The presumption of a separate independent 'me' eclipses awareness of Universal Being.
Universal Being has a local aspect - inclusive of all that is being where you presume to be, not merely as is identified by you but all That is arising to you - As You.
This can make no sense to the mind that differentiates itself from its own thought and experience - and from others - by focussing on perceived differences of form and ascribing its own meanings to them. Such a mind believes it is in the world, having an experience of its own, because imaginatively, such is being enacted upon the Very Light of the Awareness of Being - and taken and lived as real in itself.
The stirring of the awareness of Universal Being occurs below the threshold of the mind-in-definition - that is to say it is already True and Infinitely Alive, yet rendered as if invisible by the disregard inherent in the act of self-definition. The eclipsing mind began with a desire but was then fuelled by identity and supported by differentiation. It is a 'doing' without a true foundation in Being, which is why it cannot rest or abide in being, but must 'do' its being.
This is why to be still of such activity is to allow back into awareness, that which was disregarded, and notice anew from an altogether fresh perspective - and be known in the presence of Life.
The mind-in-definition interprets this message as simply another opportunity to get definition for itself, so it will attempt to 'do' the being still and listening - and thus involve itself with forms of mimicry amidst its own emotion backed imaginings. But the stirring of the intuition of Life will not engage or be satisfied in such a deception.
Only in the noticing and passing by of such strategies will there be release into awareness. Not through the collection of information to use in the world - but in the simple desire to release the mind-in-definition - and its world - so as to be the peace in which all is received as it is.
The Movement of Mind that restores integrated wholeness, as a true basis from which to Be out from - is Holy.
It is the Guidance and Presence of the Universal that is within you in the sense that your mind cannot actually separate off from or eradicate it, though your attention can be bound in distraction and effectively disregard the Holiness of your Being.
But in allowing and welcoming the More of You to guide and uncover You to you - is a Communion already active and present - restored to your capacity to partake of. The impulse towards an independence from true communication is a habit that seems to reset the mind-in-definition as if the experience of transcendence is either lost to the past or is unreal. This is simply a more conscious appreciation of the eclipse of the Universal by the urge of independence.
Living out from the practice of Guidance - from the feeling-knowing of Universal Being - is the bridge of a transformed and renewed identity that rests in communion. Without this awakened trust, the expansion into Universal Being will seem like death, and will be recoiled from and resisted.
For the capacity of love is that of overlooking the form and its associated 'meanings' - and recognizing the Beloved, without separation. This Vision cannot be found in the 'meanings' of the mind. It is the Gift of the Holy Spirit to release all guilt and welcome the light of true innocence as the reflected Light of Eternity.
In Peace
Brian
Showing posts with label living teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label living teaching. Show all posts
2010/04/01
When teachings talk of the illusion of the world
I feel the teaching awakens or re-minds an awareness in stillness such that, instead of running with the notions of self and world that habitually arise from the past, attention is rested in a greater flow of being – that is already the case but was forgot while it was ‘self engaged’.
It is the ‘self seriousness’ arising from engagement with self image and the mind of judgement that upholds it, that costs us the appreciation and sharing of Life.
To ‘put down’ our role and accept that we are the maker of the script is to confess and relinquish specialness. I say confess, because we know it is a mean spirited an unloving thought that uses others and all things selfishly - and we associate it with guilt – without realising that guilt is simply the continuation of specialness; a condition of self illusion.
If you haven't seen a fake 16 dollar bill, then that is because there is not a real 16 dollar bill to make a copy of. A fake dollar bill is an illusion of ‘something’ real.
To be awake and appreciative of the original is an appreciation and recognition of the real. It is when we try to grasp or stop life, analyse it and define it so as to be able to say something ‘about reality’ - that we invariable enter the arena of the mind and vocabulary of separation.
Because the awareness and the object of awareness are not actually two. Nor is the object of awareness outside you. This is hardly obvious while the role given by the script is identified with as ‘me’. And it is hardly obvious that a script is running while I believe I can look outside and see enemy, threat, and unworthiness of love. Yet opposition is the purpose that gives a sense of a self in limitation, drama and struggle. When it is no longer wanted, it is no longer cultivated.
The Teacher of peace offers the ‘Living World’ to the learner of peace. Peace itself is not learned, but the conditions of war have been, and must be left unused. This is like learning you but hurt yourself – and now learning not to do that – in order to awaken truly beyond hurt or hurting.
In Peace
Brian
What you have given specialness has left you bankrupt, and your treasure-house barren and empty, with an open door inviting everything that would disturb your peace to enter and destroy. ~ A Course in Miracles T24
In dreams effect and cause are interchanged, for here the maker of the dream believes that what he made is happening TO him. He does NOT realize he picked a thread from here, a scrap from there, and wove a picture
out of nothing. For the parts do NOT belong together, and the whole contributes nothing to the parts to GIVE them meaning. ~ A Course in Miracles T24
It is the ‘self seriousness’ arising from engagement with self image and the mind of judgement that upholds it, that costs us the appreciation and sharing of Life.
To ‘put down’ our role and accept that we are the maker of the script is to confess and relinquish specialness. I say confess, because we know it is a mean spirited an unloving thought that uses others and all things selfishly - and we associate it with guilt – without realising that guilt is simply the continuation of specialness; a condition of self illusion.
If you haven't seen a fake 16 dollar bill, then that is because there is not a real 16 dollar bill to make a copy of. A fake dollar bill is an illusion of ‘something’ real.
To be awake and appreciative of the original is an appreciation and recognition of the real. It is when we try to grasp or stop life, analyse it and define it so as to be able to say something ‘about reality’ - that we invariable enter the arena of the mind and vocabulary of separation.
Because the awareness and the object of awareness are not actually two. Nor is the object of awareness outside you. This is hardly obvious while the role given by the script is identified with as ‘me’. And it is hardly obvious that a script is running while I believe I can look outside and see enemy, threat, and unworthiness of love. Yet opposition is the purpose that gives a sense of a self in limitation, drama and struggle. When it is no longer wanted, it is no longer cultivated.
The Teacher of peace offers the ‘Living World’ to the learner of peace. Peace itself is not learned, but the conditions of war have been, and must be left unused. This is like learning you but hurt yourself – and now learning not to do that – in order to awaken truly beyond hurt or hurting.
In Peace
Brian
What you have given specialness has left you bankrupt, and your treasure-house barren and empty, with an open door inviting everything that would disturb your peace to enter and destroy. ~ A Course in Miracles T24
In dreams effect and cause are interchanged, for here the maker of the dream believes that what he made is happening TO him. He does NOT realize he picked a thread from here, a scrap from there, and wove a picture
out of nothing. For the parts do NOT belong together, and the whole contributes nothing to the parts to GIVE them meaning. ~ A Course in Miracles T24
2009/12/17
True Willingness
True willingness aligns experiential opportunity with teaching.
But if using teachings only to help the 'self' that believes it lives within the world, the former may be largely absent and the latter may be experienced instead as pain or difficulty. And an answer will be sought or seen only in terms of a predefined 'me' and 'problem'.
True willingness releases the blocks that kept the deeper lessons gifts from dawning in one's mind.
And these lessons initiate transformational process in which a shift occurs and by which a sense of life is directly known – and which cannot be separated from in order to either inspect it – or think or speak about it - or indeed to manipulate it!
The restoration of true freedom is accepted through refusal to engage or employ guilt.
In guiltlessness, the Father-Source-Condition is Gracefully obvious in place of what before had been called the world.
In guiltlessness, the natural guidance of the heart moves at one with the revealed truth.
In guiltlessness, love of truth has replaced self-survival.
Yet what has been required to 'die' is not the life within – but the costumed projection of thought held secret.
Nothing has really changed – but now is seen as it is – without the overlay of self validating definition, commentary and past association.
This reverses the fantastic notion of seeing everything as it is not – as such fantasy is realized to be inherently unfulfilling – and its fruits are seen to be grown instead of - and at cost of - a true and direct appreciation of being.
In Peace
Brian
But if using teachings only to help the 'self' that believes it lives within the world, the former may be largely absent and the latter may be experienced instead as pain or difficulty. And an answer will be sought or seen only in terms of a predefined 'me' and 'problem'.
True willingness releases the blocks that kept the deeper lessons gifts from dawning in one's mind.
And these lessons initiate transformational process in which a shift occurs and by which a sense of life is directly known – and which cannot be separated from in order to either inspect it – or think or speak about it - or indeed to manipulate it!
The restoration of true freedom is accepted through refusal to engage or employ guilt.
In guiltlessness, the Father-Source-Condition is Gracefully obvious in place of what before had been called the world.
In guiltlessness, the natural guidance of the heart moves at one with the revealed truth.
In guiltlessness, love of truth has replaced self-survival.
Yet what has been required to 'die' is not the life within – but the costumed projection of thought held secret.
Nothing has really changed – but now is seen as it is – without the overlay of self validating definition, commentary and past association.
This reverses the fantastic notion of seeing everything as it is not – as such fantasy is realized to be inherently unfulfilling – and its fruits are seen to be grown instead of - and at cost of - a true and direct appreciation of being.
In Peace
Brian
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
