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Awakening From The dream of Seperation

The Revelation of Oneness

Beyond Awakening

"The lamps are different,

But the Light is the same.

So many garish lamps in the dying brain's lamp shop,

Forget about them.

Concentrate on the essence, concentrate on the light.

In lucid bliss, calmly smoking off its own holy fire,

In the light stream towards you from all things,

All people, all permutations of good, evil thought, passion.

The lamps are different,

But the Light is the same.

One matter, one Energy, one Light, one Light-mind,

Endlessly emanating all things.

One turning and burning diamonds,

One, One, One.

Ground yourself, strip yourself down,

To blind loving silence.

Stay there, until you see

You are gazing at the light

With its own ageless eyes."

(By Rumi)

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Father and Son

Dear Dad,

$chool i$ really great. I am making lot$ of friend$ and $tudying very hard. With all my $tuff, I $imply can't think of anything el$e that I need, $o if you would like, you can ju$t $end me a pla$tic card, a$ I would love to receive that from you. Plea$e Reply.

Love,
Your $incere $on.



Dear Son,

I kNOw that astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are eNOugh to keep even an hoNOr student busy. Do NOt forget that the pursuit of kNOwledge is a NOble task, and you can never study eNOugh.

Love,
Your affectioNAte Dad

The Interview With God

I dreamed I had an interview with God. 

“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.

“If you have the time” I said. 

God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”

“What surprises you most about humankind?”

God answered...
“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then 
long to be children again.”

“That they lose their health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health.”

“That by thinking anxiously about the future, 
they forget the present, 
such that they live in neither 
the present nor the future.”

"That they live as if they will never die, 
and die as though they had never lived.”

God’s hand took mine
and we were silent for a while.

And then I asked...
“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons 
you want your children to learn?”

“To learn they cannot make anyone 
love them. All they can do 
is let themselves be loved.”

“To learn that it is not good 
to compare themselves to others.”

“To learn to forgive
by practicing forgiveness.”

“To learn that it only takes a few seconds 
to open profound wounds in those they love, 
and it can take many years to heal them.” 

“To learn that a rich person 
is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”

“To learn that there are people 
who love them dearly, 
but simply have not yet learned 
how to express or show their feelings.”

“To learn that two people can 
look at the same thing 
and see it differently.”

“To learn that it is not enough that they 
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”

"Thank you for your time," I said humbly. 

"Is there anything else 
you would like your children to know?"

God smiled and said, 
“Just know that I am here... always.” 

-author unknown

A Prison of Our Own Making

Every one of us is pre-programmed, in accordance with the culture, family, society or religion we are born into and grow up with. Most of us are indifferent to the fact that we operate with little awareness. So we end up living in a self-made prison. 

Once a philosopher asked a cobbler - who was himself a Sufi saint - to repair his shoes. The cobbler expressed his inability to do so as he was about to close his shop for the day. If his shoe were not repaired immediately, he would have only one shoe to wear, explained the philosopher to the cobbler. “Please, this is urgent,” he pleaded.

 “You may please borrow my shoe for the other foot'', said the cobbler. ''But I don't wear another's shoes,'' said the philosopher. ''If you can borrow someone's ideas why not a shoe?'' asked the cobbler. Truly, our ideas are largely borrowed ones. Borrowed ideas have become a part of our inner programming. Myths and disempowering words and thoughts have invaded our inner engineering. 

Learn to observe life deeply. If you observe yourself deeply you will find that you are not one 'I' but multiple 'I's. There is an 'I' that supports you and another 'I' that pulls you down. You should learn to de-identify from the negative 'I' and invite the positive 'I'. Can we observe how we touch the outer world with our inner thoughts and attitudes? If our thoughts and attitudes are negative, a negative system gets created. Then the negative system takes control of our life, develops its own survival mechanism and we become slaves of that system. The art of wise living is to dismantle the negative system from our lives. 

We have to learn the art of inner separation and not allow inner thoughts and attitudes of negativity to eat into our lives. Negative, ignorant, addictive, narrow, foolish 'I's eat our life forces just as rats eat crops. Some 'I's in us are our friends and some, our enemies. To recognise and de-identify ourselves with the negative 'I's is 'inner separation'. 

If we identify with negative thoughts and emotions coming from multiple 'I's and feel them to be our true self, it will lead to chaos and conflict. Any thought or emotion that passes through us is not ours. The traffic on the pavement does not belong to us... neither does the traffic of thoughts. We should learn to select and reject, only then we will not find ourselves in prison. Don't allow moods that emerge from the negative 'I' to overtake your life. Allow wise influences to impact your life. 

Don't allow the influences of darkness impact your life. Allow the influences of the Sun to energise you. Learn to be in association with the conscious humanity and not the sleeping humanity. This will make you look at ordinary things in a new way. A new “will” will be created. A new meaning will emerge. A new understanding will guide you and give you wings to fly. 

Be like the bee which goes from one flower to another, savouring the nectar from each of them. A fly, on the other hand, sits on garbage, and then flies to a sweetmeat shop and again to the gutter and back to the rose garden. The fly is alternating between goodness and toxin. But the bee picks and chooses from what is available and is attracted to the good alone and hence flies from one flower to another. Being like a bee in life, will enable us to move from one form of goodness to another, and we will be attracted to all the sacredness of existence. To be like a fly is to indulge in negativities like anger, hatred and jealousies and then visiting the temples and shrines for prayer. 

By Swami Sukhabodhananda

EGO

It's not about me.

The ego generally doesn't like to hear things like this.

The ego is selfish by nature; that's what it is. It is selfishness.

Spirit/Awareness is selfless by nature; that's what it is. It is selflessness (love).

To cover up this truth, the ego focuses on survival so it can stay selfish.

Competition feeds greed (selfishness) and the fear of surviving (death).

Co-operation feeds kindness (selflessness) and the helping of others to survive.

If everybody lived for the sake of others, nobody would be left out, and everybody would survive with ease.

It's not about me.

The ego will justify its actions by whatever means it can, for the sake of its own selfish survivial.

It re-arranges perceptions so that neediness is disguised as "wants".

It blames outside phenomena for its own perceptions about that phenomena.

But if one is watching the ego, and is aware of it, then one is not the ego.

One is the silent non-judgemental Awareness that is aware of the ego, and its thinkingness and perceptions.

But how could consciousness ever see the errors of the ego as long as it is identified with being the selfish ego?

It couldn't. And so, an Enlightened teacher who has gone beyond the ego is required to light the way.

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. - Albert Einstein

Problems of the mind cannot be solved at the level of the mind.

It's not about me, because the selfish ego isn't me.

If one isn't the ego, what is there to fear? Surviving and death? Certainly not.

Watch the mind. That Awareness is changeless, timeless, formless, and infinitely eternal. It has no beginning or end.

That which is timeless, is eternal.

That which is changeless, cannot change.

That which is formless, cannot die.

For many, it's a relief when the realization is made that they don't exist for themselves.

All the struggling, all the suffering, all the trying to get and gain things for oneself; it's all in vain.

It's all out of the false identification with the selfish ego of change, which can die.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

It's not about me, because the selfish ego isn't me.

Selflessness (love) is the answer to all things.

Working for the benefit of others, instead of for the money, is selflessness.

You don't necessarily have to change what you do. You just have to change the reason of why you do it.

Eating for optimal health so that one can serve others exponentially, instead of eating for pleasure, is selflessness.

When you change the reason why you do something, what you do do, changes automatically.

Overcoming neediness, cravings, and addictions is far simpler when one lives for the sake of others rather than for oneself.

It's not about me.

Eat for optimal health and vitality, and there will be enough energy for oneself, and for others.

Work for the benefit of others, instead of for the money, and the money will come automatically (karma).

Stop worrying (creating karma), and there will be no worries (karma).

Live a life of simplicity, and there will be few complications.

Live a life free of neediness, and you will have no needs.

Choose to be happy, whole, complete, and at peace, and you will always be happy, whole, complete, and at peace.

Stop trying to make yourself appear better than others (egoic pride), and others will think you're the best.

Change yourself to the changeless, and you change the world as a result.

Be the still, silent, non-judgmental, non-labeling, unchanging Awareness, and you won't be the selfish ego.

It's not about me, because the selfish ego isn't me.

That which changes (ego) is relative. That which is changeless (Awareness) is absolute.

Which level of truth do you wish to be? Relative or absolute?

Even the wantingness to be Awareness is still a neediness of the selfish ego.

You are already the Awareness that is aware of that wantingness.

Want nothing. Need nothing. Think nothing.

Just be aware, always.

It's not about me, because the selfish ego isn't me.

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