There was a humble and simple man who loved adventure, and if there was something to see he would pursue it where ever it took him. One day he ran into a well renowned old wise man who was passing through town, so he decided to sit with him and share all of his adventures. The young man went on and on and the old man just sat there unemotional staring straight ahead, and waited till he was finished. After a short silence the old man said; I too have thought I had seen it all until a great man told me a wonderful story. It was about an ancient ruin in the middle of an ancient forest called the Million Acres of Memories. He told me it was such a powerful sight to see that it lays waste to all other adventures leaving one content and fulfilled. But, It took me around three years of continual searching in the Million Acres of Memories to find it, and it is not for the weak of heart. Those who try may not return and it’s a lonely place to be in for that much time, anything can happen there. You’ll have to be away from your family and the rest of the world for a long time, and you can only take in what you can carry on your back. Many have tried and failed, the odds are so will you, because only one in a billion find the place. The young man’s eyes were big and bright hanging on every word, and he wasn’t going to let the old man go until he got directions, and clues on how to transverse the tall pine forest. I can’t help you in the dense forest for it is flat and dark, but I will tell you that the ancient ruins are in the middle of the woods perched on a hill surrounded by water. The experience will be a defining moment in your life and some even walk away with miraculous powers. You will turn into a wise and respected man as I am, and you will come back desire less and fearless as I am. I’ve got to go! The young man said, show me the way or I’ll never let you out of my sight. So, the old man reluctantly gives him the directions and a finale warning: Once you enter the woods you can’t turn back, no one has made it out without seeing the ruins, you must continue at all costs. Shocked into silence the old man bid him farewell and walked off.. The young man shouted out what is the key to success…..your determination is the key, he yelled. Well, he new he had a lot of that as well as the experience, which was needed therefore he started packing.
Standing near the hundred foot pine forest with a big and heavy backpack he said his prayers and blessings, and stepped into the unknown. He walked tirelessly for many days in high spirits thinking of all the accolades he will receive on his return, he was sure it would take him less time than the old man. Months passed and he was having a lot of doubts, his mind started playing tricks on him and his body was wearing thin. I backed myself in the corner now! What the hells a matter with me, giving up my good life for a walk in the woods, I must be insane! He understands how the forest got its name for it’s the only thing that keeps him company. More months have passed and he realized he’ll have to give up some of his baggage, because his body is getting frail and unable to carry the load. He says; Why do I need my sleeping bag and mat? It’s big and heavy, and my tent is enough, thus he leaves it behind. Months later, he wonders why he needs his tent with all this wood around, and his good clothing will do, so he drops a heavy part of his load. Months later, he has another thought why do I carry my plastic ware, pots, pans, and cups when all I’m eating are berries, pine nuts, plants, mushrooms and insects. There’s pools of water everywhere and I can drink straight from the pond, consequently he leaves behind more baggage. Two years have passed and he realizes he doesn’t need his backpack and excess clothing, which is worn out anyways, and discards the weight off his back. More months have passed and all he has is the clothing on his back, his life is wasting away and the ruins are no where in sight, so he gives up trying. Wandering around aimlessly no longer caring or searching he looks for a good place to live out his remaining days. Finding a stream he follows it and it leads him to a crescent pond in a nice clearing, laying down he’s found the right spot to stop searching and takes a nap. Waking up he can’t believe his eyes, what he thought was a crescent pond is really a small lake with an island on it. He tears off his cloths and dives in, walking up the beach and up to the hills peak he sees nothing but a rock on top. There’s a saying picked in the rock and it reads: Now that you lost everything and nothing is at the very end, it means everything leads to nothing, and since you had acquired everything from nothing to begin with, then from nothing you are destined to return to nothing, Welcome Home!… He had a huge epiphany, laughed hysterically he laid down on nothingness, because he has nothing, and he has been nothing all along, so he didn’t loose anything. Because nothingness is everything's source, then everything means absolutly nothing. In a flash he sees and becomes the Eternal Home of all things, his mind numbed by the vision he gets up and heads for home following the stream, he is out of the Million Acres of Memories within a week.
This is enlightenment in a nut shell, because when you see the Kingdom of God before your physical death you are enlightened. When you see the Still, Aware, Light of God, which is the force that created the universe, you understand its Almighty power. And, that power is what rewarded you with the ultimate vision, which changes your life.
“Blessed are those who are pure in heart for they shall see God”
The heart signifies your internal nature, your motive, your mind, your life and to be pure is to be egoless. Not to hurt anyone by “thought, word or deed” and your earnestness and good intentions towards God shall be rewarded. You will see God and the Kingdom of Heaven, which again is Self-Realization (enlightenment).
“You are Gods” and “Behold the Kingdom of God is in your midst”
Your Soul is a small piece of God, and in order to see God you have to go within (meditate) to your source, and use that as your eyepiece, because nothing else will work. It is within You! But you'll have to search for it.
“The Kingdom of Heaven is within thee”
]]>This zone is the spontaneous way we deal with the world, our life, and people when we are close to the source. There is only the one zone, but we can connect with it during active and inactive moments. In active times there are three levels of energy expenditure that correlate with the different zones, their difficulty, the depth, and length of the zone. The zone is a thoughtless way of reacting to the circumstances in the moment without using the ego or mental discrimination, which in turn creates the right response. To get into the zone is just like being in an active meditation one step away from the deep meditative "Samadhi State", while in movement. The high level Active zone is what sports refer to as "being in the zone": That is making the right move at the right time without having to think about it, and making it look effortless and easy like it was predetermined. This is not using the ego despite the spectacular moves it may produce, because not a purposeful decision was made in the process. It just happens, and even the player may feel astonished and amazed that something like that happened to him. It is like he was watching the move take place from a distance too, like something took over that new what to do. This can happen to anyone at anytime, you may recall a time in your own life when everything was going right for you, and you raised the bar to a new level, you thought you could never reach. You were unstoppable and even the errors were going in your favor, you could do no wrong. The energy output, determines the degree of difficulty, the more energy or the lack of energy makes it more difficult. Dance and other slow rhythmic movements is considered an easy way of tapping into the zone, while really active sports zone is a relatively hard to access and takes a lot of practice. You may remember while dancing a sort of trance takes over and your in tune with the music and the environment at that very moment. Marshal Arts, Tai Chi, Sufi's and the Whirling Dervish all use this easy accessible zone to further their spiritual development. We have the high level, the medium level, the low level and the extreme level for emergencies, which can happen in the inactive and active. The zone is an excellence with ease and the flight or fight mechanism also taps into it, which should really be called the survive or surrender mech. Because the fight or flight scenario are both survival techniques. You may recall a time in your life when you surrendered (inactive) to the powers that be as in a car accident, and the adrenaline surge slows down time, due to the rapid processing rate, and you sit as the pure witness to the event in total acceptance. In this case the zone is achieved by the use of adrenaline, and in the active and inactive zone you can reach it without the adrenaline surge, creating a smoother more efficient ride. After the medium level output comes the low level zone that is associated with Art, Music, yoga etc. and can be considered a hard zone to master, on the same level as the high sports zone. But all the different ways take a person who can let go and let it happen without doubt, second guesses, inhibitions, decisions, or care for the results. Any thought like; I’m on my game, or this is unbelievable would take you out of it. You have to remain distant, aloof, unconcerned, unperturbed, just doing what needs to be done and letting each moment decide for you. You should remain emotionless and in the moment waiting for the entrainment to happen between the environment, peoples immediate reactions and your natural instincts.
]]>Meditation helps you attain a level of peace through mental stability, clarity in thinking, better health, grounds you emotionally, and resets your directive towards contentment. Meditation takes you away from the outside senses and internal thought patterns that monopolizes all your time and energy, and refocuses inward. The object of meditation is to return to that early state of pure existence you were in before all the words took control. There are many meditation techniques, and depending on how much mental activity each one has determines the difficulty. The hardest method looks at no mental activity, no decoys for the mind, and is considered the quickest most efficient way, and that is called “Nisarga Yoga” the natural way. You can't use the mind in meditation and expect it, to take you beyond itself. Next in line to that is “Simplified Kundalini Yoga” which uses the enhanced energy of the body, which is directed and focused on by the mind, and you observe it without thinking. When you meditate with consistency you gradually disassociate with what you are observing, because in life you are not what you observe. You are the observer of the energy that flows through the body and mind, during those thoughtless states of observation, which means you are before the body and mind. In the beginning, meditations that have mantras and other mental pacifiers are easier and useful in holding the minds attention, but eventually when you get better you still have to drop all the decoys. Then there is nothing but energy (consciousness) flowing through the body that you are witnessing. And since that has no form or color, it is the last but most subtle attention getter, which also needs to be shed. After leaving all mental supports behind that held your attention, and you stabilize in your beingness, this is what they call the “Samadhi State”. This is a state in meditation which is the closest representative to your Eternal state of being while embodied. In thoughtless meditation the only thing that comes between you and that heavenly state is the pure witness, which observes the energy, and experiences life as the doer. In the Samadhi State your not even aware of your body, mind or energy, only an awareness of being prevails. The aim of meditation is to return to that state as often as possible until it becomes second nature, and wait for the metaphoric doors to open resulting in Self-realization (enlightenment). When the doer (ego) and the witness are continually ignored like that, then over the long haul something happens, they disappear with the rest of the universe. You find yourself in Eternity, face to face with the Almighty. You realize what you really are, and at the same time you realize what God is, what and where Eternity is, what the universe is, and you realize they are all, one of the same. In your most natural Aware state of existing your enlightened with the truth, the search ends, and a new perspective matures within you. A point of view that is no longer limited by the body and mind, and you can see life with clarity and detachment. This enlightened point of view changes the way you see life, you then loose all your petty unfulfilling desires, and fears of the unknown in its wake.
]]>The art of contemplation is sticking to one primary subject, which occupies your mind continuously until the problem is solved. Just enough attention is given to the daily chores and job to be responsible and productive. The rest of the thought attention is dedicated to the problem, which in this case is being spiritually productive. It is like a riddle that needs your attention and attracts all your spare thinking time. Contemplating holds up the railings that keeps you on your spiritual path, and by keeping you from veering off, the spiritual momentum builds. The one track mind is essential in your life by allowing you to solve life’s problems, and it enhances the power of concentration. By continually returning to the same thought pattern you gain more control over the mind, because it gets stronger by the continual workout (change of direction) you give it. The contemplator should always look for quite out of the way places to spend time at thoughtless meditation. This helps in solving the issues by the way of epiphanies, which gives you the answer from out of the blue. Working on the heavy weights (meditation), and the cardio (contemplation) the mental strength grows, and the mind is slowly being conquered, reprogrammed for success. Superimposing another belief system that leads to a virtues lifestyle is spirituality, but it happens naturally as a byproduct of the path. A spiritual maturity that gets better with age, blossoms and doesn’t fade with time, is the reward. There is a wide variety of spiritual thoughts, philosophies, and scripture one can partake in, and they can all work provided it‘s directed towards the truth, by using pure reasoning, an open mind and due diligence. And there are a lot of non-scripture questions like: Who am I if I am not this? How could I be this when this is changing all the time. Which one of these identities am I going to die with, the child? The kid? The adult? The old man? And if I really don’t want any of them, what Am I then? The serious spiritual seeker is always looking for answers and refuses to latch onto old spiritual myths, because they are illogical, and they stagnate the process, which has to keep evolving to work. The contemplator enjoys figuring out riddles and problems for himself, and doesn’t need to communicate it to another. Critical thinking is their motto by dissecting everything that comes their way, only accepting proven facts that they can verify. Their intellect is keen and with good filters in place, the personal and impersonal delusions of life are naturally filtered out of the equation. Everyone can short term contemplate, but the serious contemplator is relentless, distant and quite. He will do especially well on the path of the Soul searcher.
]]>Love for that which he/she worships is the determining force behind the worshiper. The worshiped is usually a God, Saint, or an idol, which is a representation of God or Saint. Since envisioning God is problematic and limiting, an idol is used as a neutral figure with no personal ideology or human traits, which is a good representation of the unknown. To love and to be loved is very strong in the worshiper, and the only thing that could rise above that, is their love for a Saint or God. The worshiper loves too much in their life, and finds an easy outlet for that love by worshiping another (any other). He looses his identity easily in life to the one he is in love with, but every time he finds it unfulfilling and hurtful. So many problems and hateful people in the world he is disenchanted by what he sees. Looking for an outlet that doesn’t backfire all the time, he sets his high energy love towards a religious (spiritual) figure that won‘t disappoint, because it is God. The new freedom to love as much as he wants, he is smitten and very emotional, wanting more of that and less of this, he dives into his new love head first with a passion. Eventually, after some time the emotions subside down to an intense longing that consumes him all the time. Not looking back or caring what others think of him, he gives it his all, and in doing so, he unconsciously creates a new feeble identity that is solely based on his lover. His external worshiping takes him further away from his life of problems, and away from his personal identity, he is giving up everything for the cause. Like a teenager in his first love he can’t think about anything else but that, the outside world is unnoticeable, he is blinded by love. He may see his saint where ever he goes and relishes in the idea of being one with it. He returns day after day to his temple of worship to meditate and pray for release, but day after day nothing happens. He knows he can’t go back to the world, and out of frustration he surrenders his last bit of ego and worldly attachments. He excepts death as a friend, and he sees it as his only release left, and he invites it in, because it dosn't cross his mind to do it himself. Take my life please, I'll give up anything so I can be one with you, I have nothing left to give. He then becomes ripe for the picking, by giving up everything there is nothing left to hold on to, he falls from the tree of life. He becomes That, which he worships, totally enmeshed in that divinity, he is one with it. Uniting with it, he sees the Divine Reality that awaits him.
I myself, found it hard to love another more than myself, so I took the way of the Soul Searcher. I knew I could learn how to apply myself to the path and make it a routine, when it became a way of life, I fell in love with it. Meditating on myself (soul), and contemplating on one topic over and over actually made thoughtless existence and meditating easier.
]]>This is an internal search that starts after the external search is abandoned. When the searcher acquires enough external knowledge about spirituality and meditation techniques, the task then commences with an internal search for one’s true identity. During his search he knows he has to forget about the world of outside senses and retracts away from it, by going in and finding the Truth. Nothing outside of his searching is attracting him anymore, he is dead serious and virtually dead to the world. No matter how bad it is around him he is unresponsive and distant. He has his obligations and performs them well, yet he is quite, contemplative and emotionless, unless it is necessary to intervene. You will see him often staring off in a distance or head down minding his business seemingly preoccupied with something. Ignoring people and most circumstances that otherwise he would have remarked, they find him antisocial and boring. They may even think of him as being depressed or rude by his detached attitude. Yet he still remains unperturbed like a animal hunting a scent. It appears like a lack of sympathy or happiness, he looks serious and isn’t buying into any beliefs or values with his peers. Like a mathematician working on a complex formula that takes three years to solve he looks mentally busy. After all, it is the ultimate riddle that he is figuring out, and it takes all your concentration and vigilance. He looks for quite out of the way rooms to spend some time sitting, where people forget about him. He doesn’t want to look obvious while in public places, so he looks like he is sleeping or reading a magazine with his eyes closed, not turning the pages. He acts normal but quite and shy, and he doesn’t want to be found out or talk about it. He is continually negating all materialistic and personal values in his mind all the time, drawing himself away from the mind and ego. No, this is not it, this is not me, I am not this, let me leave this behind, the silent words echo in his mind until he no longer has to think them. Looking away from the mind is a way of life, and internally backing into the rear most position (meditation), he returns whenever he can, hoping not to miss an opportunity. He is the Soul Searcher because he knows it can be done, and it is well within his power to achieve liberation if he is resilient and patient. Unnoticeable he continues his hot pursuit for the truth, abandoning all desires and fears in his way. Meditating is now his only vice, spirituality and thoughts in general are considered a waste of time, he keeps upping the anti. Now he becomes too ripe for the tree, and letting go is easy, so he does, he didn’t move, but the universe flies from his grip, and Eternity is all around. Having seen home, he now feels at home, and where ever he goes, he is at home.
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There are two working components to the path, one is Contemplation, and the other is Meditation. It isn’t an issue on where your path originates from, or how winding (the straighter the better) the path is provided it’s heading towards Mecca (liberation). Whatever technique you use or direction you come from, either one or both of these components is a must to bring about the effortless surrendering that is needed. Both are recommended for the serious seeker. Whether you come from the way of the Worshiper or the Soul Searcher (and there are countless variations of both), the path is full of obstacles, so a strong determination, persistence, and work ethic is needed. It has to get to a point where all you are doing and thinking, besides the usual functioning in the world, is contemplating spiritual thoughts and meditating. The path is the work it takes you to get to your destination, or to the point where you are effortlessly doing it all the time out of habit. Much like learning a sport so well that it just happens naturally without thinking, but on the path it means your doing a different type of sport all your spare waking hours. When your actually doing it in your dreams out of habit, means your on the right track. When you are negating your ego, mind, appearances, and the world by looking away your essentially forcing something to happen that is beyond it. You absolutely refuse to take note of anything credible to change your direction from going in and finding out, and that is the way of the Soul searcher. Similar to the worshiper he is also the God searcher, because in seeing his Self he sees the Almighty, and in seeing the Almighty he sees his Self. Worshiping is actually more external, but it is still going away from the mind and ego resulting in a surrendering to that, which it worships. Again it has to be in combination with another component (s) because you need to be actively pursuing it where ever you are, whatever your doing, and whatever time it is. All the short and long pauses you have alone, you meditate, and all the in-between times you contemplate things like: There has to be more than this, more than doing the same thing over and over again, is there no meaning, I must be more than this changing form, if I am Eternal than what am I? Your changing your internal dialog by superimposing spiritual ones over the idol and useless chatter. The attitude is that nothing is going to get in the way of you and your path, including the ego and outside knowledge. The mind and its inclinations are on patrol by your attention, which means you are prior to the attention. The real you is the one that directs the attention, and by retracting it, your attention is focused in the opposite direction, which is your Soul. Surrendering is an internal letting go of everything you ever held sacred including your attention, and want nothing in return, except the truth. Gently you sit, still and empty, at the door of your eternal home, and you wait patiently for that door to open.
]]>Although this realm is in-between manifestation and Eternity, it is a byproduct of matter and works in tandem with invisible energy. This is the dream state of the mind, a cloud of images, which moves on without the body and brain. A group of charged particles (the reflected mind) that were with you in your brain since birth were imprinted with everything you’ve ever heard, seen, did, or thought of. Much like a small seed is imprinted with characteristics of the huge tree before it even gets planted. These charged particles surround your Soul like a bubble, and have your whole life history imprinted in them, and everything is up for review. Your desires and fears with the most energy (power) behind them come up first in this state, which is similar to your nightly dreams. Your sharpest interest at the time of death will be your belief system, and you will see exactly what you want to see, because you make it happen. If you think a bright light will shine, or a stairway from heaven will appear, or you may believe that Saint Peter will be standing at the pearly gates checking sins, well then, that will take place. But it being a dream and created by your interests it will soon move on to the next fear or desire, which carries the most weight with you. The only way out is to wake up in Eternity by shunning all images and surrendering your newly acquired attributes (energy), which represents your whole life here on earth. You are not energy at your Soul’s core, and everything related to energy must be voluntarily given up in order to find the place that energy (particles) can’t go. The afterlife will seem uncontrollable and repetitious with traumatic events, because it grabs your attention, and attention is how it survives. Particles feed off of the energy that you direct with your attention. A constant give and take like a parasite feeding off its host. This can take centuries before the energy dials down to subtle enough levels before particles break up and disperse. You can get through it earlier if you draw your attention away, and ignore the drama. Meditation in life is an important tool to help you to look away from the mind, because the mind is really not you at all. Strengthening the mind with contemplation and meditation is extremely helpful in creating a strong mind, as apposed to one that cycles to much, which is a restless mind. It all hinges on your ability to look for the Truth (God) by looking away from the untruth.
Under the right atmospheric anomalies these minute personal bubbles can remain in its life setting, and grow in size and density. By drawing the energy within this unusual environment, making if feel lifeless and cold to us as in paranormal experiences. Then the orb covers the size of the area and you can see the persons drama (dream) play out before you, because of the extra energy contained in moisture, heat, and magnetism in the air. Although they can’t see you they may sense your presence (energy taking and blocking), and their dream is super imposed over you, and this is not recommended. Because you may now be the bad guy that took there life in the first place. A traumatic event like murder can be very repetitious for the dead, because the meaning and justice of the incidence eludes them. The dimension of the afterlife will have many levels, from the high energy that the body relinquishes at the point of death down to really subtle levels that will effect the luminosity of the dream. This state of being is self illuminating so there will be no shadows or ways of controlling the light or the dream, like you had when the particles were attached to your brain. Independent thinking is a thing of the past now, and you are in bondage by your desires and fears that you never got over. They all have to play out and you have to watch. Those who had an evil life, well then, welcome to your nightmare. Those who were stable, good, humble and open will move on quicker, because of the lack of drama or interest. If you had a steady diet of meditation and spiritual contemplation you will move on even quicker. Only the enlightened ones who have gone through the process while living will pass right by this phase. Everyone else will have to go through it, because they don’t want to give up the their life nor the identity they created for themselves.
This is a hard question to answer and an even harder answer to understand. Let's start with the state of being you were in before your birth. In this realm of pure Space we are in our original state of perfection. Being free from the attributes of energy we are in a particle-less environment, and this is our Eternal home. In this state of being you had no idea what existence was, because there was no idea of nonexistence, and there were no points of reference to compare with in empty space. You are in Absolute Space like everything else, and the universe is unperceivable, not known by us. Apparently physical eyes (among other things) are needed, but that takes a birth in energy, and in Eternity anything that evolves (energy) is a product of time and not eternal. Although, thankfully, you can see in this subtle realm, and you have an Awareness of being present. But the grosser aspects of energy are invisible, you simple see right through them like they never existed. In order for you to understand the purpose of your existence and God, the plunge into manifestation was necessary. Being a born entity gives you that feeling of existence through energy, which wasn't there before, and now the ability to create life like our Creator. The miracle of life is such an unbelievable gift, but this reward comes with conditions that are binding. Another words, after our departure from the belly of God this sense of existence with others is the real meaning of life, and the separate ego isn't. We were one of the same and now we are individuals feeling separated from our true home. But this does give you a platform to start searching from, and out of necessity you find yourself searching for home. Because in order to find the way back you have to voluntarily search for it, and in this process the surrendering of all attributes comprised of energy is required. To find your true nature is the reason for living and there is no choice in the matter. This is not an easy task, because we love who we are and what we created. But what you can keep is this Awareness of being present, and a sense of meaning to your existence, which wasn't there before. Together we are whole and the whole can't exist without its parts. For a very short time you manufactured and carried your burdens with you, but now you have to leave them behind. Finding home you realize you never really left, and you were hanging on to a dimension, which was a blemish on your natural state. You are now Aware that the universe is there. The functioning principle of existence and the meaning of the Almighty is understood. You would not unknowingly leave the Almighty's side now!
]]>I noticed that there are people on the spiritual path that think they are realized when something unusual happens to them, but this is common on the spiritual path. The mind and the ego can conspire to create all sorts of visions, sounds, and body reactions out of fear and want. Also, spiritual experiences vary dramatically between people, but enlightenment remains the same, eternally unchanged. You can analyze these experiences yourself by following a few guidelines, and if you answer yes to any of these questions you did not experience the ultimate state of being and you are not realized, and must continue with your pursuit.