An unwonted moment
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The summit of confusion
2015/10/11 1 Comment
…is reached by unceasingly searching amongst objects
for that which is non-objective.
– Wu Hsin
Dusk
2015/06/03 8 Comments
Waiting for nothing
Desiring nothing
I hear no one
But the endless skies
pouring gently in my chest…
They are all so busy to arrive nowhere
2014/05/09 Leave a comment
How could they ever reach a destination – “there” – when they totally lack a well-defined starting point – a “here”…?
Indeed – they never get anywhere because they never truly begin…
There is no way to It
2013/12/02 3 Comments
She:
I focus my mind on Heaven in the belief that all of my efforts will “someday”
make me real.
Me:
Some questions come to mind:
Who has a belief?… Who is this entity making “efforts”?
“Someday” is a total uncertainty, can you see that?…
How can you thus be real someday unless you are real here and now…?
Is God an Ideal? – a sum of things?…Can the connection with God ever be an
outcome of anything…?
You say:
“What I can do is strive each day to reach the still infinity of endless peace that
surrounds you gently in its soft embrace.”
This is very tricky, but fact of the matter is that we can go on “striving” for another couple of lives and still ask whether we are there yet…Striving enhances separation. Striving alienates and keeps us away from whatever we want to be – that is beyond doubt.
Really, it´s quite evident – at some point we have to quit struggling, understanding that what is “ever-present” can be neither imagined nor “reached”, neither gained through effort, or virtue…
Bliss is never the outcome of an ideal
2013/09/21 2 Comments
Gabriela:
Indeed, we have created the ideal. But now it all depends on what Ideal means to each human being. I saw ideal as a goal, as a worthwhile higher aim to strive for. This however, does not deny each and everyone´s need for more.
Me:
Truth can never be an “ideal”, that is, it can never be “relativized” – though this is what we assume all the time: “it depends on what Ideal means to each human being”.
With other words, you claim that everyone is free and has the right to imagine anything.
Escaping Life, is manifested in myriad forms and expressions, but escaping – that is,
fear – remains one and the same for all.
I am not necessarily pointing here to factual reality – man needs food, shelter, etc. – but to the psychological state of things.
This inner need “for more” is ideal – can you lucidly see this?
The yearning for “more” – that is to acquire, to accumulate knowledge or money, to be someone, to have a name, to be or not to be something – implies escaping What is. This obsessive search for safety, which itself is generated by fear, is desire seeking fulfillment. Craving for “more” is Ego in its eternal discontent.
“More” is the derivative of dissatisfaction, isn´t it quite clear?
Just ponder:
You must for sure have had moments of great fulfillment, moments in which “more”
or “less” was superfluous. You weren´t searching anymore, as you were deeply satisfied.
You were Blissful in those moments of deep contentment. For sure, Bliss is Presence, presence which is a mighty Joy, an unwavering Peace.
This presence does not belong to becoming, projection or future. Becoming and achieving in time is subterfuge, it is escaping into our own image, never the truth – the Bliss – we are talking about.
A paradigm shift within is required for change
2013/01/25 Leave a comment
My answer to Paul´s latest post:
The greatest mind-blowing paradox is not that we are in deep shit.
The real crisis is the average man´s resistance and refusal to admit this
impending state of things.
It happens before our eyes, yet everybody is busy to proceed with the lies and petty absurdities you well know by now…
You say:
“A paradigm shift in politics is required for change”. I say a paradigm shift is required in each and every man´s soul. A step that in all likelihood, man will not deliberately take…
Unless forced be a horrendous nature catastrophe or cataclysm of sorts, humans won´t show any readiness or interest to face this truth.
Human nature is the way it is…Cowardice. Bigotry. Sloth. Mendacity. Convenience.
People secretly like the way things are, otherwise we would witness a change right away, if all were sick and tired of the present state in whatever area of life. But humans won´t make a move unless forced, indeed shaken, by a visible, tangible threat. As if what is happening is not enough a big of a threat. But it is not enough that you and me, and few other individuals see the state of affairs.
Unfortunately, progress happens by mistake not by deliberate will-power…
As I said before, we cannot save the world. Just save yourself first!
Each of one of us has to make the priority of establishing Peace within,
to bring order inwardly and, at best, in our very proximity. Few powerful steps
in right direction!
I trust you have the power to undergo the shift you talk about.
That´s the most pragmatic step you can take for you and the world.
I am not fiction and neither are you
2012/12/14 Leave a comment
SimplySimplisticComplexities:
“Peace isn’t fictional place. Neither are your words. I feel exactly what you are saying though. I don’t know if the things I am doing are mistakes, or not. I don’t know if anyone understands that. I know your questions have helped me. Hear that! It would be nice to get some honest clear feedback though at times.
So whatever you choose, thanks for the words.”
Me:
I share the same feeling:
“I don’t know if the things I am doing are mistakes, or not. I don’t know if anyone
understands that.”
Who knows…?
Maybe it´s wrong not to be totally selfish, interested only in your petty and inane undertaking.
Maybe it is wrong to hope for a new inner and outer space, some kind of new context
of Openness, Love and Free Unbiased Communication in which we all partake,
and from which we all get nourished.
Maybe it is likewise naive and wrong to believe in generosity, beauty and abundance, when everyone else is engaged in rancor, animosity, ugliness, harsh competition, struggle for resources and frustrated egotism…
I for one, cannot live with this “right” outlook on life. Not only when it comes to this,
but generally, I prefer to be “wrong” but alive.
We have to learn the hard lesson of being really honest with ourselves.
Naked honesty as to WHO WE ARE AND WANT TO BE.
If we are to remain unhappy – because we are afraid to give something, hiding behind
our ego´s walls -, or happy, giving freely of ourselves, tearing down our limits.
Yes, it is about Where we stand towards each other, in generosity or stinginess.
Without real feedback we can´t go further, it´s really pointless.
YOUR WORDS MOVE ME. You speak from a place of honesty inside of you. Yes, I do hear you…
I hear the same kind of thoughts in me too…
For the record, I have to tell you that your comment here, is among the most worth-while words I ever received – again, because you speak from your heart.
For the one living in constant war with life, Peace is fiction, something to be shunned… For the one choosing equilibrium and true emotion, my words – and yours too – may be a pointer to What Is…
Melissa commenting my last post
2012/11/23 3 Comments
Old World Charm Vintage:
Mirrors of Encounters has obviously a great amount of followers who are interested in what you have to say, I’m sure this connection will still be there even if you do change your tonality, or how about a second blog to use in a different way maybe ? I am no master to be trying to give you advise though, but thought I best try with something as your sounding a little distressed.
Me:
Don´t let yourself be deceived by my tone. No, I couldn´t say I was “distressed”, on the contrary,
I felt great peace while writing those things, but at the same time some kind of frenzied fervour, of being totally fed up with both my own and others hypocrisy.
I am not a sham and neither an ingratiating hypocrite, but I kind of felt that I am beginning to be one,
if I am to be afraid of other people´s resentment and fear to hear the raw truth.
BEAUTIFUL AND INTELLIGENT LIES ARE ATROCIOUSLY DANGEROUS. We need to cut deep into the infected sore, if we are going to heal.
Most people I encounter don´t want to heal. They want to remain diseased, it is their identity
The question is: DO WE WANT TO HEAL?
If we want that, than we have to accept that Truth hurts terribly in the beginning.
When it comes to a second blog, I´ve been considering that myself. I´ll see – at the end of the day, I want to have everything under the same roof…
If I were to have a second blog, what would be “A DIFFERENT WAY” in your opinion…?
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