Discussion on Life and Spirituality

Spiritual Practices and Austerities that are Unproductive

Kurt — 2012-05-21T17:52:14Z

There are many rigid and sometimes severe practices placed on practitioners in order to become a qualified spiritual aspirant of a certain path. Although some disciplines are actually necessary for the spiritual quest the majority of physical austerities and practices aren’t, and they’re more of a ritualistic offering. However, offerings like this are a fleeting mind pacifier that won’t provide any lasting benefit to the spiritual path. In some extreme cases the students vigilantly practice austerities and disciplines that seem to dwell on physical endurance, but here again little to no spiritual value is derived from this. Even the information taught is used in a grading fashion in order to test the aspirant’s knowledge, but this also falls short when it comes down to evaluating performance. This type of external grading system tends to create hierarchy within the group similar to school and the workplace generating competition and division, launching the competitive ego. This type of ego based on external performance can deliver a mental and spiritual road block that turns the most humble aim into arrogant gain. The mind and its competing identity congeal a personal link between all the other egos vying for the same position, this dynamic is especially hard to shelve on the path for it occupies all your attention. The teacher also represents nobility and wisdom which is a very compelling centerpiece and goal that is worth fighting for. And if the teacher isn’t enlightened then it makes it extremely difficult for everyone to Realize their Soul because they want to be like that, however like that, is a false copy because the teacher has been forced into playing a role.

What I’m trying to say is; group dynamics, physical austerities, rituals, garments, insignias, chanting, visualizations and strict diets can be counterproductive to the spiritual cause when it feeds the ego. Some beginning meditation techniques and active mind and body meditations are helpful in the beginning but they easily turn into a crutch if the student doesn’t move past them.

If your spiritual path judges you on external performances then you might want to reconsider because when dealing with the spiritual it’s the internal triumphs and practices that really count.

In group situations talking about spiritual experiences can also become a competitive hindrance, for this stuff is best talked about in private with the teacher. And unless you have a qualified teacher to bounce things off of you’re basically on your own.

Your spiritual journey is a very private and personal pursuit between your Soul, the universe and the Almighty, and I think it is best pursued by yourself in private, always on the alert to keep the spiritual ego, useless formalities and wrong information at bay. The ego is the minds identity that is procured from a personal ideology and changes with life’s trends, which is fine when dealing with the world but in the spiritual field you’re dealing with Eternity. Eternity (God) has no competition, however when life takes center stage it becomes a personal and formidable obstacle to overcome. Hence the job of the spiritualist to help you break the spell so that you can find Eternity for good, but Religions and Foundations have unwittingly created a substitute centerpiece that is connected to life which keeps Eternity off at a distance.

I believe passed down traditions with no enlightened teacher at the helm is to blame for this deviation, and now austerities, words and techniques become the way to judge progression. This deviance from what really matters has a curb appeal with the masses via external achievements and now anyone can take the helm.

In search of Enlightenment or Self-realization have no real physical requirements to speak of and no special diet. In fact, if you feel special wearing the spiritual garb and the vegetarian diet makes you look down on others who aren’t like you then you are doing it for the wrong reasons. If your path requires you to achieve rigorous postures, abstain from sex or any type of abstinence or indulgence besides what is necessary in order to sit and meditate then theses type of accomplishments are usually without merit and you’re spinning your wheels. Of course extreme addictions are to be avoided and moderation is the operative word in most cases.

Even a holy place and a holy teacher isn’t a prerequisite if you understand the essence of the process, for then where you sit for meditation is the real holy place and the holy teacher. Research of course comes first and there are books and Realized teachers to help but be vigilant for the right knowledge.

Life has totally absorbed us into her clutches with all her rewarding social perks that we can easily loose our path through the trees. People perceive life in such a grading fashion that it encroaches into the spiritual field where it really doesn’t belong. The minute the Self-realized teacher dies the wannabes take over and fight for positioning, and eventually the new heads reorganizing everything to fit their mindset and goals. I’m afraid that’s really unavoidable unless there’s someone at the helm with the same spiritual enlightenment.

The real lack of good teachers has everyone concerned with the wrong ideals, and the true spiritual ideals that lead to liberation are diluted with ineffectiveness. In the long run they create dependence and become a hindrance to spiritual growth. The mind helps in the way of research and then when the mind realizes its part of the problem then the Soul must take the helm and overcome this personal obstacle.

Dependence inhibits transcendence.

That’s the key here, in the long run the world and body matter not, not the words and not the thoughts, and the art of meditation is to live by this creed. When Buddha preached detachment he meant it internally not visually or verbally and it’s done with your meditation practice. This doctrine really encompasses everything that the mind and life can throw at you. During meditation you let go of everything because that which pulled your attention away from Eternity and connected it to the body is life in general and now that’s the link You (the Soul) need to transcend. It’s not easy and the purpose of this article is based on efficiency because austerities and bad practices are time and mind consuming, originally designed to reign in the restless mind, which meditation and contemplation already tackles.

The world is demanding all of our time and there needs to be spiritual efficiency for today’s busy person.

I’m trying to funnel your focus to the heart of the matter thereby giving you free-agent status to save your money and spend your time more wisely. No longer will you need the fragile security of religions and paths that require mundane rituals with no real benefits. No sense in spinning your wheels when immediate traction can be had with a good meditation practice. There is no better worship than that and there is nothing better for your spiritual development than applying yourself directly to the search within.

The Religious Promise

Kurt — 2012-02-14T16:50:34Z

As fragile humans we find it almost a requirement to believe in Religion as the way to God, a promise of an overseer that guides us, watches over us, and of course, keeps track of our discretion's. In some cases religions promote a spiritual leader besides God as a go between and savior. They promise help through their divine connection along with the promise of salvation and eternal life, and of course, they say, their way is the only way possible for this salvation.

I think that would be great if it were true, I would love someone to stand by me throughout life and death, and I won’t have to do much of anything else except believe in it, and once I do, this ultimate redeemer will save me. Wow…..that sounds great and easy to do, but is that at all possible? ….. No it really isn’t, and it’s more like a spiritual Ponzi scheme to me with no spiritual equity for your investment, but these types of spiritual institutions do help people in other ways. I just wish they were more responsible when it comes down to helping you with your spiritual practice. They have a spiritual duty to help you progress towards Self-realization but they don’t, and they fall back on old dogma and promises as a substitute, and in the end this doesn’t help anyone nor does it help them. This glaring misstep reduces their legitimacy by downgrading spiritual progress to a slow crawl, causing them to rely solely on promises.

The Religions have missed their call spiritually by totally relying on old scripture and promises which really don’t help you towards Self-Realization. I believe their promise which is centered on the unknown aspect was put down in order to give them an edge over other paths, but that time is long gone and it’s time to find legitimacy as a valid path that really works. They gave a promise of divine help that is really unverifiable and unavailable, but the eternal life aspect is still an acceptable and pursuable goal.

The real truth is; there is no help and the Soul that is the real You doesn’t need saving because it has always been Eternal and Perfect, but you still have to uncover this eternal treasure by pealing back the layers of time.

The religions don’t help you with this however they do help by making their mark in the community by helping folks find their way through the tough times in life, and also with charities. But, in the real spiritual sense they are blocked by old concepts which incorporate little spiritual involvement by the masses. There is a tremendous need in that respect, and they would find the added responsibility motivating and beneficial, demanding more group participation and individual accountability.

The wisdom of most religions is just not enough unless they have practicing patrons and practitioners in the Meditation field.

Spiritually speaking, no one can help you unless you’re willing to help yourself by putting forth the effort in mediation because contemplating isn’t enough. It just doesn’t do the work on its own and you have to go in with a steadfast determination, but you need to know what to do and how to do it, for it takes practice. In the process it promotes a sense of wellbeing and grounds you to your spiritual path and creates stability in life, but instead of this they bank on help from beyond, which is a lofty expectation and not a promise they can keep nor a promise should they make.

No Spirits are in any position to help you in the world or in the Afterlife, you’re basically on your own. No God is keeping track of your discretions and no God in going to jump in and save you, the only real help that can come is from a teacher (preferably Self-realized) who can only coach you while living. It is entirely up to you to do the work and the Afterlife just reinforces this rule.

There are some underlining facts that you need to know that only a Self-realized teacher knows:

1) The Soul is eternal and unstainable, always Pure and Perfect and no flash of a lifetime can ever change that, so it doesn’t need any purifying or saving.

2) The Soul never left Eternity and it can’t because it is a product of Eternity and it will never leave this eternal cradle, its permanent nesting site. This means, technically you have always been Eternal, everpure and never endanger.

3) In the end no Soul actually suffers or is in need.

4) God doesn’t keep track of your discretions and there is neither a want to nor need to, because time and energy records all, and that’s the issue that’s before you. Self-realization is your only escape from this time and energy hold on you. And the Afterlife is where justice is served up by you, via a lifetime of downloads recorded in energy particles that serve as your mind. Once you break free from the time and mind continuums then the records are thereby nullified, and the finished product is all that remains for it is all that matters, nothing else does.

In reality no Soul actually needs saving, just Eternity needs to be saved from the new person you’ve become.

That’s the issue here, however blunt it is, you have to break free from this new identity to the mind and body, this connection to life must be severed completely in order to be who you really are in Eternity. There are no shortcuts for anyone and no one including the Almighty will help you with this. It’s your creation, your life, your illusion, your connection and it’s your problem to deal with, and by waiting for a savior that’ll never show up is like handing down a sentence of imprisonment after death. You carry all your imbedded personalized illusions in tow after death and you must voluntarily release them or you’ll be stuck in the revolving door of the mind.

The thinking mind is the pilot throughout life however with death the pilot ends its reign and the nonthinking mind takes control, and now the Soul’s attention is the pilot.

We forged a strong bond with the mind, and the mind won’t release itself. Death does not dissolve the subtle energies of time and mind only the grosser ones, and to be caught up in the invisible energies is to behold the Afterlife, the stage before Eternity. In the Afterlife It takes a lot of determination to break free from the compelling drama because it all will seem so personal, endless and uncontrollable. Time is very different here and it won’t seem logical or orderly, and when it’s lacking linear reasoning it may seem like a daunting task but it isn't, you just need to know what to do and what to look for.

Everything is a gift of time but the gift has to be returned.

Time always demands full payment whether you like it or not, so you might as well start paying it back while living which is called meditation. It’s the ultimate worship and prayer towards God by wishing for nothing except complete unity with the Source, above everything else.

You see, the real gift has already been planted in you, and the real You that will remain with you throughout the process won’t be taken away or soiled, only temporarily covered. It’s up to you to uncover the real You by surrendering the fake you that is covering it. Meditation does that by purposely discounting everything as a valid obstruction between you and Eternity.

The Religions of today are basically for the busy person to give them communal support and ease their tensions towards life and death. And I agree, that’s good, and I wouldn’t want to change that but the bandage isn’t enough for the Spirit, because it needs total freedom.

Temporarily covered by this illusion of time the Soul sits and waits for your own Enlightenment, which dispels times temporary control revealing Eternity and the Almighty.

It’s real hard to hear the hard truths and since I have no qualms about saying them this web site comes in real handy. I’m not here to scare you or to ask for money, I’m here to help you unravel your personal story so you can be who you have been since the dawn of time.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Kurt — 2011-11-14T17:36:13Z

Eternity Afterlife Universe

First Dimension Second Dimension Third Dimension

God Dream Life Time

Awareness Unconsciousness Consciousness

Soul Mind Mind & Body

Perfection Imperfect Images Imperfect Matter

Absolute Space Hallow Images Manifestation

Stillness Image Movement Physical Movement

Coming from the 1^stdimension we are born into the 3^rddimension, then upon death we fall into the 2^nddimension, and then upon dissolution from the 2^nd dimension we return back to the 1^stdimension.

Self-Realization

Kurt — 2011-08-14T04:05:28Z

Self-Realization or Enlightenment is the most important event or wakening in a seekers life (or any), and it is the only spiritual recognizing that is done by the Almighty Spirit and God. It actualizes the Soul Eternally and reestablishes the Eternal Identity within the body despite the misdiagnoses of the mind, which has now been properly treated.

Self-Realization happens when the Self or Soul Realizes its own Eternal Nature first hand within Eternity.

There is nothing more important, bigger or better than realizing your Self Eternally because in the same wakening you see the Almighty Source of all things. No event in your life or in the universe can compare to this rare event, and its value is unsurpassed by anything known.

Undeniably the highest experience available while living anywhere in the universe, and it comes in the most silent and subtle fashion that automatically destroys any false notions of Soul, God, and Heaven.

It is by far the highest goal possible, and the only goal that is worthy of striving because it is the only one that’ll stay with you and not leave your side, taking the sting out of death and anything else in-between you and God.

Eternity striving for Eternity realizes its Divinity within Eternity.

The Eternal Soul rediscovers its Eternal Home after dislodging from its physical existence, and from that moment on the only type of contentment that is available while embodied is now your blessing to behold. After Self-Realization you know and understand the starting point and end result of all things and you know how to get there, and now you know you can’t be denied for it has also made you Self-confident and resolute.

Instant comprehension through integration in a place where Soul’s only can go leaves this Almighty Realm unchanged and pure, a Heavenly place. In order to get to this sacred place you have to return to your original state, and that being the Soul without the body and mind makes this no small feat however well worth the effort.

Returning to your original state takes place after a long and tedious detachment from all that the Soul isn't. In a nutshell, this is done through meditation guided by contemplation until you’re able to enter the Samadhi State and stay for periods of time. This is a deep, thoughtless, meditative state of the Soul as it eases away from the body and mind.

The mind has big attachments that link you to all that the mind thinks the Soul has become and that governs your Soul. The mind only knows this world but the Soul knows both realms, and the Eternal realm being the Soul’s only nature and resting place, gives everyone a viable escape hatch from here to There. And this is why Self-Realization is possible because of the connection to Eternity that’ll never go away.

As remarkable as it may sound you have always been eternal and untarnished, and with Self-Realization you realize this fact. This is really a Realization of Godliness, if you will, because you realize your Soul is as Pure and as Perfect as God is. Eternity doesn't change in spite of its connection to time and neither does the Soul. The Soul being a small fraction of God nonetheless has the same qualities of God, and size doesn't matter in this case however altogether we are the Almighty.

There is nothing in the universe that is better than that!

It should be the pursuit of everyone, and the highlight of our existence glorified everywhere or at the very least by our spiritual institutions, however it’s squandered. Book knowledge is good but personal experience is much better in the spiritual field and most any field for that matter. Book knowledge can only carry you so far and then you have to go out and see for yourself. Most religions don’t really understand Self-Realization and Enlightenment, and feel it is the sole property of Eastern Spirituality. Even Eastern Religions have strayed into austerities, physical restrictions, falling for mistaken prophets, cons, and spiritual leaders with not much to share besides what they have heard and read.

I try to spell it out the best way I can and I rarely quote anyone else making this an oasis of spiritual information for those who want words they can count on far past this flash of a lifetime.

Your Last Addiction

Kurt — 2011-01-14T17:11:00Z

There is one addiction that will remain as your very last addiction to break. One addiction that stands alone and above all the others. An addiction that plagues everyone and nobody is spared from this creeping distortion of reality. An imposing force with a complicated detox that takes a tremendous amount of insight in order to break the spell. Some take forever and relapse and some conquer it for good and enjoy this profound sobriety and proudly say: There is no other way of being because any other way would be abnormal. A scary sobriety that points the finger at a daunting issue and demands you to accept this eye-opener unconditionally. It’s scary because so few people in the world know what it is or how to tackle it, in fact nobody wants to admit it because nobody wants to give it up. The ironic part is they really don’t have too except for a moment and recovery will be complete. You can still partake and enjoy the contaminants because after your finale adjustment you will no longer be taken in and controlled by the contaminants.

The rehab part of this addiction is returning back to normal, the way you started in life and the way it should be. A norm that’s always existed, its been there all this time but the addiction has run roughshod over it keeping it hidden and blocked by elusive impurities. A norm that’s all natural and free from impurities, and in its natural state refusing all toxicities from penetrating its normal way of being again. All counter conflict to this norm will be kept at bay after conquering this mysterious addiction, because this norm is relentless and undeniably all powerful after it wins the higher ground.

An established norm that all have access to and that will never change but we evolved far from it so returning back will be a formidable task. The rehab part will be hard and personally debilitating like all rehabs are and the wakeup call will be hard to accept. I’m not going to kid you for it takes a yeoman’s effort, however the rewards are substantial and worth it. Oddly enough this addiction is something from which you can’t go cold turkey because you have to continually live with it. Nonetheless sobriety is possible and highlighted with a most auspicious event that comes out of the blue bringing you back to normal. A profound and wondrous sobriety that claims the higher ground in its discovery thereby dispelling all false reasoning which this addiction has held over you in order to keep it intact.

It takes a lot of stamina at sticking with the process and with the idea of becoming sober, and this is your shimmering carrot until the carrot isn’t needed. It may happen in a few years if you’re bringing a lot of determination to the table or it can take many years if you attack it slowly. It doesn’t matter as long as you understand it and are doing something about it.

As intangible as it may sound it is very tangible and absolutely for real, and it’s highlighted by a sobriety that endures well beyond your years. It comes from a recovered identity that lies deep within you and will take charge from now on. All should rediscover this identity because without it you’ll be clouded in doubt and uncertainty. There will be no lasting ideals or peace until this addiction is corrected. We hang on to memories and build a personal identity around them thinking this patchy collage of random experiences is real, normal and you. We shelve the unfortunate ones and try to forget but memories aren’t far from falling off the shelf and dominating our thoughts. The bad memories are also interwoven into the same experiential realm from which you fabricated your temporary identity, so not only is it bound to happen but you’re also bound by them. We’ve been lead to believe that this is normal and an identity that is unflappable by counter thoughts is pretty much impossible.

I’m here to tell you that I did find this normal identity and it is possible and absolutely true. Unfortunately talking about it usually elicits a bad response for most are unable to accept it and push it aside. As foreign as it may sound to you at this time it is still within your grasp. In fact like all addictions this one has you deep within its clutch since the beginning and this will be the art of loosening its strangle hold over you in order to find clarity.

Very few people in the world truly understand this addiction and this ancient norm, and the ones who do have a hard time communicating it, because only the brave will accept it. Some might think it’s suicidal and impossible. Daunting odds to most teachers so they dance around the subject and won’t put a finger on it like I do. They want to help you along slowly instead of laying it on the line, and they prefer to leave it up to each individual to figure it out when the time is right.

Not me, I’m not going to enable you by saying non controversial stuff and delaying the process. In fact the sooner you start processing the information the better, and the devil is in complacency and ignorance which results when you can’t comprehend the subject. The important part is you have to at least try to understand and keep reading until you do. And then work towards it at any pace you can given your personal circumstances, for then in time the process will reveal its mysteries to you.

Most of all you have to surrender all power to the instructor for you must believe in the instructors sobriety and follow their instruction, and despite all the variables you must believe it is real and attainable. I’ll be here to help you along the way and answer your questions, because you need to understand it logically before you know how to attack it.

This addiction is none other than the Souls addiction to the mind and time, this unfavorable connection has interwoven a new identity to unruly time based conditions that claim hierarchy over your Eternal identity. The mind and its relentless chatter have you believing in concepts and false ideals that only exist for a limited time and are prone to change with the social climate. This limited personal and varying view has been in charge since the beginning and few have sought a solution. Few have worked to dethrone it, control it, and move beyond it and few will admit to the problem, so the mind goes on doing what it’s been trained to do. Dominate your real identity and as a result the perks that come with it remain under the surface waiting to be uncovered.

Harmony, conflict and strife seem to dominate the landscape and with small windows of complete happiness we build a shaky foundation of hope which is crumbling to the unfolding scene. Completely disillusioned and addicted we unknowingly fight for it and believe we are in control, after all we painstakingly constructed a personal identity around it. However life keeps changing and you’re either stuck in the mud or you’re adding more ingredients into the mix and nothing seems to taste well. Lost in the ever changing identity mirage we banked on something that’s ambiguous and prone to vanish with the next let down. An identity that was never real or strong to begin with and will die with the mind and time. In the meantime the Eternal identity and Eternal life is squandered by the overactive mind and ego, which will eventually end. Not a happy ending for the populous and yet we go on trucking like this is the way it is and it’s absolutely normal.

In fact, there is one ideal and identity that doesn’t change and will never diminish.

There is an identity that is eternal and our Soul being a forever part of that Eternity has access to that divinity.

This identity or norm is something you can bank on and you never have to worry about time bankrupting your investment.

Once rediscovered you will undoubtedly know this normal way of being will endure beyond life. Because then you’ll know this is permanently established by the Almighty God, and you’re Soul being a small part of the eternal source has the same perfection.

I have to tell you without this ancient norm you will be bound by your experiences however with it, it’ll never leave your side and you’ll no longer be afraid of death or the unknown. A big improvement over your old identity with a sense of contentment and acceptance with what takes place, despite the personal conditions. Above the fray you will be a powerful beacon allowing the ever changing seas to flow around you instead of in you, breaking your bow.

What I’m talking about is the root of all spirituality and religion, which is your journey back to your Eternal Home via the Soul. I’m just giving you the option of a faster track, more of a brass tacks approach and just by reading the content of my blogs you will know a lot more than the average person.

The rediscovery of the Eternal Soul and the Eternal God is what we call Enlightenment and Self-realization. A divine right given to each of us and this site is dedicated to this auspicious event and to the unveiling of Eternity.

Eternity + Awareness = God

Kurt — 2010-05-03T16:55:00Z

In Eternal darkness Awareness dawns and that Awareness brings a subtle Light to the vast region of darkness. Now Light and Darkness coexist in this empty expanse, which we call Eternity or God. "Awareness is the latent potential of Eternity" (Vethathiri Maharishi), having the same eternal properties it expresses itself with a Still Eternal Light. It is a formless and image-less space that didn’t really change, however the new dim light of Awareness does make this eternal region visible and aware, so something did happen.

This Eternal Awareness before anything else is without manifestation, energy or attributes of any kind, but there are repercussions when something like Awareness develops out of nothing, because that set off a chain reaction from within. Creating another dimension of movement and energy, this is superimposed over and on the outside of the only pure Reality. Eternity being timeless has no properties for evolution, growth or decay, so it’s spared all the imperfections that come with time and energy. Both dimensions are invisible to each other and Eternity is unaffected, because this 2nd dimension is made up of its own properties and on a less subtle level, which is moving and naturally evolving. Eternity can only see and be that which is eternally pure and without fleeting properties, so it’s like a vacuum that keeps everything on the outside of it. But, the word ‘outside’ here is used differently due to the infinite properties and really nothing can be on the outside of infinity, so it advances from within ascending to grosser levels.

Time and light on a particle level starts evolving in this new realm, and these two qualities are expressed in infinite measures when relating to any new dimension and Light and Awareness starts forming the basic properties of energy and consciousness. This is a matter-less dimension; however when things are moving and creating it forces this 2nd dimension to peak, and that in turn gives birth to the 3rd dimension of manifestation.

Again, another dimension starts forming when the particles start colliding and bonding, and this 3rd dimension is developing over the 2nd, in the same manner the 2nd is covering over the first dimension. All the dimensions are telescopically connected, and all are in need of the other in order to exist, and all formed naturally and not purposely. The only way to experience each dimension is through our telescopic connection, which links the dimensions and everything inside of them to this Eternal realm. No rights are denied, because access to and from is always there and available, however we unwittingly hang on to each dimension we’re in and deny our Soul that access or realization.

Three dimensions starting from the Stillness of Eternity to the subtle energy that makes up the 2nd dimension, and then onto the gross particles that make up the universe. Everything takes care of itself, because the cycle developed naturally and anchored in perfection gives it an Absolute foundation that supports everything. There’s no need for any being to intervene for it would upset the natural balance, and besides that no one looses anything and no Soul really suffers or is lost, and it all runs perfectly well and fair. Just the body and mind suffer and they’re riddled with imperfections anyways and must be discarded. When you’ve had enough you will voluntarily retract you’re vision through the connection. It’s just your perspective that was rearranged, and that which you think you’re losing was on loan anyways, and you should do your duty and willingly surrender it.

The collective source of everything in one solid unchangeable unit is our eternal Home, and what name people give it shouldn’t matter as long as we don’t humanize it. We are but a fraction of the eternal whole, but each fraction makes up the whole thus making you an intricate part of God. You are not human and nether is God. You are a fraction of Eternity that mistakenly identifies with time, and this mistake is what creates so much turmoil in you and the world. Your formless, aware and still Soul has always been and always will be eternally pure and sitting in the dimension of God. However, for the time being your Awareness and/or vision is tied up in your connection to the other two dimensions of time. Enlightenment and Self-realization is to break free from those dimensional limitations in order to see the real state of affairs, which is your true nature, your true home, and what is meant by the word God.

Death and the Afterlife

Kurt — 2010-04-01T16:11:00Z

After my own Self-realization and with the past help from my teacher Vethathiri, I was able to formulate a theory on the Afterlife, or the zone in-between here and Eternity. The most I can do now is tell you how very certain I am about this theory, and if correct this essay will be one of the most important articles you’ll read, for it will be indispensable to all who read it.

The Afterlife is a transitioning zone under the influence of time, however time here is different. The ethereal nature of this environment lends itself to time very slowly, and light on a subtle level is the very catalyst that propels this realm. This transition zone is a very important step in ones journey where you undiscover the discovered domain of manifestation within another dimension, a sort of dialing down of energy, ego and images, until you see what’s behind them. This 2nd dimension of time is very similar to the dream state you experience every night, and essentially it’s the realm of the mind. This is a personal world of your life, and your ultimate goal is to get past it in order to uncover the other side, which is your Eternal Home, or the only lasting reality that doesn’t perish. It’s largely based on your ability to differentiate and understand your real Self or Soul in the light of appearances. Your Afterlife is held together by a group of particles and their ability to hang together for a very long time creates a lifespan that can continue for many centuries.

This realm is a self-governed environment that works without any outside influences and its totally self produced, directed and written by you, for you, so it has to be dismantled by you. If you wait for time in order to slowly dissolve the show you’re asking for a lot of unusual and repetitive drama, however you can dismantle the particles from the inside out. Time based particles stick together through a magnetic charge of positive and negative ions and your life is what charged it up, but now your attention keeps it going. And, if you follow that lead you’ll be bouncing around between desires (+) and fears (-) in a seemingly endless and uncontrollable circle. Remaining neutral by retracting your attention (the act of meditation) will stop feeding the images, and your persistence at this task will stop the show altogether. The withdrawal of attention causes the particles to break up for the lack of direction and attraction, and it also depletes the resource of energy and light.

The Afterlife is a necessary stop, because you can’t take this identity with you, and your identity to this mind and body manifests fears and desires that’ll play out, which you put together and now validate their existence. Eternity doesn’t have images, emotions, issues or imbalance of any kind and your eternal Soul reflects that, but it’s still connected to a new identity and a world it won’t let go of. You have to voluntarily restore your pure eternal identity by rejecting your new one, so your eternal identity is unveiled after you let go of the new one. Your identity and attention placed in appearances through the course of a lifetime has now given you an ingrain habit, and that’s the spell that needs to be broken. Your compelled to participate and your attention focused in and on the images is exactly what keeps the Afterlife alive and well.

The diversion of your attention is the only power you have here, and if your attention is focused outside of your Self then another avenue of life experiences will open up. All of your data is stored within a group of energy particles that are drawn together in a small sphere, like memory chips within a plasma TV, and your stuck right in front it with your attention playing the role of the computer mouse triggering memories. Unable to control much of anything it will seem hopeless and endless until you start retracting your vision through meditation. You’re essentially looking away and thereby not identifying with what you see.

The retraction of attention away from the drama and back onto the Soul is your only recourse and in essence this is called meditation. You must understand that meditation is a very important spiritual ritual, and if you are doing it now as a habit it will benefit you here and in the Afterlife.

This personal world of yours is for you only so it has to be relinquished by you, because it stands in the way of your eternal harmony. All of your life’s habits will be part of the show, and although you will be freed from pain, hunger, thirst, work, responsibilities and so on, the mental idea of it will still plague your every move, because it’s a deeply imprinted mind pattern. You need not work or eat anymore for survival, but the habitual idea of it will compel you to continue. It all has to be surrendered, because your little world is a product of manifestation and any time based product will have a limited shelf life. Things that change or evolve don’t have the right properties to exist in Eternity. Eternity has always been a changeless and formless space, for it has to be in order to be eternal and anything that has to do with time must be forfeited.

Identifying with appearances is the root of all suffering.

This will glue you to this 2d realm for a very long time until you continually withdraw your attention from the images, thus refusing its validity and importance, because the next step will have to be free of all dispositions. When you have nothing then nothing allows you entry into everything, because Eternity is everything at the source, which is God and the only identity you can keep. The finale dimension of One is ground zero of the ultimate unity, where all attributes are cast aside and you remain as One in the belly of God, which is beyond all opposites and disharmony of any kind.

Those who did serious spiritual research aligned with critical introspection will advance out quicker. Those who had a long and complete life and those who had a rough life will detach quicker, even those with lucid dreaming qualities will graduate faster, if they know what to do.

It all depends on you and your ability to cast off all habits, desires and fears, or anything that keeps you connected to the Afterlife, because your interest in the scene is getting in the way of your complete unity with God.

The Feeling of Unity

Kurt — 2010-03-06T15:18:00Z

That certain feeling of oneness, which is described by many as unity consciousness is a wonderful moment in the expansion of consciousness. A lovely feeling of unity that is felt through the subtle waves of consciousness, which takes place when the individual suddenly and without warning moves aside causes their internal perceiving point to retract into subtler waves of energy. This is usually an important event in many people’s lives, that will leave them thirsting for more. This consciousness unity can lead many down the spiritual path and it’s indispensable for that reason, and it can happen in natural or unnatural situations, however it should not to be confused with Self-realization or Eternity, because of the feeling aspect.

This feeling of unity can be attained in many different ways and although it may change your outlook it simply doesn’t have a lasting effect, but the thought of it will, and it should inspire you to continue on to higher levels of spiritualism. Unfortunately some get complacent and some look for notoriety before its time, and this will stagnate any further growth. Some find this place unnaturally and try to replicate the conditions and some teeter on thin lines falling into it, but both of these conditions are usually very misleading.

Any number of things can bring about this unity feeling naturally or forced and sometimes an event induces it, such as: a traumatic experience, a near death experience or drugs, however the trigger mechanism reflects the conditions making every situation different. The natural way through Religion and Spirituality is the best way to attain this heightened state of free-floating awareness, and the results here should propel you on to deeper states, if you continue your pursuit.

The Evangelist’s are waving arms trying to feel that unity, the Catholics are reciting scripture and prayers, the spiritual groups are reciting mantras and meditating, the fringe groups are using sleep and food deprivation as a tool, and the chemist is doing powerful drugs in order to recapture it, however most are looking within the confines of matter and energy. Looking everywhere and doing anything for that feeling, but that feeling can only be temporary and never repeated in the same manner, because feelings are very convoluted. Anything that’s based in energy and matter such as feelings are so complex they’re usually a one-hit-wonder and that’s helpful, but at the same time a curse for some. Because the seeker will try to recapture it in any form they can, for they believe that this is ‘it’ and they know how to find it, thus pushing them in the wrong direction.

The natural way is somewhat similar to the unnatural way in this regard, because trying to duplicate the same conditions as before is impossible, and this is the reason why the present moment is ever fresh and ever new. However, there is a stark difference between the two that needs to be pointed out and that’s the danger factor, one is safe and the other is a life threatening stumble in the dark with a possibility of no return.

The natural way propels you further while the unnatural way has the tendency to mislead.

I have fallen for both ways and found that feeling of unity in drugs and naturally through meditation, but I didn’t stop there, because my mentor urged me to let go and continue. We need to heed the advice from those who walked before us and trust in their ability to guide without letting our ego in to inflate or deflate the situation.

The real experience of Self-realization is totally contrasting to feelings of any type and forms of any type and that will be Self evident when Self-realization happens to you.

Eternity is permanence at the source and only the Self can experience this eternal realm, because energy consciousness is oscillating waves breeding interim opposites, which have a short shelf life and energy consciousness allows you the ability to perceive these opposites in action. Pure Awareness or Pure Consciousness at the source is beyond all of these new attributes provided by energy consciousness, but nonetheless the two are still related. Pure Consciousness is still, and moving energy consciousness evolves out of that Stillness giving birth to new qualities, including the mind. The sacred feeling of unity through the unbiased universal consciousness is a purer source of energy consciousness that is subtler, identity-less and free flowing.

Sayings on Self-Realization

Kurt — 2010-02-17T14:10:00Z

Life is everything you thought you wanted, everything you thought you needed, and everything you thought you were, then suddenly it’s all stripped away when you see God.

Your identity, God’s identity, and the identity of the universe is then rightfully returned to its original position within you.

Only one answer is needed, only one answer is worth the effort, and only one answer is worthy of the universal question, and the answer reveals Eternity within you.

Seeing is believing therefore believing is having faith in being and action towards seeing is believing in oneself.

The perfect and pure Self sees the imperfect world with the impure mind and identifies with what it sees, and firsthand realization of this mistake is Enlightenment.

Caught up in a nonstop flow of opposites we unwittingly downgrade our perception of Reality and fabricate a time limited identity.

Truth is not anything that evolves for a changing truth was false, and that which doesn’t begin from false is the timeless truth.

Self-realization delivers contentment when Eternity bankrupts time.

Detachment from time is meditation at its purest level, so any meditation that has time related byproducts in it is still attached to time, and grounded by impurities.

Its time to suffer when time is your only belief.

Self-realization is the only real power we have over manifestation.

Eternal at our Source we are a piece of God, but seemingly rendered powerless to control much of anything until Self-realization, which changes your identity and outlook.

Looking everywhere and finding nothing the aspirant looks within and finds everything in nothing.

Being at home in the world will never happen, but being at home within the body can.

Seemingly lost and searching the restless Spirit doesn’t find solace in anything until it uncovers Eternity, and that discovery finds solace in being.

Meditation is searching for stability in an unstable environment, and the stable part is found when the unstable part realizes its limitations.

There is only one egoless moment, only one present moment, only one bodiless moment, and only one mindless moment, which is authentic to being, and that moment is called Self-realization.

The Spiritualist or Realized Spiritual Teacher

Kurt — 2010-01-13T17:43:00Z

This enlightened instructor will guide anyone in their spiritual development regardless of past transgressions and religious ideologies. All that is needed on the student’s part is a willingness to learn accompanied with earnestness to put into practice, so trust and faith is a big part of that connection. The Spiritualist will offer the best guidelines and usually stay away from religious dogmas and religions, and they won’t hold anyone to strict spiritual requirements regarding austerities and abstinence, just moderation and evaluation.

They will talk about the truth, God, Self, Soul or Eternity as the central core where all paths lead, and emphasize due diligence at eroding personal but common blocks that obstruct the aspirant’s finale transition into Eternity. The problem has a very common and recognizable root system in manifestation, and the teacher has worked through the situation thus understands the issue, but always working towards Eternity they will disregard the situation and may treat it as frivolous.

Because, in the opposite direction of Eternity lies a myriad of personal ideologies, accolades and issues (attachments) that the aspirant has to move beyond with guidance from the Spiritualist. The teacher can’t force the student to do anything if the student isn’t willing to do so for their self. The priceless information raised in teaching will be understandable by those who are willing to apply themselves in research, introspection and meditation. Earnestness towards that creates the internal surrendering that is needed, and that in turn causes attachments to fall away natural, however if the seeker isn’t sincere then the words will wait patiently for the right moment to trigger them.

The ego is a hard wall to fight against, but the spiritualist doesn’t waver for this is a very common theme and at some point even the most harden and resistant people will verify their words from within the Self. Therefore nothing is lost and everything is eventually found, so the instructor patiently understands that it will always help, but usually in the future. Very few will be able to respond and verify their words during their lifetime, however it doesn’t matter for the words once read or heard will be verified.

The process or journey that leads up to this spiritual understanding is different for everyone as well as the way one teaches spirituality after Realization, however the act of surrendering and Self-realization is the same for all seekers when their seeking comes to a close. Their journey over they unite and see their unity in the Almighty, and although this primordial enigmatic experience is the same for everyone there can be attributable effects on the body, which will be determined by genetics or predispositions. And, the instructor’s unique way of teaching will vary depending on their background and circumstances.

The mind reaching its limit and the Self loosing its, the finale outcome of Enlightenment is identical for everyone when their identity inverts back into Eternity.

This identity altering event is on the mind, and the mind will express this in many different ways and may show signs of contradiction, but words that are depending on circumstances and taken out of context will get obscured. The whole gamut of expressions is open for hijacking in order to make a point, and since that point is relatively unknown the words get tangled up in concepts and misunderstood.

Only time and hindsight seems to validate these lasting words of the teacher, and with help from the truly intuitive people will bring the words into the forefront of spirituality. The instructor will find some serious seekers along the way and have some success in helping, but most people are knee deep in preserving the mind and guarding its present ideas and concepts as their primary identity. Not many are willing to pursue Self-realization in the face of life’s adversity, even though just the act of pursuing it will soften life’s pitfalls and smooth out the ride.

Most of the spiritualist’s words will have to wait just below the surface for the right moment when the aspirant is ready, or when desperation causes them to reevaluate.

The spiritualist will always continue to the last breath, because they know beyond any doubt that what they speak is the truth and they are the best person for this position, and they also know their words will not fail, but continue to resonate in all who read them.

The Mind and Knowing

Kurt — 2009-11-29T17:08:00Z

Knowing is an Eternal characteristic of Awareness (God, Soul, Self), and the mind its temporary functioning processor.

There seems to be a stable link between the mind and Knowing while embodied, however this personal link has a limited shelf life and will severe eventually. This link to the mind first sprouted out of the foundation of Knowing and with the help from life, another form of knowing appears as the Self. This new type of knowing appears within the eternal knowing of God, which adds to knowing when the autonomous Self emerges.

The big question is; does the added attribute of knowing life intimately stay indefinitely in all Knowing?

If it doesn’t, then the idea of knowing life is a fading concept that doesn’t last in the Eternal realm and life is forgotten altogether, because the universe isn’t perceivable in Eternity, consequently making rebirth necessary. Then becoming another is a fundamental need that doesn’t add to the equity of knowing, thus making the link between the mind and knowing a very important, repetitive, and necessary evil for the Self. However, when it is a fading concept, then the notion of an all knowing God doesn’t exist or last, which ultimately means that something is lacking in Eternity or God and its not all knowing, just unaware space, but it isn’t, for then there wouldn’t be consciousness, or entities that are aware of their Self and God.

If it does remain, then rebirth isn’t necessary and you take an all knowing understanding with you always unless rebirth is chosen, which resets the initiative through a new mind set. This new mind takes precedence over knowing when it’s interested in becoming, and the added concepts throws the old Knower of Eternity or the Self back into a latent treasure waiting for Self-discovery.

Still, the added understanding of life brings in a new facet of knowing, but it doesn’t necessarily mean anything was lacking to begin with, despite it being new, because an all knowing God knows it, but we don’t, so it’s new to the Self. Birth reigns in a new Soul and its a sliver of the original source, so its a God giving God exchange for life to flourish and for the development of Souls with Self-governing action.

When you recapture your Eternal identity all imperfections are naturally striped away leaving you in a pure state, however knowing that life is circulating out there and your involvement with it will go on as your independent (if you please) Self. Eternity was there long before the universe developed into life, and although Awareness spawned conscious energy its unperceivable in Eternal Stillness. Eternity is in it’s most complete and purest state possible leaving it changeless and Still, and knowing at the core of Awareness is an aspect of that eternal Stillness, for knowing doesn’t need movement nor the mind.

Knowing doesn’t need movement when the holder knows it, but it takes movement to download it.

When you see fire do you have to keep telling yourself it’s hot? Water wet? Sugar sweet?

No, you just know it, and it’s just like that, it’s the movement of the mind that takes things too far and backfires.

In fact, the imperfect mind will always be its own roadblock to the satisfied mind, but the Self always satisfied is a treasure for all, and unveiled breeds a satisfied mind.

The mind and universe in tandem with the Soul provides all the information needed, and in knowing this you no longer need the mind or universe again, but you’ll know its properties.

You cannot know this universe, world, life, body or mind without the intimate link you now enjoy with it. It’s an indispensable experience that adds to knowing and gives meaning to life and the Self, and by knowing the difference you exist as the all knowing Self. This alone is the meaning of life by attaining the knowledge that can only be had through the mind and body, and by finding your way back to Eternity reveals all you need to know.

During the process of finding your Self or you becoming Aware of your true Self will give you the wisdom and meaning that the all knowing God wants for all.

The Soul or The Directed Aware Focal Point

Kurt — 2009-11-17T13:44:00Z

The title of this piece tries to describe our Eternal nature in human words. Although seemingly limited when compared to the temporary attributes we enjoy today, the eternal attribute of Awareness with directed vision trumps anything that comes after this, because of its sustainability and stability.

An Aware focal point that can be directed by our attention is the nature of the Soul, and it leads to embodiment when directed away, which means toward the universe. This focal point can see Eternity clearly when unattached, but when attached it will identify with the world and body it’s attached too.

Unattached it has perfect vision and understanding of Eternity and God, attached it has an impure vision of reality, which results in an impure understanding of Reality.

The Soul’s focal point can narrow and expand, and be directed by the Self, so this implies some control over ones destiny thus allowing a Self-determining action, even in the Eternal state of Being.

To be embodied or not to be?

To be Eternally home and in full order of harmony and peace never to feel pain, fear and conflicting emotions again, or enter the universe and be vulnerable to all that life has to offer.

A question that is never posed and an answer that has to be experienced to know the difference.

Stay in the company of the Devine or turn away and roll the dice, it’s the ultimate decision, and one that you have chosen.

All it takes is the focus of Awareness back onto itself and away from Eternity and you’re manifested.

Now manifested with a body you can still withdraw your attention away as before, or your Awareness focused back onto itself, which is the art of meditation, and this is a representation of the eternal control you have, which allows you to change your environment. This shift in attention not only leads to Self-realization, but in Eternity it also leads to embodiment.

The directed Aware focal point is the catalyst to enlightenment and embodiment.

It is your only control. It is your Soul and your Awareness directed out that brings life to everything its directed at, or it can take it all away in an instant, as if to say; You have the power to dissolve the universe from view, because you are part of the whole that made it and through that process it naturally made the path to and from it. This path back home is the only path available to you and it must be voluntarily taken. Open to all regardless of the many different avenues which lead up to it, the path remains for only the solitary Soul to enter empty handed. You can’t take anything with you from here, including your mind and identity, so the path is only for the naked Soul. If you try to take anything more than that it will shake you down to your foundation and rock your inner world to the point of death, maybe you come back, and maybe you won’t, but ether way, no enlightenment.

Strip yourself of all mental attachments and wait naked in the dark surrendering everything to the cause, and know that the path is there, which will open the proverbial door to the Eternal realm, a pure state of Being, and your only true Home.

The Background

Kurt — 2009-10-30T13:44:00Z

Everything in this particle universe is in motion and guided by the laws of attraction and repulsion, the Yen and Yang of duality, or the negative and positive influences of energy. Energy is at the heart of the manifested universe, and time our enemy since we identify with the attributes of energy, but time in every aspect is energy. A no win situation as we blindly sail on the wavy seas of energy and try to claim this changing motion as real property when its always on loan.

The human condition has a natural identity to energy; however this identity has a resistance to change and tries to anchor down, unwilling to keep pace with the changing curriculum of life it falls prey to the wavy seas.

Can anything made of energy last forever?

Show me something here that is lasting?

If our Soul is Eternal and nothing here is lasting then what do we identify with here?

The Background (Eternity), because that what you see is the foreground and anything made of energy is in the foreground, which is not you, so I can’t show you anything lasting, for then it wouldn’t be lasting.

The foreground can only show you the foreground, and it can’t take you beyond itself!

Nothing in the foreground can take you to the Background; only the Background can see and be the Background. You can play with the foreground in any conceivable way you want, but it won’t help, and it can’t liberate you, because the foreground has never been constant or real enough to do so. You can sweat, talk, cry, stretch, laugh, walk, starve, intoxicate, and drive nails into you hands, but physical austerities can’t help you spiritually. It’s completely impossible to experience God through the senses. You can even cheat death and come back to tell your story, however it’s all based in energy, using the same deck just dealing out different cards.

It’s the dealer that remains still while a transparent appendage (consciousness, energy) keeps shuffling the cards and randomly dealing them.

The same holds true for the players, they remain perfectly still as their own appendage extends their attention in observance of the cards and then playing them, which gives them the impression of movement and independence. Their attention fixed on the game the Stillness behind the senses isn’t noticeable until their attention voluntarily withdraws from the foreground and is refocused on the Background, causing Self-realization to dawn, and then you see and understand the dealer and players as they really are.

The dealer and players are both Eternal Entities and our real identity, however being connected somehow to the body by this invisible appendage throws our eternal attention into the energy mix creating confusion and a new fleeting identity.

The Background is beyond the apposing forces of time and space making it all powerful and all neutral. Indifferent to the game or casual universe, it’s unaffected by the impurities and imperfections of energy and time, the cause and effect forever gone makes this Realm forever pure and perfect. But, Pure and Perfect are now connected to their opposite and they are unknowingly downgraded to accommodate the circumstances.

At the core of all we are always perfect only our expression is imperfect.

When we identify with the cards its natural to think the dealer is a separate entity or independent God, and thus the external worshiping begins.

You need techniques that are focused on the Background (internal worshipping) to get rid of the impurities superimposed by the foreground. If you are focused on the foreground the Background reality won’t strip the foreground illusion of its validity. You have to work at sticking with the Background (meditation) as the only true reality or identity worth cultivating.

In spirituality today most paths are concerned about the foreground, trying to make it more palatable, and the techniques used are based on foreground activity or time related phenomenon. All thoughts and temporary identities are part of the foreground material, having birthed from energy and kept afloat by energy.

Indifferent, the Background is everywhere and everything lacking in nothing and holding everything together. The foreground being the playground of impurities and imperfections will never be anything different besides the constant state of change it is, which reflects a perpetual lack of control for all. But, the changeless Background is always there and always in control, being beyond the control of energy keeps it pure and all powerful.

Stick with meditation techniques that are formless, visualess, stretchless, movementless, soundless and thoughtless, as much as you can, if you are serious about Self-realization.

The Misplaced Identity

Kurt — 2009-10-14T14:03:00Z

This seems to be the underlying issue in the world and universe, which propels us to think and act like independent and well defined separate individuals with personalities and characteristics earned and owned. An identity that sums up our whole existence, which was really created through random acts of duality. A whole package of experiences that defines us and what is known as our personal identity or ego, a new attributable characteristic housed in a bio-form that takes precedence in the way we see the world and God. A one of a kind self-created personal reality attached to emotions, experiences and appearances that appropriately dictate a conditioned response based on one limited viewpoint. This viewpoint or interpretive lens is colored by ideologies that form an elusive identity that is ever evolving making it a victim of circumstances and a time based phenomenon. Being a victim and an attribute of evolution sentences this identity to morph constantly and provide little comfort, because the laws of duality or time demand oscillations. When your identity is locked onto these changing ideological formats and guarded by an ego or a closed mind, then only conditioned responses will appear which are always lacking in true critical thinking.

What do you identify with? And that which you do identify with is most likely the cause of your suffering.

My position is that any ego that identifies with the physical and social ideologies is completely misplaced and false, because this type of identity changes constantly thus changing the way we see ourselves.

If the truth changes, is that still the truth?

No, if it changes then it wasn’t the truth to begin with, and only that which doesn’t change and remains constant is the truth!

That which doesn’t change despite the decay of the body and mind is your true identity and all else is false reasoning or a temporary aberration.

Time is based on matter and energy which is always in motion and subject to oscillations, growth, decay and death. What is true today may be gone tomorrow, so what is it that remains beyond the perceivable universe and time?

That my friends is your true identity and the Eternal Soul or the Self, however for now it’s temporarily glossed over by another identity which is limited, conditioned and fleeting. This new identity has a growing ideology that changes with time, but this type of identity is lacking in continuity and substance. During times of stress this identity forces a controlling attitude in uncontrollable situations, unable to accept the controller looks for control or explanations through personal ideologies. However, when you're trying to lock down an identity to a body in a universe where everything is in motion and changing it doesn’t workout well, because you’re foundation is in flux. And despite the endless hardships with this frail and enigmatic identity that has a limited existence we still wholeheartedly identify with it and blindly fight for its existence.

Even if we think we are Eternal at the core of our being does that really change the identity you have with the body now?

No, of course not, and for this life has got you hook line and sinker, and as much as you want it to change it always remains business as usual and your just the pawn in the game of duality (life). The problem is this identity which latched onto a changing and imperfect continuum is really part of a natural occurrence in life making it a point that nobody wants to analyze, for it neutralizes all that a person supposedly stands for. It will do that and it should do that, because that which you’re standing on is a icy slope anyways that is destined to melt. If you’re standing on solid eternal ground then not even the world or death will shake you off, and contentment will be your steadfast repose.

Stability and an unshakeable confidence with a love that is lasting and real, but detached from appearances and ideologies. Unconditioned by circumstances is real love and your true identity, otherwise your identity and love is conditioned by your environment and experiences.

Nobody will truly know this person you identify with, because it’s just too hard to understand the changing you, and how could anyone understand anyways? Everyone’s created separate and different complex personas with hidden secrets, experiences, and agendas that occupy their life, thus coloring every story they hear and say.

We hang on to this secretive baggage which makes up our hidden identity, and show people another version that we think we should be, however that image is flawed and lacking in information. How can we expect anyone to know us as we are when we don’t even identify with the image we give them! And, what we do identify with, that being the content of the mind and the body image is really a representation of change and decay, a limited and degrading idea of ourselves. Adding more than one identity just adds more confusion to the ever evolving notion of who we think we are.

Can you really know yourself if you are constantly mutating?

Did you wake up this morning as the same person you were ten years ago?….two years ago?…..ten months ago?

A myriad of identities all wrapped up in a myriad of ideologies, housed by a single apparatus, which for better or worst will choose a reaction that only binds it further to this revolving identity. Only One identity is perfectly true and worth cultivating, the rest is duality expressing itself with an ego tagging along in a misplaced sense of belonging, unfortunately based on a purification system that uses annihilation to get its point across.

Imperfection gave us the many aspects of the Universe; however Perfection and Purity at our core gave birth to imperfection and impurity, and by wrongly identifying with the latter transient state of perfection causes the suffering.

This alone is the cause of the upheaval in the world with all the lost individuals exercising control to push their limited and personal agenda.

This morphing identity compels one to act irrationally and emotionally demanding satisfaction, but no one can be satisfied with their transient state for very long, because duality is the king of this road. If you work hard to protect, preserve and prolong this identity through personal ideologies then you’re chained down to one limited view point, which will keep your love and knowledge conditioned. You really don’t know who you are among the myriad of false identities that you cultivated through the years. Don’t expect anyone else to truly understand you, nor you to understand where their identity lies at any given time.

Only the Self-realized or Enlightened folk will know for sure the true identity of the Source (God), because they have seen and know the Source intimately, thus identifying with It, and that’s Self-realization. Theirs and everyone’s identity is one of the same true Reality, however for now the Self is covered by illusions of the mind, and that comes with attachments. Only the truly awakened ones are content with life and know the Eternal Self, so they help others rediscover that divinity within, but beware there are many false teachers who didn’t see and can only parrot those who have.

By identifying with a limited resource and not with Eternity or the Self, you thereby sentence yourself to needless mental suffering, because you are totally alone on this journey you identify with. It’s all based on time, so it will never be satisfying for very long before duality opens another door that tears into this fragile identity. A perpetually unstable identity that is vulnerable and prone to rocking, and with a world that has an endless supply of waves your world will be easily rocked. I would argue that loneliness and a sense of belonging is mostly everyone’s crutch on this journey, because of this lonely independent identity.

The main problem is that true independence is an outright joke anyways and all needs all. Alone yes, it will seem that way and all the way to the end it will seem that way, however in Eternity where all is One we are complete and without the need of manifestation (attachments). Getting use to this Eternal identity and a universe without form starts with meditation, which cultivates your truth and the rock solid identity that never changes regardless of what happens.

Unless true Reality, true Love, and the Eternal Self is taught within the core of our educational system and spiritual institutions, then true contentment and peace with life will never happen.

The Path of Negation

Kurt — 2009-07-30T19:23:00Z

This spiritual path has a long lineage and success in regards to enlightenment or Self-realization; however it being overshadowed by larger more vocal religions and spiritual paths makes it more of a solo journey. This path doesn’t bore or bog you with ideals, history or reasons why it’s better, nor does it want anything from you except the desire to know firsthand. It’s seen as a hard path to follow, but I would assert it’s a more efficient way of finding your Self (Soul), as in Self-realization, and anyone can do it. This essentially is the path I took so I know it well, and I can tell you truly it’s one of the more efficient paths at dissolving the universe and uncovering Eternity, which is called Enlightenment.

This path runs deep in logic and goes straight to the Source by mentally looking away from any worldly meaning outside of the Self. You inwardly negate all appearances and words as unessential to the Self. You’re neutralizing life from the inside out rendering it incapable to distract you from your goal, and you personally hang everything on one hook, which is your last belief system, that nothing here can deliver you Home. You trust in your teacher and all the true teachers of the past and search without fear for the Self and the one true Reality, and you do this because of your trust and faith in your teacher, God and Self-realization. You do this because you can, and your deep interest in the truth, God liberation, peace, and happiness drives you. The freedom that comes with identifying with the true Self is your rightful heritage, a divinized state that’s waiting for you, so you can get your mind and body in sync with an Eternal tune-up, and that should be your last and only goal.

You do this with a discerning eye that sees the world as a fraud in order to create a new mindset, which understands the way to Reality is taken by withdrawing your personal stake in the illusionary world. Loosing your emotional interest in the outside drama, or knowing there will be no relief there forces you to look within for relief in a sustained search inside. Knowing full well that the illusion has you locked in and you have to be really diligent at unchaining your Self from the mind/body complex, almost like you want to wake up from a bad dream. You have to be willing to do what it takes and go within with a single minded focus on the Self, thus dissolving the universe from the inside out by meditating and talking your Self out of it.

You achieve an internal dialogue which continually sees things as false and not real, thereby counteracting any sway that desires and fears have on you. Since you can only see Eternity through the Self, which is a spec of God seeing God, then all other pull outside of that will be counterproductive to your pursuit. However, life has us captivated and the attention of the Self is now anchored in life, and that’s what you withdraw in order to break the spell and see clearly. By retracting your attention back away from the mind, body and world, and redirecting it back on the Self, then the clinging to the illusion is voluntarily surrendered and only God is left. Once all residual fears and desires loose their power to interfere in the process then you are ready to let go of everything including all concepts that comes with a personal identity, which has kept you thinking and believing as an individual.

This path of looking away from everything by insistently denouncing the value in time and matter goes right to the heart of your Eternal identity, delivering you into Stillness by disconnecting the external movement of life. If you stick to this path around the clock it will take but a few years, and not the lifetime or several lives as reincarnation states to achieve God liberation.

By mentally negating all that ‘It’ isn’t, you rediscover that which ‘It’ truly is.

Answers from the Source

Kurt — 2009-07-16T13:47:00Z

When we look for solutions that come from the Source for any questions there are a few things that stand in the way or block these divinely influenced answers. The ego influenced mind and the resulting emotions which effectively alter the mind and make it incapable of obtaining the translucent quality that is conducive to the subtle characteristics of the Source, and the universal knowledge that comes therein. The universal perspective is imprinted in consciousness because it’s tied into and held afloat by Awareness (The Self) its still relative. Once the mind is crowded with thoughts that emanate from a personality or entity that overly identifies with appearances then emotions are laced throughout, which escalate things to a higher energy level, intensity level or frequency. All of this revs the mind up and creates its own problems that won’t entertain or let the subtle energies in to mutate and take root; instead the high flying energy of the cycling mind either superimposes over it, or uses it up quickly as a weak source of energy.

You may recall a time when you’re relaxed and letting go welcoming sleep and out of the blue you got your answer, or remembered something important. These types of answers from the Source could happen to you anywhere at anytime as long as you’re surrendering your control. This allows the subtle energies to softly push forward into an open or suspended mind permitting the circulation of energy throughout the brain even activating dormant cells in a subtle synchronicity. Answers and spiritual experiences from the Source come as softly and easy as that, but it can have a huge impact on the individual mind resulting in a turn around moment in ones life. A flood or wave of subtle energy can make one feel light and floating on air as an epiphany carries you through to a higher state of consciousness and unity with life, which changes your outlook. Pure consciousness can give one the spiritual feeling of at-one-ment with all of life, because of its unbinding formless nature and your connection to it allows you to feel and get a sense of universal unity.

Consciousness has access to a purer consciousness which is the first transition point from Awareness, then transforming into different energy giving us the ability to use it and store imprints which make it ours as we direct it. But, pure free consciousness before imprints is clean slate on a subtle level, which is below the normal human mind frequency, and it’s the pushing factor in tandem with Awareness. This free floating current which is labeled pure or universal consciousness flows everywhere in the universe, and what we use as humans when we morph into the individual ego. Emotions then take off and embed that personality and all of its attachments deeper in the psyche, and life and God is filtered through this new interpretive lens, which keeps the mind from entertaining the lower subtle frequencies that pure consciousness and Awareness invokes.

The soft flood light of pure consciousness is divinely inspired by Awareness which is its still anchor in God or your Source. The purity of your Source is the Soul or the inside guru that can see things from a clear perspective only influenced by: The Almighty, and moving (which pushes outward) pure consciousness. When that mixes with the outstanding issues in your life in a suspended mind state then the remaining debris is in a hovering state now vulnerable to change, which falls simply, naturally, subtlety and gracefully into place, and the problem is solved. The problem is really solved by consciousness and the natural laws of attraction and repulsion, which organizes the information rightly, allowing connections and attracting answers, but the open mind also plays a role in cultivating pure consciousness, setting a directive and translating.

Meditating is the key that cultivates this subtle knowledge and keeps your mind fertile and in silent repose as the spreading of seed takes place on an open field which takes root. And, ‘Pop’ goes the answer like a bud popping through soil and it can have an enlightening affect on the individual that is sometimes confused with Enlightenment.

Contemplation is the other key ingredient in solving hard problems, because you have to make it a problem that will remain with you all the time even during sleep, so it has to be worked on during all your spare time giving the suspended ego and mind more time to decipher the issue. Since the suspended mind in most busy minds only happens for a second or two your problem has to be your primary thought above all else. The mind that sticks to one subject without the unnecessary escalation of energy from emotions and with sufficient time spent in clearing the mind with peaceful pauses and meditation will increase your odds greatly. Thoughtless meditation creates a wider spreading focal point or wave to balance out the isolated focal point or narrow stream resulting from deep thinking, and that sort of yin and yang of energies brings in the whole spectrum of help that doesn’t leave anything unturned.

Worshiping God

Kurt — 2009-04-01T17:28:00Z

For me there is one way of worshiping God, that seems to be the best way possible to worship, above all other techniques, which are usually conditioned by the mind with desires and fears. One way of worshiping that is the ultimate service to God, a way that is not conditioned by any ideology, any personal or worldly events, not even the mind, which leaves this way pure, natural, and unconditional, above the rest. One way that shows your ability to surrender, that shows your ability to let go of everything which was previously thought of as too important to forgo, but now it’s voluntarily relinquished by this type of worshiping. And in the process all is worshiped, and nothing is left out or separated by beliefs or attributes, and through this way it will neutralize everything down into one state of being, which leads directly to the ultimate state of being in Eternity.

There is one way that reveals your earnestness, that reveals your persistence, that reveals your inner strength, that reveals your inner knowledge, that reveals your attachments, that reveals your love for God, instead of your love for the body and the world. One way that works in all religions and all ideologies, works anywhere at any time and is truly a cornerstone to peace and happiness. A way that allows everyone the opportunity to witness the Almighty in the glory of perfection, via the divinity within. One way that tells God that all else will be deemed flippant in comparison, and you will be lead by the light of this way for nothing else will do, no replacement is good enough, and in this way only God’s divine intervention will be acknowledged as reality. A way that tells the Almighty you will stop at nothing, and nothing will get in-between you and your love for the Almighty, including mind inclinations. Your determination in this fashion will not only benefit you immensely but it won’t give any counter reasons to doubt your spiritual earnestness, because your effort in a regular practice indicates your resolve, which in turn steadfastly cultivates liberation.

The way is through the silent mind in meditation which worships God in the purest sense of the word. The way starts as a formless meditation observing the energy within, then that merges into the Samadhi State which is the ultimate state of worship. This is as close as you can get to enlightenment before it happens, your natural state of being, which is before the mind. Your ability to stay in this silent repose will reflect your earnestness, and how persistent you are will show how devoted you are to God, despite worldly attractions. This state of being is a state of pure Awareness, or the Self witnessing different states of existing in consciousness. In this thoughtless state one will naturally bounce around from compelling thoughts (attachments) which Awareness witnesses, to the witnessing of moving energies in the body (formless meditating) which takes the place of thoughts, then onto an Awareness of Awareness, which neutralizes the witnessing states altogether, this is beyond perceiving anything externally but God within. In this state there is no longer any Karma, any preconditions, any religions, any spirituality, any universe, any body, or any mind, just you as One, waiting for the illusion to pass by, so the One can see and know the One in All. And after realizing your anchor in Reality you now understand what all the great ones were talking about and the many ways they used to express this divine state of being. Your attachments are replaced by the One, your love lives and breaths through the unconditional state in all, your identity now lies with God, which is your natural state of existing, and you talk and think according to “That”, because everything revolves around “That”.

I hope you can see that formless meditating and the “Samadhi state” is the purest form of worshiping and I originally expand on the words of Nisargadatta who said: The silent mind is the purest form of worship.

Tranquility

Kurt — 2009-03-18T18:47:00Z

Although my branches sway on the winds of time.
My center is still and timeless away from moving leafs.
My limbs are moving but my core stands still with you.
Sit by my side, bask in the shady stillness and take in the view.

The living water will refresh your tired feet, my bench is strong and stable.
Rest close to that which radiates still peace and brings tranquility to all who sit.
My bench is empty, my water clear and my sky is free, come sit and be one with me.
Meditate by my side under the shade of stillness and feel the living waters flow in thee.

Your tree lives and breaths time but its roots are planted firmly in Reality.
Your life on the run, the world on your back, relax here and feel at ease.
The water reflects the images of past illusions that are now under your feet.
The sky has passing clouds of thoughts that when left alone won’t find a seat.

The still Awareness is always here your just focused on the world that is calling.
Don’t finger the phone, don’t double click, or paper back now when peace is knocking.
Its you turn to feel the waters, your turn to rest, your turn to know the view for its in you.
Wake up child of the world, friend of God, and know that thy divinity lies with God.

You who identifies with decay, you who acts mortal, you who judges according to this.
You are the fault, you need to stop, you need to change, for true love is lost in separation.
Love is the common bond that lives through commonality not that which sees differences.
Real love will recognize real love if you allow it, so brush off the dirt of old dominance's.

We will sit under the dark canopy in this empty decision less place and forget life.
The headlines and the calling voices will cease, for the world will be a distant thought.
You won’t want to leave the bench of timeless emptiness and beauty, so grab a seat.
We will sit together above the fray for we have God’s grace that shelters us from the heat.

The Riddles Between This and That (the Illusion and the Reality)

Kurt — 2009-03-11T14:56:00Z

We are not, at our core, any of ‘this’, but we are ‘That,’ however ‘this’ is the opposite of ‘That,’ and since opposites clash, then ‘That’ doesn’t have any opposites like ‘this’ has here to oppose it, and its true, but ‘That’ is still connected to ‘this.’ ‘This’ is ‘That’s’ opposite and a seemingly solid connection while living, but spiritual books deny ‘this’ existence and call it an illusion. Should they really do that? I mean, since ‘That’ has no opposites, they refer to ‘this’ as false, then ‘this’ has no purpose at all, but it has a purpose. We use ‘this’ to become Aware of Being ‘That,’ to attain an all knowing Eternal Awareness of being, which can only come from a dip into ‘this’ place, then upon Realization we know what it means to be a One in All. So it does serve a purpose, because when faced with our opposite we work our way out of its grasp, thus becoming a knower of it, and through this process we discover our Being in the One and only true Reality. We will all have to dissolve, detach or surrender our personal reality for the One lasting Taste of Reality, so I guess calling it an illusion serves a purpose on the path, and it seems like the best way to go, despite the fact that this illusion is serving another purpose. Do we still call it an illusion because it sure fit’s the description or do we dare call it something else; its like a Self discovery battle field of opposites which always leads us to the pursuit of perfection in the wake of its destruction. Everything here will give us reason to look elsewhere, if you hang on to it, whatever it is, you will see it and your reasons for hanging on to it, decay in a slow painful death. Whatever you identify with here will disappoint you, because the real you only identifies with ‘That,’ and ‘this’ is what the mind identities with because it is made out of ‘this’.

Meditation or the art of devaluating the misidentification with ‘this’ within, is the spiritual path to ‘That’, because the mind thinks it owns this realm, and it doesn’t want to admit to its limitations nor its impending death. ‘That’ has to look away from ‘this’ (the mind) as well, so ‘That’ must see all of ‘this’ as a temporary illusion, connected for a reason, and ‘this’ also some characteristics of infinities which is related to ‘That.’ The common bond seems to be in infinite space, however it must separate somewhere before that into the transitory phenomenon, from Stillness to movement, because infinite space has moving particles, and there must be a transition zone. From Awareness to consciousness which is but a moving form of Awareness, from complete Stillness to the first subtle movement in consciousness, and at this location must be the transition zone, back and forth, which originated from Still Light (the reason, not a decision). To look, or to look away seems to be the ultimate question, to be content at looking at God, or to look away and be born. Because there is a connection to ‘this’ that is always there, unnoticeable, but present as long as the universe stays as ‘this.’ And the same transition zone holds true for here too, as in enlightenment, either you are happy with ‘this’ and attached to it or you’re spiritual enough to look away by focusing your attention on ‘That.’

Look forward and don’t look back when you arrive in ‘That,’ and maybe we have mobility (forward) upon permanent dissolution into ‘That,’ however maybe not. I have totally accepted the fact that we are frozen in Eternal Stillness, unable to move besides diverting our attention, and this defies and debunks all spiritual myths that defied the properties of manifestation, but that’s the way it goes, it is, what it is. Reality sees Reality and is known by Reality only, and the illusion sees the illusion but it is known by Reality and the illusion, until the illusion dissolves (enlightenment) then the illusion submissively understands its limitations, and falls into order. Yet the laws of ‘this’ rule supreme in manifestation creating an independence and freedom that is very much needed, a noninterference clause that is necessary to keep them pure, free and separate, and a transition point that makes you commit to ‘this’ or ‘That,’ until you finally understand, then you won’t look away from ‘That’ to live and feel vulnerable in ‘this’ again.

The Chalkboard Metaphor

Kurt — 2009-03-04T14:48:00Z

Let’s try a metaphor on for fun, this is the one about the blackboard and chalk. The blackboard is a symbol for Eternity or God, always still, always the same, attribute less, nothing changes, then it became Aware of being, and when the light of Awareness dawned, it in turn, just from being Aware, not only created the chalk but set the chalk in motion. Chalk went on to draw different forms upon the board, that eventually evolved into, colors, pictures, words and a multitude of moving objects. The chalk was know as energy or consciousness, which is but a moving form of the original consciousness, or from an Awareness of being. Each one of us is a tiny part of the blackboard, and each one of us is viewing the chalk designs on the surface and they are temporarily a part of us, which is a moving expression of us, or our personal worlds. The chalks essence is constantly moving, but the blackboard is still and unaffected by the movement, and once all the chalk is erased (enlightenment) from the board, then the blackboard realizes that it wasn’t the chalk at all, but the blackboard all along, and it never changed or went anywhere. The identity to the chalk is no longer needed nor is it seen as important as ones true identity. Now the blackboard knows for sure that it is the blackboard and talks like a blackboard should, and the chalk is seen as it is, a condition of time and thus not real or pure like the backboard is. The blackboard realizes that it was not only Eternal, indestructible, unchanging (because any form, or movement is change in action which is conditioned by the chalk or time), and Godly, but also beyond the mind, senses or feelings. One solid mass of Eternal Reality that is impenetrable by moving energy thus making it omnipotent and more powerful then anything manifested. One single backdrop to all of manifestation that is beyond all physical perception, which remains absolutely Still, formless and forever pure, so that the dance of manifestation can take place. If it wasn’t all powerful and still like that, it wouldn’t be able to hold up the universe with its great weight, or hold it all together. You can see that there has to be something other than the give and take of energy, something bigger then the negative and the positive forces that we live in. And there is, and thank God for that, because without the eternal blackboard and the chalk of light there is no universe or us.

Entrainment

Kurt — 2009-02-18T17:00:00Z

As explained in Wikipedia: this is the process whereby two interacting oscillating systems, which have different periods when they function independently, assume the same period. The two oscillators may fall into synchrony, but other phase relationships are also possible.

These phase relationships also work with people, their relationships, in groups, and the tighter the relationship the more in sync they become. The fact that entrainment can happen with inanimate objects means it certainly can happen to humans. Women in the same house have been known to fall in sync with their menstrual cycle, and it can work on many different personal levels, also in business environments or sporting ones, anywhere at any time you can find synchronicity with the circumstances. In group meditations a feeling of at-one-ment can be felt and enhanced proportionally, and the study of unstable groups and their viral behavior is recognized by researchers, and I see it as a high intensity entrainment. Just from proximity and a willingness to surrender to the event seems to create all sorts of phase relationships whether it be good or bad.

During personal relationships we learn our partners cycle of happiness, setbacks, and activities and fall into a rhythm that coexists with those characteristics. A comfort zone is achieved that gives one a feeling of security, predictability, and chemistry. Both partners have to be open, and have a willingness to surrender and work within their weaknesses and strengths, in order to become one solid and well rounded entity. The ability to become a good receiver is essential to the equation because an open mind is a flexible ingredient that gives one the opportunity to grow and merge together. If the mind resists and fights for the ego, then the synchronicity and the subtle frequencies can’t fall into rhythm, and growth stops. Being in sync with your partner is the most peaceful and harmonious relationship possible. Arguments will be a relic of the past, and life seems almost surreal in the home, without any made up disturbances your able to float around most of life’s setbacks. A powerful team that can’t be denied is a team that relies on no individual power. One heart beat, its efficient, its easier, its natural, its alert, its productive, and its the most harmonious way of living with your partner.

The great business teams or sporting teams are that ones that know all of their weaknesses and strengths, come together to work on those weaknesses, enhance the positives, face the hardships together and surrender to the cause is a reflection of your earnestness. Every bit of personal sabotage, negativity, disappointments, personal merits, personal failures, stubborn attitudes or anything that props up the selfish ego that wants to stray into the self absorbed mind, must be surrendered for the cause. Nothing can penetrate the focus of the team and create disharmony within the group, they continue despite all that has transpired, and all the outside heat won’t make them trip or respond out of team character. Any relationships can have a bond like this which is shielded from outside influences so a balance is allowed to flourish within the union. A phase relationship forms from an easy synchronicity that fell naturally into place out of proximity and familiarity. Its all about success in an efficient manner, and by allowing the entrainment to prosper within you’ll feel impenetrable or unstoppable due to the strong connections from within the group.

The same holds true with the Guru and disciple relationship, which allows peace to flow through the group, if one is a good receiver and leaves themselves open to subtle frequencies they’ll find the peace noticeable and palatable. If the guru stops his or her mind and sits in the tranquility of the moment then peace has a chance to radiate through the whole room with the help of the good receivers passing it on. If people are resistant, fighting within or fighting with the teacher then no surrendering can take place. But even that road block can fall for a second and the silent mind wins the moment, then witnessing peace can take place. Surrendering restraints can happen to the most stubborn minds, and it can turn them on a dime with an epiphany, and this happens when one gives up the reigns. Face to face with their issues they realize its up to them to clear the way for more understanding, and give up the fight, after one taste of inner peace.

The Human Love

Kurt — 2009-02-04T17:26:00Z

It sounds unusual but us as temporary humans have this emotional love that is overwhelming and dependent, and entirely our own. The majority of people think this is the real love, and it is an extreme representation of love, however it’s a human version or a conditional response. In the pure meaning of the word, love is not this, and in its simple and natural state is unconditional in humans. The morphed conditioned version resulted from the ego laying claim as “I” and “Mine,” which the mind confuses as love. And, true unconditional love is the love that the sages find through Self-realization, and although they may still show signs of feelings, that seem to resemble I and mine, however it’s naturally extinguished in short order. Because in comparison to real love without boundaries, it wasn’t factual, an intense drama but I’m still in the theater. I know, like, I know that I’m sitting in a “room” writing at this moment, and you are reading this in a “room” at this moment, and how could you not know that. Similarly, I know that I’m in the theater watching the drama unfold, like you would know you were in the movie theater watching a movie, temporally caught up in it, like an empathic, but soon to file it away as a movie. This detached love doesn’t sound like love but it is the highest form of love, which knows no boundaries and knows all is not lost for nothing was really gained. It may look distant like tough love, and it won’t tally with the attached version of personal love that’s dependent, so it’ll be hardly noticeable and understood. But it’s in you, in one and all, and this will be realized by all, eventually, however for right now only the Realized or the serious aspirant hot on the path will know this. The purity in all of life can not be forgotten once Realized, and this charade of plots and tragedies can be captivating entertainment and at times heart wrenching. When bodies collide with harder objects only that part which has to dissolve anyways, that impure part suffers, and that which is purer and impossible to hurt is still unaffected and watching, and that’s hard to forget. Only the ugly part dies and if you identify with the ugly part you will fear in living and death, and suffer accordingly to your attachments. Isn’t it nice to know that freedom from the ugly (the world, body and mind) is our final outcome and true love our effortless existence. Real love doesn’t have boundaries or restrictions that the mind habitually uses, and sees no differences that are real and binding to a natural love that lasts forever.