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Kip Mazuy wrote on the
07 October 2008 |
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 When you learn
to witness thoughts
and stop the action
of identifying with them,
there comes a point
where the individual 'you'
with a memory, personality and a body
temporarily disappears.
It feels freeing
but at the same time
quite strange.
Although there is this incredibly
blissful flow of energy,
there is nothing to hold onto
nothing to define yourself by,
there is just witnessing without form.
The tendency is to always
jump back into identification
with your thinking
where everything is familiar
and known.
Even if you are unhappy,
you are familiar with it,
it feels like home.
So it is a huge jump
to move into witness consciousness
and requires your complete focus,
to give every thought away as it arises.
But once you make the jump,
and you are without form,
let your focus rest
on the flow of energy,
let yourself rest in the bliss that is there.
This will help you remain
in this state for longer periods of time.
Even a few seconds in this state
is incredibly transforming.
It is not that you are
jumping out of yourself
and into something completely different,
but simply you are letting go
of the limited perception you are used to
and experiencing what is always there
behind it.
You can have all the drama of your life
back in an instant if you want it,
but you have to have the courage
to let go and venture beyond
what is comfortable and known
if you want to experience the bliss
that is your true nature.
Blessings,
Kip |
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| How to Be Free From a Busy Mind |
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Kip Mazuy wrote on the
10 May 2008 |
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If you can learn
to allow thoughts
to come and go
without identifying with them,
without getting involved with them,
then you see thoughts
come and go
all by themselves.
In this
you are not
engaging the mind.
Be very present
and see the thought arise.
The instant you see
the thought arising,
let go of it.
Don't push it away,
just let go of it.
The tendency
is to "jump" into the thought,
to get involved with it.
But it is possible
to let the thought go
without ever
getting involved with it.
When the television is on,
images and sounds
flash before you.
If you get involved with those images,
they become linear.
You link the images and sounds
together to create a story
and then you are engrossed.
Witnessing would be
to let go of each image and sound
as soon as they flash before you.
Each image and sound
never turn into a story
because you are letting them go
as soon as they arise.
More and more
you will simply experience
the essence of thought,
which is energy.
Energy moving,
as consciousness
and that is blissful.
Over time,
you will be able
to let go of the thought
before it even
fully manifests
in your consciousness.
Then a whole new world
opens up.
Blessings,
Kip |
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| How to Be free From Cause And Effect |
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Kip Mazuy wrote on the
15 November 2007 |
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"Peace, bliss & love
are the very source of life.
In truth, you cannot be separate
from happiness.
It is what you are.
But in duality,
you believe things outside
of yourself
are the source of happiness.
You believe money
is the source of happiness,
your girlfriend is the source of love,
wine is the source of your bliss.
And on the opposite end
you believe
that person is the cause of your suffering,
that incident is the cause of your pain.
In this constant projecting
outside of yourself,
you become dependent on the outer.
And as the outer is always changing,
arising and disappearing,
you suffer.
Nothing wrong with loving another,
but if you make them the source
of your happiness,
then you suffer.
You eat an ice cream
and there is the bliss
that you get from eating the ice cream.
But in truth,
you are eating the ice cream
and there is bliss.
That bliss simply is,
it is what you are.
But because you believe
it only comes from ice cream,
you only get it from the ice cream.
Meditation
is when you stop
projecting cause and effect
and simply experience what is.
You experience yourself
in this moment,
without the whys and hows and wheres.
In this,
your attachment to your beliefs
about cause and effect
are burned away
and the unconditional peace, love and bliss
that you are
underneath it all
is revealed.
Blessings,
Kip |
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| Poem |
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Tim wrote on the
25 October 2007 |
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Cross The Dessert
I’ve screamed.
Oh, how I’ve screamed.
I’ve unleashed and been destructive
Tore the sound straight down the seams.
I’ve talked.
My God how I’ve talked.
Everyone knows more than me,
But the scenery’s the same, oh how I’ve walked.
Nothing makes it home.
Oh my friends, I‘ve driven hard.
Been called all the names there are, I think.
No part of me is left unscarred.
And who are you?
Who are you to tell me what?
I follow voices in the maze,
Warm, then cool, then cold, then hot.
I’ve cried.
Oh, for all that I have cried.
For things that you could never bear,
I’ve lived for more than you’ll have died.
But what’s it mean?
Is the depths of it illusion?.
The sand beyond my outstretched toes.
Barely stirs from my intrusion.
I have feared.
You could not know how I’ve feared.
To feel your insides, inside out.
And a mind that’s never cleared.
You cannot imagine.
You look at me and doubt.
I’ve crossed the dessert more than once.
Though not the same, I’ll make it out.
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| Concept of God and Hell |
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dattaswami wrote on the
21 July 2007 |
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Concept of God and Hell
People think that Nivrutti (Loving practical serive to Lord in Human form) is different from Pravrutti( Path of Justice). Politicians feel that they are doing the practical service to humanity. They feel that the spiritual preachers are confined to some theoretical concepts like God, hell, heaven etc. This is the climax of their foolishness. Without Nivrutti, the Pravrutti will crumble into pieces. In India, today, if some justice is still remaining, the only reason is the concept of God and hell. Lord Krishna preached Bhagavat Gita in the war, which is a fight to change the bad government (Kauravas) to good government (Pandavas). The main issue is only political administration of the country. The very purpose of Gita is only make Arjuna to fight for Pravrutti only. Gita goes to the deep foundation of Pravrutti, which is Nivrutti only. Similarly, Jesus was always speaking of Kingdom of God every where. People misunderstood that He was planning to change the Roman Government by a new Government. But, His issue was not limited to a particular Government of a country. He was aiming at the total reformation of the Governments of all the countries. The Bible (Nivrutti) thus stands as a deep foundation for the political administration (Pravrutti).
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dattaswami responded on the
17 July 2007 |
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Similarly the Lord enters a human body and available for your true love. You must take pains to detect him. Have you not taken pains to search a suitable girl for marriage to show your true love? Take the help of the divine knowledge. Vedas and Gita have given the procedure to detect the human incarnation. To cut your bonds with the family members, who are also, human beings, another human form of God is only the equal competitor. Formless objects, statues and photos cannot compete. Your body is also a human form.
The bond with money is only for the human forms. If you develop the bond with human incarnation, which is Lord Himself called as Sadguru, He will bless you with divine knowledge, which alone can cut your worldly bonds. Since you have not fully realized, your attachment persists. The attachment is violent only due to the high intensity of ignorance, which is nothing but mis-interpreted and twisted wrong knowledge. Such ignorance can disappear only by the light of true divine knowledge.
The source of that knowledge is Sadguru. Therefore, you must catch a Sadguru and hear His divine knowledge constantly. You must clarify your doubts at every stage. When you are fully clarified, the ignorance disappears like the darkness in the presence of sunlight. Thus, the root cause is only ignorance and root remedy is only true knowledge. When the ignorance is associated with egoism and jealousy, it is like diabetes associated with hypertension and kidney-failure. Your case is not serious because you are with ignorance only. It will be easy to treat you.
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| Why my life is with full of problems |
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dattaswami responded on the
17 July 2007 |
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For this you must think that you are not the clothes and you are not the body. You are the soul, which is pure awareness. All the external bonds are related to your body and mind (feelings) only. This is called as self-realization through self-analysis. Sankara stressed this first part of the spiritual path because this is common to all the human beings in this world. The attainment of God is the second part of the path. Mental worry is like fever.
Attainment of God is like attaining special strength. All the fever- patients want to get rid of the fever. After liberation from the fever, some of the patients may try to get special strength by taking special tonics. Ramanuja and Madhva stressed this second part of the spiritual path through the propagation of devotion. But, the first part is common to all the patients as stressed by Sankara. The self-analysis is like the anti- biotic medicine for the fever. First you must get rid of the fever. Without subsiding the fever, you cannot proceed for tonics to attain special strength. For the first part, there is no need of even the concept of God.
Getting rid of the fever is peace. Attaining of God is bliss. Peace is required to get the bliss. Peace should not be mistaken as bliss. The soul is in your body only. If you attain the soul, you have attained your money, which is misplaced, in your house. When you get it, your worry is removed and you become peaceful. You need not become happy because it is your money only. But when you get some money on the road, outside your house, you are happy. The first part is avoiding loss and second part is attaining profit.
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believe and you will recieve
For me this question is very important. I see that belief in a higher-power is vital if one is to grow spiritually. Many religious, and so called spiritual people have so they believe this belief.