Two Autumns by Mikhail Trakhtenberg
Two Autumns by Mikhail Trakhtenberg
check out some beautiful Nature pictures Here
“Self-knowing” is not a religious belief, nor is it a method, because
we do not anticipate any ideals to reach, nor set out with a goal in
mind, by doing or not doing something. Will, effort, imagination, faith,
repeating formulas or mental analysis are unnecessary, for the simple
reason that all these are connected to the past and, therefore, they are
part of the “ego”. This imaginary structure can only repeat old facts,
increasing its “self-importance”.
Any method, no matter how promising, can only fortify the structure
of the “ego”, further increasing the chaos within the individual.
Functioning on this level, we ourselves set the traps and we fall into
them. The reality of these facts demonstrates, beyond any doubt, that we
are the victims of our own “ego”.
In practicing “Self-knowing”, we start only from “what is” — from the
reality of facts appearing before us each moment, in the unfolding
movement of the Aliveness. We need not do anything other than to come
into direct contact with all these apparitions: thoughts, emotional
states, desires, images etc. It is just a simple meeting, without
pursuing any results or expectations.
The simplicity of the encounter with the movements of the “ego” leads
to their disappearance. Both the encounter and the spontaneous
disappearance of the reactions of the mind confirm the reality of
“Knowing”. In this emptiness, we are a simple state of “being” or “Pure
Consciousness”.
Only in this perfect meeting does a new perspective open; the Sacred
within us manifests itself as Love, Intelligence and absolute Purity.
We can search the whole world, as well as everything that the human
mind has imagined or invented, be we will never find anything comparable
to the efficiency of this simple encounter, as a state of “Nothingness”
or “Psychological Zero”.
The “emptiness” or passiveness of the mind — provided by lucid
Attention — is an abyss, in which the old, egocentric, arrogant, fearful
man disappears. Simultaneously with his disappearance, the true nature
of our being is revealed — without beginning or end, in its essence
immortal Divinity. This is the new man, destined to create a different
world, in which Love and its hallowing impulses is present everywhere,
creating a true Paradise on our planet.
Read more on Ilie Cioara Here
No comments:
Post a Comment