Monthly Archives: October 2012

Quench All Fears Completely

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squirrel friend

What can I know that is not of me – not connected to me as is my own nose? All that I know and all that I can know are variations of my own reality. What, then, is there to fear? Myself. Only the delusion that there be something apart from my reality causes me to fear. Once seen, this view of reality quenches all fears completely.

 

Here is my meditation of today. The first verse by Ramana from his “Forty Verses on Reality”:

 

1. From our perception of the world there follows acceptance of a unique First Principle possessing various powers. Pictures of name and form, the person who sees, the screen on which he sees, and the light by which he sees: he himself is all of these.

 

(for those interested in more: http://www.satramana.org/html/forty_verses_on_reality.htm

Beach Log

reblog from vision5d2012 meditation for our Home Planet

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A powerful meditation for our Home Planet from Vision5d2012!

New Earth Paradigm

Last week we envisioned new relationships extending from Peace and Prosperity dwelling in our hearts.

There is one relationship that we are all in, however, that is so primary that it deserves  a whole week of visioning for itself. That is our relationship with our Mother Earth or Gaia.

Gaia is always in a state of Peace and Prosperity — Her very Soul is Stillness and Abundance. It is we Humans who now need to extend the Peace and Prosperity within our hearts to this being upon whose body we live and draw our life’s breath.

Let us once again imagine the two beautiful white doves of Peace and Prosperity nestled in our hearts.  Let your gaze fall softly on the image and FEEL the fullness of the stillness of Peace. Then let yourself FEEL the overflowing quality of Prosperity. Stay with this feelings for a moment longer. Imagine everyone…

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Krishnamurti: Passion Without Motive – What is Love? Part Two

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Krishnamurti on Relationship

image source: livebyquotes.com

So when you ask what love is, you may be too frightened to see the answer. It may mean complete upheaval; it may break up the family; you may discover that you do not love your wife or husband or children—do you?—you may have to shatter the house you have built, you may never go back to the temple.

But if you still want to find out, you will see that fear is not love, dependence is not love, jealousy is not love, possessiveness and domination are not love, responsibility and duty are not love, self-pity is not love, the agony of not being loved is not love, love is not the opposite of hate any more than humility is the opposite of vanity.

So if you eliminate all these, not by forcing them but by washing them away as the rain washes the dust of many days from a leaf, then perhaps you will come upon this strange flower, which man always hungers after.

If you have not got love—not just in little drops but in abundance—if you are not filled with it, the world will go to disaster. You know intellectually that the unity of mankind is essential and that love is the only way, but who is going to teach you how to love?

Will any authority, any method, any system, tell you how to love? If anyone tells you, it is not love. Can you say, “I will practice love. I will sit down day after day and think about it. I will practice being kind and gentle and force myself to pay attention to others”?

Do you mean that you can discipline yourself to love, exercise the will to love? When you exercise discipline and will to love, love goes out the window. By practicing some method or system of loving you may become extraordinarily clever or more kindly or get into a state of nonviolence, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with love.

In this torn desert world there is no love because pleasure and desire play the greatest roles, yet without love your daily life has no meaning. And you cannot have love if there is no beauty. Beauty is not something you see—not a beautiful tree, a beautiful picture, a beautiful building, or a beautiful woman. There is beauty only when your heart and mind know what love it.

Without love and that sense of beauty there is no virtue, and you know very well that, do what you will—improve society, feed the poor—you will only be creating more mischief, for without love there is only ugliness and poverty in your own heart and mind.

But when there is love and beauty, whatever you do is right, whatever you do is in order. If you know how to love, then you can do what you like because it will solve all other problems.

So we reach the point: Can the mind come upon love without discipline, without thought, without enforcement, without any book, any teacher or leader—come upon it as one comes upon a lovely sunset? It seems to me that one thing is absolutely necessary and that is passion without motive—passion that is not the result of some commitment or attachment, passion that is not lust. A man who does not know what passion is will never know love because love can only come into being when there is total self-abandonment.

A mind that is seeking is not a passionate mind and to come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it—to come upon it unknowingly and not as the result of any effort or experience. Such a love, you will find, is not of time; such a love is both personal and impersonal, is both the one and the many.

Like a flower that has a perfume, you can smell it or pass it by. That flower is for everybody and for the one who takes the trouble to breath it deeply and to look at it with delight. Whether one is very near in the garden or very far away, it is the same to the flower because it is full of that perfume and, therefore, it is sharing with everybody.

Love is something that is new, fresh, alive. It has no yesterday and no tomorrow. It is beyond the turmoil of thought. It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world, which is not innocent.

To find this extraordinary thing which man has sought endlessly through sacrifice, through worship, through relationship, through sex, through every form of pleasure and pain, is only possible when thought comes to understand itself and comes naturally to an end. Then love has no opposite, then love has no conflict.

You may ask, “If I find such love, what happens to my wife, my children, my family? They must have security.” When you put such a question you have never been outside the field of thought, the field of consciousness. When once you have been outside that field you will never ask such a question because then you will know what love is in which there is no thought and therefore, no time. You may read this mesmerized and enchanted, but actually to go beyond thought and time—which means going beyond sorrow—is to be aware that there is a different dimension called love.

But you don’t know how to come upon this extraordinary fount, so what do you do? If you don’t know what to do, you do nothing, don’t you? Absolutely nothing. Then inwardly you are completely silent. Do you understand what that means? It means you are not seeking, not wanting, not pursuing; there is no center at all. Then there is love.

(Freedom from the Known in Total Freedom –The Essential Krishnamurti p.131 ff.)

Jiddu Krishnamurti and David Bohm

image source: http://www.spaceandmotion.com

Love Flowering

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Razor’s Edge

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Driftwood

The ocean’s vast expanse in the brilliance of early morning sun

The horizon cut with a razor into deep blue sky and steel blue ocean

Every blade of beach grass and each driftwood log etched into the sand

Each wave-curl sharp as crystal

There is no looking – only presence of the depth in all shapes cut of light

Do you ever feel you are Light being penetrated by Light these days?

Any ever so slight shadow on the screen of life is felt as pain

I am a razor walking on my own edge in this crispness and clarity

Acceptance is the ultimatum

Once answered “Yes!” the new paradigm is instantaneous and spontaneous

Take off your shoes and socks all protection and step onto the razor’s edge

Like the tightrope walker you were born to be

No fear – only love unconditional

Our only choice!

Horizon

Krishnamurti: What is Love?

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What is love? The word is so loaded and corrupted that I hardly like to use it. Everybody talks of love—every magazine and newspaper and every missionary talks everlastingly of love.

Krishnamurti exploring the essence of love

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So to go into the question of what love is we must first free it from the encrustation of centuries, put away all ideals and ideologies of what it should or should not be. To divide anything into what should be and what is is the most deceptive way of dealing with life.

Now how am I going to find out what this flame is which we call love—not how to express it to another but what it means in itself? I will first reject what the church, what society, what my parents and friends, what every person and every book, has said about it because I want to find out for myself what it is.

Here is an enormous problem that involves the whole of mankind. There have been a thousand ways of defining it and I myself am caught in some pattern or another according to what I like or enjoy at the moment—so shouldn’t I, in order to understand it, free myself from my own inclinations and prejudices?  I am confused, torn by my own desires, so I say to myself, “First clear up your own confusion. Perhaps you may be able to discover what love is through what it is not.”

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The government says go and kill for the love of your country. Is that love? Religion says give up sex for the love of God. Is that love? Is love desire? Don’t say no. For most of us it is desire with pleasure, the pleasure that is derived through the senses, through sexual attachment and fulfillment.

I am not against sex, but see what is involved in it. What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.

You say you love your wife. In that love is involved sexual pleasure, the pleasure of having someone in the house to look after your children, to cook. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don’t like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence.  

So what you are really saying is, “As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don’t I begin to hate you. As long as I can rely on you to satisfy my demands, sexual and otherwise, I love you, but the moment you cease to supply what I want I don’t like you.” So there is antagonism between you, there is separation, and when you feel separate from another there is no love.

But if you live with your wife without thought creating all these contradictory states, these endless quarrels in yourself, then perhaps—perhaps—you will know what love is. Then you are completely free and so is she, whereas is you depend on her for all your pleasure you are a slave to her. So when one loves there must be freedom, not only from the other but from oneself.

This belonging to another, being psychologically nourished by another, depending on another—in all this there must always be anxiety, fear, jealousy, guilt; and so long as there is fear there is no love; a mind ridden with sorrow will never know what love is; sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love. And so love is not to do with pleasure and desire.

Love is not the product of thought, which is the past. Thought cannot possibly cultivate love. Love is not hedged about and caught in jealousy, for jealousy is of the past. Love is always active, present. It is not “I will love” or “I have loved.” If you know love you will not follow anybody. Love does not obey. When you love there is neither respect not disrespect.

Do you know what it really means to love somebody, to love without hate, without jealousy, without anger, without wanting to interfere with what he is doing or thinking, without condemning, without comparing—don’t you know what it means? Where there is love is there comparison? When you love someone with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your body, with your entire being, is there comparison? When you totally abandon yourself to that love there is not the other.

(excerpt from Freedom from the Known, in Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti, p.126 ff.)

Love Flowering

 

Behind the Words

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Seeing

I am writing words and behind the words

is what I wish to say.

This life we are living as awareness alive as itself.

Can I release my words, concepts,

my hold on reality?

There is a seeing happening, I call it consciousness.

It is a flow, a swirling, a curling, a joining and separating

All within this movement and seeing is what it is.

The wall, the man, the jar, the cat, the rock, the clock

All seeing is what it is.

As it sees it becomes and yet it moves not.

Such a power in this Organ of Perception!

It sees and in that is creating.

Now it sees thinking, dreaming, wishing, wanting, learning and So It Is.

Make it so, Number One, and the One is you, is me, is we.

We are the Seeing “I”, the Self is the Seeing Eye. We are That.

Let’s start enjoying our Self!

Our time is come and it is NOW without end.

I greet each of You as my Self

and Love is our language behind the words.

 

October 22, 2012

Krishnamurti: Aloneness – Clear of All the Rubbish

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Krishnamurti

 

Freedom is a state of mind – not freedom from something but a sense of freedom, a freedom to doubt and question everything and, therefore, so intense, active, and vigorous that it throws away every form of dependence, slavery, conformity, and acceptance.

Such freedom implies being completely alone. But can the mind brought up in a culture so dependent on environment and its own tendencies ever find that freedom which is complete solitude and in which there is no leadership, no tradition, and no authority?

This solitude is an inward state of mind, which is not dependent on any stimulus or any knowledge and is not the result of any experience or conclusion.

Most of us, inwardly, are never alone. There is a difference between isolation, cutting oneself off, and aloneness, solitude. We all know what it is to be isolated, building a wall around oneself in order never to be hurt, never to be vulnerable, or cultivating detachment, which is another form of agony, or living in some dreamy ivory tower of ideology.

Aloneness is something quite different.

You are never alone because you are full of all the memories, all the conditioning, all the mutterings of yesterday; your mind is never clear of all the rubbish it has accumulated. To be alone you must die to the past.

When you are alone, totally alone, not belonging to any family, any nation, any culture, any particular continent, there is that sense of being an outsider. The man who is completely alone in this way is innocent and it is this innocence that frees the mind from sorrow.

We carry with us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that totally is to be alone, and the mind that is alone in not only innocent but young – not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age – and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

In this solitude you will begin to understand the necessity of living with yourself as you are, not as you think you should be or as you have been. See if you can look at yourself without any tremor, any false modesty, any fear, any justification or condemnation – just live with yourself as you actually are.

It is only when you live with something intimately that you begin to understand it. But the moment you get used to it—get used to your own anxiety or envy or whatever it is—you are no longer living with it. If you live by a river, after a few days you do not hear the sound of the water anymore, or if you have a picture in the room which you see every day you lose it after a week. It is the same with the mountains, the valleys, the trees—the same with your family, your husband, your wife.

But to live with something like jealousy, envy, or anxiety you must never get used to it, never accept it. You must care for it as you would care for a newly planted tree, protect it against the sun, against the storm. You must care for it, not condemn it or justify it. Therefore you begin to love it. When you care for it you are beginning to love it. It is not that you love being envious or anxious, as so many people do, but rather that you care for watching.

So can you—can you and I—live with what we actually are, knowing ourselves to be dull, envious, fearful, believing we have tremendous affection when we have not, getting easily hurt, easily flattered, and bored—can we live with all that, neither accepting it nor denying it, but just observing it without becoming morbid, depressed, or elated?

Now let us ask ourselves a further question. Is this freedom, this solitude, this coming into contact with the whole structure of what we are in ourselves—is it to be come upon through time? That is, is freedom to be achieved through a gradual process? Obviously not, because as soon as you introduce time you are enslaving yourself more and more. You cannot become free gradually. It is not a matter of time.

The next question is, can you become conscious of that freedom?

If you say, “I am free,” then you are not free. It is like a man saying, “I am happy.” The moment he says, “I am happy,” he is living in a memory of something that has gone. Freedom can only come about naturally, not through wishing, wanting, longing.

Nor will you find it by creating an image of what you think it is. To come upon it the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

Excerpt from J. Krishnamurti: Freedom from the Known (in Total Freedom – The Essential Krishnamurti p. 124 ff.)

My Comment:

There are two parts of this short chapter that are remarkable for me. The first is where Krishnamurti goes into the relationship with my own ‘shortcomings’: “But to live with something like jealousy, envy, or anxiety you must never get used to it, never accept it. You must care for it as you would care for a newly planted tree…”

and gives me the sense of being with my own reactive behavior in a way that allows me to feel it and see it more deeply for what it is. In other places he says, for example, to let jealousy flower, and show itself fully without shutting it down prematurely out of the reaction that “I am not jealous, I’m open-minded” etc. I find his observations here very helpful.

Then the closing part: “for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.”

Is so powerful for me, as it brings it home that all I suffer with is part of the mind’s consciousness and that there is a completely separate field which I am embedded in my whole life and that is the existential, the same as all of nature. I then interpret that existential and create the “ideational” as Deshpande calls it in his commentary to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (The Authentic Yoga). I do, as Krishnamurti states here, have the power to relate to the existential NOW at any point—irrespective of all past moments of my life.

Bamboo in the Wind

Lisa Gawlas reblog

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Liza Gawlas excellent, as always!

Some Highlights:

“Now I really understand what spirit meant when it said that we can move out of the center at any given time.  The mental mind is wired to all timelines.  The mind is a processor of massive amounts of encrypted information at any given time.  The heart on the other hand, is a magnetic honing device.  It resonates with pure love and seeks that zone!

When you allow your heart to lead, the mind already knows the way.  However, when you allow your mind to lead, it gets very lost and confused along the way.  There is something happening in every timeline… and often times, the mind gets caught up in all the chatter (keep in mind, the mind is a fear based entity, so it naturally gravitates to where fear is strongest.)

We have navigated a tremendous maze of energy/timelines/thought forms to arrive at the bird feeder in the middle.  There, life is abundant, nurturing  fear of any kind cannot sustain itself Here.  In this precious place I am now going to call the mirror of Shambhala, where heaven resides fully within the heart… love is all there is.”

The Shift of Time and Energy!

We really have become the farmers and custodians of the New Earth.  I read for a man yesterday and I don’t think I appreciated the fullness of his reading until this morning.  This morning I have actually been sitting here for over an hour now pretty much going over a “contrast” review.  Maybe better said, a timeline review.  I received an email yesterday about a global meditation coming up this month.  The more I read of it, the more I kept feeling… this has already been done with the Harmonic Convergence in 1987.  What the global meditation is set up to do, has been done or we could not be here, in this new world/new earth energy.  So I have been pondering the contrasts between what was seen with my man yesterday and the details emerging from our timeline called 2013 and those still seeing and being concerned about the “dark entities  within the astral plane.

Of course, spirit has been…

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