Emotions come and go.
Everything comes and goes.
Time is constantly moving. I wish it would just stop. I wish I could experience the eternal now. I want to know that which is pure being. It is the only thing in the universe that is fixed, never changing.
Yet, I already am that. I am, therefore I am that which is pure being.
That doesn't change the fact that I am caught up in these emotions, both "positive" and "negative." I long for transcendence.
No-one else around me cares that they are caught in a cage, entrapped by the monkey mind. They don't see the cage, and they don't feel that they are trapped.
I do see the cage. I do feel trapped. Yet, I can't get out. It's driving me mad.
People do all kinds of things to try and experience the absolute perfect peace of ever-present awareness. They go to concerts, they eat cookie dough ice cream, they go to movies, they go through religious ceremonies and rituals. Yet they have to keep searching, as they don't find what they are looking for, since they don't even know what they are looking for.
That for which they search is God's essence, transcendent spirit.
Will I ever know that? Will I ever achieve Nirvana?
My heart tells me yes. I will.
Have you ever been so caught up in something so great that you no longer had any desire for anything? Have you ever been so content, that you felt an indescribable presence of peace? That peace is the thing we seek.
We seek to not seek anymore. We desire to no longer desire.
Peace begins where desire ends.
The end of the road of seeking is God.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Tranquility
There is an aspect of you/me that is always silent. This is the stillness that is always with us, even when the world around us is going a thousand miles per hour.
Even though this stillness is always there, we still choose to completely identify with the forms that pass through us, instead of just observing these forms from our silent perspective.
Silence and stillness connect us with the unchanging aspect of our existance. The part of us which is outside time and space, and yet observes everything within time and space.
Stillness of the mind is needed for most Magickal operations. Stillness and silence lead us to God, Aristotle's unmoved mover. From this motionless, timeless place, all potentiality is available and we can recreate the world with our intention, the intention of God.
Although from God's perspective, it's difficult to care about what happens to [insert the name of your ego here].
Even though this stillness is always there, we still choose to completely identify with the forms that pass through us, instead of just observing these forms from our silent perspective.
Silence and stillness connect us with the unchanging aspect of our existance. The part of us which is outside time and space, and yet observes everything within time and space.
Stillness of the mind is needed for most Magickal operations. Stillness and silence lead us to God, Aristotle's unmoved mover. From this motionless, timeless place, all potentiality is available and we can recreate the world with our intention, the intention of God.
Although from God's perspective, it's difficult to care about what happens to [insert the name of your ego here].
Friday, February 12, 2010
Awareness of That Which is Not Awareness
What is aware of time?
Is not that which is aware of time, timeless?
What is aware of form?
Is it not that which is formless?
What is aware of space?
Is it not that which has no spacial dimensions?
Awareness is aware.
Sounds like an obvious statement but most people don't understand what exactly awareness is. Awareness does not think, awareness is simply aware. Most people associate awareness with the mind but awareness is not of the mind. Awareness observes the mind. Awareness is aware of the mind.
Awareness is the foundation of existance. Awareness is being itself.
In order to realize this awareness, we must become conscious of what is in our awareness. We must objectify the thoughtforms that we usually completely identify with.
If fear enters into my mind/body system, I can identify with the fear or I can become aware of the fear. I can realize that I am that which is aware of fear. I am not the fear, I am that which observes the fear in my mind/body system.
These archetypal energies, such as fear, are the very things which compose the mind. If you are thinking right now, you are identified with an archetypal energy. Perhaps, in this moment, you are identified with the rational mind, or perhaps you are identified with the skeptical/doubting mind, both of these thought-patterns are closely related. You may identify yourself as rational, but are you always rational? Is there ever an irrational though-pattern that possesses your mind? If you become conscious of these two opposing forces within you, then you can begin to realize the true nature of your being.
Is not that which is aware of time, timeless?
What is aware of form?
Is it not that which is formless?
What is aware of space?
Is it not that which has no spacial dimensions?
Awareness is aware.
Sounds like an obvious statement but most people don't understand what exactly awareness is. Awareness does not think, awareness is simply aware. Most people associate awareness with the mind but awareness is not of the mind. Awareness observes the mind. Awareness is aware of the mind.
Awareness is the foundation of existance. Awareness is being itself.
In order to realize this awareness, we must become conscious of what is in our awareness. We must objectify the thoughtforms that we usually completely identify with.
If fear enters into my mind/body system, I can identify with the fear or I can become aware of the fear. I can realize that I am that which is aware of fear. I am not the fear, I am that which observes the fear in my mind/body system.
These archetypal energies, such as fear, are the very things which compose the mind. If you are thinking right now, you are identified with an archetypal energy. Perhaps, in this moment, you are identified with the rational mind, or perhaps you are identified with the skeptical/doubting mind, both of these thought-patterns are closely related. You may identify yourself as rational, but are you always rational? Is there ever an irrational though-pattern that possesses your mind? If you become conscious of these two opposing forces within you, then you can begin to realize the true nature of your being.
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