Joy thrives regardless of circumstances. That is your circumstances or anyone else’s that you think is better or worse than yours. Having or getting adds confusion and anxiety to a mind beset with more of what it doesn’t have, and joy, happiness, and contentment are the cost. Realizing “what YOU are” is inexplicable joy carried evermore into where you are regardless of the circumstances. In other words, YOU’ve got it all. Why not enjoy it?
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The mind is eager to jump on board with new buzz words, concepts, and “aha’s,” but the typical mechanism for doing so is “weaponized philosophy” that often looks like “I must comprehend, integrate and blend “mentally” (with all the crap I think and believe already) so this “new thing” can find a permanent place in me.” Do you see?
Trying to control, deny, or repress philosophically “what is” will never alter “what is.” It will, however, embed deeper into what you wish to replace, undo, or integrate. Reality is always and only “what it is,” and you never “get it” by trying to understand it. “Getting it” is living “it” as a present-moment experience. All discovery happens in the present, not the thought of the present but the unconscious experience of it, just as it is.
Don’t try clearing your mind of what you don’t want or like. There is always a blue sky” that is there regardless of a cloudy mind. Holster your weapons (philosophy) and embrace the clouds with nary a thought that something is wrong and needs fixing. See, it’s already clearing!
Bozebits
Awareness is not time-sensitive; nothing infinite is. Once touched by the hand of awareness, nothing you think you lost to it can ever hold you captive to regret or sadness. YOU reside in the never-ending moment of eternity, and its realization frees you from the finite quandaries of an indulgent mind that continually seeks gratification and approval. You never need to spend time getting what is when “what is” is everything. YOU know this!
ALL is before you but, more realistically, because of YOU. Hence, you never need more time because you’ve never lost anything to it. Find a moment of awareness; it will look much like YOU without the gobbledegook!
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
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
To the extent of what you know, you may be right, but can you ever be sure if you don’t know everything there is to know?
Question your “rightness” until you are sure that you know more; infinitely more, which, if you consider it, will never come about because infinity is unfathomable and unknowable. A good practice until you do “know everything” is to say nothing at all as a defense of what you “know.” It will make for more “peace” in your life, too.
Bozebits
Making life work requires an act of love so great that the impossibility of knowing how to do it never prevents you from living it with starry-eyed wonder and amazement. Knowing that you may never know is the only fuel required to make it work, and loving any outcome the joy you experience, having done so. Love your living, and life always works.