Nonduality
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issue number two -
October, 2000
Nonduality Salon Magazine
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THE
SWORD OF TRUTH
by
Yogajyotrii
Yogajyotii@Light-Mission.org (Bodhisattva)
Greetings Ye Seekers of Truth and Understanding,
May I offer that it is good that one forgets how to walk
the ways of one's conditioned thinking and behavior, but
why *imitate* anything ? Granted, the novice Seeking
Insights to *follow* tends to Imitate some Wise Sage or
Teacher *thinking* that perhaps the *doing as another
does* IS somehow Awakening. But we find that *imitate* is
simply short for *imitation* and so no Awakening is
forthcoming. We most often attribute this lack of
Awakening to the fact that the one we imitated was not
the Sage we thought they were. And so in our disenchanted
confusion we look elsewhere for another to *follow* and
to *imitate* in our never ending search for The Guru. But
alas, though we may make up ourselves to look like a duck
and waddle like a duck and even make sounds that ducks
make, we can not be a duck. We can only BE who we really
ARE. And how could WE be who WE are if we are only
imitating another ? Are we not simply trying to change
one belief system for another ? Though we Realize this
shortcoming, this should not Blind us from Recognizing
the Insights offered by the one we tried to imitate and
become disenchanted by it getting us nowhere. Insights
are Insights, regardless of where they are Realized or
who offers them.
May I offer that there is no choice between
"devotion" and "knowledge", for they
are but two pieces of cloth cut from the same bolt. For
in essence we only *devote* ourselves to what we *know*.
And to what we *know* and not Awakening. Awakening is
what we Know-Not. Awakening is the Realization of
What-IS, AS it IS, from Moment to Moment -- and this can
not be *known*, but rather Directly Experienced at that
very instant Moment. It is in the Emptying of the Vessel
of what is conditioned as known so that we can be filled
with whatever Insights a given Moment holds. If we do not
project what we *think* or *know* into any given
experience, we can experience whatever IS. Devotion lends
to *practice*, and *practice* is but a preliminary to
Action. Yet if we cling to the practice or the devotion,
we stifle our Action for we never make it past the
preliminaries. Practice and devotion and knowledge are
marvelous resources to use in our Awakening, but it is
not our Awakening. Too many become so obsessed with the
practice that they miss What-IS in the Direct Experience
of the Moment. Or they mistake the practice for the
Awakening. An example of point is Ananda, Siddhartha's
brother, who was with Siddhartha for some time and even
with him during his physical death, yet did not attain
Awakening until latter when no longer with Siddhartha.
The same can be said of a number of the disciples of
Jesus. We do not Awaken through osmosis, we Awaken
through Openly and Honestly Looking at ourselves IN the
Mirror of Truth and discarding our conditionings.
Ah yes, conditioned thinking at it's finest. Though
personal contact with one who IS Awakening is of
paramount value, it is not the most necessary element in
our Awakening. Neither the Scriptures nor Wise Sages nor
Gurus can be much more than Pointers for others. No one
Saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may, others
can point to the Path, but we ourselves must Walk the
Way.
And what is Brahman if not our own Inner Divine Nature.
Indeed, Awakening our Inner Divine Nature IS the Guru of
Gurus. Real Gurus, that is. The Gita, as well as most
world Scriptures, tell us to Dwell IN the Source. And
where is the Source but Within. The bottom line is that
our greatest Guru is Within. Others such as Siddhartha
and Jesus as well as many others have said that we must
be lamps unto ourselves. But being "a lamp unto
thyself" comes with a *qualifier*. Before we can
Dwell IN the Silence of the Moment we must discard all
Veils that block our Awakening. Jesus called them
"influences" and Siddhartha called them
"causes" and others called them "social
mental contents", and what these people were talking
about was none other than our conditioned thinking and
behavior. We can not Dwell IN the Source, we can not
Realize Brahman or Divine Nature as Guru, if we are
encumbered with these conditionings. If we do try to be
Gurus to ourselves and yet still conditioned, we will
merely reinforce our own conditionings. This is not
Awakening, but rather convincing ourselves that we are
while still Sleeping.
God is not outside you. For what we Seek, will always
elude us. For what we look for, we will never See. All
Awakening is the Realization of Truth Within. No matter
where you go, there you are. So I offer to look or go no
further than where you ARE right NOW this very instant
present Moment. For this is where you will Realize
Brahman, god, Guru. May I also offer that that fleeting
glimpse was perhaps your own projection of a preconceived
notion of what you wanted to glimpse. If we discard the
conditionings and Dwell Within IN the Moment, Moment to
Moment, the *glimpse* will be Eternity.
Return to where ? Return to what ? It is good to know
where we have been, and good to know where we are going,
but Reality rests in neither the past nor the future.
There is but one Moment of Reality, and that Moment is
this very present instant Moment carried on IN the next
Moment, Moment to Moment, establishing Reality as a
continuous Realization of What-IS. Again, I bid you look
not further than where you ARE.
Nothing mysterious or esoteric about this. If we can
start to recognize our conditioned notions we will be
aware enough to contrive ways to discard them. For once
recognized for the control and manipulation we Suffer as
a result of clinging to these conditioned notions we
reject them almost immediately. It is almost an autonomic
response to the recognition. As more of a general rule,
it is all about Observation. Observe our activities, or
thoughts our reactions and responses. Observe these as
and before we do them and what as well as how we are
programmed to think and interact the way we do. When we
Observe any conditioned notion that has been *installed*,
with that program there will also be an *un-install*
feature. Some are quite easy to get rid of, others are to
dear to us and it will take more effort to *let them go*.
I always suggest that people study conditioning and
behavior modification, their techniques and practices,
AND how this vast field can be applied to each of us and
in a global sense to humanity as a whole. Most everyone
has ran across the study of how Pavlov was able to make a
dog salivate without having any food present, but few
have ran across how it came to pass that we react in
predictable ways to particular stimuli. Much conditioning
is quite overt (monkey see, monkey do), but there is much
that is quite sneaky and subliminal (so much harder to
recognize).
It has been said, figuratively of course, that on one
shoulder sits an Angel and on the other shoulder sits a
Devil -- could it be the illusion most call *conscience*
that urges us to play a conditioned judgement game of
what is *good and bad* ? The "trickster in
motion" indeed my Friend, for IN Awakening there is
no *good and bad* but rather whatever the Direct
Experience IN the Moment IS. When there is no more memory
of what is good and what is bad, when there is no
projecting of our likes and dislikes into/onto What-IS IN
the Moment, when we respond IN Compassion rather than
react in opposition, THEN there is Love. The
Compassionate offering of Help due to the Recognition of
Sleep IS Love.
When there is separation, there is separation, and
perception has very little to do with it -- unless one is
Sleeping, of course. Then it would have everything to do
with it. Awakening, perception and/or perspective and/or
interpretation is seen as the Masks of the Grand
Trickster and has little use in offerings of Compassion
and Empathy for the plight of those struggling to begin
their Awakening. Indeed, we must usually *read between
the lines* and not focus our True Attention on the words
spoken. For to focus on each word is to distract us from
Realizing that which is behind or beyond mere language.
So I would not be correcting choice of words or
grammatical structure, this, as you said, would be of
little concern when the Intention is Communication.
Statements or offerings from here are but Pointers, and
it is hoped that one would focus one's attention on where
the finger Points and not on the finger itself. If we
Point our finger toward the heavens, and we gaze in that
direction, we can See the Wonders of Life unfold before
us. But if instead, when we Point toward the heavens, and
we focus on our finger, we see nothing but the finger.
Is not our whole life "personal experience" ?
Some helpful and some not so helpful, some useful and
some not so useful, but all are our personal experiences.
For one writing his own biography would require dwelling
in the past, and fooling oneself that the past is somehow
as much a Reality as this very present instant Moment.
Mentally constructing the past which is not Real,
convincing oneself that it is Real, *believing* that such
a construct is not an illusion of the conditioned mind,
would, it would seem, be quite cumbersome. May I offer
that the simple IS or IS-NOT is taxing enough. The past
is but real only in our minds, so IN the Moment there is
no past as there is no future, there is only the Moment
from Moment to Moment. What has been Unfolding in the
past has indeed established the Reality of this Moment,
but there is but One Reality and that Reality IS right
NOW. So it is only NOW that we can relate Realizations
and Recognitions, and we can only relate the Realizations
and Recognitions that we Directly Experience NOW. All
else is but an Illusion of the Grand Trickster the
conditioned mind.
The Wise Awakening Sage would identify with nothing --
not Source, not God, not ground of Being, not personal
experiences or research, not anything, save the Reality
of What-IS IN the Moment, Moment to Moment. That is, the
Wise Awakening Sage would simply BE, projecting nothing
into/onto the Direct Experience IN the Moment. There is
no security to this, but rather that it simply IS, as
they simply ARE.
The foundation of Passion is not nuclear (physical) Dear
Friend. The foundation of Passion is a State of BEing or
even a State of Mind. It is our Drive to Embrace What-IS,
our Will to Embrace What-IS, Embrace Truth, Embrace
Reality, Embrace our Awakening, Embrace Life, and to
Embrace ourselves. THAT is Passion. We seem to direct it
toward some physical realm object or idea or image or
meaning, but we lose the Inner Acceleration or True
Passion. We lose the Passion that Jesus spoke of.
Sleeping people speak of passion in terms of lust, and
this is why they do not understand Inner Passion to
Embrace our Divine Nature of Awakening. Once this Inner
Passion is Embraced it spills over into every aspect of
our lives, in everything we do or say. And leads to much
confusion for the Sleeping. They do not understand this,
so it is up to us to understand that they can not
understand this and simply BE ourselves and *show* them
rather than concentrate on *telling* them what we mean.
Family member or not, friend or not, loved one or not, if
they refuse to fathom True Passion we must simply let
them BE as we want them to let us BE. Perhaps one day
they will Wake-Up. It is not our responsibility to Wake
them Up for they themselves must Walk the Way, we can
only be Pointers to the Path.
YOUR story is YOUR story. Do not defame others in it's
telling, but it is YOU expressing YOU. YOU are YOU. THEY
are THEM. Passion is not about *what was* or even *what
will be*, but rather *What-IS* right NOW this very
instant present Moment. And it is so, Moment to Moment.
They dwell in the past and so they are strangers to you
Dear Friend, for YOU must Dwell IN the present. The past
is not Real for it is done and gone, as the future is not
Real for it is not yet. Ah but the present is What-IS,
and so the only Reality that we have at our disposal. If
they do not dwell with you in the present, they are
strangers not only to you but also to Reality. You are
not obligated to dwell in their past, for it is your
obligation to maintain dwelling in the present. If they
are unwilling to dwell where you ARE, smile and bid them
to return when they are willing to. It is their game Dear
Friend, and you only feed it by reacting to it. React
not, stay in the present. When they give a war, do not
go. Would there then still be a war ? If so, they will
only have themselves to war with.
Remain steadfast IN the present and do not be shaken to
react to a past that is not Real. A mere Illusion of
memory, which is not Real nor can be True. When they play
their game, treat it as such -- a game. That you can not
play because the rules are their rules that are founded
on Illusion. You do not understand Illusion for you do
not dwell in Illusion. You dwell in the present. Illusion
is not Real, and you can only understand what is Real.
Smile and bid them to return when they would like to
dwell *with you* in the Real present. It has been said to
"be in the world but do not be of the world".
Sword of Truth
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