The Seer

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Eckhart Tolle, the well known author of “A New Earth” and “The Power of Now”, has been the catalyst who, without knowing me personally at all, has been the one that changed everything.

I somehow figured out in the year 2001 that I was always in either the past or the future, and wasn’t really very much in the present at all. Because that didn’t seem like a good thing, I set out in my usual way to figure things out and I searched “living in the present” at amazon.com. Up came “The Power of Now” along with a selection of other books. I ordered two other books too, not knowing, but don’t even know what those books were now. I was so taken with “The Power of Now” that I’m not sure I ever read them.

“The Power of Now” seemed so clearly to be coming from the same source that I was experiencing as the source of my personal guidance, which I understood intellectually to be my own Self, but which I was yet unable to experience as such. To have a book so clearly coming from that source was absolutely riveting.

I tried to register for a retreat with Eckhart Tolle in October of 2002 but it was already full with a huge waiting list in February when I tried to register. By some stroke of luck, by August I was given a space and was pleased yet also I remember being kind of confused. I couldn’t understand why I was going, because I thought he had already said it all in a book, so why was I going? What more could I possibly be expecting?

When it came time to go to the retreat, I mostly remember just sitting there with a great big silly grin on my face, totally being delighted by Eckhart’s way of being with us. There were 450 of us in the big hall at Omega Institute, and it was just a matter of sitting there and listening to Eckhart for five days. In between his talks I was just very quiet. Somehow between the beginning and the end of that retreat, something irrevocably changed for me. I was immersed in bliss, and knew that everything that I had ever wanted as a spiritual seeker had now arrived, and there was nowhere else to go. Somehow it seemed that Eckhart Tolle had handed it all to me on a silver platter.

My old life ceased operating the way it had before, but there was a long way to go to learn how to live from this new place. All sense of need or lack was gone and everything not only appeared to be perfect as it was, radiating with love and life, but that also pervaded me and made it so that any personal problems appeared to have vanished.

Of course, Eckhart Tolle knew nothing of this because he personally hadn’t done anything, although it took a while for that to sink in. It was the awakeness (the One life) that was speaking through him that somehow woke me up. He is such a clear, clear channel. I owe him an infinite debt just for being so clear, and for being there at the right time for me. It felt so incredibly grateful to Eckhart but even at the same time I could see that it wasn’t him. It is the awakeness that I owe (call it God if you will, the Self with a capital S, or Life with a capital L). The awakeness that took him, took me also.

It has been over five years since this happened and it has not faded or wavered at all. All that changes is how much of a commotion the “me” is making at any given time, which may or may not be obscuring the perfect unity underneath. The underlying foundation never wavers at all, but steadies whatever is happening in my personal life. And when I give it the space, it lives life through me, as me.

by Alice Gardner, author of “Life Beyond Belief, Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice” (now available from Clearsight)

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This cannot be understood. It can only be recognised. Until recognition, there can be a trying to understand or grasping at the words, which are pointing to what is beyond words. Recognition cannot be forced and no particular circumstances are necessary. But there can be a tiring of trying to understand that which can never be understood. Sometimes it can take years before trying to understand is exhausted. Sometimes this only needs to be heard once or sometimes there is recognition ‘out of the blue’ with no apparent connection to anything in the story.

In recognition there is never any connection to anything that has come before this. In recognition, there is no story of past or future. There is no time. Any apparent story is recognised as simply a story. Nothing causes recognition because any apparent cause is simply a story. Recognition is the end of the belief in the story. Recognition is a leap beyond concepts. Beyond belief. Beyond what has always been assumed. It is a leap into the unknown. It is a leap into what has always been known but simply overlooked. I can recognise what is being pointed to in these words, because I am that. This is what I am, beyond any story of ‘me’. This is how I know that which is pointing, and that that is pointing to what l am.

From I am Life Itself by Unmani Liza Hyde????????

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The new earth arises as more and more people discover that their main purpose is to bring the light of consciousness into this world and so use whatever they do as a vehicle for consciousness. Here are three ways of practicing “awakened doing.”

Knowing that what is cannot be undone — because it already is — you say yes to what is or accept what isn’t. Then, you do what you have to do, whatever the situation requires.

Stay alert, stay present — present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into the darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.

Abide in this state of acceptance for longer and longer periods each day. In this state, you create no more negativity, no more suffering, no more unhappiness. You then live in a state of nonresistance, a state of grace and lightness, free of struggle. When your doing arises from this state, your Being is a gift to the world.

Adapted from Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now (p. 132–133) by Eckhart Tolle

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The enlightenment I speak of is not simply a realization, not simply the discovery of one’s true nature. This is just the beginning — the point of entry into an inner revolution. Realization does not guarantee this revolution, it simply makes it possible.

What is this revolution? To begin with, revolution is not static; it is alive, ongoing. Realization of the ultimate reality is a fact. Revolution is the continuous ongoing birth of intelligence. This intelligence restructures your entire being. This intelligence cuts the mind free of itself, of its old structures which are rooted become free of the old structures of human consciousness, then one is still in a prison, the prison of humanity’s consciousness.

This revolution is the awakening of an intelligence which alone has the ability to uproot all of the old structures of one’s consciousness. Unless these structures are uprooted, there will be no creative thought or action or response. Unless there is an inner revolution, nothing new and fresh can flower. Only the old will flower in the absence of this revolution. But our potential lies beyond the known, beyond the structures of the past, beyond anything that humanity has established.

One must be willing to stand alone — in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.

by Daniela Sarahyba

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Being critical of Buddhism isn’t easy. Buddhism is the most likable of the major religions, and Buddhists are the perennial good guys of modern spirituality. Beautiful traditions, lovely architecture, inspiring statuary, ancient history, the Dalai Lama — what’s not to like?

Everything about Buddhsim is just so — nice. No fatwahs or jihads, no inquisitions or crusades, no terrorists or pederasts, just nice people being nice. In fact, Buddhism means niceness. Nice-ism.

At least, it should.

Buddha means Awakened One, so Buddhism can be taken to mean Awake-ism. Awakism. It would therefore be natural to think that if you were looking to wake up, then Buddhism, i.e., Awakism, would be the place to look.

To read the rest of this article by the writer calling himself Jed McKenna, >Click Here.

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While the identification of Consciousness with the individual is strong the ‘progressive path’ is the path of choice because time and ‘me’ are the foundation of the experience of such aspirants. Aspirants involved with the progressive path often experience moments of presence but fail to understand Presence’s impersonal quality. They invariably refer to those high states as ‘mine’ and they say ‘they are not permanent yet’.

This lack of understanding then manifests as seeking a future attainment and an investment in methods and practices, that is, in mind activity that supplants other types of mind activity which are defined as undesirable. This is the path that says: ‘if you do this long enough you will get that’. It is the path designed to keep you on the path ad infinitum.

What could be called the ‘direct path’ is the path of a single pointer to the timeless and ever present reality of our Being. This pointer can come in any of a number of unexpected ways. It may come through written words, it may come through the silent presence of a sage, it may eventually be realized as coming from the Consciousness that we are Itself — and here the path ends. This is the path that says: ‘you already are what you are seeking — all there is is Consciousness’.

The truth is that there is no path at all. It is all conceptual — a dream made of the same substance, and put in effect by the same power, as the dreams in sleep. All there is is pure Being or Consciousness appearing as everything including the individual seeking the resolution to the question of existence.

From the site of the Brazilian teacher,
Felipe Oliveira

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It is fashionable in spiritual circles, to believe that to become ‘enlightened’ we must destroy our ‘ego’. The word ego is used by different people to mean different things, which is a source of much confusion.

If the word ego is used to signify the matrix of negative personal habits which keep us unconscious in the life-dream, then the ego is indeed something which stands in the way of our awakening. It is a psychic knot we need to untie.

But often the word ego is used to signify our individuality generally. In this case the ego is not something to destroy, but something to emancipate from its illusionary isolation, so that we experience our individual identity as a part of the greater whole.

Awakening is not eradicating our personality and living a bland, boring existence as some sort of saintly zombie. Awakening is consciously being all that we are and having fun as a person in the life-dream, free from debilitating fear and isolation.

Awakening doesn’t diminish our individuality. It enhances and fulfills it. In this sense, lucid living is the celebration of the ego, not its destruction. But this celebration of our individuality is possible because we have transformed ourselves from an isolated self into an integrated self.

From, The Laughing Jesus by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy. To see an in-depth interview with Tim by MarkMolaro Click Here.

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If you can love your enemies, although you don’t like them, you may even be able to love those aspects of yourself you don’t like. For many of us this is the most difficult challenge. We are so self-critical we cripple ourselves with self-loathing, which actually makes it harder to change.

Try a different approach. Be patient and tolerant with yourself. Accept that you are sometimes lost in separateness. We’re all waking up, which means we’re all asleep to different degrees. It’s not easy being a person. Cut yourself some slack! Love yourself anyway.

Genuine self-love is possible only through self-knowledge. If you become conscious of your essential nature you will be able to unconditionally love your apparent nature, with all its faults and foibles. Try it out. Transcend your personal nature altogether and hold both the good and the bad aspects of yourself within awareness.

Your personal self is like an immature child. Sometimes selfish and prone to tantrums, wanting what it can’t have and what isn’t good for it anyway, easily lost and quick to complain. And yet, exquisitely beautiful, nevertheless.

Lovingly parent yourself. Bad parents constantly criticise and love conditionally. Good parents criticize when necessary, but always love unconditionally whatever the child may say or do. Love yourself unconditionally. This is not an indulgence. It is the ground from which you can compassionately criticize those parts of yourself that need to change.

From: The Laughing Jesus by Timothy Freke. You’ll find an in-depth interview with Tim and MarkMolaro on YouTube >Here

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BOAT, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July–

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear–

Long has paled that sunny sky;
Echoes fade and memories die;
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die;

Ever drifting down the stream–
Lingering in the golden gleam–
Life, what is it but a dream?

by: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

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A woman dreamt that as a beautiful young maiden, she was captured by an Arab prince. He took her across the dessert on his horse to a wonderful marble palace in a green oasis. The prince carried her up the wide stairway to a gorgeous bedroom and threw her on the soft white double bed.

“What are you going to do with me?” she cried with apprehension and excitement.

“I don’t know lady.” The prince replied, “It’s your dream!”