Nothing you know, experience, believe, or do indicates what (who) YOU are. The path to awareness of YOU is a present one, burdened by the weight of things important to the world and your mind, none of which are. Getting to “Self” is as easy as getting over yourself. However, getting over yourself is a challenge your mind will not let go of smoothly, and indeed, the world will assist with reminders of how important the unimportant is.
Awareness of “What YOU Are” is worth any effort to dis-identify with what “you” or anyone else “thinks” you are. If you “do” anything, do that!
Bozebits
“Let go of what no longer serves me,” we hear or say to ourselves as if anything or anyone is here to “serve” us. How pompous! Love serves. That’s all it does, regardless of your feelings that “you are no longer served” by anything you think exists for your benefit.
Reject the idea that the flow of life events and people must serve you. Love “serves” and nothing more. That is, if you are love, it pours from you regardless of circumstance and will fill you beyond anything that could possibly be of service to you otherwise.
Bozebits
Heaven forbid you ever become what you think. What YOU are would be sorely missed. Actually, most, if not all of us, are sorely missed. Come back, and when you get here, l could use some help returning, too.
Bozebits
The awareness most seek begins amidst a nightmare created in the mind and well-articulated in speech. In other words, your judgment of how horrible things are is not the place to start anything, let alone spiritual awareness. Your mind will always remind you of the difficult position from which your search began, and that will be the anchor keeping you from what it is you think you must find.
You must awaken within the nightmare you have determined exists and “get” that what you think is real is only because you think it. The awakening that keeps you separate is a continuation of an already predetermined nightmare you believe is what separates you from it. In other words, sweet dreams and nightmares are not real. YOU are!
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To your mind (all minds, that is), awareness looks like something that happened to you or someone else in the past, which is codified and proceduralised so that you can experience it again and again in the future. Just follow the procedure. Sadly, awareness is not a product of the past or the future, nor is there a set of rules and guidelines that will take you to it. In other words, “awareness” begins and ends with YOU, NOW, devoid of rhyme or reason. Stop following the rules!
Bozebits
Your search for whatever it is you seek is a coming from or a going to. Did you get that? Coming from is the past and going to is the future. Neither exists. In other words, “what is” is all there is, and it requires nothing you seek in the “non-existent” (past or future) to know its miracles. Life never passes you by; you do that unwittingly looking for it where it cannot be. Where YOU stand now is holy ground; not what you search for elsewhere. Stand still and know the looker who looks. That’s when you see.
Bozebits
Do you search for profound insight into the heart of humanity but seek insulation from it simultaneously? You would not be alone, whether you admit it or not. You can go to great extremes to keep out the cold, but the cold you protect yourself from is still about. Do you see?
It is easy to extend your reach for others’ comfort and safety when cozy, but those “others” remain just as cold or colder because of “wind chill, e.g., your isolation. The “heart of humanity” lies not in your heart, thoughts, or intentions. It lies in the “cold” you insulate yourself from.
Bozebits
The struggle to be good, however you define it, takes enormous amounts of vibratory energy, starting with the definitions of good and bad held in memory, along with all sorts of mental muck and nonsense. Until you can get beneath (before) the definitions you hold of anything containing an antithetical opposite, you will surrender your very life force to an argument based on relics of the past. That is, you will struggle with yourself over the opposite of yourself, neither of which exists in reality. I’m losing energy just saying it!
“What YOU are” exists before anything you thought in the past, now, or will think in the future. There is no struggle as there is no opposite in that awareness. Knowing YOU has no opposite; it does, however, save so much energy. Let all the “opposites” you struggle with go with a mocking giggle and friendly smile. What YOU are will take care of the rest; what YOU are is pretty darned amazing!
Bozebits
Choosing is not about deciding between things. It is taking ownership of what is right in front of you right now. After all, YOU create “what is,” and any denial of it is fighting against the very creator who creates, e.g., YOU! Owning “what is” is the only choice there is. You are living NOW or fighting it. Call “whatever” a choice; it will still be “what is,” regardless!
Bozebits
The recommendation to seek only the good forces you to restrict what “good” and its subsequent opposite are, leading to criticisms, boundaries, and division. The outcome of seeking only (fill in the blank) creates your particular categories for defining yourself and others, and in the morass of all your particulars, you make a mess. If you only seek what you have characterized as good, you will fail to see the good others seek and, worse, judge their seeking as anathema to yours.
Your way is not the way. It’s just a way, neither good nor bad, and never, ever, a reason to judge another and lose kindness for those who are no less nor greater than you or anyone else. It is the blending of all the ingredients that makes a perfect bowl of soup. And, yes, you too! Seek the “good” but not just what you demarcate good. That would be too confining and distasteful. Don’t forget the freshly baked bread! Mmm, yummy!