As one begins to truly recognize that the mind has no capacity to recognize truth, that it’s constantly projecting its own made up silliness onto the direct experience of reality, and then then finally begin simply seeing what is without all the additional commentary, life starts to become much simpler. The true reality of who you really are becomes apparent. When the mind stops trying to figure out what’s real and quits making up a false sense of identity, true reality is finally experienced.
Sri Bhagavan describes the experience beyond the mind, the experience we call enlightenment.
You then begin experiencing life, experiencing this very moment right NOW as beautiful and perfect. This is not a judgment. It’s not a belief. It’s not a decision to look at the world in this way. It’s the natural state once the mind drops away.
One finally recognizes that they truly live in heaven now. We all exist in “heaven on earth” in this moment. We have lived here in every moment of our lives, but have been thinking it’s somewhere else. The irony is that people have been trying to figure out how to “get to heaven” only to find that they’ve never left. Hence enlightenment is not a destination, a place to “get to.” Enlightenment is the realization of who you really are.
Again, this is NOT a belief system. It’s the direct experience of having let go of all beliefs and identification with mental chatter.
The most that most of us can do with this information is to either agree and adopt it as a belief, or disagree and reject it as a belief, but it’s still being interpreted as a belief. Allow this video and this article to simply pass through your awareness and be released, the same way air flows into your lungs and then out. Treat all of life with this level of non-attachment.
There is the idea that enlightenment is something special “out there,” that life is about experiencing the extraordinary, the miraculous. In reality, the ordinary is the extraordinary, the ordinary is miraculous. Every moment of Now is experienced for its innate beauty, the beauty of the Divine.
It’s not anything we need to consciously do. It’s only up to us to stop doing. The majesty of life only then becomes recognized for what it truly is.
Unconditional Love radiates as one’s true nature. One does not need to be taught to be loving and kind.
Misery and illusion is what is experienced when one is not experiencing reality, but a mind-made interpretation of reality.
True joy and freedom is your natural state when one transcends identification with the mind completely.
The mind that we have has absolutely ZERO capacity to recognize absolute Truth. People blindly put their faith into a tool which is fundamentally flawed.
The mind is designed to look at appearance not essence, and as we all know, appearances can be deceiving. From a technical standpoint, the mind works only in the dualistic domain of beliefs, not in the non-linear domain of infinite knowingness. To give you an example, the ego/mind can look at a piece of food and guess if it looks healthy or not depending on various characteristics and past experiences, but it can’t determine without a doubt, for SURE, whether or not this particular piece of food is ACTUALLY “good” for you.
The mind is designed to assist us in creating illusory realities, as mentioned previously, not in actually determining Truth.
You see, all thinking IS the ego. Thinking then uses thinking to support itself because it has no fundamental foundation holding itself up other than itself.
It’s a lot like trying to reach back and lift yourself up by the back of your shirt. The illusion is that you can actually lift yourself up off the ground, that the arm has the ability to lift up the body, that our supporting beliefs are supported by something solid and can therefore support other beliefs thanks to the solid connection to the ground.
Each of our beliefs are supported by other beliefs which are supported by yet other beliefs which, if you trace them all the way back to their roots, aren’t actually supported by anything at all!
Stop and run through both of the exercises now. I assure you that you will get MUCH more value out of actually doing those two exercises for yourself than simply agreeing or disagreeing with anything I have to say here. Read More …
Our minds are built in such a way that if our beliefs have valid supporting evidence, they must certainly be true. After all, we have proof! All other beliefs must therefore be wrong. Sounds pretty straightforward, right?
Let’s look at something as simple as the belief that 1+1=2.
It’s not absolutely true. It’s just an agreed upon concept.
What if we decided that 1+1=1? For example, you take one piece of clay, smush it together with another piece of clay, and you end up with just one piece of clay.
Or what if we decided that 1+1=11? Just stick the two numbers next to each other and call it a day. The Romans did something similar with their numerals.
In binary, the language used by computers, 1+1=10.
1 man + 1 woman = 2, 3, 4, 5, or even more people.
1 man + 1 woman = 1 person… if the relationship is really bad and one kills the other or jumps off a bridge.
Or what if 1 + 1 = Window? Visualize it. The 1′s form the sides, the + is the crossbar in the middle, and the = forms the top and the bottom.
Silly examples, certainly, but they show the point:
Our beliefs are not absolutely true. They are only true because we agree that they’re true.
Let’s take this a step further. Here’s how to really demonstrate this for yourself. Read More …
We all have thoughts, beliefs, opinions, and ideas about “the way things are” and all these beliefs are very real to us.
The thing is though, NONE of those mental concepts have any basis in actual reality! That is, we literally made them all up… and then forgot that we did so! In some cases, we may have heard something from another, felt that they had credibility, bought into their belief system, and thus incorporated their beliefs into our own belief system.
People tend to believe thoughts, especially the ones they feel are “mine.”
Nevertheless, we can reveal to ourselves that using thought is actually NOT a way to understand absolute truth.
The “How Do You Know” Method
Take a thought, belief, opinion, or idea that you hold to be true.
Now ask yourself, “How do I know absolutely for sure that this is true?”
Whatever answer the mind gives you, to it ask, “How do I know absolutely for sure that this is true?”
The mind will keep giving you back answers and every time it does, again ask yourself, “How do I know absolutely for sure that this is true?”
You must be willing to question every answer the mind gives you for this method to work.
If you keep asking this question, you’ll find that you eventually wind up at, “I don’t know absolutely for sure that this is true.”
It turns out each belief is supported by another belief which is supported by another belief which is ultimately supported by “I don’t know.”
Your beliefs are built upon nothing. They have no foundation at all!
Do this with a few hundred of your thoughts, beliefs, opinions, or ideas, and you’ll come to realize for yourself that thought is not a method for realizing absolute Truth whatsoever.
Many people who are seeking Truth, be they scientists, spiritual seekers, or religious practitioners, are looking to find how they fit into the world and what their purpose is.
At the core of this search one finds the question “Who Am I?”
Once you figure out who you are, then you know how you fit into the puzzle of life and what your role in it is. So… who are you?
Can you ever actually see yourself?
Can you look outside of yourself to see yourself?
Let’s allow Adyashanti to take us on an adventure. Let’s see if it’s possible to actually “look within” as so many masters have told us to do. Read More …
Our minds can be a noisy chatterbox from hell. It can keep yapping away and driving us nuts. Is it possible to experience a state of mental silence, the same type of silence we can experience when sitting back in awestruck wonder of a beautiful sunrise? Can we experience the mental stillness of a cool winter morning?
When we’re feeling really stressed out and want to change it, we’re often suggested to sit down and calm our minds and think good thoughts to replace the bad ones. Have a positive outlook. Be an optimist. Look on the bright side.
This can certainly help us replace bad feeling thoughts with good feeling thoughts and change the direction of our life. Absolutely.
However, there are even higher levels of being in the world.
It is possible to experience a lasting sense of inner peace and quietness without having to escape the incessant mind by going to sleep or engaging in various distracting activities.
Is there an effective technique to experience extended periods of mental tranquility?
What does it take to experience a sense of continuous peacefulness within, regardless of what’s happening without?
In order for your mind to quiet, all you have to do, all you ever have to do is to abide, to accept without resistance.
It means to simply allow things to be as they already are.
Completely and totally.
Next time you’re feeling like an emotional wreck, instead of trying to change it or hate the fact that you’re feeling like a miserable wreck, allow yourself to completely and totally experience the experience even though that sounds like the last thing you’d want to do.
What you’ll find is that when you allow your current emotional state to be just as it is, that underneath the emotional turbulence you’ll experience a profound sense of peace, a liberating sense of freedom, and a wide spaciousness around this moment.
Any time you’re not feeling peace, it’s a sign that you’re struggling and not allowing everything be as it is.
This sounds counter-intuitive to the mind, but what you resist persists and what you look at disappears.
As soon as you start to allow things to be just as they are, you’ll start to experience the breathing room around the situation, the peace, the freedom.
What’s awesome is that this sense of peace does NOT depend on the negative emotions actually leaving you or on your external situation actually being fixed. The negative emotions and situation can still be there and still be experienced, but by allowing them to be, you’ll experience a yourself abiding in a greater context that totally allows the emotion to be and without insisting that it leaves.
The cool part is that once you let go of pushing against the negative feelings, you’ll be able to see the situation more clearly and open up to receiving and discovering solutions to your problems that you would have otherwise been too mentally clouded over to realize.
As soon as you allow what is to be as it is, whatever that thing is that was so terrible will actually point right towards your own mental and emotional freedom.
What freedom? Well why not explore the lifestyle of letting go and find out for yourself?
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 …
The famous enlightened master Ramana Maharshi teaches the pathway to enlightenment through self-inquiry and constantly asking the question, “Who am I?” Just ask yourself, “Who am I? Who sees when I see? Who hears when I hear? Who knows that I am aware? Who am I?”
Is your name, its letters and sounds, you?
Or is it just a label? It’s not you. If you changed your name, would you still be you?
Are you your body?
If your body changes, if you lose a limb, you would still be you.
Is your mind you?
If yours thoughts change or your beliefs alter or the mind you have goes quiet in meditation, you’d still be here. The thought processes are not you. Who is it that’s noticing the thoughts?
The “I am” that I am is the same beingness that existed when you were five years old. Various qualities and characteristics about you may have changed since, certainly, but the very core of the fact that you exist hasn’t changed. Read More …
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Hence enlightenment is not a destination, a place to “get to.” Enlightenment is the realization of who you really are.
The mind that we have has absolutely ZERO capacity to recognize absolute Truth. People blindly put their faith into a tool which is fundamentally flawed.
