Suffering results
from our delusional cultural conditioning created by family, school, and
television from which we create our personal story of who we are. From earliest
times, it has been known that suffering can be transformed when we finally
learn to change our minds.
Our suffering almost
always arises from a time frame not of the present, rather than from
existential reality.
We carry in our
memories anger, guilt, and especially resentment toward people who have
mistreated or betrayed us even long after those nasty people have departed…. We
cling to this garbage because it is part of our story -- who we believe we are.
The hidden craziness
underlying the conditioned behavior that makes us suffer is the dualistic,
"either-or" mode of thinking we have been immersed in since
childhood.
The middle ground is
vigilance and the fearlessness to experience the situation as it is.
Each day we have the
choice to defend our ego and relive our story, or we can find a way to choose
differently.
One could say that
enlightenment is the state in which we experience everything for the first
time.
For the most part,
our everyday suffering is not caused by tragic events of the heart, but rather
by insults -- real or imagined -- to our ego story. Suffering is the response to those imagined
attacks that interfere with what we want and what we feel we need.
We are spiritually
asleep if we allow the regrets of the past, the worries and fears of the
future, and the expectation of others to guide our lives.
Many now believe
that it is nonlocal awareness, rather than matter that is the ground of all
being.
Ultimate reality is
devoid of all dualities and thus is wholly impervious to conceptual
thinking. It can only be accessed in
nondual intuition, prajna.
Suffering is
instantaneously released when we finally surrender me and mine; suffering will
not and cannot be released until that surrender is accomplished.
The insult cannot
exist without a person to perceive it as an insult.
Lack of forgiveness
is as exhausting as it is unnecessary.
Freedom affords us
the opportunity to choose again at any given moment.
When we give up
seeing the world through the lens of our conditioning, we no longer project our
fears, hopes, and prejudices onto everything we encounter.
Nothing exists on
its own, divided or separated from other things. Everything is interdependent and cannot exist
without other things, including the Self.
Peaceful
reconciliation within oneself leads to compassion and justice for those who are
suffering.
We live in a
nonlocal reality, which is to say that we can be affected by events that are
distant from our ordinary awareness.
There is no distance
for consciousness.
We have an intuitive
inner knowledge that transcends the conceptual limits of time and space.
Our personal
awareness is nonlocal, fills all of space-time, and is one with it. That's who you are -- limitless
consciousness!
Although we reside
for a time as physical bodies, that is not the limit of who we are. Our true self is nonlocal awareness.
It appears that the
ordinary reality we perceive is not one universe but a spiderweb of timeless
interactions (a kind of nonlocal signaling) in which the future appears to be
tugging on the present in order to become actualized.
We must overcome
memory, imagination, and analyses in order to see in to the distance and the
future.
When we give up
seeing the world through our conditioning, we have an opportunity to experience
our lives in liberation and spaciousness.
To discover this
self, you don't have to go anywhere.
Better not to go. Just be
still. You don't have to change
anything. Just be still and surrender to
the love that is inside, trying to get your attention.
The highest
concentration of neuropeptides in the body corresponds with the location of the
chakras.
The transfer of
memory need not depend on the cell at all, because our minds are nonlocal --
not located inside our brains or bodies.
Our ego and our
story are among the principal sources of all our suffering and block our path
to conscious awareness.
When physical
reality and sacred space are undivided, body, mind, and spirit move into
spaciousness and timeless awareness, where we give up judgment and experience
our inherent loving nature, rejuvenation, and healing.
You must go beyond
the individual personality and ego to experience unity and fellowship without
judgment or condemnation.
Evil is the
self-serving imploding energy of ego.
