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Within Itself, CONSCIOUSNESS explores potential by creating individuated Awarenesses that experience each other and apparent objects in an environment. I am Awareness and so are you. Initially, we slept on this planet (and some of us are still sleeping) as lifeless form. We then dreamt (and some of us are still dreaming) as vegetation sensing and reacting to temperature, moisture, and sun light. We begin to wake-up as the spark of life in animals, instinctively experiencing movement, other life forms, and objects but with no sense of self. Real progress is made when Awareness develops in humans and continues in the dimensions beyond the physical. Birth is not the beginning nor is death the end.
Many of us have been through multiple human lifetimes already, nurturing our spirit by resolving issues without a memory of past incarnations. During these cycles, we learn and do the best we can as we recognize the truth and choose more loving ways of being and interacting.
Each Awareness is fundamentally the same. However, we differ in appearance, and, as humans, also in knowledge, tendency, and spiritual maturity. Every encounter with each other is an opportunity to accept, appreciate, and make good use of our differences and all that we have in common. This journey involves just being (lifeless form), sensing, reacting (vegetation), perceiving, thinking, learning, remembering (animals), accepting, loving, merging, assisting, creating, and rejoicing (all others). We travel our path as individuals, then together, and finally as an undivided whole, seaming to return to the SOURCE that was never left.
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ReplyWho or Where is this brilliance from?
ReplyAlan Watts, Amit Goswami, Ekhart Tolle, Rupert Spira. I summarize in my own words what I learn and what resonates with me from each of these giants. I edit them often initially, keep them close, read them every day. These words become part of who I am (or , at least, want to be).
ReplyWell I will need to explore Goswami and Spira. I am very attached to Alan Watts and Eckhart Tolle. This is the most succinct and clarified way I have ever had this explained. I am grateful for your post.
ReplyGoswami authored 'The Self-Aware Universe' years ago. Rupert Spira is more current and has dozens of youtube videos. He presents what he calls the 'direct path' to enlightenment. He gets it done.
ReplyI know a lot of people and have a big family. None of them gets me when I express these ideas. They consider this 'Out in space crazy talk'. I share it with some of them anyway. I do this here to be helpful and, in hopes, there is someone I can converse with. My ideas can be better clarified if I express them for consideration and scrutiny (some back and forth stuff) with a like-minded person.
Could that be you?
ReplyI suppose that could be me for now. Except, I have nothing to scrutinize in your writing. I agree with it and find it making sense. Families can be the most foreign to us sometimes. It's weird. Where does your username originate?
ReplyIt is my name. I have several one page summaries I've written over the years. I'd like to share them with you, maybe one at a time. Even your questions about what is meant by a particular idea, sentence, or phrase, would help me clarify the concept presented.
In the order written, the titles are:
'Being Here, Now', 'Consciousness is Everything', 'A More Selfless Perspective', 'Reflections', 'Unhappiness, Control and Change', 'The Game', 'Waking Up', 'I Am This', 'I Am Consciousness', 'The End of Suffering', 'Consciousness is Fundamental', 'About Thoughts', 'Consciousness is Fundamental', 'The Journey'.
Pick one.
ReplyI'll take "Unhappiness, Control and Change".
ReplyUNHAPPINESS, CONTROL, AND CHANGE
Some amount of unhappiness is experienced by everyone and when its source is understood, the impact can begin to diminish. It is a negative feeling about the way things are working out in our life. Everyone knows about good and bad, pleasure and pain, ease and disease. It is normal to prefer the good stuff but we also know that to be fully appreciated, some bad must be experienced.
Many of our thoughts and resulting actions involve pursuing what we prefer and avoiding what we don’t. This includes the desire (a craving) for a specific outcome and the action we take to try to make that happen. When we succeed, we try to keep, protect, and maintain easy access to this ‘goodness’ (a clinging). Failing to get and then keep what we want or to get rid of our problems causes our unhappiness. What can be done to reduce these failures?
Well, I can influence some events in my life but I only have absolute control when other factors don’t exist. I do have more control over my mind, body, and actions than I have over what other people think and do. Many of my thoughts show up from out of nowhere. It is not easy managing this mental traffic. With concentration, I can deliberately think about something and act on it but when I relax or lose the slightest interest, some uninvited thought barges in and becomes the new focus. My body’s daily functions pretty much take care of themselves and my internal organs and processes do not respond to my preferences. My actions are habitual or are initiated by and get direction from my intentional and from my uninvited thoughts. So, there is not much effective controlling is going on inside or outside of me.
This lack of control and the changing nature of all things explain why a craving / clinging strategy often fails. We just can’t force the outcomes we prefer to happen. Yet, we still crave and cling especially when the stakes are high. However, our unhappiness can be reduced by;
• Treating most pursuits as games that focus on having fun, realizing that there will be both wins and losses.
• Not taking full credit for successes and full responsibility for poor results when other factors are involved. Their impact can’t be accurately measured and can be significant. Undeserved ‘puff ups’ or ‘beat downs’ are never helpful.
• Accepting (not denying or resisting) the presence of unpleasant circumstances or events before deciding whether or how to react. Reversing what has happened is impossible.
Going more with the flow of this life that has many outcomes we can’t control (just experiencing with less judgement) appears to be the best way forward.
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ReplyI have about half of my summaries already out here and most were held up for as much as 24 hours with 'This comment is being reviewed by a moderator' statement. None have been rejected. There is nothing objectionable or edgy in it. Seems that a computer algorithm flags it and a person has to release it. If I don't see it as released tomorrow, it will be a first.
ReplyIt's here. Questions, comments, requests? Why did you pick this Title?
ReplyAlso good. Are you working on writing a book? I chose that one because I was intrigued with the idea of coping with change and control. Control comes up a lot in my line of work.
ReplyNot writing a book. Want to keep valuable ideas close. Want to help. Want to share. Another one?
ReplyI am interested in “waking up”. I am trying to learn this but doubt I will achieve awakening in my lifetime.
ReplyYou are interested and that's part of the process
WAKING UP
You are eternal - not you, the child, sibling, spouse, partner, parent, friend, neighbor, co-worker, citizen, human being. The One that has any of these titles and your name was not born and will not die but has forgotten that this is so. We, all of us, appear here as individuals in the midst of changing forms of all types and sizes that move through space and time. The largest forms are stars and the planets that orbit them. As we develop, We begin to see ourselves as a form or in a form, sensing and reacting to threats, needs and preferences. Forms, motion, and change do not exist in Eternity but this experiencing is happening. Evolution is guiding the combining, mutation, and reproduction of cells yielding trillions of unique microbes, vegetation, insects, fish, birds, land animals, and humans. We move and evolve using these temporary forms. When our particular host form dies, a new microbe, seedling, or embryo is made available for us to use to continue the learning that leads to awakening.
In/as creatures we instinctively recognize, communicate, and usually cooperate with those in our specie group. With the advanced human brain, we become self-aware and develop an ‘ego’ which is needed when survival is our primary concern. When it becomes less of a problem, we can begin to see that this ‘me first’ mentality constrains the quality of our social interactions and impedes our spiritual growth. Returning through many human life cycles may be necessary for each of us to learn what needs to be known about relationships with others. We would bring unresolved issues, evolving tendencies, capacity, and compassion from one life to the next without any memory of the details.
Individual experiences vary as does spiritual maturity. Each of us is OK as we are right now and how we choose to proceed. Pride, prejudice, envy, greed, deception, hate, and anything else that negatively impacts how we deal with and feel about others will slow our progress. Forgiveness, optimism, service to others, and loving unconditionally speed it up. Illness, trauma, and adversity occur in most lives and are more effective than ease and comfort in urging us to find answers to big questions like; ‘Why is this happening? How is this fair? When / how will this end? Who are we? Where are we headed?
While human, we get to improve our thinking and behavior. Choosing and learning can lead to a fading concern for our ‘person’ and to a natural caring and love for all that lives. If this is how we are when this particular life cycle ends, rather than re-incarnate, we might merge with others like ourselves to seed helpful ideas into receptive minds searching for truth. More developed spirit groups (social memory complexes) exist and may offer us some guidance. It is said that there is also silence, contemplation, and unimaginable joy as minds collectively evolve through the densities beyond the physical.
Experiencing existence through involvement with people and situations can be challenging. Many religions teach that we are eternal souls in earthly bodies on a single lifelong journey that ends with us going to Heaven or to Hell. Our personal agendas can’t adequately prepare us for either outcome. When we stop trying to control our destiny and stop even deciding what might be interesting, our attention goes where it is needed and actions simply happen. The truth is; we do not have a life to live as we choose – Life has us. Each of us is what Life is doing where we are right now. Every encounter is an opportunity to go with Its flow and to learn / do helpful things along the way. When we let go of our false sense of controls and let IT BE (‘not my will but THY Will be done), Life will use our presence to bring more light and love into the world. Eventually, each of Us wake up and remember that We are One (not many), are Eternal (beyond space and time), are Safe (can’t be harmed), and are resting at peace in the Mind of GOD where; “Nothing real can be threatened - nothing unreal exists.” – ACIM.
ReplyAgain, blown away again. These words became three-dimensional off the page while I was reading this. Right now I’m also reading a book called shift into freedom by Kelly Locke. My only question is about the phrase of the ego developing from a threat. Does this mean that the perception of threat in the individual must dissolve? Or does this mean that as we have evolve and progress in the world, threats to human beings themselves Dissolve making ego obsolete? Thank you again.
ReplyYou are awakening right now. My summary is 'being reviewed' and will be available by tomorrow.
ReplyIn the early development of awareness, plants and animals primary concern is staying alive by getting nourishment and resisting threats (shading or poisoning for plants - running or fighting for animals). The same is so for early humans in the form of me (the ego) and not me (everybody / everything else). Even in today's society, the ego is the protector of the body. Mental and spiritual development becomes more possible and likely when don't have to spend most, if not all, of our time an energy taking care of our basic creature needs of finding food, shelter, and fighting off threats.
I'm very pleased that you see my summaries as interesting and useful.
ReplyI checked out Shift Into Freedom. It presents a lot of the perspectives I currently have. Any guide that can help you make your understanding show up in your daily life is powerful. Once you get into this groove, your day is filled with doing what you must (cleaning, studying, working, driving, talking to someone, preparing now to do these things later) and then doing what you prefer. Time will not be wasted reviewing a past regret or fearing a possible future.
I can sense that this 'groove' is close for you. Perhaps it is happening now.
ReplyI just saw this. This book is the first writing that has concrete that give the western mind an anchor for practice in my experience. Your writing is the most complete understanding of the purpose and the”why” of all of this. It seems hard to find these things in such detail. How did you first become interested in this?
ReplyI wish I could remember to give time everyday to stay in this groove.
ReplyI heard something a few months back from Rupert Spira that has allowed a significantly positive shift for me. Prior to this, most of my understanding was conceptualized but not experienced. I understood and believed in these concepts but they did not seem to be active in my life. I meditated somewhat regularly but not effectively, at least that's how it felt. He said that 'meditation is who / what we are and that our person is what we do'.
I have not meditated since I heard this - it's been 5 or 6 months. My day includes doing what I must and giving those things my full attention and then I go into my meditative mode of observing and alertly watching what unfolds and pursuing the things that I prefer. My meditative mode is very experiential and does not represent my person / my ego. I spend no time reviewing past regrets or worrying about some possible future. I guess that my person is still front and center when I'm doing what I must - like when I'm eating, cooking, cleaning, driving, talking to someone or preparing now to do these things later. My ego seems to be dissolving quicker these days. Actually, I rarely give it much thought.
I became interested in this consciousness stuff in earnest when my wife bought me a Tim Allen (the comedian) book called 'I'm Not Really Here'. It was a serious but also comedic take on quantum physics for lay people. I used to travel a lot with my job for several years and read about a book a week re physic and spirituality. These topics are surprisingly complimentary. All or most books refer to other titles that are related and I sort of followed these recommendations as long as the content continued to resonate with me.
I could go on and on. Thats plenty for now.
ReplyI did just watch something by Spira. I will follow him more. I will also check out Tim Allen’s book. Is that book how all this really started for you?
ReplyIt's been a while. I've always leaned in the non-religious consciousness direction. This book introduced the possibility that science was related.
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