War and peace

Years ago, when I worked as a financial journalist the world changed forever. Watching live images on CNN to launch updates for the agency I worked for it seemed to watch one of the usual action movie, except that it just was not a movie ... Or maybe it was but at the time I did not understand it that way!

My job was to cover Wall Street news and my agency was one of the first to break the news that the United States had been attacked in their territory, that the WTC was exploding, melting as a piece of butter on itself while men and women in despair threw themselves from the high floors of the building to escape a death in the flames. The Pentagon was pierced by what seemed like the hole caused by a missile, but the White House quickly told us that it was hit by a plane, although there were no signs of burnt grass on the lawn in front of the building, and no signs of any aircraft crashed on it. The world changed and I with it, losing faith in the fact that what I was doing was information ... it was DIS-information.

I realized this over time, at first I was just stunned and incredulous that the very newspaper I worked for (which by accident it was chaired by the new mayor of NY) did not want to publish the news that the giants of finance Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers showed - looking at the data - that someone KNEW what was going to happen weeks in advance of the event. They surprisingly had exchanged billions of dollars on the bet that the shares of the airlines companies involved in September 11 would have collapsed. But the newspapers did not have any interest in investigate about it, because you were told to write just that some rogue states in the Middle East wanted to destroy the Western world, and it was better to exchange freedom with security. All it was needed it was some minor surgical wars that would have taken place in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and maybe Syria. No worries guys, Americans would have been very little in Iraq, maybe no more than two weeks ... it had to be done since that Iraqi were holding weapons of mass destruction! I felt that it was not that way at all and that if until that moment I thought that the social system to which I belonged to had created the best of all possible worlds now I was struck by the fact that sensation we were the "bad guys". I felt also that if we stayed silent and in agreement like sheep without asking any questions we would have ended up supporting the game of those who got rich working on oil wells of others countries and creating new weapons that would have killed and poisoned even the soldiers who used them to massacre innocent and unsuspecting people. The world has changed and I with it, or at least the sign of a change seems to arrive.

Today I know that the war on terror only creates more fear and terror. Wars are not meant to be won, but only to keep the supremacy of those who earn from the war business and the maintenance of the dominant system. The wars are not made to fight for the keeping of peace or justice: the act of killing another human being or invade or destroy his house is not an act that can bring peace.

War is not an inevitable action, it is not the only alternative: in a global society every man is called to respond of the pain of others like him, mourning with his brother as if that grief, hunger and poverty were his own. Because the other is I. We are a Single Consciousness, that lives through all bodies, including those who seem to want to hurt you, or have a skin color that scares you, or that threaten to destroy your wealth and health. This is the realization that destroys the old paradigm of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and instead opens a different dimension, the only one that can really transform fear. It is the dimension of Love.

As long as we dont understand this we will be dominated by fear and terror and we will obey their laws to the point that it seems impossible to live in any other way than that to protect and defend or attack in order to have more otr keep what you have. The eyes of fear do not see that the pain that drives someone to do evil is the same that burns in your heart. The eyes of fear are unaware of the fact that the tears of a mother whose son died in a war are always the same, no matter which flag was sewn on his uniform. The eyes of fear they do not know that God is always by your side even when you call it Allah or Krishna. The eyes of fear point the finger against the shames of the world because they are too ashamed to show their own fragility and contradictions. The eyes of fear want to be right, they want to explain to you how things are and do not know to listen to the fact that their desire for truth is the same that animates the ones that seem not to agree with you.

The eyes of love are open to injustices seeing that they are only a reflection of their inability to live following what we know to be true of us, the inability to honor our heart. The eyes of love does not ask peace to makes a war, but they offer it at any time without imposing their ways. The eyes of love see no separations, do not recognize borders, do not ask what is your belief or currency or law to be able to love you.

Until we are ruled by fear and not follow the laws of love that are written in our hearts we will not thrive in joy. Joy is our birthright, and it is for every living being on this planet, every man or woman, every elder, every child, every animal or plant, or rock or crystal.

Open your heart and if you do not know how to live from love, then ask to be shown. It will happen instantly. You will feel the heart that breaks open, the pain that melts in tears. Ask to learn how to live from love, and your deepest Self will show you how. It is actually already doing it, since always.

With Love,
Shakti Caterina Maggi

Creating

What does it mean co-creation?
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There is no co-creation, because there is one CREATING. There is not a someone, or more someone that create: what we see around us, what we call our external reality is not the result of an act of will of a supreme Being, or the collective result of more co -creators. What we call reality is an expression of our own BEING and not the result of a doing of a someone or more someone. YOU ARE WHAT YOU SEE, you're everything that appears not only AS what you call your form and what happens THROUGH your form, but as any living and not living thing and the way which whatever is expressed through everything. If what we call reality IS your consciousness where is left the room for an acting of a creator, or for a co-creator? Your basic nature is Silence, Nothingness, Emptiness. The entire universe is the answer to the question "Who am I?". The question and the answer unfolds as what appears as life. That's the reason why any situation in your apparent separate existence is an opportunity to see who you are, no matter how dysfunctional or perfect your life seems to be, it's there as an expression of how you know yourSelf. When the catching of yourself in what appears happens, when that illusory sense of distance is cut down, then there is no more an inside and an outside. Then it rains because you are sad, because you feel in the conflict there is war, all is quiet at night because you're falling asleep. There is no a "me" that creates, the creation is the expression of your true empty I that is searching to understand itself to find itself back. When the finding happens, NOTHING is not found and NO ONE is left who has not found anything. Just Life itself remains in its unfolding from moment to moment, Life happens for no reason, as an expression of that Self that you really are. It does not happen to for for you or me, It does not happen even for your own awakening. It is just happening and when what it is witnessing it and therefore creating it has been found in it, then that Subject merges into that which is created and what remains is only CREATING. Shakti

" There is no creator so how can ther ebe co creating . there is only creating. The essay was clear on this no creator or created just creating. The "co" can only come from the illusion of separation" Avasa

Me +you =One

What does Life actually consist of? I am not talking about our so-called private, personal lives but Life as a whole.

In order for you or I to experience Life there must be two things present, an experience and an experience-er. Regardless of what is experienced, negative or positive, these apparent two things have to be in place, without them there would be no experience.

What should be clear to us, yet for some reason is not, is that we experience our body in the same way that we experience any other object, as a thing. Somehow we have got a bit misidentified with the experience and lost sight of the experiencer and we barely notice this fact. I claim that the body is what I am when in fact this is not my first-hand experience. My first-hand experience is that “I”, whatever this is, is not the body but what knows of the body as an experience.

I experience the world, of which my body is a part, and so obviously I am the experiencer yet somehow I have fallen into a case of mistaken identity and claim that the body, which is my experience, is what I am. If I claim this to be true I am claiming that I am an object just as every other thing in my world is an object. Yet it is clear that the object is not the experiencer but the experience. ALL experiences of my world, including my body, are EXEPRIENCED and they are experienced by an EXPERIENCE-ER.

So if the body itself is not what “I” am then “I” must be something apart from the body that is in itself absent of any experience. As the subject of all objectified experience, and all experience IS objectified, “I” must be the subject and as this subjective “I” myself cannot be an object. I am not an object and therefore cannot be an experience in myself but the absence of experience. As the absence of experience I am therefore in myself a non-experience which can take in all the experiences of Life, of my world. This has to be true for every human being. We, each one of us, whilst appearing to be separate objects, are actually non-experience experiencing the world through a human form which is part of our experience. We therefore are not the body itself.

The body is an instrument for experiencing the human experience. Without it “I” could not experience Love, joy, sadness, pain, sympathy for apparent others or any of the other experiences that make up a human experience. This incredibly intricate and complex vehicle that “I”, the non-experience, needs in order to experience Life is this object that I have mistakenly been calling “I”.
“I” am no more this body than than my car is “I” when if I forget that the body is driving it. “I” am what appears to be inside the body as a non-experience. Somehow this very obvious fact has been overlooked which is strange somehow as it should be most obvious.

If I look for myself as this non-experience, this “I”, what do I find? Certainly not an experience! In fact nothing , or rather no-thing, is to BE found. I see that I am absent of thing-ness. “I” am not a feeling or a taste or a smell or a sound or an colour or shape, all of which can be described as objects, but the absence of such things. I am a sort of presence of some sort which “I” sort of know is present but as what? I have no idea, I cannot describe this, yet it is obvious that this that has no description, but is aware of itself, is what I am. I am No-thing.

This therefore must be the same for all human forms, this non-experience living through the experienced form and experiencing the world. If this is so, and it is! This is where I fully meet others for here I AM the apparent others. This “I” and the “I” of the apparent other is the same I.
In seeing my SELF to be “I” I see that all other are this same “I”. So although my outer experience of the world is that it is full of OTHER people my inner experience is that all the OTHERS are no other than my Self. We are all the same Self, One-Self, one`s true Self is ONE Self !

All my imagined problems with “others” have been based upon a wrong identification. All my so –called personal problems have been based on this idea that I was a limited being within a body when the Truth is “I” am in all bodies, I am unlimited. All of the human problems therefore are also this. The problem of conflict , war, hatred and all those activities based upon the sense of separation between imagined others dissolve here in this realisation that “WE”, which itself is an illusion , are all “I”, all are the same Self functioning through all the forms.

All the problems of mankind are based upon this wrong assumption of separation, this wrong identification with one`s self. It is all based on a case of mistaken identity.
The only way therefore to solve ALL the problems, both the personal AND the problems of ALL humanity and the international level, is to see clearly what “I” is. When I know that I am you and you are I, that we all are “I”, finally Love is true of us. When action then arises from the conscious recognition of this Love all action will serve both one`s self and the One-Self.
The realisation and awakening to what we are is the answer to ALL of humanity`s problem.

Are you the experience or the One that is experiencing? Look for your Self because only you have the authority to state the answer. Is what we call “I” a thing or the aware no-thing-ness that is reading these words right now THROUGH the body.

If you SEE this clearly then you have just realised that what you have read is your own message to yourself. Welcome back home, to the place that you have never left !!!

Avasa

“Least aware of what we should be most assured
Our glassy essence”
William Shakespeare.

Beyond the stories of the mind

I'm trying to listen.
Although I perceives the need of an empty mind, I can not really feel it, and I perceive a resistance.
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Hello,
you see, it is the mind that considers the mind as if it was a problem and it would like to have it empty because what is really tried to be achieved it is the void that witnesses it. In fact, the mind is not a problem at all, neither it is necessary to create an empty mind for this realization to take place. If the mind is a jungle of thoughts or it is well-disciplined and quiet, it remains anyway just an object of which you are aware.

It does not matter how the mind is coming up, otherwise it would be like saying that in order for you to witness it, it should manifest a certain way. And this is not the case. You are always the witness of the mind, not the main character of its stories, even when this is not yet consciously recognized. You know that thoughts exist because you are aware of them. When you are consciously aware of thoughts, or when you witness the mind consciously, then it is not really important to you which kind of thoughts or feelings are passing by, they are anyway just stuff that comes and goes, passing clouds in the sky.

The reason why we are so attached to the fact that certain thoughts should not be present it is because these particular thoughts have at their center as an imaginary subject our "me" or what we think we are. We do not want those thoughts, because they disturb us, they bring up with them an uncomfortable feeling and we believe them - no matter how horrible the scenario that is proposed -because we feel to be inside our thoughts and we think that really what they say could happen TO us.

This is a tragic error of perspective. The thoughts do not happen TO us, but IN ourselves. In other words they are subtle objects passing by and we are not the protagonists of them but only the witnesses!

For example, let's say the mind projects a negative scenario regarding a particular event. We will feel the anguish of that possibility and more the anguish will grow and more -if you really believe that those scenario will happen - you will believe you will feel even worse in that moment. The strategy will be then to try at all costs to not make happen that event in the idea to be able in this way to silence the feeling of anguish. Basically, what is happening is that we want to dispel that feeling that accompanies the story through an action that seems to be able to avoid that it can become true and happen.

Now, that story since the beginning is based on a lie: it is JUST a story of mind, as we really are it is not the subject of the story, but just the witness of it. That character seems to be the protagonist of the story, and who is? Its existence is based on a memory of events that have happened, a bunch of actions and thoughts that had passed through your form, but it is nothing but a memory! Your body and your mind are constantly changing and therefore who is the one that the mental story is talking about?

The story in itself it is just a story, and alhtough it does not seem at all like this when the story appears, what it does REALLY happens it is never what the mind had projected. The feeling that accompanies the story it is what we really suffer, and it is the feeling that fuel the strategies and tricks that are put into place to prevent the manifestation of the mind scenario. The strategies in themselves bring more suffering and so on.

It comes a time in our life in which it is no more possible implement strategies in order for not feeling that feeling and it is the time in which we are forced to confront our stories and the feeling in itself. Part of the story of the mind will be if the story will come to rest also the feeling will fade away. Actually it is not like that: the story is present only to the extent that one is not able to be present to the feeling that accompanies it.

Although it is not maybe immediately obvious, the story comes FROM feeling and not the other way round: if the interest in the story falls away because you can see that no matter how many strategies are put into place, the feeling is anyway coming back, then you just have to sit down with the feeling, feel it and be in a position of conscious witnessing about it. Then and only then for the first time we're really in the position to dispel that feeling, in the just staying present to it.

The story of the mind was desired to be dispelled only in the believe that in this was one could have eradicated the feeling. When you grasp that not only you are not the real main character of that story but it is not the story the origin of the feeling but its consequence, then the interest in the story will fall away automatically. One will remain just in the conscious witnessing of the feeling. The feeling will grows in intensity 'till come to a climax and it will disappear into conscious recognition.

We moved in this way from an only conceptual level - the world of the mind stories - to perceptual level. And it is ONLY at this level that suffering can be dissolved. So let the mind be present and not try to empty it. Let the stories that the mind present to pass by and if possible rather be aware of the feelings that accompany them. If it were possible to feel them without repressing them or expressing them they would reach their peak and would disappear along with the stories.

What it would remain would be what it was there since the beginning, the empty sky in which the clouds were happening.

A big hug,
Shakti

Home

No need to seek for something that is always here
The attention now rests on this vacant clarity
Uninvolved
Untouched
And yet
Completely taken by this enchanting beauty
Oh those eyes, those steps, those sounds
Where am I?
I’m lost, lost, lost
And forever home.

What am I ? Avasa

Inner revolution

We dont own Life and yet we feel free to take it, abuse it, rape it, pollute it in any possible way. We are so deeply conditioned to believe that only way to stop a violent action is another violent action that we dont even consider any other alternative. Love - what knows no separation- is the only alternative, the only answer.

Some could say that this message can never be listened by enough people to make a change over this planet.

I believe in the power of individuality and I think a single person can change the world and it is not a drop in the ocean, as in one single apparent person there is ALL the ocean. So if you wake up to this, it DOES makes the difference... it does as all the ocean is shaken.

If this is forgetten you will fall in the illusion that has been casted on you, the illusion that you are powerless, something that you are not.

You are all powerful as what you really are, because as what you really are you are the Source of everything. Every single human being is God incarnated, it the tool through which the Source makes experience of human life.

Instead we have been thrown to believe to be confined in the limits of a body, in a size of a form and we are led to believe that we need to use violence and rise up our voice to be listened,
where instead all our thoughts and feelings - our mind - is the Mind of God itSelf.

You are not a tiny insignificant little spot on this planet. You are precious, you are God and your form an expression of God. And when God suffers, all the world suffers. Check if NOW through your form there is a somebody, a ME. Or you find just an empty awareress living though the form, that is experiencing the world through the senses... this realization, that nobody is there but Awareness, IS Enlightenment.

It is enough that you awaken to this to shake the entire universe. Each Buddha has a tremendous effect on all this dream of the world, much more than thousands of people with sheep mentality.

Each Buddha knows itself as the Source and it is the same One living through all the forms.

Therefore YOU count, you for what you really are, not your form that is just a tool of experience. And the stopping of your suffering then it has a tremendous effect on the rest of the world; it has the effect to dissolve that suffering and ignorance in the rest of the dreamn to that same degree.


I believe in the power of the individual in the sense that the only revolution worth to be pursued it is an inner revolution, not a revolution to be made on the streets with bombs or furher violence but a revolution that happens silently but yet powerfully. A revolution that destroyes the sense of separation that is the seed of all evils in this world.


Meditate this in your heart and know that you are important and that you awakening counts and enlightens all the world.



Shakti Caterina Maggi