The Seer

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It (Awakening) is as if the Godly dimension of you, which is a silent and awakened Presence of love, acceptance and compassion, encounters and embraces the human dimension of you, which has been journeying through time and has had to endure all the pain of separation that is an inherent part of that journey through time.

If you continue to condemn the human dimension of yourself, which is less than perfect, then who is the one condemning? It is not the awakened Presence, for that dimension of you is completely without judgment. It is just a part of the ego, splitting off to condemn itself.

It might sound somewhat self defeating, but actually, it is exactly what the ego wants. The energy of judgment keeps you bound within the world of the mind, where the ego is in control.

The ego thrives on judgment, condemnation and rejection. It gets stronger in the face of such negative energy.

But if the ego is embraced with love, acceptance and compassion, it has no defense to that. It does not know what to do. Eventually it will simply relax and surrender.

There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance and aggression.

by Leonard Jacobson. To read the complete article, >Click Here

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I discover my freedom and the is-ness of things when I refuse to subject them to my whims, desires or needs. They are not there for me. They are just there, what they are.

When I “behold” them, I recognize them as nothing for me and nothing in themselves. Then they can become transparent, revealing some facet of the infinite creativity which loans them their transient, mutable, fragile and beautiful being-there. I, too, am such a creature….

Meister Eckhart preached the nothingness of the self, but a special kind of nothingness. Nothingness in myself, for I do not give myself being, but only receive it. Like the lilies of the field, I come and go, transient, limited and fragile.

It is not by denying but by accepting, even reveling in my nothingness that I extol the total being-there of God, who loans me existence. I am nothing for myself nor in truth for anyone else. No person is a thing.

When I recognize my essential no-thingness, when I escape the delusion of selfness, then I, too, can become transparent, clear, allowing the radiance of the divine splendor to shine within and through me.

More than that, by becoming transparent, I rid myself of my self, that is, the film of self-consciousness that so readily supervenes to spoil all my joys by reflexive self-preoccupation.

It is thus that our radical no-thingness, the pure and receptive unself-consciousness of “the mirror of the soul” is the truest and most creative image of God’s nothingness.

And that is why Eckhart tells us that when the powers of the soul have been stripped naked, when nothing can further prevent the shining-through of the eternal splendor, then God’s presence can — even, he goes so far to say, must — be revealed in loving, conscious immediacy, for it is God’s eternal will and nature to be so “born” in the human heart.

From: Eckhart’s Way, by Richard Woods. page 106

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The Great Sage, unfathomable, free from fear
In His field stands firm. His solitude
Fulfills a throbbing pulse of world beatitude;
By those unseen, who time and space hold dear.There being One Existence for the Seer
No place is left in His placid plenitude
For shadows ‘Real’ or ‘unreal’ to occlude;
No more seems Sun to rise or set yet’s here.

How seeing Golden Sun, at play in world
Can He whose natural state is Self empowered,
Receiving precious ring, see ought than gold?
As lily flowers, so is His field endowered.

Man awake, remembers not his worldly dream
His field, the world, is a robe without a seem.

by Alan Jacobs

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The garden, I read the other day, is now a “personalised recreational eco-unit”. This presumably means we will have to start calling a spade a “manually operated, recreational eco-unit, maintenance tool”. Where is it going to stop? What is needed, I submit, is a war on unnecessary jargon. Communicators should clarify, not add to, the confusion. I am all for modern techniques, but I want to go on calling a garden a garden and a spade a spade!

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When contemplating the shift in consciousness, sometimes referred to as awakening or enlightenment, the Danish mystic, Sunyata Emanuel, thought of it as “the movement from understanding to innerstanding“.

Understanding something, the dual state, is separation. The subject is separated from the object. In Innerstanding there is no separation. You simply innnerstand every experience.

It is a deep impersonal intimacy with everything. The mystics have, through the ages, called it “the experience of oneness with everything”, “Unio Mystica”.

How can we bring about this shift in consciousness so that we become awareness (the reality that makes up both the subject and the object)? How do we move from understanding to innerstanding?

By entering every form and name, realize the formless and nameless.

Practising this little way in (to being present) is very simple. You just don´t separate yourself from anything that arises in the mind. The habit of the mind is to separate itself from itself.

That is what is happening when we analyse, grasp or reject. These tendencies of the mind are incredibly deeply rooted. They belong to our basic conditioning. This old habit splits the mind in two: the subject and the object!

In this practice, you just enter every experience — good or bad, right or wrong, beautiful or ugly — right away. Above all, don’t wobble, don’t hesitate. In doing this, there will be no space left for the subject, so in this way you leave the man and keep the object.

Just enter every experience and the innerstanding will happen by itself. If there is sadness, just enter it totally, become one with sadness. Don’t leave any place for a separated me. In this way, there will come about a realization of the formless and nameless (we are).

Nukunu

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The world is a curious phenomenon that, like a faint star, can be clearly observed only when it isn’t directly looked at. The world will hide its true face from us until we look in the opposite direction, catching sight of it in the mirror of the Self.

Colors, textures, sounds, tastes, smells — all sensations are apt to take on a new brilliance, poignancy, novelty, in the sharpest contrast to their plain Background here.

For instance, it is common (even when one has just begun to see) to find colors — such as the traffic lights and pavements and the sides of taxis — unbelievably glowing and beautiful.

It’s not when you look at but when you overlook the Seer that the seen grows dim and distorted. Not only the “outer” world, but also your “inner” world of psychological states is obscured when you ignore the Inmost that covers and underlies them all.

From: Open to the Source, by Douglas Harding.

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Every thought and every breath is a breath
and a thought occurring in awareness;
And we are that awareness,
That thought-less and breath-less awareness.

Mooji

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For wisdom is quicker to move than any motion;
She is so pure, she pervades and permeates all things.
She is a breath of the power of God,
Pure emanation of the glory of the almighty
So that nothing impure can find its way into her.
For she is a reflection of the eternal light
untarnished mirror of God’s active power
and image of his goodness.

Wisdom 7:24-26 New Jerusalem Bible

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