The Seer

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True meditation has no direction, goals, or method. All methods aim at achieving a certain state of mind. All states are limited, impermanent and conditioned. Fascination with states leads only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial consciousness.

True meditation appears in consciousness spontaneously when awareness is not fixated on objects of perception. When you first start to meditate you notice that awareness is always focused on some object: on thoughts, bodily sensations, emotions, memories, sounds, etc. This is because the mind is conditioned to focus and contract upon objects. Then the mind compulsively interprets what it is aware of (the object) in a mechanical and distorted way. It begins to draw conclusions and make assumptions according to past conditioning.

In true meditation all objects are left to their natural functioning. This means that no effort should be made to manipulate or suppress any object of awareness. In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself.

Primordial awareness (consciousness) is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Silence of being will come more clearly into consciousness as a welcoming to rest and abide. An attitude of open receptivity, free of any goal or anticipation, will facilitate the presence of silence and stillness to be revealed as your natural condition.

Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.

Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications, and returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

The simple yet profound question, “Who Am I ?,” can then reveal one’s self not to be the endless tyranny of the ego-personality, but objectless Freedom of Being — Primordial Consciousness in which all states and all objects come and go as manifestations of the Eternal Unborn Self that YOU ARE.

by Adyashanti

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Direct the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

In your everyday life, you can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself. For example, every time you walk up and down the stairs in your house or place of work, pay close attention to every step, every movement, even your breathing. Be totally present.

Or when you wash your hands, pay attention to all the sense perceptions associated with the activity: the sound and feel of the water, the movement of your hands, the scent of the soap, and so on. Or when you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence. There is one certain criterion by which you can measure your success in this practice: the degree of peace that you feel within.

by Eckhart Tolle. See: What is Meditation

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This morning, after rain
had cleared the air, sparrows
ranged over the cornfield.
I stood at the window
in the kitchen where now
I peel these potatoes.
They come white from the knife,
roll into the water.
I am clear and look down
as if from a window.

by Colin Oliver

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A local businessmen had been invited to speak to the children in the third grade. He decided to talk about the progress of the world during the past fifty years. He spent half-an-hour talking about the great inventions that had been developed during his lifetime.

“And now, before I go, I’d like to ask this question,” he said. “What is the most important thing in the world today that wasn’t here just twenty years ago?”

“Me.” said a little boy in the front row.

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For the awakened person, money becomes just another condition in life, albeit an important one. The awakened person manages his or her capital wisely, and would not spend more than he or she had coming in. Certainly, with awakening you don’t worry about money ­- or, if you do, it is only a residual kind of worry and has no real bite to it.

Money has a vital place in our lives. We all need it to survive, to feed, clothe, house, and educate ourselves and our children. We might need it to care for our elderly parents. We can also enjoy everything else it does for us, like the things it buys us, and the freedom it gives to spend time on purely creative, non money-making pursuits. But when we are in the grip of excessive addiction to it, believing it will save us, or bring us the happiness we seek, we are making a mistake.

The more you face your fears and stories around money, and your real or imagined needs, and realize you are not your stories, but rather you are the awareness which looks at the stories, the freer you will become of anything binding you. When I was in my thirties, my own fear was of being out of work, out of money, and ending up homeless under a bridge. During my meditations, I faced this worst-case scenario over and over again in my mind, until eventually it no longer held any emotional charge.

I wasn’t fully awake yet. I hadn’t completely perceived my true nature as consciousness, as the ultimate perceiver, but I came to realize my connection to spirit, the energy behind creation, was strong. I knew how to be at peace in the present and this allowed me to be much freer of my fears around money.

Whether or not I lived under a bridge was certainly not going to take away my inner peace. Besides, there was a whole tradition of Zen masters who lived under bridges, basking in freedom, enjoying the ever-present delights of nature, dharma-jousting with fellow travelers, writing haiku. I would have been in good company! Once I knew this for sure, I then had a clear choice.

One option was to sit on my butt meditating in bliss all the time, but with the knowledge I might end up not being able to afford a decent roof over my head. The other was to get to work doing what I enjoyed doing­or at least found tolerable doing­so I could generate the income needed to keep body and soul together in a comfortable way. Preferring middle-class comforts to the deprivation of poverty, I chose the work option.

Remember, the beliefs, images, and pictures in your mind drive the sensations and feelings of anxiety and fear, and keep them alive. As you learn to live in the present, letting go of attachment to the story inside your head, you’ll come to the realization that inner freedom is, and always has been, your true nature.

From: End Your Story, Begin Your Life, by Jim Dreaver.

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We have just heerd that Eckhart Tolle has co-written a children’s book which is due to be released in late October. It’s entitled: Milton’s Secret: An Adventure of Discovery through Then, When, and The Power of Now. Beautifully illustrated in full color, this 40 page hardcover book is designed to 4-8 year-olds, but wlll appeal to all ages.

Eckhart Tolle has a simple message for everyone — living in the Now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. With co-author Robert Friedman and illustrator Frank Riccio, Tolle now brings his message of the power of Now to children.

Milton’s Secret is the charming story of Milton, a bright, cheerful boy, who learns to overcome his fear of bullies and other scary things that sometimes frighten children. Children follow Milton’s adventures as he learns to stop projecting his past fears into the future — and live simply and happily in the moment.

Milton’s Secret will not only appeal to the millions of readers of Tolle’s other books, but also to any parent who wants to help their young children overcome typical childhood fears. Clearsigh hopes to have copies available on or soon after the release date.

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When I speak of God, I am not speaking of a God that people believe in. To believe in God is an obstacle to knowing God. When we believe in God, we are creating God in our image. It is an illusion, which we create within our minds to help us escape fear and the pain of living in a world of separation.

The God that I am speaking of is of the mystery.

God is One. God is the One in the all.

God is eternal Is-ness. God exists eternally as all that is.

Everything is God. Nothing is God. And beyond everything and nothing, I am and God is.

Infinite silence! Pure consciousness!

The source from which everything arises, and into which everything returns.

I am speaking as a mystic. You cannot know God with the mind, and yet you can experience God from within the mystery.

God is real. God is here now. God is ever present. But we are not. We have gone too far into the mind, with our never ending thoughts, and now we are lost there. We have abandoned the present moment for a remembered past and an imagined future. We have abandoned truth for our opinions, ideas, concepts and beliefs.

If we want to experience God, we will have to come to where God is. We will have to bring ourselves fully present. And as we deepen into Presence, we will begin to encounter the living Presence of God in all things present. God and the present moment are one and the same. The present moment is God revealed.

As we deepen into Presence, we will experience Oneness. At the deepest levels of Presence, God and Heaven on Earth will be revealed.

By Leonard Jacobson, author of: Journey Into Now.

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Seers are those who see what is actually given, rather than what they are told to see. They are simple enough to look. And so they see that they are face to no-face with others, they are capacity for others - this is a deep kind of love. They see that they are still whilst the world moves - this is profoundly relaxing. They see that their face in the mirror gets older, but their no-face doesn’t - their True Self will never die. This is the end of the fear of death. They see that they are - things come and go, but Being IS. This is joy - the joy that has no shadow. And they see that all things come from the One within them. Realizing the power and love of their True Self, they recognize the wisdom of saying Yes! to what it gives them, moment by moment.

By Richard Lang

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