Last week I decided to simply quit spinning it around in my mind and emotional center and to simply go within and meditate. In meditation, I did a few main things:
Withdraw attention, energy, and interest from thought and emotion
Return awareness back to awareness itself
Surrender away all else without resistance
The key is not to try and fix ANYTHING, but to literally sit as the Self (conscious awareness itself), and allow everything else to fall away by offering it no resistance.
This may sound like it’s not accomplishing anything, as if no problems are being adequately dealt with, but believe me, this will impact you on an entirely different level…
There’s this idea that surrender means giving up, waving a white flag, and proclaiming our own weakness and sense of inability to accomplish our goals. This is NOT what is meant here. By surrender, I am simply saying to fully allow things to be the way they are and to let go of resistance. Be fully open without closing down.
After maybe 20-25 minutes of sitting in meditation, something amazing opened up and I realized a deeper part of my being, of who I truly am.
Beneath this idea of a little “me” and all the emotions and thoughts and stories it conjures up, there’s this infinitely more amazing world. Read More …
So we’ve been exploring together the idea that our whole world is an illusion and that that which we THINK is real is actually completely made up. Literally.
Our minds can only perceive (and thus experience) a relative reality, not Absolute Reality. Thus, the human mind can never know Truth itself. Words and symbols point to Truth, but are not Truth themselves.
Even if we COULD somehow discern absolute truth (and we can) while living on this planet, our physical bodies can still only experience physical sensations and the illusion itself. In a sense, our bodies are experiencing an aspect of All That Is, one portion at a time.
This then begs the question: If everything our 5 senses detect is part of the illusion, what IS real?
Some man-made and natural laws can be bent. Others broken. Are there any Universal laws that apply Absolutely and can NOT be broken?
Let’s take a look.
The 4 Laws of Creation
1) You exist.
I am.
The two words “I am” point to an Absolute Truth: You exist.
It doesn’t say “I was” or “I will be” because past and future are illusions. I AM.
Anything you add after the words “I am” such as I am happy, I am sad, I am rich, I am poor, I am perfect, I am imperfect… These are all illusions that the egoic mind can choose to buy into, or not.
…with one exception. “I am that I am.” This statement is simply saying, “I am what I am.” Nothing else could be true. Existence is itself. Reality is itself. You can’t truly be anything other than what you are, but you can PRETEND and THINK that you are, and thus EXPERIENCE yourself being something you’re not, one of the amazing capabilities provided to us in this illusory world of relativity. Read More …
Our true nature is not one of a sense of identity, an egoic “me,” but rather pure awareness itself.
Now, to just look at something and observe without interacting with it or without even thinking about it, that sounds pretty benign doesn’t it? It sounds very passive, as if the simple awareness of what is would have no effect upon what is.
Ah, it turns out that awareness of what is is much more powerful than we realize.
We can see that our material world, in its true unmanifest/unobserved nature, exists as an infinite set of possibilities, right here, right now. From a statistical standpoint, some of the possibilities are more likely than others and this is reflected as showing up more densely on the projected screen. In “real life” we could say that it’s more likely that you’ll roll out of bed and brush your teeth than it is that you’ll roll out of bed and sing an opera. They’re both still valid possibilities nonetheless. Until there is awareness present to actually witness potentiality, no manifestation can occur.
We are all the observers of our world and it is literally the observation of the world that determines what manifests from potentiality into actuality. On a quantum level, if there was no one around to witness our world, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist except as a collection of possibilities.
If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it still make a sound?
Awareness of potential creates manifest reality.
What you focus on expands.
Where attention goes, energy flows.
You are literally creating your reality all around you simply by looking at it.
I was reading through this site, and found that it goes against the “law of attraction”. because in law of attraction, thinking is good when I can direct them in a positive way. it is not just an ego. If I think, “I am confident that I can do this job and have lots of money doing so.” Then it is a positive thing to think about according to law of attraction.
Another thing is that the imposer article states that incarnation after incarnation brings only suffering.
Law of attraction says that we were not forced to incarnate but rather so eager to jump in again and again because there is so much joy in life.
So, I stopped reading the thing, but the book says that my ego will always come up with ideas so that I don’t have to read the book.
Did my ego mudding my thinking?
Or do I have some valid points?
Thanks, S.
My response:
S, excellent points, but yes, that is your ego looking for an out.
The two concepts do seem to butt heads a bit.
Enlightenment: Thoughts have no basis to know absolute truth and are therefore not real.
Law of Attraction: Thoughts help create your reality and can be used for good.
The main “problem,” if you will, is that people have lost their conscious connection to Source. They have become completely identified with their ego, their thoughts, and physical reality. Instead of life being a place where they could bring down their connection to Source and create whatever they choose, people forgot about all this and got stuck in physicality as if it was the only reality. This is what the Buddha meant when he said that life is suffering. Life, when identified totally from the ego, IS suffering for the ego itself is the source of all suffering through resistance and judgment.
So we learn that thoughts have no absolute truth, yet any reality (and I mean any reality) can be believed to be true and thus made experiential. Read More …
There is this theory floating around our world today, the theory of LACK.
It says that there are finite resources on this planet. There is not enough for everyone and thus we must struggle with one another and compete for what there is not enough of.
Who gets the resources? Why, the strongest of course! It’s survival of the fittest, a natural by product of evolution. “It’s how things work!”
This is the way things work when people are cut off from their true source within and are trapped in pure egoic consciousness.
The mind of the ego can be likened to an animalistic mind, just purely survival and reproduction based. It can not see beyond itself, beyond physicality. Thus it sees only what it has and recognizes that sometimes what it wants is here, but other times it’s not.
So what it wants is limited and since other people are also trying to take what it wants, it must compete with others for what it wants.
This is the current state of many people in this planet, particularly where we see the strong elite dominating the majority of people who live in poverty and lack.
The reason this mentality is able to thrive is because people have cut themselves off from the inherent source of creation which allows them to create MORE of that which they want.
Grow more food, create more money, share with people more freely, give what you have extra of, even give what seems to be lacking because you KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that you abide in abundance and there is ALWAYS more where that came from.
There is always more where that came from.
You see, as more people start raising their consciousness by connecting to the Source of All That Is (and thus entering the kingdom of God), they will begin to realize, both intellectually and experientially, their own inherent powers of Creation.
People will begin to further develop their skills of manifestation, of being able to create something out of thin air!
Isn’t that what growing food is all about? You nourish plants and animals, give them food, water, sunlight, a healthy atmosphere, and food is created from the loving ingredients of Source.
Same thing with everything else. When we nourish certain mindsets, beliefs, and understandings in the right way, we allow them to flourish.
We welcome views of abundance and act upon these states of being and thus make them real here on earth.
Evolution is not just about the strongest surviving. Evolution also entails continual expansion, growth, becoming MORE! That’s what Creation is all about. It’s about becoming more, about experiencing more, about having more, about appreciating more, about loving more, about sharing more.
Not because you’re trying to gain more in order have more and hopefully fill a void within.
Quite the opposite. It’s because you BECOME more that you then experiencing HAVING more, more abundance, more love, more unity, more peace.
So it truly comes down to us becoming more as people and raising our levels of consciousness to being open to abundance, open to all having enough to survive, and open to building the underlying foundation which allows each and every one of us to not only survive, but to THRIVE!
Abundance, Abundance, Abundance. That’s what it’s all about.
We must choose it for ourselves. It is totally up to us. Your abundance is totally up to you.
As you begin to acknowledge the Source of Creation within you, call it God, Existence, Christ, Allah, Spirit, Consciousness, whatever you wish… as you acknowledge that all Creation flows through us and ultimately IS us, you’ll find that you truly ARE the source of All Creation.
If we look carefully at our human mind, we see that it has NO capacity for creation. It only has the ability to look at the past and figure out what happened and how it happened to the best of its ability.
It has no capability to discern or create future, nor is that its job.
All creative ideas, every single idea that just *popped* into your awareness came in from a Source beyond the physical mind.
It came into you from you, from your higher self. The source of all creation in the river of life is the infinite light that comes from above.
As Bashar explains, here is how we are designed:
How You’re Designed To Operate:
The higher self conceives.
The physical brain receives.
The personality/mind perceives.
The higher self has a much higher vantage point than the lower self. It can see the big picture and all the obstacles that lie ahead.
It communicates to you through your intuition (your sixth sense) and your imagination. Your brain receives signals from the physical world through your five physical senses. It receives signals from your higher self, which is all-knowing and forever guiding you towards higher and higher states of Love if you would only allow it, through your sixth sense, the non-physical intuitive sense. This is how it communicates. It’s a FEELING, a tug, an internal knowingness, a premonition, a gut feeling, a sense of lightness and ease.
It can even feed you ideas through your imagination, allowing you to use your imagination to preview how you’d feel living out various scenarios. The feeling you feel by stepping into the shoes of “another you” is literally the guidance of your higher self. Live your dreams, the good feeling ones!
Your physical mind’s job ONLY to focus your awareness into a physical reality so that you can perceive and experience what you conceived from your higher self what you say to be representative of your truths and joys.
You see, when the physical mind thinks it’s in charge, that it is the one who has to do all the heavy lifting, creation, problem solving, and solution finding, the mind will get caught up in looking at the past to figure out how something happened in the past, looping its mental memory bank, and thinking that what it perceived in the past MUST be a way that you will solve this problem this time around.
This is NOT true.
It believes that the way something happened in the past MUST be how it’s solved again in the future and thus it closes you off from ANY new sources of creation.
Not only this, when you start burdening the physical mind with figuring out HOW, you overburden it with tasks it’s literally not designed to handle. No wonder it feels so heavy and stressed out. There is a better way… Read More …
From the perspective of the ego in linear time, this is the way events seem to unfold. In truth, this is actually an illusion. The reality is that there is only one time: Now.
This domino effect is the basis of our legal systems, for now we can decide who is at fault based upon the fact that they “caused” such and such to happen.
The truth is, nothing can cause anything else to happen. The cause of anything is the totality of the universe expressing itself throughout time.
Is the metaphorical straw that broke the camel’s back literally what broke its back? Or was it simply one of many influences that, in conjunction, created the likely possibility for the camel’s back to be broken? Read More …
We live in a society today which is dominated by self-help books and self-improvement guides promising to increase the quality of your life in such-and-such way, or your money back!
What’s going on? It seems everyone feels perpetually imperfect and is constantly seeking something new and better “out there” to satisfy a craving to feel better “in here.”
As usual, this stems from the ego’s distorted perception of reality.
In reality, Life is in a state of complete perfection. You are perfect, just as you are. There is nothing to improve and nothing that could possibly be improved, only changed.
From the perspective of the ego, everything is inherently imperfect. Life needs to be improved and changed in order to achieve happiness. You need to DO something in order to BE happy.
Interestingly, even once the goals are met and the ego should theoretically be satisfied, the feeling of satisfaction turns out to be short-lived. It seems that the ego’s hunger for improvement is insatiable. It ALWAYS wants more! MORE!
So people wind up getting caught up in this game of cat-and-mouse, trying to do something to achieve happiness, and creating new goals to reach the next level as soon as the current goal is met.
What happens it that people are unhappy NOW while trying to get to the ever-elusive THEN which is ironic because the Now is the only moment there is. Read More …
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They’re both still valid possibilities nonetheless. Until there is awareness present to actually witness potentiality, no manifestation can occur.
We are all the observers of our world and it is literally the observation of the world that determines what manifests from potentiality into actuality. On a quantum level, if there was no one around to witness our world, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist except as a collection of possibilities.
There is this theory floating around our world today, the theory of LACK.
A causes B causes C.