There are no level of Enlightenment.
Or it is seen that one is not the body-mind, or it is not seen.
And this seeing happens, or it does not, without any possible help or hindurance by the imaginary individual.
love
shakti
15/06/07
A Crisis
When your mind is confused do not try to sort out things. Simple observe how that confusion is coming up from something very clear that is observing that confusion.
What our mind calls confusion is often the destroying of old patterns and concepts that for some reason go into crisis. We try to live our life based on ideas that society, family, teachers give us.
Life has instead usually totally different turns, because it does not happen based on pre-conceived ideas, but it unfolds spontanously in each istant.
So all the time that Life challenges our concepts about it, a crisis comes up.
This crisis is actually very healthy if we let it unfold fully, letting the fire provoked by the crisis burn totally. What we do instead is usually try to build up a strategy for not feeling that crisis. Escaping creates just more conflict, because is based on the idea that we are separated individuals, able to behave indipendently by all the rest of the Universe.
Tha fact is that the crisis is not involving us directly, but jus our ideas about ourselve. What we are all the time is infact that clarity that is observing the confusion.
In the dying of these concepts about ourselves, we are finally able to enjoy Life as it comes, without fighting it all the times.
In this letting go we discover that actually Life IS going as we want, but not as we THOUGHT that it should have been. It is already unfolding in the best way possible but we could not see it because the holding on to a concept.
Enjoy your day, as it comes.
love
shakti
What our mind calls confusion is often the destroying of old patterns and concepts that for some reason go into crisis. We try to live our life based on ideas that society, family, teachers give us.
Life has instead usually totally different turns, because it does not happen based on pre-conceived ideas, but it unfolds spontanously in each istant.
So all the time that Life challenges our concepts about it, a crisis comes up.
This crisis is actually very healthy if we let it unfold fully, letting the fire provoked by the crisis burn totally. What we do instead is usually try to build up a strategy for not feeling that crisis. Escaping creates just more conflict, because is based on the idea that we are separated individuals, able to behave indipendently by all the rest of the Universe.
Tha fact is that the crisis is not involving us directly, but jus our ideas about ourselve. What we are all the time is infact that clarity that is observing the confusion.
In the dying of these concepts about ourselves, we are finally able to enjoy Life as it comes, without fighting it all the times.
In this letting go we discover that actually Life IS going as we want, but not as we THOUGHT that it should have been. It is already unfolding in the best way possible but we could not see it because the holding on to a concept.
Enjoy your day, as it comes.
love
shakti
09/06/07
Flowering to Unconditional Love
When you rest in Love there is no possibility to close your Heart again even if a person that we are in love with is abandoning us.
If the Heart is not fully open there will be suffering about this, and the suffering will come from the burning of our egoic resistances. Love will be there anyway, but not in the conditions that our mind is telling us. The flowering of Unconditional Love is going infact to shutter the barrier that our mind is putting on to survive to itself.
Love is not a feeling you are going to feel, but the recognition that all forms are happening in your Being, that there is not in truth any separation.
Infact until this recognition will not happen you dont know what Love really is. Your relantionships until that moment will be based on need of affection and fear to be alone. Until need and fear are not fully burnt in this flame of Love, suffering will be present and no relantionship will be fully satisfying.
love
shakti
If the Heart is not fully open there will be suffering about this, and the suffering will come from the burning of our egoic resistances. Love will be there anyway, but not in the conditions that our mind is telling us. The flowering of Unconditional Love is going infact to shutter the barrier that our mind is putting on to survive to itself.
Love is not a feeling you are going to feel, but the recognition that all forms are happening in your Being, that there is not in truth any separation.
Infact until this recognition will not happen you dont know what Love really is. Your relantionships until that moment will be based on need of affection and fear to be alone. Until need and fear are not fully burnt in this flame of Love, suffering will be present and no relantionship will be fully satisfying.
love
shakti
05/06/07
Judgment on feelings
Just feel what you feel, without any judgement or repression.
We are not responsible for what we feel. A feeling like attraction for another body just arises out of Emptiness and only then the mind says "this is MY feeling" adding a little ego-flag on the top.
Immediatly the feeling will be less intense and "pure" because part of its energy will be robbed by the ego concept.
Sometimes we not only claim the property of the feeling but also the thought "i should not feel this" arrives. Even THAT thought does not belong to us...usually when the feeling arises we cannot just observe it but we try to analyse it, finding a reason why we feel what we feel. There is no reason for anything. Feeling, thoughts, actions just arise and Awareness registers them.
If the ego concept is present these feelings, thoughts and actions will be experienced as if they do belong to a particular body mind. The fact that we can feel a feeling just means that the body is able to perceive that vibration that arises out of Emptiness. Actually as we recognize that we are this empty space around and in everything and no more an imaginary person in a body, we can perceive for the first time feelings and emotions in a pure way. we will experience the feelings 100%, but we will not be attached to them so they will go away as they arrived. What we will experience will be a constant gentle joy without reason in which everything appears.
We are not responsible for what we feel. A feeling like attraction for another body just arises out of Emptiness and only then the mind says "this is MY feeling" adding a little ego-flag on the top.
Immediatly the feeling will be less intense and "pure" because part of its energy will be robbed by the ego concept.
Sometimes we not only claim the property of the feeling but also the thought "i should not feel this" arrives. Even THAT thought does not belong to us...usually when the feeling arises we cannot just observe it but we try to analyse it, finding a reason why we feel what we feel. There is no reason for anything. Feeling, thoughts, actions just arise and Awareness registers them.
If the ego concept is present these feelings, thoughts and actions will be experienced as if they do belong to a particular body mind. The fact that we can feel a feeling just means that the body is able to perceive that vibration that arises out of Emptiness. Actually as we recognize that we are this empty space around and in everything and no more an imaginary person in a body, we can perceive for the first time feelings and emotions in a pure way. we will experience the feelings 100%, but we will not be attached to them so they will go away as they arrived. What we will experience will be a constant gentle joy without reason in which everything appears.
Acceptance
Whatever appears on the screen of Life seems to be so real. Sometimes we are attracted by some characters of the movie, sometimes we hate them and we are in conflict with them.
We suffer because we would like to have a different situation for us, we try to change the story from the movie itself. This is just an useless effort.
Only acceptance, real acceptance, can change your life. When you accept everything without no desire of changing, when you truly see that whatever happens on the screen is just
your own Consciousness, Life changes, because your Consciouness is changing.
In you there is no more conflict, so the conflict will not be express on the apparent outern reality. If in you there is acceptance and joy, your Life will express this. From there, you can Love without any preference, because you are Love itself.
Observe the emotions and thoughts that come through the body. Only who sees clearly that Life is just a dance of shadows in the Light of Awareness can truly Love someone. Love is not an emotion, is our true essence. Until you can see clearly that everything is just Love
you will be trapped in the game of desires and emotions, taking the part of one character or an other.
Be detached, let Life lives you, observe all the feelings, thoughts and emotions, good or bad, without holding to none of them. They are all expressions of the Love that you are.
Accept Life. It is your gift to yourself, also when it appears to be full of problems. You need them because they carry you a message of acceptance. Accept yourself as you are.
Love
Shakti
We suffer because we would like to have a different situation for us, we try to change the story from the movie itself. This is just an useless effort.
Only acceptance, real acceptance, can change your life. When you accept everything without no desire of changing, when you truly see that whatever happens on the screen is just
your own Consciousness, Life changes, because your Consciouness is changing.
In you there is no more conflict, so the conflict will not be express on the apparent outern reality. If in you there is acceptance and joy, your Life will express this. From there, you can Love without any preference, because you are Love itself.
Observe the emotions and thoughts that come through the body. Only who sees clearly that Life is just a dance of shadows in the Light of Awareness can truly Love someone. Love is not an emotion, is our true essence. Until you can see clearly that everything is just Love
you will be trapped in the game of desires and emotions, taking the part of one character or an other.
Be detached, let Life lives you, observe all the feelings, thoughts and emotions, good or bad, without holding to none of them. They are all expressions of the Love that you are.
Accept Life. It is your gift to yourself, also when it appears to be full of problems. You need them because they carry you a message of acceptance. Accept yourself as you are.
Love
Shakti
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