australia. It's about seeing
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of life and the truth of our essential Being.
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Seeing from the Heart
August 14th, 2008 by Pete
You may think it matters what happens. But what if the only thing that matters is where you are experiencing from, where you are looking from? What if you could experience all of life from a spacious, open perspective where anything can happen and there is room for all of it, where there is no need to pick and choose, to put up barriers or resist any of it, where nothing is a problem and everything just adds to the richness of life? What if this open, spacious perspective was the most natural and easy thing to do?It may sound too good to be true, but we all have a natural capacity to experience life in this way. The only requirement is to look from the Heart instead of from the eyes and the head-and not just to look, but to listen and feel and sense from the Heart. In some spiritual traditions you are encouraged to look in your Heart, and yet what does that mean exactly? Often we are so used to looking and sensing through the head and the mind that when we are asked to look in the Heart, we look through the head into the Heart to see what is there. Usually we end up just thinking about the Heart. But what if you could drop into the Heart and look from there? How would your life look right now? Is it possible that there is another world right in front of you that you can only see with the Heart and not with the mind?”From Living from the Heart by Nirmala available from the Endless-Satsang Bookstore
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Bluebird
August 14th, 2008 by Pete
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get outbut I’m too tough for him,I say,stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you.there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get outbut I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smokeand the whores and the bartendersand the grocery clerksnever know that he’s in there.there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get outbut I’m too tough for him,I say,stay down, do you want to mess me up?you want to screw up the works?you want to blow my book sales in Europe?there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get outbut I’m too clever, I only let him out at night sometimeswhen everybody’s asleep.I say,I know that you’re there,so don’t be sad.then I put him back,but he’s singing a little in there,I haven’t quite let him dieand we sleep together like that with our secret pactand it’s nice enough to make a man weep,but I don’t weep, do you?Charles Bukowski
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Solving Problems — The No-Choice Technique
August 14th, 2008 by Pete
This is how the technique works: faced with a problem, one doesn’t feebly sit back and wait for things to happen. Neither does one toss a coin, or consult an astrologer, and hope that the outcome will prove the right one. Not at all. The very definite action to be taken falls into four stages: 1. See yourself to be the Ground or Bottom Line for the pros and cons of the problem to arise from — as many of them and in as much detail as may be. Encourage them to arrange themselves in all sorts of ways. Live with that display, brood on it, sleep on it, but don’t go hankering after a decision. As entertaining the problem in all its aspects, as the Screen for them to come and go on, as their Mirror, you remain neutral. Among the exhibits, however, you may well find, prominently featured, a dateline for the problem’s solution. Brood on that, too. 2. One morning on waking, or during the day when you are preoccupied with some chore, the completed pattern of things to come arrives, spontaneously and unannounced, from the Bottom Line. So inevitable it seems, so conclusively does it resolve your problem, that you are left in no doubt that here is the right decision, arrived at in the right way at the right time. It has been immaculately conceived in you and for you but not by you. Certainly not by you the human being. Accordingly, it arrives carrying the authority of its parentage, which is the real You, the Source, the World’s Beginning and the World’s End. 3. Now it is the turn of that decision itself, of that seemingly so right design, to go on display above your Bottom Line: and to reveal its limitations and weak spots. All manner of doubts and difficulties, and dilemmas about how to give effect to the decision, are now likely to appear. Again, you don’t solve them by choosing between possible alternatives. You stay with them till they, in turn, are ripe and ready to resolve themselves. 4. Finally, the plan is implemented. With interest, perhaps with awe, you watch it take shape. At no time do you feel that you are moulding or forging that shape. It forms in you as cloud-shapes form in the sky, or intricate patterns in a kaleidoscope. Such, then, is the technique of No-choice, resulting in no stress of the superfluous and toxic sort. It works. It works creatively, coming up with unforced and unpredictable and truly inspired solutions that you couldn’t possibly take personal credit for. And it works like that because, to tell the truth, it is not a technique at all, not a useful dodge for relieving you of the pains of indecision, and certainly not a recipe for a quiet life at all costs. No: it works because it’s the way you are built, the way you function in any case, whether you realize it or not. All this choosing one thing in preference to another is illusory, a great cover-up. Separate individuals, as such, are powerless to make the slightest difference in a universe where every one of them is tightly controlled by the rest. Pretending otherwise, pretending that, as our sole selves, we exercise free will, is as absurd and dishonest as it is vainglorious — and stressful. Only the Source of all, under the sway of none, has free will; and only deeds which are seen to proceed from it, which are referred back to it, which are felt to be its own deeds - only these carry its marvellous smell, the smell of an originality and rightness which belongs solely to that Origin. To live the choiceless life that we have been describing is not fatalism. It is not giving up the struggle and accepting that one is a machine within a Machine. It is to identify with the Machine’s Inventor, to take one’s stand in Freedom itself. It is to be one’s Source, to choose what flows from it, and to perceive it as very good. From Head Off Stress by Douglas Harding
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A Lucky Catch
August 14th, 2008 by Pete
A young sportsman is dining in a fancy restaurant and there’s a gorgeous young redhead sitting at the next table. He’s been checking her out since he sat down, but lacks the nerve to talk with her. Suddenly, she sneezes, and her glass eye come’s flying out of its socket toward the man. Reflexively, he reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back. ‘Oh my, I am so sorry,’ the woman says as she pops her eye back in place. ‘Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you,’ she says. They enjoy a wonderful dinner together, and afterwards they go to the theater followed by drinks. They talk, they laugh, she shares her deepest dreams and he shares his. She listens. After paying for everything, she asks him if he would like to come to her place for a nightcap and stay for breakfast. They had a wonderful, wonderful time. The next morning, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings. The guy is amazed. Every thing had been SO incredible! ‘You know,’ he said, ‘you are the perfect woman. Are you this nice to every guy you meet?’ ‘No,’ she replies … ‘You just happened to catch my eye.’
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Daily Manna
August 5th, 2008 by Pete
The Old Testament (Ex. Ch. 16) tells how the fleeing Jewish slaves, led by Moses, were sustained in the desert by the miraculous daily provision of “manna.” This was a small, white, flaky substance which was reported to have tasted like wafers made with honey.Interestingly, it’s said the manna only lasted for one day and after that it went bad. So manna could not be accumulated and stored, it had to be gathered and eaten fresh every day. Like all good stories, the providing of daily manna in the desert has lessons for spiritual ’sojourners’ today. One of those lessons is that Truth or Reality cannot be stored, cannot be amassed — it does not accumulate.The value of any insight, understanding, or realisation can only be in the ever-fresh presence of the moment.Yesterday’s realisation is not a bit of good. Now it is dead. Now it has lost it’s vitality. It is useless to try and cling to or hold onto an insight, an understanding, or a realisation, for only in its movement can there be the enabling of ever-fresh and new insights of Truth or Reality to appear.The idea of enlightenment or self-realisation as a onetime event or a lasting and permanent state or experience is an erroneous concept.Understand-ING or know-ING is alive in the immediacy which can never be negated. The emphasis is on the activity of know-ING which is going on as the immediacy now — not the dead concept ‘I understand’ or ‘I know’”.by Bob Adamson (Sydney)
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Suddenly Seeing Stillness Is All
August 5th, 2008 by Pete
And I then became exquisitely aware of the Stillness — around, within, underneath everything. It was a Stillness so profound that all that is seemed to be originating from and contained in it. I felt it most intensely at a locus in the center of my chest, and it radiated outward, filling my entire being and moving beyond. But it also undergirded and surrounded me and everything else. The Stillness was not a Negative or an Absence, but neither do the opposite terms seem at all apt. It simply Was (Is). It seemed the basis, the grounding, the totality of all that is. To describe it as a person is to limit and trivialise it. And to call it “it” is not at all accurate either, for what I experienced was no-thing. What I do know is that I experienced an absolute wholeness, integrity, serenity, and union with everything, a union that cannot be expressed in language. My intuitive reaction was “This is It!”, “This is What Is!” without in any way being able or feeling it necessary to articulate conceptually what I was experiencing, what “It” was. From Stillness by Bruce K Nagle. To read the complete article, >Click Here.
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The Olympic Now
August 5th, 2008 by Pete
An athlete’s effectiveness at the Olympic Games is directly related to his or her ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. All the preparation he or she may have put into the sport — all the game plans, analysis of movies, etc — Is no good if he or she can’t put it into action when game time comes. He or she can’t be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He or she must be able to respond in the here and now.by John Brodie
Category: Presence, Our World |
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Give No Way To Grief
August 5th, 2008 by Pete
Soul’s joy, now I am gone,And you alone,— Which cannot be,Since I must leave myself with thee,And carry thee with me —Yet when unto our eyesAbsence deniesEach other’s sight,And makes to us a constant night,When others change to light ;O give no way to grief,But let beliefOf mutual loveThis wonder to the vulgar prove,Our bodies, not we move.Let not thy wit beweepWords but sense deep;For when we missBy distance our hope’s joining bliss,Even then our souls shall kiss ;Fools have no means to meet,But by their feet ;Why should our clayOver our spirits so much sway,To tie us to that way?O give no way to grief,by John Donne
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Winning Isn’t Everything
August 5th, 2008 by Pete
Did you hear about the blind javlin-thrower from Australia who competed in the last Para-Olympics?He didn’t win any medals but he certainly kept the crowd on their toes!
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True Meditation
July 30th, 2008 by Pete
True meditation has no direction, goals, or method. All methods aim at achieving a certain state of mind. All states are limited, impermanent and conditioned. Fascination with states leads only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial consciousness. True meditation appears in consciousness spontaneously when awareness is not fixated on objects of perception. When you first start to meditate you notice that awareness is always focused on some object: on thoughts, bodily sensations, emotions, memories, sounds, etc. This is because the mind is conditioned to focus and contract upon objects. Then the mind compulsively interprets what it is aware of (the object) in a mechanical and distorted way. It begins to draw conclusions and make assumptions according to past conditioning. In true meditation all objects are left to their natural functioning. This means that no effort should be made to manipulate or suppress any object of awareness. In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness (consciousness) is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Silence of being will come more clearly into consciousness as a welcoming to rest and abide. An attitude of open receptivity, free of any goal or anticipation, will facilitate the presence of silence and stillness to be revealed as your natural condition. Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications, and returns to its natural non-state of Presence. The simple yet profound question, “Who Am I ?,” can then reveal one’s self not to be the endless tyranny of the ego-personality, but objectless Freedom of Being — Primordial Consciousness in which all states and all objects come and go as manifestations of the Eternal Unborn Self that YOU ARE. by Adyashanti
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