I have ideas about things, and I like this and I don’t like that. I have desires and fears, and I want this and I don’t want that. I have opinions, and I believe this and I don’t believe that. I have expectations, and I expect this and I don’t expect that. I have acquired knowledge from my past and it tells me who I am. If the circumstances that arise in life are in alignment with my concept of reality, then I feel good. If they are otherwise, then I feel bad. Peace to my conceptually created sense of self means getting what “I” like, want and expect, and avoiding what “I” fear. As you can see, this is an extremely fragile sense of peace. It is easy for life to present me with an experience that I don’t like, want or expect. When this happens as it must, I lose all sense of peace and I simply feel bad in one manner or another (i.e. sad, angry, depressed, afraid). This dynamic plays itself out in the context of all of my human relationships when I encounter life through the veil of my idea of things. By surrendering all concept of yourself, You are Being and Life itself. You are not the totality of Being because you think of yourself this way. You are this totality of Being Experience because you do not achieve any sense of your True Self from the thoughts of mind. By not thinking of yourself, you simply are, and this Being is realized as un-nameable, unformed and totally present. This is a truly radical transformation of human consciousness. It is the transformation from ignorance to true intelligence and wisdom. It is the transformation from individuation and the pain of separation to universal Beingness and the Love and Peace that is the intimate experience of a whole sense of Self. With the collapse of the love/hate cycle, True Love is revealed spontaneously. Where prior to the transformation there appeared to be “you,” “your wife or husband” and “your child,” Now, only a conscious awareness of Being is. You exist awake as an open field of conscious Presence and the dream of separate bodies and minds is known for the mental illusion it is. Now the dream may be perceived as a teaching device of Consciousness that merely tests the power and depth of our Self-Realization. “Am I whole or divided, am I complete now or lacking,” Consciousness asks? (Sundance Burke)
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:56:57 +0000
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