Everything is perfect. And I mean everything everything everything.
Imagine you’re sitting in a room talking to people. The person you’re sitting next to is the exact person you need to be sitting next to, and the same is true for them. Every word that is uttered. Every thought that is thought. Every atom in every place. Every molecule of air in every moment is exactly where it should be.
There is nothing out of place. There are no mistakes. There is nothing wrong with anything at all.
It’s amazing the degree to which this perfection exists. It’s not just the big events or little moments that are perfect, but I mean EVERY POSSIBLE THING you can think of!
This isn’t something I can prove and I have no idea how I know. I just know it without having to figure it out. I know this from a source that is deeper than the breathing of my lungs and closer than the beating of my own heart.
This knowingness of perfection lies beyond form, yet permeates it all, as it.
I am only here to share the good news and to celebrate the perfection as it is.
I can’t convince you of it, nor can I give you it. How could I when it’s already here and you are it? I can only invite you to come join me and look within to find what lies beneath thought and is everpresent.
lol, this is so funny. Nothing in the mind is really believed in anymore. Why bother? If everything is already perfect, what is left to fix? How can anything be improved? It’s like the mind’s job to protect is obsolete! What is there to fear?
If everything is God and everything is you, what on earth is there to fear? What in any universe is there to fear? There is only the perfection of God/You. That’s it! In the “unknown,” you’ll find nothing else!
What a beautiful and absurd joke this perfection is.
What people call imperfection, well, that only exists in thought. People may see themselves as imperfect, but that is only the case because thoughts say that and those thoughts are believed in.
This is wild. The mind is starting to grow quiet. What’s left isn’t being believed in anyways. It’s like peeling off soggy wet clothes after running through the forest. Thoughts are just falling off me.
I melllttiiinnnggg!
If you are the BIGGEST treasure imaginable, then needing anything from the world, it’s just a silly thought. It’s like realizing you are an infinite dollar bill and then wondering what you need the change in your pocket for any longer.
Let that heavy change go for it’s something to be appreciated and enjoyed, but not anything you need acquire or carry around any longer. Everything you need is already available for you are what you need and you can never be lost.
About a month back I was driving home and suddenly I realized I had no idea what on earth was going on.
The cars in front of me don’t exist, so what is happening?
Distance doesn’t exist, so where am I going?
I don’t exist, so who is driving?
It wasn’t some sort of philosophic concept that these things don’t exist, but a spontaneous realization that just appeared within consciousness, as if one just saw through the smoke and mirrors, seeing nothing on the other side.
It feels like the mind itself is unraveling.
This physical world doesn’t seem to make any sense. Only silence does.
Memory is starting to not function very well, and I used to have a great memory. It’s like a return to purity without a lifetime’s worth of collected baggage. What’s necessary in the moment is always provided. Always. The past isn’t necessary and so the fact that it’s falling away is really of no concern.
Illusion is being stripped away. There’s still some mental capacity happening, but much of what’s left of it is just this state of confusion and desire to figure things out.
However, it’s nothing to figure out and all that can be done is to let go.
Let go of knowing, of trying to know, of desiring to know in the first place.
Abide in the silence of not knowing, of purely beingness itself.
Gangaji, an awakened woman whose teachings are very similar to those of Ramana Maharshi, has an excellent video about her core message of Silent Awareness.
In this video, she discusses:
The Silent Awareness that is always alive in you
Non-dualistic silence
Dropping all beliefs
Realizing who you are rather than Believing who you are
How we’ve heard Truth, but haven’t Discovered it directly yet
What’s your impression of her teachings and her message?
I recently sent out a newsletter (you can subscribe at the upper-left of the page) discussing how everything you need for Enlightenment is found in the Silence. It’s all within.
There were some wonderful responses to the newsletter, as well as one unsubscribe email that was particularly fantastic. It read:
Your advice, actually: “You see, if you’re looking for Enlightenment, it’s in the Silence that everything you seek is found.” I understand that to mean I don’t need your newsletters. Thanks, though!
Of course you don’t need my newsletters!
It means you don’t need ANYTHING!
You already have and are EVERYTHING you could possibly want!
How wonderful!
What a gift!
(Actually, wouldn’t that suck if what you wanted could only come from someone else outside yourself? What if you couldn’t find them or they refused to give it to you? Then you’d be totally screwed! Fortunately, everything you seek is found within.)
The Love that you seek arises from the Silence that you are within.
The Peace that you seek arises from the Silence that you are within.
The Enlightenment that you seek arises from the Silence that you are within.
Just like other spiritual teachers, I’m not here to give you anything you don’t already have, but rather to point you towards where you’re not yet looking (within) and thus discover who you already are.
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 …
There is a school of thought which suggests that silence is found in the space between two thoughts.
In order to experience mental peace, you need to experience and gradually lengthen the gaps between two thoughts, thereby extending the duration of the silence.
Now, this sounds pretty logical at first, but I disagree with the reality of this idea, for a number of reasons. This viewpoint creates a few problems. Allow me to explain.
1) It creates the idea that thoughts/noise can somehow replace stillness/silence/awareness/presence.
The idea is that you experience either silence OR thoughts. This is true. Physical experience is indeed dualistic, but it’s not how things actually are.
The problem with this idea is the belief that silence somehow “disappears” when thoughts are present. It then magically “reappears” in the space between two thoughts.
Silence is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS present. It can not be replaced by noise, only temporarily covered up by a noisy distraction.
It is the infinite silence of the forest that allows us to hear the rustling of the wind.
It is the silence of the audience in the concert hall that allows us to hear the orchestra perform.
It is the stillness of the mind that allows us to hear thoughts at all.
If the silence was replaced by infinite noise, it would be impossible to pick out any thoughts in particular. It is the presence of silence that allows us to listen to thought in the first place.
Our true nature is one of awareness. Now, awareness can be focused on awareness itself, the unmanifest silence, or it can be focused on thought, the manifest form.
The unmanifest is permanent. The manifest is transient, temporary.
Thoughts do not REPLACE silence. They simply sit on top of silence, are supported by silence, come up from silence and subsequently fall back into silence.
Thus, awareness is more like a continuous background awareness. Awareness can be aware of itself (silence) or of thoughts (noise). Either way, awareness is always aware.
It may SEEM as though silence disappears when the mind is thinking, but the reality is simply that awareness has shifted focus to the thoughts. It’s not that the silence has actually disappeared and will only reappear in the space between two thoughts. Read More …
I’m sitting outside in the garden now looking around at all the “form” that surrounds me… plants, flowers, trees… cars, homes, bees… statues, stones, leaves…
After a relatively brief meditation session, I opened my eyes and began looking at my surroundings, simply observing without allowing the mind to hop in and insert its commentary and labels. Just looking and allowing all color, form, shape, and movement to flow into my eyes as one seamless flow of light.
Suddenly I realized what I was seeing and burst out laughing.
Underneath all form is a dance of formless energy. Nothing is solid, real, or permanent. What we call physical and tangible is simply a dance of impermanence.
The building blocks of all form is the formlessness of pure non-physical energy.
It’s like this…
Look at this picture. What do you see coming from the light? Smoke. A dance of wispy smoke. Frozen in time in this image, we could look at this smoke and say it has a distinct, definable form. It has a structure, shape, color, and size. In fact, we can keep looking at it and it doesn’t move. It must be permanent!
As we know, however, the shape of smoke is constantly subject to air currents and the flow of all of life itself. It’s constantly moving and evolving. Despite any appearances of form or structure, we know that smoke is truly formless. It has simply takes on the appearance of a particular form in every changing moment.
Every thing you see in life is just like this smoke. It is the appearance of form created by the formless.
Nothing is truly concrete or solid, despite outer appearances.
Look at a growing plant without mentalization and what you see is the dance of formlessness. It is a formless flow of energy temporarily taking the shape of a plant.
Everything in life is like smoke, just moving a little more slowly or more quickly. Some things are physically more dense so they move more slowly. The smoke from a flame is not very dense so it moves relatively quickly. A human body walks around somewhat more slowly. A stone cathedral, which is very dense, changes even more slowly.
Yet given enough time, they will all equally be reduced to dust.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
There is an inherent vulnerability in all form. When we see someone or something putting up a protective shield, be they the thorns of a plant, the anger of a person, or the walls around a castle, we recognize that these defenses are simply the result of “something” being fearful of its own dissolution and subsequently doing whatever it can to solidify its sense of permanence.
Yet what we often recognize as most beautiful in life is that which is vulnerable… the petals of a flower, the breeze over the ocean, the gracefulness of a ballerina, the body of a young woman, the fluidity of a symphony, a sleeping baby, the chirping of a bird, a siren’s song, curves.
Vulnerability is the true strength, for it is in alignment with the permanent impermanence. That which is vulnerable can never be destroyed. It can certainly change forms and evolve, expand and contract. It always will, and recognizing this fact, one may let go of trying to maintain their current state and allow their own light to shine forth from within.
This awareness comes from beyond the mind. The true strength of formless vulnerability can not be seen by trying to look for it. It’s the timelessness of all that is. It’s the gentle touch and the powerful crash. It is that which can not be named, for it is simply just something that is. It exists. You can talk about it, but you can not say what it is.
Its presence arises naturally as the mind goes quiet and stops noisily covering up that infinite vastness.
It is a peace, yet beyond the most infinite peace you can imagine. It is truly beyond all imagination, beyond your wildest dreams.
You can tap into it whenever you wish. It is always there, lovingly awaiting your conscious return.
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Carpet of Clovers by Floris van Breugel
It feels like the mind itself is unraveling.
There is a school of thought which suggests that silence is found in the space between two thoughts.
I’m sitting outside in the garden now looking around at all the “form” that surrounds me… plants, flowers, trees… cars, homes, bees… statues, stones, leaves…
