Amaya Gayle - Sweet, sweet Heart/ The precious gift

  Sweet, sweet Heart

Oh sweet heart of mine
Your hard shell designed to protect
Sweet, sweet heart
Your dear sacrifice understood.

It is time now
To break open in full praise
To sing the blessings of love
Long held at bay.

It is time now at long last
To let down the walls
To crack over the brittle barrier
To bow in sweet awe
At God’s pleasure
To smile in wonderment
At the mind’s attempt
To hold such grace
At a distance.

Yet, what success?

No further than a heart beat
No…closer
So close that it defies any concept
Of distance at all.

 

 

 The precious gift

What a precious gift this life!

Time to learn
The true meaning
Of Love!

Time to hold
Our lover close
And feel the beating of a heart.

Time to see
All our fears and dreams
In the eyes of the lover.

If we look close
Very close
To see our own face
Shining back at us
Through the lover’s smile!

To experience Oneness
As only multiplicity can.

What a precious gift
To move from God to life
And back home to God again!

 

 Check those:

 Love Letters to God

Love Letters to God…All That I Am

 Love Letters I am that I AM

~~~~~~~

 https://amayagayle.com/

facebook 

 

 

Antonia Lovejoy - The only place we can ever exist

 

"The seeker is the belief that this shift in perspective is somehow a gain, that it will be something wonderful that he or she will get.
There is often the belief that there will be a great gain in peace, happiness, wisdom and knowledge about the workings of the universe and or of god, or that you will simply be a better more special you.....nothing could be further from the truth.
Nobody really wants this, as it's the striping down of everything that is thought to be your reality....it's an unimaginable loss. It's the loss of anyone who has or wants knowledge or wisdom or even happiness and peace. It's the loss of you, the you who would or could be anything or any non-thing. It's the loss of everything.....your world......your universe....your life.
 What's left? Just the simplicity of whatever is "apparently" happening....no knowing of what's happening, yet seeming knowing can be what's happening.
 What's (apparently) happening is seen to be more like a flowing dreamscape that belongs to no one.....empty beyond empty, yet still quite ordinary. No inside, outside or other, just this complete, intimate, timeless immediacy.
 The concepts or conceptual overlay that make up the world of seeming separation, of real and solid things, or non-things, are seen to be just that, completely empty concepts with not even nothing underneath.
 Amazingly though, this conceptual overlay is now seen to be quite a beautiful treasure, as without it there are no stories, no you or I, no beauty, no love....it's the only place we can ever exist...it's what we are."

 

Antonia's  facebook

 

Kenneth Madden - Already whole and complete

 

This communication is in it’s essence very simple and paradoxically is beyond understanding.  It is the suggestion that what you have experienced as a separate ‘me’ is and always has been only an appearance.  What is being suggested here is that there is in actuality no such thing as a separate individual, or anything at all that exists in and of itself.  It is the really felt contracted sense of being separate to the world that gives rise to a yearning for wholeness.  In other words what we are all searching for, in myriad different ways, is to not be a separate ‘me’ and be complete and whole.  So whether I am trying to make a million euros or searching for spiritual enlightenment through becoming increasingly meditative and mindfully aware, what I am actually looking for is to not be a separate person, to be whole and complete.  Another way of saying this is that I am in fact searching for my own absence (not my expression, not sure of the  exact source to reference it.)

Here’s the thing though.  You are nothing other than already whole and complete- so what you are seeking and yearning for is what already is.  This, aliveness.  That is the divine comedy, that what you are in fact looking for is nothing other than what is and always has been and you have ran around like a headless chicken thinking it was something else, around the next corner etc.

​

This is what is suggested in life in Freefall.  What is being communicated here is either heard or it isn’t, there is no agenda here whatsoever.  If what is being suggested is heard this realization is beyond any experience a person could have and yet paradoxically ordinary as it is the seeing that you have always been home so of course it would be stunningly familiar and intimate to you.  It is in essence the remembering of child like wonder at the stunning newness of life, the immediate unknowable isness of everything.  That wonder turns stale as we grow into adults who are indoctrinated and conditioned into feeling that we have control over ‘our lives’ and that we are moving forward in time and space, that we are relating to the world around us and what happens to us is a result, in the main, of the choices we have made and continue to make.  The suggestion being made here is that this sense of volition and control, of time and space, is totally artificial and only apparently real.  It comes directly from one root and that is the sense that I am a separate person in the world, that I have a life as opposed to being life.

​

This communication is totally impersonal.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with what appears as an individual person or character.  It belongs to no-one.  It requires no understanding or interest in anything esoteric, spiritual or philosophical.  It may appear to be spiritual or philosophical and is certainly at the root of many of these major communications, but it is radically and incomparably different to communications and messages which speak directly to a separate individual person and advise, direct or recommend methods by which they can find what they are looking for.   Nothing is on offer here and this communication is clearly expressing that you are already that which you seek, you are already whole and complete.  There is absolutely no hope to be found here as hope is an emphatic rejection of what is in favour of what could be.  When what is being suggested here resonates and is realized fully (not in a conceptual sense) life is seen as it really is once more; indescribably full and in absolute freefall.

​

This is it, this is what you’re looking for, already just simply this.  Don’t get hung up on the language or terms used here, the message is absolutely energetic and is more concerned with a resonance then any kind of conceptual or intellectual knowing or understanding.  Although there are words used, this communication is pointing towards something that cannot be said but is more stunningly ordinary and familiar then could possibly be expressed.  This message is shared in a spirit of friendship and openness, for to the delight of being seen as nothing other then already whole and complete is without conditions or clauses, borders or divisions.  It is a message that can’t and does not need to be thought.  There are no teachers, no gurus, no masters.  It recognizes no authority whatsoever.  You are not being asked to believe anything here.

What you look for is wildly and ridiculously ordinary and free.  You are free, already totally boundlessly free. 

 

 https://www.kennethmadden.net/

 

Jim Newman - This illusion of the personal

 

art Parablev

 

 

 "The separate sense is on a mission, it is searching for the impossible to know the end of itself, the end of the fear of death, the end of separation. The non- dual reality. In this search it will always fail. The situation for the sense of self is completely hopeless. As is its efforts to control its life by repeating the pleasurable and avoiding the painful which is the simple description of its entire life. There is no free will - that is another illusion.

The good news is, there is no such thing as separation. What the separate sense of self is looking for is all there is. There is only that. This. This is not particular or exclusive. It is everything exactly as it is. Everything is an expression of wholeness, everything is the end of the sense of separation which the separate sense is looking for but in looking the separate sense can only register something, the particular.

When this reality is recognized, it is seen that there is no separation, that the sense of separation was simply a dream, that it never happened, there is no and never was a separate self in the whole of everything. Everything paradise is perfect and complete. But nothing changes, as there never was separation. The appearance is no longer informed by the search for the end of the fear of death and the neurotic outcroppings of that search, but everything is still, everything. In the absence of the search there is a unknowable wonder that this what is, can be, just that it appears, a quiet awesomeness that is this meaningless purposeless explosion of everything, which is an anarchy of love. Absolute freedom appearing as whatever is.

In sharing this, it may be recognized, resonated with. Sometimes there is the registration, that this is undeniable although there is no recognition, simply a refreshing understanding that seems to ring true somewhere and the straightjacket "me" may loosen or even fall away completely.

As the message is that there is nothing to find, it is already this, the separate sense of self has no part to play in the recognition. There is either an impersonal willingness or there is not.

It, this, is everything, completely impersonal and has nothing to do with what the separate sense feels or thinks.

NON DUALISM turns the way one normally thinks of enlightenment and spirituality on its head. Non Duality is a revolution. The simplicity of the message is absolutely undeniable. It reveals, that the search for enlightenment is in itself the continuation and confirmation of the separation.

Non Duality is a description of what can not be described, hence the negative non. Or what it is not, there are not two. The “two” being pointed to are all the opposites of existence, perception or the basis for experience.

It is obvious there is experience and perception so what is “not two”? And why can it not be said? “Not two” is pointing to the reality that perception and the experience of two is not what it seems to be. Experience seems to be the basis of what is. Non Duality acknowledges that fact but says perception and experience are distorted, made exclusive, by the experience of what is as personal.

The experience of being a person results in a transformation of all experience, that it is personal. That, what is happening, is happening to me. This veils the reality that experience being non dual in nature, is in reality empty. It is not happening to me, it is just happening.

How does this happen? The experience of being a person is the result of the body being experienced as the center of what is happening. This experience of being the center has a gravity or pressure to it. In reality the gravity or pressure is simply a feeling which happens, with no claim of center or of being personal, it has the flavor of “here”. The pressure of here incites a false claim, that this gravity or pressure is personal, that it signifies a center. This assumption or false claim is the beginning of the person and the personal story. This changes the impersonal everything or what is seemingly happening being obviously center less to: this is happening to “me”, a center.

The consequence of the assumption of an "I" is the personal story. This assumption or false claim is a reaction. The entire personal life which flows out of this false claim is also a reaction. A reaction to a reaction to a reaction... A reaction experiencing itself as the cause. As a cause it assumes free will and choice, meaning and purpose.

Of course free will and choice as well as meaning and purpose only make sense when the person is a cause, as a reaction, they are meaningless.

This illusion of the personal, the illusion of the separate person, which hides the reality that what is seemingly happening is not really “two”, is the impersonal appearing personal. Timelessness appearing as time. This illusion that defines itself by experience hides the fact, that experience as the basis of everything is empty. That knowing - for example I am - is not a cause but a reaction, hiding the reality that there is no “I” or “am”.

There is no real cause and what is, is not a result. The known is an appearance. An appearance is what it is, but it is not, what it seems to be. As long as the appearance is perceived as exclusively real, it is being taken for what it is not. What is, is empty. All appearance is empty.

“What is” is not logical, is not a conclusion. It is indescribable because there is no other to compare it to. The appearance is describable, it is the “is not” which is indescribable. As what is, is simultaneous “is” and “is not”, it is beyond description. Although what is is not describable, there are words that seems to arise: paradise, perfect, awesome, pure, free, absolute, infinite, love."

 

 http://www.simply-this.com/

 

 

 

Barry Long - Feelings

image Benoit Courti

 

“I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we’ve been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.

Love is not a feeling; it’s a sensation. Drinking water when you’re thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you’re tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don’t need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.

But in our ignorance we emotionalise joy, beauty and love. We make feelings of them, personal interpretations based on our old emotions. We put our personal past on the present with the result that joy, beauty and love don’t seem to last. But it’s our emotional substitutes that don’t last and we become bored, discontented and unhappy again. The sensation or knowledge of joy, beauty and love is of course still there but it’s overwhelmed by these coarser feelings.

Feelings are constantly changing. None is dependable for long. You can love someone intensely today, and tomorrow or next month not feel a thing. Except perhaps for the feeling of doubt or depression that what was so beautiful could change so quickly.

Feelings, even the best of them, turn to negativity – disappointment, anger, discontent, resentment, jealousy, guilt, etc. A good feeling starts off being elevating, exciting, like taking a drug substance, alcohol or having sex. But what goes up must come down and feelings are no exception. So in a couple of hours or days the down side starts and you perhaps wonder why you feel moody, depressed, suicidal or just plain unhappy. You’re paying the piper for yesterday’s music. And between the upside and the downside is the no-man’s and no-woman’s land of boredom, indifference, inertia, weariness and pointlessness.

Okay, so you don’t have drugs, alcohol and sex but you love someone, as a feeling. Then it won’t be long before you’ll be experiencing one or more of the painful feelings I’ve mentioned above – and thinking it’s natural! Wait and see. Even in every day living you’re continually interpreting experience via your emotions instead of being the experience direct. “This is good, that’s bad,” your feelings swing subtly to and fro all day long obscuring the reality, the sensational knowledge or gnosis that it’s not bad at all; it’s simply life as it is.

All feelings are false and deceptive. […] Enlightenment is to be emptied (not empty) of feelings and thus at one with the pure sensation of divine being. And that pretty well sums up the whole spiritual process. But the spiritual process is so little understood that people don’t realise their feelings are personal and false and have been misleading them all their life. If that’s not true, why is humanity still unenlightened and basically unhappy after all this time – when enlightenment is the completely natural, sensational state of being every moment?

By disidentifying with your feelings you break your attachment to them. When that is done sufficiently you’re back at the beginning, in pure sensation or unconditioned knowledge. You’ve been beating your head against the wall to get some feelings and all you’ve got to do is break the habit and get used to living anew without pain and conflict. But that’s a mighty realisation, and a mighty simple one which few are going to accept – they’ll be too busy defending their feelings! So, I guess I’ll still be demonstrating this the day I die.” 

 

continue reading here

http://www.barrylong.org/ 

 

 

Clare Blanchflower - Devotion Is/Just This

Devotion Is

In the willingness
to be so fully undone
For all strategies to end
Surrender is here

To see and be seen
in the light
of what is

To rest
as undefended
presence
at the feet of Life

Being humbled
again and again
As threads
of defense
dissolve
and the true power
of Being
is embodied
Life living itSelf

A pure power
that wants nothing
A power
that says
I don’t know
there is no knowing
there is only this

And the eternal heart
beats in
silent reverence
Devotion Is

 

Just This

Fall at the feet
of Being
Dare to
fall off your perch
Use your wings
to fly
Actually fly
into the infinity
of You
Surrender your
position as
a somebody
Be a nobody
Fall into your Self
Into the emptiness
of Now
Be free
Truly
Utterly
Free

 

http://clareblanchflower.com/ 

 

Robert Wolfe - Freeing your thoughts

 

photo H.kopp delaney

 

 

You want to know what is meant when you see the phrase “thought-free”.

If you concern yourself with whether you are thought-free or not thought-free, would it be possible to be “thought free”, in that circumstance?

As the Dzochen Rinpoche Tulku Orgyen has commented:

“Checking, ‘Is there a thought now; or (am I) free of thought?’— isn’t that just another thought?”
These teachers speak of a “natural” mind. During your day, all sorts of thoughts come and go, spontaneously arising and dissolving, like surf washing up on a beach. Isn’t this what is natural to all of us?

Tulku Rinpoche has said, “ it is not beneficial to continuously pursue a special, thought-free mental state. Rather, simply allow yourself to be in naturalness, free of any fabrication”; that is, conceiving of, and attempting to engineer, some special state of mind or condition for thought. “Thought-free means free of conceptual thinking,” he states.

Tulku’s eldest son, Chokyi Nyima also speaks of the dualistic distinction between “thought” as compared to “thought-free”.

“What is to be practiced has nothing to do with thoughts and conceptual mind…The main practice is to simply rest vividly awake in this nondual awareness. Relax loosely, and remain naturally. Totally relax and do not check or question; remain totally free from accepting or rejecting—that is the conducive situation for meeting the natural face of awareness. Apart from this, you don’t need anything else to meditate upon.

“Whenever something is denied, something is affirmed at the same time. Whenever something is rejected, another thing is automatically accepted. This dualism is the very nature of conceptual judgment.

“When not involved in any kind of conceptual judging, that itself is innate suchness, thought-free wakefulness, and genuine ordinary mind.”

He has further stated:

“When leaving this fresh ordinary mind as it is, without correcting or modifying it, without altering it in any way, without accepting and rejecting, there is no fixating on anything.
“In the guidance manuals for meditation, it is often phrased like this: do not alter your present fresh wakefulness. Do not rearrange even as much as a hair tip. Just leave it exactly as it is. This is very profound, and there is a lot to understand here…

In the present moment, do not correct,
Do not modify,
Do not accept or reject.
Don’t try to rearrange your present wakefulness.
Instead, leave it as it naturally is
Without any attempt to alter it in any way.
That is called sustaining your natural face.”

Another son of Tulku Rinpoche, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, speaks in detail about the innate naturalness of the mind free of such dualistic concepts as thought versus no thought:
“Like many of the people I now meet on teaching tours, I thought that natural mind had to be something else, something different from, or better than, what I was already experiencing. Like most people, I brought so much judgment to my experience. I believed that thoughts of anger, fear, and so on (that came and went throughout the day) were bad or counterproductive—or at the very least inconsistent with natural peace! The teachings of the Buddha—and the lesson inherent in this exercise in non-meditation—is that if we allow ourselves to relax and take a mental step back, we can begin to recognize that all these different thoughts are simply coming and going within the context of an unlimited mind, which, like space, remains fundamentally unperturbed by whatever occurs within it.
​
“All you have to do is rest your mind in its natural openness. No special focus, no special effort, is required. And if for some reason you cannot rest your mind, you can simply observe whatever thoughts, feelings, or sensations come up (hang out for a couple of seconds and then dissolve) and acknowledge, ‘Oh, that’s what’s going on in my mind right now.’ Wherever you are, whatever you do, it’s essential to acknowledge your experience as something ordinary, the natural expression of your true mind. If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense of relaxation, a vast sense of openness within your mind—which is in fact your natural mind, the natural unperturbed background against which various thoughts come and go.”

 

 

facebook

http://www.livingnonduality.org/