1 - Oneness
2 - Iceberg
3 - Karma
4 - New Day
5 - A Meditative Drive
6 - Questioning
2 - Iceberg
3 - Karma
4 - New Day
5 - A Meditative Drive
6 - Questioning
-- ONENESS --
The early morning light had just opened the garden to a new day when he caught my eye lounging on a 2x4 supporting the newly stained fence. For the many decades on this property, now called Beagle Haven there had been thousands of them, always visible, sunning, darting here and there, but this lizard was a bit different as he had a reddish rust area on the top of his head and his eyebrows were painted as well.
The mind, including the brain was particularly quiet this morning as meditation had been present in a sporadic way. One was drifting in and out of that blissful state yet going about ones chores. Meditation and daily life are not two separate things. There was sharp effortless attention, no concentration, no me, no past with its judgments and opinions, as all of the yesterdays had slipped away allowing the new and ever present now to present itself. It was border less, crisp and fresh in the place where the all of the all has its origin, that space between thoughts, that place that man has been hunting down, machete in hand for thousands of years, the place where all creation has its birth.
He was fearlessly attentive, inviting, and I dare say staring at me as if ready to stand and try to offer me a deal on auto insurance. I approached him like a shadow until I was only two feet away. Good morning Ralph I said. I hope you are having a good day. His head tilted forty five degrees as would your good friend the dog as he endeavor’s to understand what you are saying. Expecting him to dart away, he firmed up with a greater interest as one realized that space and time had melted away and that only one action was taking place in consciousness between us as the connection between the once separate entities was secured into oneness and melody. This went on for a minute or so then I told him to hold tight as I will go in and retrieve a Kodachrome and upon returning found curious Ralph at attention still waiting, still engaged. He continued cocking his head at various comments and the camera got as close as five inches from his head. He too was fearless as we both understood what all was happening. Quite simply put the unity of all life had silently moved beyond its theory's and into the real where truth resides.
True meditation lays waste to all barriers. Most of us do not realize it but our brain, as it is has a fence around it and we spend most of our lives endlessly repeating yesterday’s verbiage. Occasionally an unavoidable crisis forces us to the core and if we are lucky and quiet enough the fence moves outward a bit as we get a glimpse of the real, a glimpse of what truth is. A crisis is not necessary however. The space between thoughts is eternally there and you can see it at any moment should you dare to look. Attending to it permits it to expand naturally to the place that man has been searching for, for the past ten thousand years! When that expansion takes place a new quality of silence emerges which is the beginning of true meditation and is the one and only place where truth, and reality can be seen.
AHA WRITINGS - 7/1/2013 - A true event - see cosmicbroom.com
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The early morning light had just opened the garden to a new day when he caught my eye lounging on a 2x4 supporting the newly stained fence. For the many decades on this property, now called Beagle Haven there had been thousands of them, always visible, sunning, darting here and there, but this lizard was a bit different as he had a reddish rust area on the top of his head and his eyebrows were painted as well.
The mind, including the brain was particularly quiet this morning as meditation had been present in a sporadic way. One was drifting in and out of that blissful state yet going about ones chores. Meditation and daily life are not two separate things. There was sharp effortless attention, no concentration, no me, no past with its judgments and opinions, as all of the yesterdays had slipped away allowing the new and ever present now to present itself. It was border less, crisp and fresh in the place where the all of the all has its origin, that space between thoughts, that place that man has been hunting down, machete in hand for thousands of years, the place where all creation has its birth.
He was fearlessly attentive, inviting, and I dare say staring at me as if ready to stand and try to offer me a deal on auto insurance. I approached him like a shadow until I was only two feet away. Good morning Ralph I said. I hope you are having a good day. His head tilted forty five degrees as would your good friend the dog as he endeavor’s to understand what you are saying. Expecting him to dart away, he firmed up with a greater interest as one realized that space and time had melted away and that only one action was taking place in consciousness between us as the connection between the once separate entities was secured into oneness and melody. This went on for a minute or so then I told him to hold tight as I will go in and retrieve a Kodachrome and upon returning found curious Ralph at attention still waiting, still engaged. He continued cocking his head at various comments and the camera got as close as five inches from his head. He too was fearless as we both understood what all was happening. Quite simply put the unity of all life had silently moved beyond its theory's and into the real where truth resides.
True meditation lays waste to all barriers. Most of us do not realize it but our brain, as it is has a fence around it and we spend most of our lives endlessly repeating yesterday’s verbiage. Occasionally an unavoidable crisis forces us to the core and if we are lucky and quiet enough the fence moves outward a bit as we get a glimpse of the real, a glimpse of what truth is. A crisis is not necessary however. The space between thoughts is eternally there and you can see it at any moment should you dare to look. Attending to it permits it to expand naturally to the place that man has been searching for, for the past ten thousand years! When that expansion takes place a new quality of silence emerges which is the beginning of true meditation and is the one and only place where truth, and reality can be seen.
AHA WRITINGS - 7/1/2013 - A true event - see cosmicbroom.com
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-- ICEBERG --
Over one hundred years ago an iceberg brought to the bottom of the ocean the culmination of man's engineering skills and perhaps the height of his capacity to display the true elegance of the times. One could say that the great ship just barely made it out of child birth when the end came on that terrible starry night. Those who loved the beauty in design of that ship, and others of that era, may be happy to know that presently a replica in full scale of the Titanic is currently under construction and financed by Australian billionaire Clive Palmer. Scheduled to be launched and commissioned in late 2016, the Titanic ll will set sail from Liverpool to her destination, passing the statue of liberty and on into New York harbor. A made- for- TV event, the ship will carry 2500 passengers and a crew of 800 dressed in the styles and fashion of 1912.
Mothered by a glacier, the newborn iceberg, with all of its pristine beauty, to the naked eye, has within itself a frightening and menacing reality. Ninety percent of this photogenic natural beauty lies beneath the surface of the sea, and as time passes and the melting process continues, the ten percent remains aloft as the underwater demon of the deep diminishes until it is finally the size of an ice cube, then further reducing itself into one drop of frozen water which disappears, leaving the vast ocean to expand into its empty space.
When thinking of the intricate workings of a meditative mind, a mind in which the conscious part, the surface part, is only about ten percent of its totality, the iceberg could not offer a more striking illustration of the cleansing effects of reality meditation, which reveals both motive and truth. To temporarily exit the day and go into a room for twenty minutes and try to find some measure of peace, then re-enter the madness of the day with the usual noisy brain, to me has never made any sense at all.
Reality Meditation is to live it in daily life, in the battle, in the fray with a meditative mind. A mind which is watching, listening, learning, and understanding and resolving conflict at the moment of its development. There is of course nothing wrong with sitting and meditating but to do so as a specific daily occurrence, away from the world which you must live in, and not bring it forward into daily existence is an error. It is somewhat like going to the house of worship and praying to the God’s on Sundays then preying on everyone else from Monday to Saturday.
The constant noisy brain which is mulling over things from sunrise to sunset, continually jumping from one often meaningless thing to another can begin to undergo a subtle transformation during daily life if the simplest of actions, which is attention, is present. Attention is meditation. The room where it can happen is this gap between thought. Attention is to everything on the mental screen, both outside and inside your head. Attention is the act of watching. Watching is meditation. Not watching and judging. Not watching and commenting, evaluating and choosing, but just watching, Period. Period means just that. Period means nothing else. Observing looking, attending, seeing, is all of these things and doing nothing regarding what is being seen. Just looking at it, attending to it, this is meditation in action. This is the fire that burns the old away! It is the beginning of a mind coming into deeper meditation, which is not only the awakening of intelligence but the laying of the groundwork which cause the gates of heaven to open, but not by you. You this ego burdened, bloviating entity, the one with countless thousands of yesterday’s worn out, repetitive baggage .
With this action employed, you will see that the output from the brain will begin to slow and the space between thoughts will start to widen of its own accord, by itself, and it will do so naturally without your help. This space increases with a truly new and silent quality. It widens, and creates depth and space without the you meddling with it and presents to the meditator the platform from which the unspeakable depths of meditation and the unknown become explore able. This action is the epitome of the common phrase "let go and let God". In this slowing, this widening, one can observe the field of awareness expanding, while stress is melting away as would a cube of ice on a stove. That widening space, indeed that space however narrow or wide is the gift which has already been given, It may be the pearl of great price. It is the sentry at the gate. It is the only place in the mental economy where you are not, and the other, the nameless, is.
This space, this platform, is the most important tool in the consciousness of man, and although it is visible thousands of times a day, most people are not even aware that it is there, this rose without thorn's.
AHA WRITINGS – AUGUST 2, 2013 See: cosmicbroom.com
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Over one hundred years ago an iceberg brought to the bottom of the ocean the culmination of man's engineering skills and perhaps the height of his capacity to display the true elegance of the times. One could say that the great ship just barely made it out of child birth when the end came on that terrible starry night. Those who loved the beauty in design of that ship, and others of that era, may be happy to know that presently a replica in full scale of the Titanic is currently under construction and financed by Australian billionaire Clive Palmer. Scheduled to be launched and commissioned in late 2016, the Titanic ll will set sail from Liverpool to her destination, passing the statue of liberty and on into New York harbor. A made- for- TV event, the ship will carry 2500 passengers and a crew of 800 dressed in the styles and fashion of 1912.
Mothered by a glacier, the newborn iceberg, with all of its pristine beauty, to the naked eye, has within itself a frightening and menacing reality. Ninety percent of this photogenic natural beauty lies beneath the surface of the sea, and as time passes and the melting process continues, the ten percent remains aloft as the underwater demon of the deep diminishes until it is finally the size of an ice cube, then further reducing itself into one drop of frozen water which disappears, leaving the vast ocean to expand into its empty space.
When thinking of the intricate workings of a meditative mind, a mind in which the conscious part, the surface part, is only about ten percent of its totality, the iceberg could not offer a more striking illustration of the cleansing effects of reality meditation, which reveals both motive and truth. To temporarily exit the day and go into a room for twenty minutes and try to find some measure of peace, then re-enter the madness of the day with the usual noisy brain, to me has never made any sense at all.
Reality Meditation is to live it in daily life, in the battle, in the fray with a meditative mind. A mind which is watching, listening, learning, and understanding and resolving conflict at the moment of its development. There is of course nothing wrong with sitting and meditating but to do so as a specific daily occurrence, away from the world which you must live in, and not bring it forward into daily existence is an error. It is somewhat like going to the house of worship and praying to the God’s on Sundays then preying on everyone else from Monday to Saturday.
The constant noisy brain which is mulling over things from sunrise to sunset, continually jumping from one often meaningless thing to another can begin to undergo a subtle transformation during daily life if the simplest of actions, which is attention, is present. Attention is meditation. The room where it can happen is this gap between thought. Attention is to everything on the mental screen, both outside and inside your head. Attention is the act of watching. Watching is meditation. Not watching and judging. Not watching and commenting, evaluating and choosing, but just watching, Period. Period means just that. Period means nothing else. Observing looking, attending, seeing, is all of these things and doing nothing regarding what is being seen. Just looking at it, attending to it, this is meditation in action. This is the fire that burns the old away! It is the beginning of a mind coming into deeper meditation, which is not only the awakening of intelligence but the laying of the groundwork which cause the gates of heaven to open, but not by you. You this ego burdened, bloviating entity, the one with countless thousands of yesterday’s worn out, repetitive baggage .
With this action employed, you will see that the output from the brain will begin to slow and the space between thoughts will start to widen of its own accord, by itself, and it will do so naturally without your help. This space increases with a truly new and silent quality. It widens, and creates depth and space without the you meddling with it and presents to the meditator the platform from which the unspeakable depths of meditation and the unknown become explore able. This action is the epitome of the common phrase "let go and let God". In this slowing, this widening, one can observe the field of awareness expanding, while stress is melting away as would a cube of ice on a stove. That widening space, indeed that space however narrow or wide is the gift which has already been given, It may be the pearl of great price. It is the sentry at the gate. It is the only place in the mental economy where you are not, and the other, the nameless, is.
This space, this platform, is the most important tool in the consciousness of man, and although it is visible thousands of times a day, most people are not even aware that it is there, this rose without thorn's.
AHA WRITINGS – AUGUST 2, 2013 See: cosmicbroom.com
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-- KARMA --
In the old days the idea of Karma was generally used in a joking and light- hearted way, especially in the west.
In the new days, the new ways of looking at things reveals the seriousness of its meaning and its astonishing detail and the un- forgivingness of its ways.
The very thought process of ill will, regarding another person for example, without even carrying it out into action, has with it its own consequences, its own price to pay!
All however is not lost and one need not wait for karma to settle in or to play out before making things right. The building of and the retracting of mental material which harbors karma can be successfully dealt with as it is happening in the here and now. It is no secret, for you yourself have established it. Therefore you can see it, and if you are willing to look at it, you will find that the looking itself is the ending of it.
There is no formula or steps to take. There are no rules of engagement. The simplicity of the action which comes while attending, looking watching without comment is a dynamic and is completely sufficient in itself. The simplicity of the action of attending, watching, looking, will tend to elude you because of its simplicity. Just to be observing such a thought processes, just to see this activity without comment, without judgment, brings it to an end permanently. This is a action of meditation.
To accept what is being said here or to reject it are both equally unproductive. To intellectualize it into a theory to tell others also has no value.
The power of now is the gift which is visible to all. This gift gives endlessly and it is always there waiting for you to wake up to its presence!
AHA Writings January 7, 2014
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In the old days the idea of Karma was generally used in a joking and light- hearted way, especially in the west.
In the new days, the new ways of looking at things reveals the seriousness of its meaning and its astonishing detail and the un- forgivingness of its ways.
The very thought process of ill will, regarding another person for example, without even carrying it out into action, has with it its own consequences, its own price to pay!
All however is not lost and one need not wait for karma to settle in or to play out before making things right. The building of and the retracting of mental material which harbors karma can be successfully dealt with as it is happening in the here and now. It is no secret, for you yourself have established it. Therefore you can see it, and if you are willing to look at it, you will find that the looking itself is the ending of it.
There is no formula or steps to take. There are no rules of engagement. The simplicity of the action which comes while attending, looking watching without comment is a dynamic and is completely sufficient in itself. The simplicity of the action of attending, watching, looking, will tend to elude you because of its simplicity. Just to be observing such a thought processes, just to see this activity without comment, without judgment, brings it to an end permanently. This is a action of meditation.
To accept what is being said here or to reject it are both equally unproductive. To intellectualize it into a theory to tell others also has no value.
The power of now is the gift which is visible to all. This gift gives endlessly and it is always there waiting for you to wake up to its presence!
AHA Writings January 7, 2014
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-- NEW DAY --
Dawn brings with it a new day which we face with yesterday’s brain. Seeing today through the filter of yesterday brings us to repeat the old and miss the clarity and beauty of the new which is ever present.
The way we have been psychologically conditioned is constantly running in our semi-conscious background as well as on the surface of the mind, both day and night, and is lightning- quick to jump in with its judgments and conclusions as we go through many hundreds of mental transactions and challenges each day of our lives.
For those who are serious students of true meditation it is this conditioning, this background, which is always past memory that produces the noisy repetitive distractions which prevents the quietness which has been sought after for centuries through meditation.
There are many who still believe that the purpose of meditation or meditating at some point during the day is to get away from stress and conflict as the result of an average repetitive day. This of course can be done but it provides only a temporary interruption in what otherwise is the constant flow of thought from the conditioned brain. It is this flow of thought which needs to and can be brought to a natural end.
In true meditation the hidden conflicts and fears are exposed then drop away permanently under the laser fire of silent attention in which the me, the I, the ego is not operating. With the past dissipated, the nameless, the eternal may make its move of which you will not speak. One may say that the Gods arrive when you are completely out of the way. This action then becomes a true spiritual event which reveals the truth in all things.
This past conditioning was believed at one time to be fixed and unalterable until Sigmund Freud arrived upon the scene with his complex yet accurate inquiry.
His discoveries have revealed that the understanding of conflict in the deeper levels of the mind can lead to a positive change in one’s life, and can bring about newness. Mr. Freud’s inquiry which produced his findings is now going by the wayside and has given way to what could be referred to as direct perception mindfulness which occurs in the true modern day meditative mind, a mind which is truly alert and supremely attentive throughout the day.
To pile on top of one’s buried caldron of discontent, that is to cover it up with a new belief system, a new escape is futile because that which is buried and covered up, will one day resurface. It is the nature of consciousness to reveal that which has been suppressed for no matter how long just as it is the nature of gravity to hold one to the earth. .
Meanwhile this buried material continues to cook in the fires below producing a repetitive and conflicted life day after day as well as fueling the growing list of psychosomatic illnesses.
Contrary to the belief of the vast majority, there is no such thing as new thought! If you take out your mental microscope you will see that every thought, even the projection of what you call a new idea into the future always comes from past memory, always from the old. Newness on the other hand is always quiet, a perception, the product of a brain which has come upon a rest,a brain in meditation, if only for a few seconds.
The very word “understanding” meaning, to comprehend, to discern, which is to discover the known and true, has no basis at all in thought or thinking. This is an extraordinary realization to come upon.
Understanding occurs and comes about only in the silence between thought. In that silence, a nonverbal perception then occurs, learning occurs, and intelligence has then been awakened, then that which has been understood is converted to thought. To have followed this and to see it for oneself opens up a whole new world of clarity!
Perception, seeing, observing that which is true is a product of a mind in meditation which is not separate from the mind of daily life. This action is one of absolute silence which produces the new day, a truly clear day free of all yesterdays and open to the eternal creative vastness of that which has never been seen.
AHA Writings September 24, 2914
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Dawn brings with it a new day which we face with yesterday’s brain. Seeing today through the filter of yesterday brings us to repeat the old and miss the clarity and beauty of the new which is ever present.
The way we have been psychologically conditioned is constantly running in our semi-conscious background as well as on the surface of the mind, both day and night, and is lightning- quick to jump in with its judgments and conclusions as we go through many hundreds of mental transactions and challenges each day of our lives.
For those who are serious students of true meditation it is this conditioning, this background, which is always past memory that produces the noisy repetitive distractions which prevents the quietness which has been sought after for centuries through meditation.
There are many who still believe that the purpose of meditation or meditating at some point during the day is to get away from stress and conflict as the result of an average repetitive day. This of course can be done but it provides only a temporary interruption in what otherwise is the constant flow of thought from the conditioned brain. It is this flow of thought which needs to and can be brought to a natural end.
In true meditation the hidden conflicts and fears are exposed then drop away permanently under the laser fire of silent attention in which the me, the I, the ego is not operating. With the past dissipated, the nameless, the eternal may make its move of which you will not speak. One may say that the Gods arrive when you are completely out of the way. This action then becomes a true spiritual event which reveals the truth in all things.
This past conditioning was believed at one time to be fixed and unalterable until Sigmund Freud arrived upon the scene with his complex yet accurate inquiry.
His discoveries have revealed that the understanding of conflict in the deeper levels of the mind can lead to a positive change in one’s life, and can bring about newness. Mr. Freud’s inquiry which produced his findings is now going by the wayside and has given way to what could be referred to as direct perception mindfulness which occurs in the true modern day meditative mind, a mind which is truly alert and supremely attentive throughout the day.
To pile on top of one’s buried caldron of discontent, that is to cover it up with a new belief system, a new escape is futile because that which is buried and covered up, will one day resurface. It is the nature of consciousness to reveal that which has been suppressed for no matter how long just as it is the nature of gravity to hold one to the earth. .
Meanwhile this buried material continues to cook in the fires below producing a repetitive and conflicted life day after day as well as fueling the growing list of psychosomatic illnesses.
Contrary to the belief of the vast majority, there is no such thing as new thought! If you take out your mental microscope you will see that every thought, even the projection of what you call a new idea into the future always comes from past memory, always from the old. Newness on the other hand is always quiet, a perception, the product of a brain which has come upon a rest,a brain in meditation, if only for a few seconds.
The very word “understanding” meaning, to comprehend, to discern, which is to discover the known and true, has no basis at all in thought or thinking. This is an extraordinary realization to come upon.
Understanding occurs and comes about only in the silence between thought. In that silence, a nonverbal perception then occurs, learning occurs, and intelligence has then been awakened, then that which has been understood is converted to thought. To have followed this and to see it for oneself opens up a whole new world of clarity!
Perception, seeing, observing that which is true is a product of a mind in meditation which is not separate from the mind of daily life. This action is one of absolute silence which produces the new day, a truly clear day free of all yesterdays and open to the eternal creative vastness of that which has never been seen.
AHA Writings September 24, 2914
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-- A MEDITATIVE DRIVE --
Generally when people think of meditation they seek out an environmentally quiet spot or a special place where once or twice a day they try to sit quietly and meditate. In other words they try to put aside or get away from or escape from the constant and repetitive flow of psychological memory which is always the past and which makes up and produces all of the background noise as well as the outward events in one’s daily life.
To separate meditation and daily life is a great error and unfortunately many spend their entire life approaching meditation as a separate action only to discover that even after years of attempting to find the silence, very little in one’s life has changed and the dominating factor remains the repetition of yesterday’s conflicts or the use of positive thought to try to project what should be, (with no understanding of who the tryer is), all of which is a waste of energy. The what should be comes into being of its own through the understanding of what actually is. Understanding continuously happens while the mind-brain is in a meditative state.
Permit me to point out that meditation cannot be practiced, though it may be entered into! If it is being practiced then one must ask who is it that is practicing! Obviously it is the one who creates the noise, the one with greed, the one you call me, the one who wants to gain something! Enlightenment cannot be gained, it is not to be possessed!
The awakening of intelligence or enlightenment comes into being naturally when the you is out of the way. A greedy and conflicted mind can never enter that state which is free of conflict with a depth of clarity which has never before been seen.
If the reader sees the truth of this then he may be on his way to the realization that true meditation includes the desolation of the noisy background and conflict through attentiveness. When there is passive silent attention you are out of the way. Meditation can be defined as attentiveness. To attend, to pay attention, to look and to do nothing about, or with, what you see. All these simple words define what meditation actually is.
The most important thing in the day may not be meditating but what is happening when one is not meditating! The increasingly rapid evolution of spiritual growth is revealing that meditation truly means to live life with a meditative mind. That is to continue in that state after you get up and return to your daily experience.
Recently this writer was driving the American highway from the cool windswept northern border to the vacationer’s winter retreat of South Florida, a distance of about 1850 miles over a two and a half day period for a total of 27 hrs. at the wheel. One of the interesting features of this trip was that it was like going on a fall foliage tour all the way from the top of New York State to Savanah Ga., with color quality increasing the further south one traveled.
Another was that throughout the trip the mind was for about 80% of the time in a meditative state. That is, the brain was quiet, fully attentive of all sight and sound within its view and observing nearly every movement of occasional thought simply with passive non- judgmental attention. The other 20 % of the time it was in conversation with the passenger, trip planning, and normal everyday conversation.
Weather being on a drive or in every day regular life, the functioning of such a quiet mind conserves a great deal of energy. This is difficult to understand because we are constantly experiencing the noisy restlessness of the brain, which is the conditioned thought process constantly burning energy. One can really not understand and experience this energy loss until it ceases to occur due to the action of meditation.
Our wasting of energy is not even noticed because it is considered normal and the tiredness which it generates draws us to a coffee boost or one of the new energy drinks which seems to be becoming a new western addiction and another form of escape.
At the end of the driving day there was no sense of fatigue whatsoever because there was nearly no accumulation of conflicting desires no action of duality or other issues of any significance.
Arriving at the inn for the first night there was no sense at all of having flown from South Florida that morning to the Canadian border than having driven from their south to Baltimore arriving the same day just after sunset.
The activity and actions which occur while the meditative state is operating produces a different quality of memory which is devoid of any problem producing content and though appearing to be very distant, it can if necessary be drawn upon for use if need be.
The active state of meditation is simply observation. Simply watching the past fall away. As the past falls away the now is truly now!
Overhead this morning there were six large hawks effortlessly soaring on the sea breeze. True meditation has some of these soaring qualities and like the hawk, as the meditative mind moves with the observation of life as it is and folding into silence, it, like the hawk, leaves not a trace.
AHA WRITINGS December 1, 2014
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Generally when people think of meditation they seek out an environmentally quiet spot or a special place where once or twice a day they try to sit quietly and meditate. In other words they try to put aside or get away from or escape from the constant and repetitive flow of psychological memory which is always the past and which makes up and produces all of the background noise as well as the outward events in one’s daily life.
To separate meditation and daily life is a great error and unfortunately many spend their entire life approaching meditation as a separate action only to discover that even after years of attempting to find the silence, very little in one’s life has changed and the dominating factor remains the repetition of yesterday’s conflicts or the use of positive thought to try to project what should be, (with no understanding of who the tryer is), all of which is a waste of energy. The what should be comes into being of its own through the understanding of what actually is. Understanding continuously happens while the mind-brain is in a meditative state.
Permit me to point out that meditation cannot be practiced, though it may be entered into! If it is being practiced then one must ask who is it that is practicing! Obviously it is the one who creates the noise, the one with greed, the one you call me, the one who wants to gain something! Enlightenment cannot be gained, it is not to be possessed!
The awakening of intelligence or enlightenment comes into being naturally when the you is out of the way. A greedy and conflicted mind can never enter that state which is free of conflict with a depth of clarity which has never before been seen.
If the reader sees the truth of this then he may be on his way to the realization that true meditation includes the desolation of the noisy background and conflict through attentiveness. When there is passive silent attention you are out of the way. Meditation can be defined as attentiveness. To attend, to pay attention, to look and to do nothing about, or with, what you see. All these simple words define what meditation actually is.
The most important thing in the day may not be meditating but what is happening when one is not meditating! The increasingly rapid evolution of spiritual growth is revealing that meditation truly means to live life with a meditative mind. That is to continue in that state after you get up and return to your daily experience.
Recently this writer was driving the American highway from the cool windswept northern border to the vacationer’s winter retreat of South Florida, a distance of about 1850 miles over a two and a half day period for a total of 27 hrs. at the wheel. One of the interesting features of this trip was that it was like going on a fall foliage tour all the way from the top of New York State to Savanah Ga., with color quality increasing the further south one traveled.
Another was that throughout the trip the mind was for about 80% of the time in a meditative state. That is, the brain was quiet, fully attentive of all sight and sound within its view and observing nearly every movement of occasional thought simply with passive non- judgmental attention. The other 20 % of the time it was in conversation with the passenger, trip planning, and normal everyday conversation.
Weather being on a drive or in every day regular life, the functioning of such a quiet mind conserves a great deal of energy. This is difficult to understand because we are constantly experiencing the noisy restlessness of the brain, which is the conditioned thought process constantly burning energy. One can really not understand and experience this energy loss until it ceases to occur due to the action of meditation.
Our wasting of energy is not even noticed because it is considered normal and the tiredness which it generates draws us to a coffee boost or one of the new energy drinks which seems to be becoming a new western addiction and another form of escape.
At the end of the driving day there was no sense of fatigue whatsoever because there was nearly no accumulation of conflicting desires no action of duality or other issues of any significance.
Arriving at the inn for the first night there was no sense at all of having flown from South Florida that morning to the Canadian border than having driven from their south to Baltimore arriving the same day just after sunset.
The activity and actions which occur while the meditative state is operating produces a different quality of memory which is devoid of any problem producing content and though appearing to be very distant, it can if necessary be drawn upon for use if need be.
The active state of meditation is simply observation. Simply watching the past fall away. As the past falls away the now is truly now!
Overhead this morning there were six large hawks effortlessly soaring on the sea breeze. True meditation has some of these soaring qualities and like the hawk, as the meditative mind moves with the observation of life as it is and folding into silence, it, like the hawk, leaves not a trace.
AHA WRITINGS December 1, 2014
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-- QUESTIONING --
When learning a trade or being taught a subject by a teacher it is easy to ask the instructor a question to clarify a point. After all, you have to learn many things to successfully get along in the mechanical world of intellect. Such questioning is comfortable, easy and free of emotional content and therefore safe ground.
To look into the issues of life however, with its feeling and emotional content, is quite a different story because here we are greatly on guard because our belief system has a powerful element of fear surrounding it and if we are true to ourself, that is, really honest, we realize that we actually don’t know where the truth lies.
In this regard the believers and the non- believers are riding in the same boat because they simply do not know. This writer say’s that knowing is possible, that knowing can happen, and that truth can be realized.
There are hundreds of belief systems and the major ones have been trying to destroy each other for thousands of years, and continue to do so, and most of our beliefs are due to what others have determined for us.
Some of us have been able to break away from a family tradition and tread anew into other systems which are more to our liking, but unfortunately we are again enclosed into the new system only this time simply with more colorful wallpaper.
Belief is a protective prison. Beliefs are conclusive and prevent openness and openness is a prerequisite for learning and self discovery.
The ultimate reality is not to be found in any belief system. The ultimate reality, truth, is in constant flux and cannot be contained as it is too big for that. The ultimate reality simply appears when the noisy brain says to itself, OK “I’ve had enough of this nonsense! and simply slips into the quiet.
Belief is like a wall in that it prevents enquiry and self- discovery and when one is willing and courageous enough to put all of the systems aside then the true meaning of that popular saying “Let go and let God“ will become reality without your help. I would rather say “Let go and let the other”. The other is the nameless, the timeless, the wordless, the eternal. You are the eternal. Your open eye will see this.
The G word is the product of man who is trapped in his depleted yesterday’s and tomorrow’s wishful thinking, while the truly explosive and living NOW goes by for the most part unnoticed.
God does not know it is god! Thank God for that!
The gift has already been given and the ultimate reality is right where you are right now. To “let go and let the other” one becomes free of the yesterdays and the tomorrows and is than open to the eternal newness which is and can only be now.
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When learning a trade or being taught a subject by a teacher it is easy to ask the instructor a question to clarify a point. After all, you have to learn many things to successfully get along in the mechanical world of intellect. Such questioning is comfortable, easy and free of emotional content and therefore safe ground.
To look into the issues of life however, with its feeling and emotional content, is quite a different story because here we are greatly on guard because our belief system has a powerful element of fear surrounding it and if we are true to ourself, that is, really honest, we realize that we actually don’t know where the truth lies.
In this regard the believers and the non- believers are riding in the same boat because they simply do not know. This writer say’s that knowing is possible, that knowing can happen, and that truth can be realized.
There are hundreds of belief systems and the major ones have been trying to destroy each other for thousands of years, and continue to do so, and most of our beliefs are due to what others have determined for us.
Some of us have been able to break away from a family tradition and tread anew into other systems which are more to our liking, but unfortunately we are again enclosed into the new system only this time simply with more colorful wallpaper.
Belief is a protective prison. Beliefs are conclusive and prevent openness and openness is a prerequisite for learning and self discovery.
The ultimate reality is not to be found in any belief system. The ultimate reality, truth, is in constant flux and cannot be contained as it is too big for that. The ultimate reality simply appears when the noisy brain says to itself, OK “I’ve had enough of this nonsense! and simply slips into the quiet.
Belief is like a wall in that it prevents enquiry and self- discovery and when one is willing and courageous enough to put all of the systems aside then the true meaning of that popular saying “Let go and let God“ will become reality without your help. I would rather say “Let go and let the other”. The other is the nameless, the timeless, the wordless, the eternal. You are the eternal. Your open eye will see this.
The G word is the product of man who is trapped in his depleted yesterday’s and tomorrow’s wishful thinking, while the truly explosive and living NOW goes by for the most part unnoticed.
God does not know it is god! Thank God for that!
The gift has already been given and the ultimate reality is right where you are right now. To “let go and let the other” one becomes free of the yesterdays and the tomorrows and is than open to the eternal newness which is and can only be now.
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See cosmic broom.com
pennies from haven.org
