Your World, Intuitively
Awareness is seeing exactly “what is” without any thoughts or explanations accompanying it. One who “sees” (is aware) “knows” instantly and is clear before any thought enters into it. In other words, any explanation of “what is” is its undoing.
You could say reverence is the doorway to “knowing” what is that otherwise is unknowable.
Love cannot be expressed by hating those who don’t love what you say, think, believe, or do. Love’s only equal is everything, and “everything” is necessarily the only emanation your love should manifest.
What you believe is coming to you or that you think you are going to is ego luring you into a hole that the past has already dug. Anywhere but here is where ego wants you to be, and sadly, most are “anywhere but here.”
As wise ones have said, the ground you stand on now is “holy ground.” Solid, firm, and real. Will you undermine it with yesterday’s unfulfilled expectations or tomorrow’s dreams of what isn’t? Stand where you are and be present. Nothing is more evident than “now,” and you can always deal with that!
Your greatest limitation, everyone’s that is, is not what you fear but what you believe. Beliefs are an assault on any possibility of being present, and the filter straining out the real so that the unreal (beliefs) remains intact. Clarity is clear, and what you hold in your mind, believe, or don’t believe, think possible or impossible smudges the window of reality. Awareness is only known through optics without the taint and dinge of what your mind wants you to believe is.
Lose them (beliefs), and the window’s new transparency lets in new light that exposes any fear as a shackle to living more abundantly. I promise, then again, don’t “believe” a word I say!
The great truth is that what you believe to be true is not. Beliefs elevate doubts and fears. They put them on a pedestal, becoming unbreakable chains that tie us to a sober life. Has any experience you’ve ever had required belief to come before it?
In every search, many questions arise. The important ones will always be those that question what we believe.
Drop what you believe. The less we believe, the greater our awareness. Less truly is more, and ultimately, nothing is everything! If you must believe, believe everything. Yours truly is “The road less traveled” Let this settle.
Your beliefs are not good indicators of what you indeed are. They are better indicators of what you are not
What we like to call change, for most of us, is really an adding of layers to the onion rather than removing them. We tell ourselves “let me do this, accomplish that or go here instead of where I am, and everything will be better.” It won’t; please get that!
Most of us are full of layers that are little more than avoidance of real-life experiences we find ourselves in. We believe that we can change our circumstances simply by running from them and that, somehow, will unravel us but really it just winds us up even tighter.
What you don’t experience fully becomes the nature of your experience even when you think you have changed. What you don’t take care of now becomes a layer; a full-length overcoat that is heavy and burdensome!
Get good with where you are; be honest with it and never let yourself be fooled into believing you are not its creator. You can run from creation, but you can never run from yourself, e.g., “the Creator.” Live where you are because “where you are” is the only place life exists.
Carl
I have a site on Facebook titled “Spiritual Intuition” where I post a daily comment both in the morning and later in the evening. I have also been invited to share the posts on a few other sites that are looking for spiritual or inspirational content, as well. Occasionally I get comments or feedback and on some occasions I even get a question or request to expound further, which in most cases, I do right there in the comments to the post.
On one such occasion I was asked a question that I feel would be more appropriate in a blog post. I’ve hesitated to respond to this particular question because my answer is of such a nature that it might be thought offensive or flippant and I really don’t want that to be how it is seen nor do I ever want to offend someone who is asking questions in a most sincere way. I’ve decided to proceed anyway but with the disclaimer that this is not intended to be a put down in any way.
First the post I put on Facebook and then the question that followed (http://fb.me/vWecbJXx).
My post: “Nothing, no one is orchestrating your experience. Stop tying yourself to reasons that have no reason.
The best excuse for living is that you already are. Get in to it! Awesome day! Carl”
Now the question: “Throw light on the matrix theory, some day, Carl. And also, how do you see it….in the light of the above quotation. My best wishes.”
Dear friend,
For me and in the simplest terms, I have no experience with the “matrix theory” and so in that sense it does not exist for me. Having said that, I don’t think about it at all other than in the context of something I call “junk food for the brain.” It is fascinating to listen to others speculate and expound on the complexities of such things and, of course, the movie “The Matrix” is a creative wonder that captivated the minds of millions of people including me. Still, I honestly don’t think about it nor do I find any discussion of it germane to my experience as a human being.
If “it” (the Matrix) is, then for me, “it” simply is and I am good with it. I often tell people to overcome and put aside their unique and, or their specific beliefs about things, as these are what binds us to an experience that is limited and often frustrating. In other words, I believe everything or nothing which is ultimately the same thing. It simplifies the experience of life by taking all the worry and concern out of it and leaves “it,” as I see it, pretty open to “all that is” which is, well, “all that is.”
My space alien friends and conspiracy theory friends and so many others who dwell on these things seem so wrapped up in the dangers and seedy underbelly of forces that are out to control us and take away our freedoms and life experience as we now know it and I still can’t get myself to alter any focus on anything other than this incredible experience I am constantly embraced by. I do love a good mystery and I am in constant aw and wonder at the creative ways the human mind can conjure all these things and yet at the same time who’s to say that any of it is untrue? Certainly not me. All I can offer is that I have no experience of it and you might already have heard me say that “nothing exists without our experience of it.” “Does a tree falling in the forest make a sound?” Not if I didn’t hear it. End of story…for me anyway!
As of yet, my post, which spawned your question, still holds, e.g., “nothing, no one is orchestrating your experience.” My experience has included the absolute awareness, and I often say, “it” is the one and only thing I know for sure” that “I am not this body.” I don’t know, believe or subscribe to anything else except this. I am not this body and this includes the mind, heart, feelings, consciousness and anything else we ascribe to human form. We experience “it” but we’re not “it.” We are something else that transcends human form and for me I couldn’t begin to describe it in terms the human mind could comprehend. So I don’t. I just accept that “something” is having this incredible human experience and what “it” is loves it completely without question or judgment.
Some may see this as incredibly simplistic and it is but oh my…what liberation! I don’t worry at all about the masters of the matrix or what the illuminati is doing to the world, or whether the crazy gods whoever they may be are doing to the world I create and experience. They, whoever they are, haven’t taken over any part of my experience yet so I’m living the dream. I take that back; the dream is living me!
I think I’ve answered the second part of your question. It doesn’t have any effect on my experience other than to provide a little mysterious fun (junk food) to my already wild imagination and as for what I get to be aware of in this experience, the matrix, the boogeyman de jour or the latest conspiracy theory, could not come close to imagining or affecting. My excuse for living, is, simply living. I love it all!
Thanks again for asking the question and bearing with my response. This has been fun for me and hopefully for you as well. All my best and please never hesitate to comment further, share your thoughts of this and many other subjects, or rebut my remarks. Life for me is pretty non-complex. I actually see it as a vacation; that is, a vacation of the Gods from the other things Gods do (this also means I think you’re God). Vacations are for relaxing, recharging, having fun and most of all not taking anything too seriously. I’m pretty good at it! All my love,
Carl
I was recently asked this question by a dear friend: “Carl can you share your thoughts on choosing thoughts that support ‘us’ and who is that chooser?”
I must admit that my response is somewhat disjointed but I think it does get to the point I am trying to make. Here is my response and by all means let me know your thoughts. This is a most important question to any seeker who moves through life “chopping wood and carrying water.”
An obvious response to such a question is to choose thoughts that are upbeat and positive and in a lot of new age thought, with emphasis on the Law of attraction, we are taught to choose only good thoughts and to even make judgments about how things are going by the way we think and feel about them. The fundamental problem with this idea of “choosing,” this or that, is that we give ourselves over to forces that somehow have control of our life experiences whether they be good or bad as we judge them. I have often said that “experiencing life from the standpoint of “how you feel” about something is not a realistic nor a good formula for life” simply because life is a “full on” mystery and we have no control over the events that are occurring, the people who cross our paths or circumstances we find ourselves in at any given time.
What we must unlearn is that we can somehow “think” our way to a so called “abundant” life. Any thought is likely to be against this because we are all taught that thinking is the only way to climb out of any “bad” situation we find ourselves in or the converse of this which is to think our way into maintaining the “good” situation we find ourselves in. Most New Age teachers go so far as to tell us that they can take us out of any adverse situation by simply following the formula they themselves have experienced even though their unique experience can never be yours or my experience no matter how hard we put our mind (thoughts) to it.
I have struggled with this question for many, many years and always come back to the saying that “we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” In other words, “WE” are not these bodies (which includes the mind and all its thoughts) so we need not take anything in our experience too seriously because we already are spiritual. I say we are more than the gods we create in our minds to subject ourselves too. So what thoughts support this? That really lies at the heart of the question and what we might think supports this likely does not.
At first blush we might look at the words of Paul the apostle who encouraged us to seek after things such as, “…whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. These are all things we would identify as “good” things to seek after and think about but there is a subtlety that is very misleading. All these things require a judgment which is the tool of ego to disassemble anything going on in life, e.g., this is good and this is bad. The ego always picks a side and puts all the arguments in front of it to divide from those who see “good or bad” in a completely different way.
Right and wrong is the ultimate tool of distraction and ego plays this well. Can you see this? It would have been just as effective for Paul to have said “whatever things are not pure, not virtuous, not lovely, etc., and you could not have wound up with a greater mess than we currently have amongst humans in the world. We are nuts with rightness and wrongness. So what should we think if “thinking” is the nature of the human and especially what do we think that supports us?
The only answer I have found satisfactory to me is to be contrary to what the mind thinks. That is when the mind wants to judge, don’t judge. When the mind wants to declare something good, erase the thought. When the mind wants to uphold a particular view accept the “other” view instead. Mind wants you to hold to an idea of good or bad; don’t do either. Another way to say it might be “seek not to be happy but seek to find happiness in those things that, otherwise, make you unhappy.” If you can get to this type of non-judgment and acceptance of what was once judged good or bad everything begins to “be” okay. That is, happiness, joy and all the other things we endlessly seek resonate within as a natural condition of our non-judgments. The mind leads away from happiness; it takes us “too” things that are supposed to make us happy but either don’t, or are very short lived.
Here is an example of a contrary thought that goes against a primary tenet of many of our judgments that says simply; “you deserve to be happy.” Well, “no you don’t! No one deserves to be happy. In fact no one deserves a life different from the one they are living. Do you see that this puts unnecessary requirements on something that is simply our nature when we determine that nothing we can do, say, think or believe can make us happy. Be happy…period.
Ultimately, you are probably gathering that I take the position that no thought is a good thought. Ego never has a thought that does not contain the motive that I am right and you are wrong and if we were all honest with ourselves we would recognize our own complicity with this greatest of all egoic tools. This is why I am such an advocate of limiting our thoughts. I know this doesn’t answer the question but outside of accepting “what is” without any judgment whatsoever, can I come up with thoughts that support us. In fact, you could say, the less we think about thoughts that support us the more likely we are to get to know “us,” meaning YOU that lies beneath the you that is merely the “thought” of you.
This leads to the second part of the question which is who is the chooser of the thoughts? This question for me is a bit easier to answer. My response is: “The chooser isn’t choosing the thoughts; the chooser is experiencing the thoughts the human is experiencing and is completely unattached to any thought, thought.” In other words, only humans react to “human thought.”
Ultimately, all I’ve got is “the thoughts that support us are the thoughts not thought.” Silence is always the ultimate support for in “stillness, god is known” and being face to face with that which YOU are requires no description or definition of any mind based thought. In fact, no mind could possibly conjure a description that came close to such knowing, even if the mind was working at one hundred percent. The most thoughtful thought is the thought that contains no judgment and that pretty much negates any thought. Don’t judge; now there’s a thought!