Life, for most of us, is a formulation, a description based solely on conditioning and the ultimate acceptance that “this is how it is.” The range is extensive and varies from “I matter; I don’t matter, I’m good; I’m bad, etc.,” but it’s not which side of the range you see yourself or others on. It’s that you embrace a range of any scale at all! Do you see? As long as you hold to your description of the world and feed it with all the supporting “collective evidence” that you are right, you will always be bound to your judgments, and sadly, miss the beauty before you. In other words, you cannot rise above what you believe.
You can, however, cease to believe anything and come to know only the splendor that cannot be judged. Such “splendor” is everywhere and in everyone. Yes, even YOU!
Bozebits
Your point of view is your tyranny; thus, it is your point of distraction. That is, you’re right, and everybody else is wrong, separates you from the whole to which you belong. No Point of view is worth the divide between brother and sister, especially if it comes with anger and unkindness. Things like love, compassion, kindness, joy, mercy, and grace are innate in each of us, but they only surface when we are free from the distractions of right and wrong. So, stop the game of being right or wrong.
Let the “innate” that already is your nature be your only face. Such a face repels no one.
Bozebits
The supplication of all desire is that God, The Universe, Source, or some other defined or undefined higher power will give you what you want, but what you want is always a development of mental processes. Do you see?
Your mind seeks only “other” that lies outside what YOU know, which cannot be defined. In other words, your desires steer you away from the source of all that is, e.g., YOU. Thinking of “better” rather than “what is” removes you from reality and into the unreality of what isn’t, and even if you somehow get to “what isn’t” at a later time, “desire” for something else will soon spur you on to “other,” again, and again, and again.
Knowing YOU, beyond any mental “knowing,” frees you from what you think and sets you into the actual real that few ever experience. There is nothing that is not YOU, but you’ll never get there through thought. The saying, “desire lights the fire,” might better be said, “desire snuffs out the fire.” Know YOU, and you will never “not” know joy, peace, and happiness!
Bozebits
Your judgments are the evidence your mind develops to separate you from the world and others. It is a colossal refusal to know yourself and reality. If others or the world, in general, offend you, you are in denial of the nightmare that rages within yourself. Until you awaken from that “outward-looking,” your fitful dreaming will prevent you from ever seeing what YOU are.
Your awakening is not a change in the world or in what you perceive as wrong or right. It is your reunion with it and the joyful realization that YOU are not a dream but the Creator of those who do. Reunite, and there is your love, your reality, and eternal peace.
Bozebits
Strip away all you identify with, such as political or religious affiliations, beliefs, philosophies, causes, friendships, education, notoriety, acclaim, social status, ownership of things, career or school, positions, accomplishments, etc., and you end up in a place where no thought can stick to anything. At least anything worth thinking about. Do you see?
What you see yourself as, in human perspective, tears you away from knowing what YOU are. Your mind invents drama and game playing that is so superficial and unimportant that it usurps the very freedom you think you are entitled to, but don’t have, because what you think takes form in the game your mind is playing. Set the game aside, even for just a short while. This is the power of quiet, silence, and meditation. No purpose whatsoever, and no trying to get something you think you need. Keep even your most sublime memories out of the quiet, and YOU emerge, unremembered, but never having gone away. Then, enjoy, YOU; that’s all that’s left.
Bozebits
Your mind is a thing that generates thoughts that seek out things in three-dimensional form, which culminate in your identity with those things. Do you see? Accumulation of “things” does little more than give your mind reasons to identify with those things and just more things to think about.
When you are told to surrender “things,” your mind goes into a struggle, that something must be given up, but that is not surrendering; it’s resistance, and another thing to get you thinking. Surrender and the ultimate freedom it ensures is taking away the power that your thoughts have invested in things. In other words, it frees you from thinking about “things” to think about.
Identity is a thing, and anything you think you are (identify as) distracts from the real. YOU cannot be thought or imagined, but YOU can be known, but that happens only when you have nothing left to “think” about. What to do? Start undoing things by not thinking about them!
Bozebits
Freedom is not what you think. The inalienable has no definition and is no possessor of the free. If you “think” you have a “right” to anything you believe qualifies as freedom, you are no longer free. You are a slave to your thoughts; we all are. However, you will always have “what is,” and that requires nothing from you but living it.
Bozebits
Your “spiritual searching” sidelines reality and removes you from the only possible place where transformation can take place. That is right here, right now. Hoping for something other than “what is” delays any opportunity to experience what your silence already knows.
At any given moment, yes, even this moment, YOU are already far above any dream you have. Opening your mind to dreams is closing your mind to reality. YOU, present, is the only dream worth experiencing.
Bozebits
If the thoughts that emanate from your mind drive a search, or process, formula, etc., it is objectification. All your mind is capable of doing is objectifying reality and does so by naming, defining, organizing, and maintaining a memory that narrowly views “what is.” Your mind is the heartbeat of illusion and the prison walls surrounding reality.
What is real, including YOU, cannot be known through or by your mind. Human understanding can only parse, split up, and minimize “what is,” and the cost is a life of fragmented bits and pieces coupled with narrowly focused and often nutty assertions.
You are infinitely more than you can think, but thinking prevents you from such awareness. Does it not seem obvious what to do? Regardless of what you “think,” have an undefined and incredible day!
Bozebits
It is far too easy to look at “what is” with regret and belabor your place in collective insanity than to accept “what is” with humility, determination, and live life as a challenge regardless of what it serves up. Awareness is not subdivided by what you or anyone else thinks it should be.
The crux of enlightenment is that you were born with it, taught to turn it off, but still have it even though it is buried under a whole lot of “mind-made” nonsense. Uncovering what YOU are, before you were conditioned otherwise, transforms the world and enriches its mystery. Lose the vocabulary that says what enlightenment is or how it is obtained. You’re swimming in it!
Living mystery, without regret, is the ultimate joy, and the whys and hows cease to challenge your awareness. It’s a leap that will take your breath away, but oh my, what a thrill!