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.
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WE MAY KNOW WHAT ONENESS ENTAILS, GIVEN WE LET GO OF MIND NOW.
She:
Letting go of mind” is my priority, my focus. Intellectually, I get what you are saying. We’ve all had many moments out of Time and Mind, so what makes it so “difficult” to “stay” there? I am driven by the fact that I know my Liberation is already accomplished; my most frequent mode is to be grateful and just float in Awareness, watching the illusory fall away. Gratefully, I know nothing, am sure of nothing, am empty and waiting to be filled. I strobe in and out of Awareness, yet I am at Home in Heaven. Just observing as the lies fade away.
Me:
Quite a synchronicity. As it happens, I wrote this little post the other day about understanding:
“If you say you understand it intellectually, it means that you don´t understand it at all.”
If you are hungry, no matter how intellectually I would depict a great dinner for you, that wouldn´t help you, so I´d better give you a piece of bread, to still your hunger.
Intellect is like depicting a dinner. Reality is that we have to eat…- well, at least
in this dimension. 🙂
You have to be really hungry in order to understand. I am not implying you are not. I am just emphasizing that when Mind claims to understand, it totally misunderstands the whole thing.
Mind is misconception, as it directly derives from separation. What is separated can never see anything clearly.
You know that the egoic mind is very cunning. It can give itself as the highest authority. Practically, time and again, we fall victims of our projections and self-delusions.
Illusion is incredibly skilful to pass as Truth. We can think we are Home, but that can be just another subtle self-deception.
EGO IS VERY SHREWD!! Ego can play God, I think you know that by now…
Liberation is not a static goal, something to strive for. Self doesn´t have a clear address, that´s why “priority” and “focus” cannot never “yield” it, cause then we indulge in sheer dualistic thinking. Priority and focus are just some other names for projection.
We have all glimpses, but we cannot “stay there”. Ego turns everything alive into a memory to possess!! ONLY THE NAMEABLE CAN BE STATED, NEVER THE HIGHEST REALITY WHICH HAS NO NAME.
So:
“Letting go of my mind” is Mind fooling itself…Let go of “priority”, let go of focus, let go of any intent, cause that empowers the mind´s conditioning.
Just impartially observe.
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We preciously and stubbornly hold on to the Idea of normality but actually, Life – or “what is” -, can never fit into “normal”, as it can never conform to any preconceived idea.
Angel Heart:
A well-known phrased question “What is normal?” Since nothing in existence has a value of its own, everything is relative in terms of how something is perceived, experienced and received etc. No two people are the same, so how can there be a ‘norm’, just doesn’t make sense.
Me:
Since common man lives in constant self-denial and irretrievable projection,
we have been taught that things have a value of their own. With other words, the essential is the imposing Idea, The Thing, while the Observer – the subject – has little importance, if any…Obviously, we do live “externally”, as long as the subject – the real sense of I-ness – is at best unconstellated, and in most cases, non-existent…
“Self-awareness” is just a mere word for most of the people. Without awareness, from a moral point of view, you remain “un-born” to WHO YOU REALLY ARE – which is the case of the vast majority of people on this planet.
People being morally un-born, don´t know much about themselves, so they have invented something to obey: norms and principles.
Subsequently, Power cannot exist without man´s insecurity, power subsists therefore, due to lack of awareness.
Norm is thus for many an unquestionable symbol for power, which is to compensate their deep existential fear; an excuse for not being able to handle life and themselves, an incapacity to deal with one´s inner Chaos.
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