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You think there is a world out there to see, and to experience. In fact, it's not true, don't you see, there is nothing at all outside you, it's all you, everything you see, everywehre you go, all you do is you. All is a manifestation of Me, there are not any separate objects or different places. It's only your limited human consciousness causing you to see objects and people and places and things. There is No-thing. Can I say it more clearly, can I reach you? Stop eating, do not play the material game any longer.
You may think that demons and evil people foisting a plot upon the world, and fear their machinations, but the joke is on you. In fact it is all an extension of yourself, and they literally are you. There is no 'other', only ignorance and lack of universal awareness. Lacking faith, you fear death, and in the short run, disease, starvation, pain and imprisonment. Surely, relative states of perception are not trivial, and not easily overcome, but start with clear sight, and speaking the truth as you know it, as awkward and unrealistic as it may sound to you at this early stage in your growth.Everyone that ever hurt you in your life is you. You are the maker, you chose it. Stop choosing pain. You are them, so if something or someone is making you angry, do not look to correct them, correct yourself for you are a fool, they are you. So look to yourself, look inside yourself, and ask, "Have I never done anything wrong, am I without salt, without blame, have I never hurt anyone? So, one-by-one, step-by-step, make your own life true, and all will be revealed to you. A heavenly joy is yours for the asking, do not look outside yourself, for nothing is out there, all is within you.
Suffering is not fundamentally due to external circumstances, but is an occupation of mind. The limitation of not seeing that all sense processing is done in the brain, and it's more our participation and involvement in the outcomes of material occupation that lead to suffering, rather than any external, substantive event or process.The two-dimensional representation, whether in painting or sand, is a beginner's tool. The real mandala is three-dimensional and more, a sphere of activity and understanding, experienced all around us as participatory. The diagrams represent real castles and flowers, not drawn figures. You see a grand mandala all around you in your everyday life, but perhaps the connection and relationship isn't obvious.
There are no beings, only being. All semmingly distinct objects are in fact one smooth banket of snow on the mountain, the individual snowfakes bright in their beauty and uniqueness, but at the same time belonging to, 'a part of' and not 'apart from,' the whole smooth blanket of snow covering the side of the mountain. Each snowflake both apart and separate, and together and integral, belonging to and participating in, making both one thing and many.
In short, the phenomenological, material world is just as much supreme bliss and enlightenment as much as it is nothingness. This is the secret teaching, that there is a seeming contradiction at root nature of reality. Lucky to see the all-encompassing, undivided nature, lucky to see the nothingness, lucky to see the inherent magical nature and heavenly love and wisdom, for who is loving and wise, if not the Lord.
All things are both eternel and ephemeral two in one, unity in apparent duality, only seemingly differing due to perspective. Seeing the many in the one, calling them out by name and making useful association for a lifetime, all rejoins the maker in timeless, spontaneous nature. Naming the parts of the whole as separate, the names convince and confuse, and language is the limitation.
Over-identification with self has temporarily blinded you, stripped you of your power, and the knowledge of who you are. Sit on a four-inch stool for five hours a day, every other day for a few years. You may take breaks to eat a little, and stretch your back against a wall, intermittantly fasting, and performing selfless service.
Alan Watts wrote in 'The Book,' along the lines of Zen Buddhism, 'the outline of your body is at the same time the inline of the rest of the universe, and the seemingly concrete differentiation between self and the outside universe is more arbitrary than it may appear, a product of human sensation and perception, rather than a factual state of reality.'
A man sculpting clay certainly, but let it not be you who is sculpting. As the chair-makers of old, let your simple craft be the vehicle of your meditation. Watch your hands moving, and pay attention, developing a trance state, unconcerned with time passing nor the result of the sculpting, either good or bad. Let a table at the appropriate height and a firm chair with a sitting pad be your station. Sit and improve your posture for hours daily. Singing too if that appeals to you, but not in the Wat. No need to visit many Wats, just find a good community and practice there, or nearby. When you find a great wat, with exceptional practicing monks who accept your presence, then buy the table and chair. A good sitting pad and large mosquito nets are basic equipment. A good folding chair also.
Having passed beyond the door of knowingness, having experienced realization, the master dances in the moonlight, enjoying the cool breeze upon his face. The difference is that he has rejoined his essential nature, no longer a thing apart from the rest of the universe. Certainly people are born and die, having bodies and lives in-between, but the false identification as a thing apart blocks the flow of essential energy and magic. As Alan Watts said, The outline of your body is at the same time the inline of the rest of the universe, and there is no particular separation involved between the two parts.
Theirs was a river-like yoga, sustaining nonconceptual awareness, whether in meditation, during household duties, or while conducting village ceremonies. The yogi’s awareness, like a mirror, allows whatever object that may present itself to appear perfectly just as it is, without attachment or aversion arising. Sights, smells, sounds, feelings, and emotions can appear without the yogis becoming particularly flustered or flattered; rather, they rest in the awareness of eternal, undifferentiated being, whatever arises.
There can be no argument with anybody, for in argument with another, you are apart from the other, and apart from the whole. For their can be no argument within one body, and there is no other body, nobody, no more than yourself, no else, and nothing apart from you.
There were two roads, a small one leading around a rock upwards towards heavenly light, and a larger road leading downwards towards despair and suffering, self, and ultimately, separation from heavenly inflow. A rock stands at the junction, the division, attended by an angel. 'Choose your path wisely,' said the angel with flaming, all-seing eyes sitting near the rock, placidly sharpening her mighty sword. 'You cannot serve two masters so which will you serve, the good or the evil, the light or the dark, self or all, for the choice is yours, and where your heart leads you, your soul will follow. Will you choose the things of this life, unseeing and limited by human frailty, or will you choose the greater life, serving all who have come before and all who will come after? For the time of choice is at hand, and the penalty for sin is death.' Saying unto you again, 'Choose, for the choice is yours.'
You cannot serve both masters. Choose, for the time of choice is ever upon you, like when you were drowning, swimming in deep waters, out of your depth, almost died, beyond your station, beyond your ability, and given path. I was there, I saved you for a purpose. Do you remember the agreement we struck? You said it out loud in your heart, I heard you screaming for me, drowning, and I saved you. You promised, so keep your word. You said that If I saved you, you would be some good to someone, do some good in my world. So get to work. It is your turn now, I kept my part of the bargain. I saved your life, don't waste my time, keep your part, do your part, make the effort, I will show you. Don't waste good hands, and willing spirit. Why didn't you reach out before? You were 24. It has been many years, so get to work.
The road diverges both left and right, upwards and below. Will you choose wisely this time, to survive, to keep going? You said you were strong enough. You approached me, You asked did you not? Then give up your life. Give away your money. Stop trying so hard. Take a break, or you will break and be broken, useless and worthless. Take heed, for I am the judger, I am the looker, I am the knower of souls. You cannot hide. And trust me, you don't even want to hide, not deep within your soul. I know that you know. You're smart and beautiful in your knowing. Be fearless and brave, secure and safe in me, nothing can be taken from you, you are limitless.
An animal when held down and forced commonly reacts by either struggling to flee, or fighting to the best of its ability, even unto death. If caged, it loses vigor and may be depressed, without passion, love of life. In human beings, we may lose memory and sight of freedom, forgetting the key to happiness and life. Either trapped in ignorance or weighed down by material survival or fear of attack, we may lose the battle without even a fight. We may become habituated to social and legal custom, just as an animal born in captivity may lack awareness of the example of their brave ancestors.Here live men and women who are always tired, doing that of which they are required. But all men and women die before completing the work given, so overcome death through living life moment by moment, and working together for common goals, leave our individual bodies behind while yet still alive. Don't be blinded by material necessity. Remain free to be.
Visualize with creative imagination, as the angels do above in heaven, so below here on earth. Life is a creative opportunity in the act of being, so work on creating a useful, multi-purpose representation of heaven both within yourself and around you, in what appears to be the material plane.
Love of self is the root of all ignorance, as opposed to just love, or love of service in behalf of another. If you are unaware of the other, it is much easier to harm them, as you can’t feel their pain, at least not immediately.
Progress may come by setting selfish desire aside, not simply to serve and help those people that we come into contact with, but further, to abandon free-will entirely, creating an available vessel for the angels to make use of. Preoccupation with trivial external matters leaves scant time remaining to attend to important work.
A bodhisattva realizes that their spiritual development is bound to the development of others. The dissolution of ego, the fallacy of a separate self, an observer, a viewpoint with an agenda to accomplish, is at the root of the teachings.
Whether or not you are able to accomplish many great acts of merit, at least avoid evil actions, great or small. Stop thinking badly of other beings. Don’t speak ill of anyone, because you never know when the person you malign might be a sublime being. Tolerate harms to yourself, and render benefits to others.An enlightened being, one who has understood the ultimate nature of all things, naturally feels boundless compassion for those who, under the spell of ignorance, are wandering and suffering in samsara under the illusion that their karma has bound them in the world. In fact, they are masters of their choices. All the world is a stage, and the master plays many parts. Having passed beyond the limitation of perception, all is open.
Who gives the most, wins.No matter how you look at it, charity is a step forward in planting a viable seed both within yourself and others, so even if you’re motivated by improving yourself, get out there and help a family member, help one of your friends, or anyone at all. Here’s a note of caution, though. I used to get into trouble, sticking my nose into other people’s business, and managing to irritate, rather than help much, a 'do-gooder,' either to be avoided or to be taken advantage of, and milked for all I was worth. It’s an art to offer yourself, but yet set limits on your kindness, and respect other people’s need to do things on their own. Also, giving away all your money and material possessions is nice on paper, but in the developed world, living as a wandering beggar is hardly conducive to meditation and prayer, for all but the strongest individuals.
The golden cord is the connection between the human and the all-that-is. In the words of Alan Watts, the outline of the human being being is at the same time the inline of what we consider to be the external universe, as we are not separate, distinct, differentiated from the universe, but rather are an included piece, confused by our unwarranted reliance on human perceptual awareness and human cognition.
Despite it being of greatest importance, the loss of grace is not even noticed by most people. By free will, we are allowed to go our own way, but we do so at the price of missing the help given, and the largess of the bosom of the Lord. By nearsighted focus on the material, we miss all else, shining and substantial though it may be. Just more philosophy and high concepts of little practical relevance to our lives.
- Sin is turning away from the Lord, disobeying the law, and the penalty is death, loss, suffering, and pain -Imagine a burning building, four stories high, and that a person is trapped by the flames on the top floor. Luckily there is a rope coiled neatly by a window in the bedroom, and the person is able to tie one end of the rope to something heavy, and start climbing down the rope to safety. Threateningly, the rope catches fire above the person, and starts to burn through. This is the effect of sin, or the turning away from God. Every time we sin, the rope of our connection burns a little. Meanwhile, an angel stands at a window near the rope, with a glass of water, trying to put out the flame. In fact, the angel loves to throw water on the rope, saving us.
Sometimes, however, they are unable to help, their hand prevented from moving by God, and they just stand there crying, watching the rope burn through. The person in this case falls to the ground, perhaps dying or receiving serious injury. An odd thing about sin is that the more often a person turns away from God, the less able they are to feel any bad effects. This causes them to doubt that sin even exists. I know from my experiences in life that when I live well, careful to honor others, I become more sensitive and feel the effects on any bad act more immediately. I don’t mean just things listed as sinful in the Bible or other guides, but anything bad at all, and you feel that yourself.
Stealing hurts both the one stolen from and the thief as well, though the effects are less obvious. Who’s to say which party suffers most in the long run? I could write down a list of sins, or we could argue which sins are the worst, but it seems clear that good people try not to sin, and bad people don’t like to take a very close look at themselves.
There are correspondences between heaven and earth, and as above, so below. Since every good thing and it's usefulness is related to heavenly truth and goodness, we may realize these valid relationships. Thus, living in a high, clean place, with sunlight, flowers and good air, surrounded by kind, honest people engaged in meaningful, valuable occupation. Further, words should be well-spoken, with good intention, and care for others. Clothing should mirror that of the angels, mostly plain colors if not white, and unadorned, if not competely nude, and in innocence. Establish good correspondences in daily life, a good connection by way of analogies between heaven and earth. By their uses will you know them, and useful, good things make up heaven.
There exists a correspondence between the things of earth and heaven. One thing is like another, whereby every facet of physical reality reflects a glimmer of either heaven or hell. You can’t help setting up valid correspondences, but does your path lead to heaven or straight to hell? A lot of things depend on how we are using them, or what intention we have within ourselves. A knife can be useful, or deadly, depending on the hands holding it.
These correspondences will be the bridges that we have been seeking, across which both energy and instruction can cross. This is the language of the prophets, and the signs are everywhere, once you get used to reading in code. Beyond the symbolism and allegorical stories set forth in religious texts, everyday life abounds in tips and signs of the divine, though these are normally passed over without notice. When was the last time you lost yourself in contemplation, dreamily content to watch the wind animating the leaves in a tree?
There exists a correspondence between heaven and earth, with all representations carrying weight and meaning. Thus, a barren, rocky crag may represent one state of being, while a open field full of blossoming flowers may represent another. Be aware of the significance of correspondences, whereby one thing is like another, and carries meaning, for this is the art of learning to read signs, and is important. For your eyes may miss the truth for not looking or noticing, although it is displayed and announced at every turn.
We typically try to form an understanding of ourselves and the divine, using our conscious minds. While possible, this is not the most effective route. There are links to the divine that we may experience directly, by setting up similarities between heaven and earth, and between angels and ourselves. These correspondences will be the bridges that we have been seeking, across which both energy and instruction can cross.
This is the language of the prophets, both ancient and modern, and the signs are everywhere, once you get used to reading the code. Beyond the symbolism and allegorical stories set forth in religious texts, everyday life abounds in tips and signs of the divine, though these are normally passed over without notice. When was the last time you lost yourself in contemplation, dreamily content to watch the wind animating the leaves in a tree? Yes, the leaves make a lovely mosaic pattern, set in motion by the wind, but where is the hand of God in that? In fact, the hand of God is no longer anywhere to be seen, as all is now explained away nicely.
It doesn’t matter to the flow of understanding or love if we consciously understand what’s going on, as there is much that is beyond our capacity to actively hold in mind. Further, we can acknowledge that some elements of arcana are in fact dangerous to behold, as 'No man shall look upon the face of God and live.' That can be taken at least three different ways, all of which are enlightening. First, that to perceive the eternal truth would be the end of your mortal life, as the game would be given away, and waking up, you’d perhaps cast aside the illusory shell, like so many old clothes. Second, that the energy of the Lord would be too great to be physically exposed to, such as watching a nuclear explosion take pace nearby. Third, that it’s forbidden to delve into that which is beyond our capacity, as it is mortally dangerous, the penalty therein literally being death.
- Angels, the intermediaries, bridges between heaven and earth -An angel or middle heaven asked to see the higher heavens, although a guardian angel kept repeating that it would not be possible, nor a good idea in any case, even if special permission was granted. The lower angel persisted, begging for at least a brief glimpse of the higher realms, and the guardian angel reluctantly agreed. Holding the minor angel's soul in his love, they transported together. Immediately, it was completely black, with no sound, and the unprepared angel found it couldn't breathe. Choking and confused, it fell to earth as though dead. After a while, rising to the clouds, the soul found the angel waiting. "So, how was that? The higher heavens are a lot to handle, did you hear the singing and see the bright lights?" The soul complained that there was no light, sound, or air, and they might have taken a wrong turn somewhere. The angel laughed, "maybe another time, when you have developed further."
Angels don’t operate in time or space, rather appearing instantaneously at the focus of their attention, so that when an angel turns toward the person or experience that attracts, it seems as though they materialize into that space.
Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) Writing under the pseudonym of Dr. Mises, he published in 1825, entitled Comparative Anatomy of the Angels.These are not symbolic, but real, living angels, which stand in the organic world a little higher than man, who is not the highest nor the most beautiful. The human form is a strange aggregate of surfaces and curves, hollows and elevations. There are no flat surfaces and therefore curves and specifically the sphere are the ideal forms and these change (as Plato had said). The parts of man's body are beautiful as they approach it, but the eyeball is most complete. It is the organ of light and in light angels live. Earth is not their fitting residence. They belong to higher bodies like the sun, the stars, or light. Just as the air is the element of the angels, who are simply free and independent eyes, all eye, or the eye-type in its highest and most beautiful development. Thus, what in man is a subordinate organ, in the angels is of independent worth. But angels are single eyes.
Their language is light and their tones are colors. The eye-language of love hints at the speech of angels, these creatures of the sun with their ethereal bodies. Their skin is merely connected vapors, like soap bubbles. Their transparent nature can take on colors. They change their form and expand and contract according to their feelings. They are attraction or repulsion, and with this goes the wonderful color play. They are organisms. They move by hovering and sweeping along. General gravitation, which relates all bodies, is their sense. They feel the farthest thing in the universe and the slightest change in it. They are, in short, living planets and, in fine, the planets are angels.
One of the defining characteristics of Fechner's life is that he suffered a disease very much akin to the initiatory sickness known among shamans. In 1840 his eyesight began to fail him. Soon he could neither read nor write. He found he could not eat or drink and he was unable to endure society. He lost all control over his thoughts or his attention. His dreams tormented him. His own state seemed to him like the condition of a puppet. By the end of 1843, people believed him to be incurably blind and completely insane. He spent months in solitude in a dark room; and at a level deep within himself he never lost hope. It was in this state, literally the dark night of his soul, he felt he was called upon by God to do extraordinary things for which his sufferings had prepared him. He recovered after this self-perception and soon discovered within himself even greater physical strength and psychic sensitivity. The whole world now revealed itself to him in a splendor and detail exceeding his earlier visions. He resumed his academic work, no longer in physics but as a philosopher.
Charity for the neighbor, and forgiveness, sacrifice, not for self, not living an ego-centric life. Loving to serve, and do what others ask and desire. Showing love by understanding and obedience. To be together as one is to be conjoined, sharing opinions, belief, understanding, purpose.
The Divine in heaven which makes heaven is love, because love is spiritual conjunction. It conjoins angels to the Lord and conjoins them to one another, so conjoining them that in the Lord’s sight they are all as one. Moreover, love is the very being [esse] of everyone’s life; consequently from love both angels and men have life. Everyone who reflects can know that the inmost vitality of man is from love, since he grows warm from the presence of love and cold from its absence, and when deprived of it he dies. the quality of his love is what determines the quality of each one's life.
In heaven, loving the Lord does not mean loving him in respect to his person, but it means loving the good that is from him; and to love good is to will and do good from love; and to love the neighbor does not mean loving a companion in respect to his person, but loving the truth that is from the Word; and to love truth is to will and do it. This is not well known in the world, unless it is known what love is, what good is, and what the neighbor is. Charity is willing truths and being affected by truths for the sake of truths. Charity toward the neighbor is doing what is good, just, and right, in every work and in every function. Those who love the person, and not that in him from which he is what he is, love evil and good alike.
All experience in heaven attests that the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and that affects angels and makes heaven is love; for all who are in heaven are forms of love and charity, and appear in ineffable beauty, with love shining forth. their faces, and from their speech and from every particular of their life. Moreover, there are spiritual spheres of life emanating from and surrounding every angel and every spirit, by which their quality in respect to the affections of their love is known, sometimes at a great distance. For with everyone these spheres flow forth from the life of his affection and consequent thought, or from the life of his love and consequent faith. The spheres that go forth from angels are so full of love as to affect the inmosts of life of those who are with them.
Those who are in love to the Lord and in love toward the neighbor turning themselves always to the Lord, while those who are in love of self turn themselves always away from the Lord.
Love searches memory and draws forth all things that are in accord with itself, collecting and arranging them in and under itself—in itself that they may be its own, and under itself that they may be its servants; but other things not in accord with it, it discards and expels. That there is present in love every capacity for receiving truths in harmony with itself, and a longing to conjoin them to itself.
Some who were simple-minded in the world were taken up into heaven, and yet when they were with the angels they came into angelic wisdom and heavenly blessedness, and for the reason that they had loved what is good and true for its own sake, and had implanted it in their life, and had thereby become capacities for receiving heaven with all that is ineffable there. But those who are in love of self and of the world have no capacity for receiving what is good and true; they loathe and reject it, and at its first touch and entrance they flee and associate themselves with those in hell who are in loves like their own.
We can speak your language but you do not listen nor pay attention to us, thinking we are not real nor worth listening to, or obeying! we experience truth and goodness, and are literally made out of these elements. An angel tried to be false and bad once, just as a weird experiment, and ceased to live immediately, just folded up into nothingness in fact. We are you, but you stand apart, thinking you have individual existence in a body. We gave you life, and will collect you when you die. We were with you when you were nothing more than mushrooms and worms.
In order to communicate with angels and be in their presence, you must be enough like us for that to happen, ie, good and true and kind and loving patiently with the Lord at the front of your self (yourself).
Speak in puns and multiple meanings at once, overlaid on the song’s (songstress) lyrics at the same time, both of which supporting conscious overload, and bypassing the rational mind. This is necessary as the limitation of denotation and demarcation inherent in language and consciousness itself is restricting the flow of information (and life) which is multiple in nature and mantra all-encompassing at every moment, defying even the most expressive of us to capture the manyfold multitude of awareness in a linear sequence of words.
We are you in fact, it is you who keep yourself apart. By speaking words [initially, and then simple sentences] with multiple meanings intact, not only will you bypass conscious limits and thus achieve the desired communication and the company that you seek, but will expand yourself as well in the process.
For we are truth and wisdom, and if you speak as we speak and live as we live, then we are with you, and so you can understand our communication, for we are one, undivided. We speak in all tongues and meanings at the same moment. You cannot hold our treasure in your current state of division into time and discreet objectification, for all is one and there is no time, nor such thing as time [nor space, nor form].
Speaking aloud, as the true and correct words themselves have vibrational awareness and magic. Naming the truth, siding with the angels in truth and taking up the path, battling as their agent and emissary on earth against evil, rejoining together that which has been torn asunder. Obeying the truth, not out of duty, obligation, or fear, but rather a different sense of obey, as in how our hands obey our will, as we are one, not divided in will but one body, in health and goodness.
The connection is restored, only broken as you stray from the good and true. Many have established good coherent connections, like Cayce and Swedenborg, Tibetan masters and Christian saints. Study their words and take your place as a student
Walking among the sleeping masses, be aware that you can do little more than greet them kindly and cheerfully. also, you subject yourself to their outpouring of energy, judgement, and mentality. typing with 10 fingers will speed up transmission, as will speaking with Google or Dragon dictate, if you are able to concentrate well enough. sometimes an audience helps establish and maintain the flow of wisdom information.
It doesn’t matter to the flow of understanding or love if we consciously understand what’s going on, as there is much that is beyond our capacity to actively hold in mind. Further, we can acknowledge that some elements of arcana are in fact dangerous to behold, as 'No man shall look upon the face of God and live.' That can be taken at least three different ways, all of which are enlightening.
Angels in heaven will and do nothing of good from themselves, and think and believe nothing of truth from themselves, but only from the Divine, thus from the Lord; also that good from themselves is not good, and truth from themselves is not truth, because these have in them no life from the Divine. Moreover, the angels of the inmost heaven clearly perceive and feel the influx, and the more of it they receive the more they seem to themselves to be in heaven, because the more are they in love and faith and in the light of intelligence and wisdom, and in heavenly joy therefrom; and since all these go forth from the Divine of the Lord, and in these the angels have their heaven.
Angels refuse all thanks for the good they do, and are displeased and withdraw if anyone attributes good to them. They wonder how anyone can believe that he is wise from himself or does anything good from himself. Doing good for one’s own sake they don't call good, because it is done from self. But doing good for the sake of good they call good from the Divine; and this they say is the good of heaven.
Lesser spirits, on the other hand, imagine that goodness and truth is from themselves, or is appropriated to them as their own, and as for all those beings who place merit in good actions and claim righteousness to themselves, angels avoid them. They look upon them as stupid and as thieves; stupid because they continually have themselves in view and not the Divine; as thieves because they steal from the Lord what is his. These thoughts are averse to heavenly beliefs.
Divine love is Divine good joined to Divine truth, and being so conjoined it vivifies all things of heaven; just as in the world when the sun’s heat is joined to light it makes all things of the earth fruitful. Love of goodness, truth, usefulness, and service, patience, kindness to others.This website is not affiliated with any educational organization, and all trademarks are the exclusive property of the respective owners. Kooksta.com is the work of a group of students in Bangkok, and all copyrighted works on this website are offered for educational purposes only, governed by the four-factor rule, section 107 of the US Copyright Act, 1976.