Spirit

Spreading consciousness like the seed of Johnny Apple.

There are no conditions to fulfill. there is nothing to be done, nothing to be given up. Just look and remember that you are beyond it.

Sit down on the earth, Straighten your spine toward the skies, tuck your chin, close your eyes, wake up!

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We Are Boundless
We have thought there to be people who possess qualities that many cannot imagine. We have heard of people who can heal by touch, will spoons to bend, walk barefoot in snow and will body temperature change. This wisdom does not originate in some eternal source. Rather, it is insight we all possess. It requires no unusual talent, nothing that is not already ours. We need only our human intelligence, attention to the moment and openness to the world.
It is a slow process – an internal battle to heal the mind so torn apart by a ravage and unjust eternal world. But, once the mind is healed…

"experience is a riverbed,
its source hidden, forever flowing:
its entrance, the root of the world,
the way moved within it:
draw upon it; it will not run dry."

"The rearing serpent sports in the mists.
The flying dragon rides on the clouds.
But when the clouds are gone and the mists have cleared,
They are no different from earthworms."
-P. Thomas from the Shen Tzu Fragments.

The Moment to Remember

Once upon a time life did not know Self as it does now. We, the totality of All life, did not know form, suffering or duality. If there were physical forms of mass, we were not born into it, as we are now seemingly imprisoned in bodies. Instead, We (the totality of All life) encompassed everything, at All times, in All things.

All energies were fluid and boundless and celebrated in a cosmic dance of freedoms and love through and in All things. There was no inside or outside. There was no me or you. There was not seperation and no distinction. We were All there was. There was only We.

There were no questions to ponder and no words to exchange. We were All knowing and All present. At this time when life was life and there was no death, we tasted sweet nectar, we inhaled dynamic universal breath, we heard our own being – the ancient vibration Ohm, we felt bliss and percieved only light. There was nothing more to be or experience, we were All there was. There was nothing more to understand, our mind was the one original All-knowing seed. There was nothing for to strive, we were blissful love. Duality would not have been known. There was only one entity, one movement, one love. We were whole.

You are my lotus’ sweet nectar.

You are my breath,

Aware of it Self.

I inhale you

And feel the ancient

Heart beat.

You are my vibration, my soul, the Ohm.

You are bliss.

You are light

I am you and you are me.

Not two.

Love.

Anything that can be done by love, which is everything, will be done for you.

My heart, my being and my soul rests in this once upon a time. It has not left us. Some only fail to remember. It is in you, too. You are aware. You are conscious. It is shown in your eyes and in your actions. I feel it in your embrace.

My ancient being welcomes you. Come in. The door is open. It leads you where ever you choose or are chosen. Do not fear. I and All things are with you.

This door may lead beyond this world (where metaphors exist). It may lead you through the universe to dynamic light or beyond the beyond to stillness. What you know is you. It is true. Do not fear your walking. You are good and you know your history. This will lead you to liberation. Now, may you see that All things, All of this, is Now. Today, you are free. You are under no impression, no desire and no control.

As we grow in this world we get closer to home. It is Now. It is the moment to rememeber. I have always loved you.

Consciousness, Penance, Truth and Home
The act of being conscious spreads consciousness being that we are
part of the Universal Mind.
The mind is infinite, eternal, immortal, boundless.
We are All connected in a constant unfolding of Kosmos.
But, to spread consciousness, the receiver must already be aware of what Is.
Being          conscious will not spread the potential
for others to be awakened into consciousness.
It can only transcend from awareness to awareness.
It is a constant growth, an unfolding.
To awaken others into This, some will use words of wisdom.
But, I feel that Truth cannot be given until Truth is needed and experienced directly.

Others will awaken others into This by living in perpetual awareness.

How can one always be in the present moment of awareness?
Limit multi-tasking.
If you are doing the dishes, then do the dishes.
Have nothing else in mind or hand.

Working toward this singularity of being will manifest spirit and lead one to Truth.

What is needed beyond this present breath?

There is no line between nothing and everything, only an illusion.

It is all very subtle. Chi, Prana, Mana, Resonating Energies.
Facilitating the subtle within your being may open you up to depths
of your mind and soul that you have not previously reached or imagined.

Truth Is.
Truth is thought in perfection
Truth is being in perfection
But, there is no perfection
    Only the absence of.

“Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.
The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.” (Dogen)

As thought is creative, the Truth is the highest and most perfect thought
that anyone could think. When Truth comes into being that which is
false must cease to be.

Truth is not a progression but rather a realization, an acceptance,
a declaration.

Growth is a million realizations put together into I.

Finding Truth is easy, open up your arms and embrace It.
Embrace everything there Is, in and beyond your field of consciousness.

Olson said it simply, “Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment,
no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware
or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with.”

Embrace discomfort if you are having trouble growing into your Truth.
Strip off your coverings and get as close and intimate with that that surrounds you. Find comfort in discomfort for this is the only way toward growth.

If you are comfortable, you will stay comfortable and resist change.
This is stagnation and will never lead to Truth.
In this, you will not see beyond your own eyelashes.

This discomfort is like an act of penance. No, you need do nothing wrong to practice penance. You can consciously chose hardship for the achievement of a good purpose. Often, this, with no doubt, will lead to growth. This ascetic way of life is a wonderful way to attain a higher form of mental awareness and detachment from earthly limitations. It may lead to godly guidance.

During these hardships you may become better aware of the subtle energies in and around your being. Listen to them. It is this silent knowing where Truth resides.

Be quiet. It is in this absolute silence where you posses complete, unlimited and universal power (omnipotence). Beyond absolute silence is change, activity, limitation and this is beyond your understanding as you are and are not transcendence alone.

In this listening you may learn the art of living life and being at home within and outside of the Self. You may walk, and the nightfall will whisper for you to turn around. You may continue over the next mountain knowing that home will be resting in the valley below and knowing that when you turn back home, it too will be resting there with open door. Stay with your blossoming silent creativity and you will never be without being and you will never be without home.

If you are full, drink your glass empty. If you are told who you are and the reasons for this world, let it go and find your own. If you have found everything, leave it all and set it on fire. Do not take these words as Truth. It I all just a metaphor.

“If you are afraid of being grabbed by god, don’t look at a wall. Defiantly don’t sit still!” -Jiyu

Better one's own dharma

even if imperfect

then another's dharma

followed perfectly

- bhagavad gita

Abstraction
When beauty is abstracted then ugliness has been implied;
When good is abstracted then evil has been implied.

So alive and dead are abstracted from nature,
Difficult and easy abstracted from progress,
Long and short abstracted from contrast,
High and low abstracted from depth,
Song and speech abstracted from melody,
After and before abstracted from sequence.

The sage experiences without abstraction,
And accomplished without action;
He accepts the ebb and flow of things,
Nurtures them, but does not own them,
And lives, but does not dwell.
-Toa De Ching.

What is to Give Light Must Endure Fire
There are many who are conscious: they are self-aware and aware of the eternal.
There are many who are conscious of the Universal: they are aware of the soul, I and I, the near depth of within.
There are few who are conscious of the within: they hold hands with the man across the world. They hold hands with the woman across the Universe.
They are those who show that all thought can be manifested into reality.
They show that anything is possible.
In order to prove that all is possible one must endure what most would think impossible.
Only then would they believe.

Reincarnation
The essence of a leaf is undoubtedly connected to the essence of a tree by means of its stem.
As the leaf sways, attached to the tree, it experiences one life. It experiences the feeling of being green, the taste of nutrients coming up from tree trunk and limb, the feel of the breeze and the crawling of incest, the taste of rain and salt in the air and senses the vibration of sound.
One time, a breeze blows so strong that the leaf breaks from its limb.
It is completely free and boundless.
It does not have any attachment to any other essence.
It falls freely.
It seems to smile as it sways and dances as it flutters in this transition of its first life into its second. It may have had many previous life but it has since forgotten.
It lands in a flowing river that rushes below his tree. This is his second life as it is now connected to the essence of river. It cannot reattach to the tree nor can it remove it self from the boundaries of the riverbed. It rides this current of life. In this life it feels the essence of water pounding into its being, tastes the gulps, and senses the heaviness of this rapid life.
The leaf is carried on the water to a waterfall where it is thrown over and remembers the feeling it had when it first died. It remembers the tree and the wind. It is the feeling of being free and boundless that reminds it.
And it floats down, a little faster this time, and begins its third life on the edge where land meets water.
Here the leaf wakes up in a life that is quiet and dark. But it is in this darkness that it embraces selflessness. In this life it will give itself to the soil. It feels it self fade and it senses the earth breathing in the leaf. It tastes the dirt and soon remembers that it is dirt.

On and On
On and On

Some day a tree will grow in this dirt
and it will feed it self, leaf unto leaf.

Painted by Irene Satala - Fort Wayne, Indiana

"A little wave is bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and fresh air — until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. ‘My God, this is terrible', the wave says ‘Look what is going to happen to me!' Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave looking grim and says to him, ‘Why do you look so sad?' The first wave says, ‘You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?' The second wave says, ‘No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'
Mitch Alburn, Author, Journalist, Radio Host

Beneath Abstraction
There is a mystery,
Beneath abstraction,
Silent, depthless,
Alone, unchanging,
Ubiquitous and liquid,
The mother of nature.
It has no name, but I call it “the Way”;
It has no limit, but I call it “limitless”.

Being limitless, it flows away forever;
Flowing away forever, it returns to my self;

The Way is limitless,
So nature is limitless,
So the world is limitless,
And so I am limitless.

For I am abstracted from the world,
The world from nature,
Nature from the Way,
And the Way from what is beneath abstraction.

-Toa De Ching

"Giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone...that is the way to live in this world."
-Paramahansa Yogananda

"It is man's task to carry out the completion of the spiritualization of the Earth, a task at which all living creatures are at work,
each within the limits of its own particular development. And every human being who transforms himself from a
being identical with the body into a being reawakened in spirit, a divine being - identifying his consciousness with the divine self -
has fulfilled his duty. He has spiritualized a bit of the Earth. He has advanced by one step the salvation of the Earth.
Then he can co-operate as a helper in the salvation of other beings."

. . . "All energy, all forces of the universe, are movements which emanate from one point - their own centers -
and radiate in circular waves in all directions manifesting themselves as vibrations or oscillations.
These manifestations of force cease only when the forces that have got out of balance
regain their primordial state of equilibrium, the divine unity."

Elisabeth Haich

Photo taken in La Jolla, CA

"What you call as creation is just (energy). Everything is the same energy. The rock is the same energy. God is also the same energy. This is gross; that is subtle. As you make it more and more subtle, beyond a certain level of subtleness, you call it Divine. Below a certain level of grossness, you call it animal; further below that you call it inanimate. It is all the same energy." -Sadhguru

Ways to Use God:
An on ongoing collection & experiment in Totality and the Sacredness of 3

    1                                           2                                                3
    Buddha                                Dharma                                  Sangha
    Word                                    Thought                                   Deed
    Say                                        Think                                        Do
    Perfect                                Magnificent                         Effective
    Beautiful                            Good                                          True

I It/its We
Humanities Arts Social Science

Spirit(ual) Intellect(ual) Emotion(al)

   Energy                                Intelligence                         Substance
    Energy                                Mind                                       Form (matter)
    Being                                     Eternal                                   Awareness
    Motion                              Thought                                Feeling
    Id                                         Ego                                          Super-Ego

I Love You

OM SAT TAT

Spiritual Astral Physical

Conscious Subconscious Super-conscious

Art, Are, Asi That, Tvam Thou, You, Tat

Sattva Rajas Tamas

Knower knowledge Object of Knowledge

Tantra Mantra Yantra

Tejas Adhyayana Sadhana

Samatva Samadhi ?

Omnipresence Omniscient Omnibenevolence/Omnificent

Spirit Mind Body

Holy Spirit Son Father

God Loves You

Spirit Love Light

Subjective Perception Present Reality Objective Reality Religion Art Science

Romantic Quality Classic

Present Past Future

Toa Te (De) Ching

Motion Thought Feeling

Will Understand Feel

Dhyana Dharma Dharana

Samatva Samadhi ?

Faith ? Reason

Essence

Virtue

Arete

Excellence

Tejas Adhyayana Sadhana

Preservation Creation Destruction

The third (3) column happens when the first two (1 + 2) meet.

OR...

The third (3) column happens when one (1) becomes aware of two (2).

This is only a game in rhetoric and rhetoric creates duality.

Some believe in duality because it is our mythos and this is assumed to be true.

There is no 2 and there is no 3.

There is only one.

What is the One?

This list is fluid, It will change, It is not concrete. It is not Total or completely accurate.
Please contact me if you have any 3's to add, have any discrepancies, questions/comments.
I feel this may be a list that goes on for a long while.
I would like to discover something great within it.

life is light is god