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An article by Jenny Munday, followed by a
selection of emails sent to the Nonduality Salon community.
It All Happens By Itself
Jenny Munday
Whatever it is that you believe that OTHERS believe about you
--- that is what You believe about
you. Your self image takes the form of the thoughts hidden in
another's mind (you believe) and
becomes THEIR hidden agenda concerning YOU. In the field of
Psychology this dynamic is called
simply: "Projection" and sometimes wrapped up as
"Counter-Transference."
Thus you go looking for yourself in others and wind up finding
yourself - but you claim it to be
THEIR thoughts. If I were to write down what I think each of my
associates, friends, family members
"think" of me -- I would wind up with a word picture of
what "I" think of myself.
Thus, it is "Other" who thinks me no longer needed
(as family or friend). "I" think myself as no
longer needed ?" And yet I am needed but on their terms and
not mine. Thus this creates the problem
of "feeling used to fulfill a role" and not actually be
an individual but only a role. That isn't
acceptable because I don't want to be used to fulfill his role
requirements of me. I want to
fulfill MY role requirements of me. And that would seem to be
"remove ALL negative thoughts,
actions, responses, or needs from others." It seemingly
requires that others be ready to agree to
this wish of mine to be free from their need to "use"
my presence for their needs. Yet, others do
not think like this. "Others don't actually exist except as
my mind projections, so THEY think as I
think. Quite crazy, isn't it !
Thus in the psychoanalytic process we hear client speak of
their significant issues and people and
in the listening, they tell us (therapist) what they think of
themselves. In guiding them into
forgiveness of "other ?" - we actually guide them into
forgiveness of themselves and freedom from
the horrific guilt-ridden complexes of the conditioned mind
syndrome - perpetuated by all segments
of society, family, and in general, lower-mind materialistic,
"rational" thinking. We have been
both brain-washed and programmed for negativity.
Put another way, can I say I am no family or friend, I am too
critical and judgemental to be, as
well as controlling? And IS this who I am - or just who
"I" think I am? And then - who IS this "I"
that thinks this? It appears to be the flow of thoughts
constituting m i n d. So, then what is
this mindflow which has created this judgement of a mask that is
believed to be the actual real
SELF?
There appears to be a continuous flow or river of words saying
in a thousand different colors that
the entity allowing this flow or experiencing this flow - IS this
descriptive flow. In Jenny's case
- the flow is always imperfect - always lacking in major respects
- never finished - always
disturbed in body/mind/life-experience.
This FLOW called (fill in the blank) who appears as this
negative flow - is something that can't be
captured, fleeting, though ever ready to appear and re-appear. It
is seemingly the WHO appearing.
What is behind this WHO - the substrata on which it is projected?
There is a projecting agency and
seemingly it would be LIFE FORCE. Why does LIFE project this
negative image of a creature so
imperfect? Is it fact (reality) or a non-fact - maya? Since it
comes and goes - it must be maya
--- but then it FEELS so real. How does one separate the flow of
Life from the flow of Feeling - or
negative/positive emotion? Well, apparently this negative (or)
positive flow is up for grabs. We
can select one or the other. But then again, since all is
movement - not object - how can flow or
movement objectify itself into form and grant that form free
will? Well, it can't; and yet maya
would have us think just this: That it does.
If I look behind this flow of negativity and ask significant
questions such as "who is the WHO" - I
get no answer for there isn't a "who". If I ask then
"what" - I get also a no answer. For there
isn't a "what". I am then left with a
"no-thing" and have to conclude that there is No Thing
present - there is only Flow or Life Force, equaling constant
second-to-second movement of the
atoms, electrons, and gravational forces composing the invisible
body mass which manifests
(temporarily) as a solid form.. Thus what one IS - is the
movement mass of emotions, positive AND
negative, which flow through and selected to be reacted to. What
I am now Re-Acting to, I probably
have multi-thousands of times previously. If I stop NOW, that
dynamic is changed forever.
But "I" can't stop until "I" get the
answers I am seeking. And the paramount one is: "What
constitutes the field of appearances which are to be called:
"tomorrow" - or future - or destiny?
What is it which determines this?
Well, it is in actuality my own "Hidden Agenda" - my
own
"Sub-conscious" thoughts which holographically project
into manifestation the world which my
perceptive devices (sight - hearing - understanding, etc.)
receive as "the world". In this manner
we each do, in actuality, create the world and are the
"ONE" which is referred to. Yet is not each
individual entity doing the same thing. Is not each of us
seemingly separate electro-magnetic units
doing just the same thing - creating from the sphere of the
unconscious - sub-conscious - not-yet-
creative source - god, etc.?
Do we not then all create continuously but unconsciously (in
about 90% of the mass)? Perhaps TRUTH
is just the understanding of this principle that what controls
manifestation is the hidden agenda -
or those thoughts which we think no one else sees; those thoughts
that even we have hidden from
ourselves, in a mystical, non-real space called the Sub-conscious
mind.
MIND is too big to be segmented thusly. If left to its own
devices, it will uncover - reveal -
expose itself. Try as you will, you (EGO you) cannot stop the
process. Watch out - you never know
when Big Mind is about to grab you !!!
When
the Buddha smiled
the
mirror world cracked,
the
Light of Prana,
like
billions of silver commas,
danced
in the
sky around me,
clouds
were floating
like
unspoken Poems, and I,
strangely
enough,
heard
them all in the veins of a upturned leaf,
drinking
in the cool summer breeze.
--Anna
Ruiz
definitions,
borders, rules.
they confine, restrict, direct.
but the wind
knows nothing
of this
and the sky
cannot be bound.
if you trap the wind
it
dies.
ya yosy,
let your spirit
roam
free!
see:
this moment
is one
with the ocean
of time.
yosy
Phil
Burton:
Whose
is the image
In the silvered glass
That haunts the mind?
Whose mind is being haunted?
You answer mine
I answer yours
...
"Wherever you go, there you are."
yosy:
:) oh yes...
Simply being IS perfect.
Mirror is a great tool,
yet it is also
the biggest liar in the world.
a. You see yourself as only
you can see yourself - no one else;
yet you take for granted
this is how others see you. . .
and none of those is
what you truly are.
b. the mirror shows you
your right as left,
and left what's is rightly right.
There is more, but one
should look for one self....
BOOM!
yosy
new7892001 contributed:
Meditation
is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open;
but
if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come,
it
will never appear.
The quality of possessiveness
must never enter into meditation, for meditation has no root,
nor
any substance which the mind can hold.
The seeing is not a determined effort. There is no 'I will see',
but
only seeing. Observation puts aside the observer, and in this
there
is no waste of energy.
I don't know if you have ever
tried to die to something which is very close to you and which
gives
you immense pleasure - to die to it, not with reason, not
with
conviction or a purpose, but just to die to it as a leaf falls
from
the tree.
J. Krishnamurti
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/J-Krishnamurti_andLife/
Bruce Morgen contributed:
"Meditation is not the repetition
of the word, nor the experiencing
of a vision, nor the cultivating
of silence. The bead and the word
do quieten the chattering mind, but
this is a form of self-hypnosis.
You might as well take a pill."
-- J. Krishnamurti
The History of Reality REALITY
Once upon a time, long long ago, there was a person named
Reality.
Reality was different from most people because he was always
carefree
and happy. He was always happy because he did not care about
anything.
The less he cared about what was going on the happier he got.
Until he
became so carefree and happy that he was Untouchable.
Reality was Untouchable because nothing in life could touch him.
The
Untouchable Reality observed that everything happened without him
having to do anything. And he also observed that everything he
did also
happened automatically.
When people came to ask Reality why he was always carefree, happy
and
Untouchable he told them that it was futile to care about things
because everything happened automatically. He told them that the
less he
cared about things the more carefree and happy and untouchable he
became because literally everything in life had to Automatically
fall
into place: but only because he did not care. He told people that
caring only obfuscated all the ways everything in life happened
not only
automatically but perfectly.
He told people that caring about things only fueled the fire of
what
happened automatically, with or without caring, so why should he
care:
when caring makes no difference -- except for the carefree and
untouchable happiness of not-caring.
And there is much well-hidden History over the Ages about all the
ways
society and religions have had to slaughter and otherwise malign
the
followers of Reality -- like all the ecstatic Christians, Martyrs
and
Saints; Gnostics, Cathars, Albigensians, Sufis ... Indians,
Africans and
Aborigines -- just so the World can continue to be miserable and
victimized by literally everything, especially when it is obvious
that
this everything happens not only automatically but also
perfectly.
---
This carefree untouchable happiness of Reality the Hindus call
the "SurrealBliss" of the thoroughly multi-raped word
"kundalini."
Kundalini is just the manifestation of Samadhi, Now, to thoughts,
the mind,
so that thoughts simply cannot matter,
they cannot even appear to matter.
-- Reality TwoToo.
If All is One, only in the illusion of the play
does it appear as
though that One needs to find itself. Should One find itself then
the seeker would be no more, but only in the illusion of the
play!
That is all that would 'appear' to happen in so called awakening.
It
would be part of the illusion, and has nothing to do with
'becoming'
One for it would already be One appearing as not finding itself
!!!
In that illusion of awakening there can be the sense of not
seeking
to become what All, including 'brynmerlin', already is. This is
not
known beyond doubt, it just hangs around like a pair of old
underpants or odd socks.
That story could appear to change anytime to maybe an Evangelical
Christian preaching the gospel on Castle Square on Saturday
mornings. But I hope its Hari Krishna 'cause I like the pictures
and
the gear better.
Whatever the change might be it will be the 'One' of All is One
appearing as that regardless of whether 'brynmerlin' is aware of
that or not, and all will be exactly as complete as it is now,
even
if 'brynmerlin' no longer appears to rest secure in the
Non-Duality
harbour and the turbulant sea appears to claim him once again.
From Love to Love
brynmerlin