“Words hurt,” it is often said, but they only hurt because we have been conditioned to live by the opinions of others. Do you see? What is beyond human ego is never disturbed, offended, hurt, or angered by what other egos think or say. Hurtful words are egoic and can only hurt another ego, which is not what YOU are. In other words, only egos- that is, your ego care about the thoughts expressed by others. “Words hurt,” but only because you (your ego) think they mean something. Take what you think out of the words you hear; words ring in your ears because your ears are ringing. The ringing stops when your thinking stops, and the clash of egos is nothing more than the folly of humans making something real out of nothing.
Bozebits
In your efforts to “become,” make sure “you,” that is, the real you, are who you become. Too often, we are told that to be a certain way, to gain personal wealth, achievement, or station in life, we should surround ourselves with others who possess the same or similar traits or imitate them; you know, “Act as if.” Becoming what you aren’t is too great a loss, and such endeavors cost far too much. In the end, no one asks you who you became; they only know “what you are, or “what you pretend to be.” Don’t pretend; be “you” always. You’ll always be better at “you” than some imitation!
Bozebits
Meaning in life is too imaginative. That is, what you believe your life’s meaning is is full of imaginary descriptions of why things happen as they do. Do you see? Ego so desperately wants to know every detail of an incomprehensible mystery that it makes stuff up under the guise of “this is what this means.” YOU are Gods, temporarily possessing human form, which is without meaning or purpose and especially without passing or failing grades for not having “learned,” again, an imaginary lesson your mind has made up. Living fully is living without imagination; that is, making stuff up about why you live (as a human) at all. Push yourself into the real and keep your mind out of it; your mind simply cannot compete with reality. You’re going to “make it” no matter how it plays out! In other words, if you’re looking to have fun, stop imagining it and just do it.
Bozebits
Your mind is a dawdler that keeps you on the hook by convincing you that all that you desire, strive to become, and seek will surely come about if you just wait a little longer, have a little more faith and hope, do this thing or that, or commit yourself to certain gurus, teachers, or philosophies. And all the while, “what is” slips into the abyss never to be seen or heard from again, except in your mind. As long as you believe you have somewhere to go other than here, now, your mind will dawdle, and you will stay hooked on fantasy and, sadly, miss the greatest spectacle in the universe. That is, the universe YOU create this moment, but “think” should be something else. Stop thinking, and the dawdling stops. See what you’ve created; best of all, it didn’t take a single thought!
Bozebits
The truth of you, as told in the story you tell, is not the real story of you. It’s what you don’t tell. Ego needs to claim its victories over life’s tribulations, its comebacks, and rising from the ashes, but it does so to paint over the real, which is untold. No ego is humble enough to reveal the truth. That’s just its nature. So what to do?
The best story is no story. You express what YOU are by living what is, as is, and all that needs telling is alive and real without embellishment, and all who actually hear quietly marvel. That’s because what YOU are is marvelous, despite the story you think others must hear. Plain and simple. Nothing you say speaks louder than what YOU are.
Bozebits
There are no levels of spirituality. You cannot rise above others without separating yourself from them, which contradicts the very essence of oneness, spirituality purports to encompass. The master who points to anyone and claims that they are not as far along in the spiritual journey as themselves or others is broken. If WE are all one, then no one rises above the whole. No one! Love all and judge not; that’s how it works.
Bozebits
The only thing hard about humans is ego. Ego is the shell you form to protect yourself from the onslaught of other egos, and all egos, even the collective ego, are in protective mode. Love and expressions of love are the only way to soften both your own and the ego of others. Show and express love often! Smile, nod, and be kind. Ego always has to mellow in such interactions.
Bozebits
Oneness is ubiquitous. That is, YOU are everything, and nowhere in all existence are YOU not found. Your mind (ego), however, separates you from everything but takes great pride in statements such as, “we are all one, etc.” Do you see? “You, separate from me, and I separate from you are one” is still separation. Being present is awareness without a definition of an “I,” seeking to merge with all. You cannot seek that which touches everything, and YOU are everything! That is, right up until you think you are everything. Oneness is not a thought; it just is. So let it be.
Bozebits
What you think, believe, or claim to know requires an ego to defend it. What YOU are outside of ego clings to nothing, which subdues an ego ready to fight. Know YOU; that is YOU, who has no description and is undefinable. YOU will not be found on a battlefield driven by egoic strategies but only on the pristine meadow of peace, solitude, and warm, gentle breezes. You’ll know it when you let go of what you know.
Bozebits
The voice you hear and pay attention to is your voice. That is the voice of ego ‘sorting things out” according to its rules and judgments. It is the most erroneous voice you know, and it creates the false narrative of what is. The voice you don’t hear never judges, complains, makes stuff up about what happens, or seeks to be right. It embraces life in quiet and thrills in each moment it participates in the grand mystery of human experience. It is the voice that never condemns another and shows only kindness to all “forms.” If you listen, you will hear it, but never if you are thinking. Shhh; mystery is afoot!