{"id":244,"date":"2008-09-30T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T02:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=244"},"modified":"2009-04-05T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T21:20:30","slug":"the-perfect-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egoic Mind:<\/em> Why is it so hard to see progress in my healing?\u00a0 While outwardly it looks like progress is being made, although infinitesimally small, yet I still feel just as frightened, sad and hopeless as before.\u00a0 Why is that?<\/p>\n

Gnani: <\/strong> Instead of asking Why, perhaps you should ask WHO?\u00a0 Who is it that feels progress is small?\u00a0 Who is it that feels frightened?\u00a0 Who is it that feels sad?\u00a0 And who is it that says it is feeling hopeless?<\/p>\n

Indeed ask Who it is that would benefit from these feelings of lack?\u00a0 Who is it that is taking your attention away from this very present moment and turning it back to the illusion of past and future, the remembrance of who you think you were and the ideal of who you think you should be?<\/p>\n

But even the notion of a “who” makes it seem like there is a real entity that is involved.\u00a0 More accurate would be to look at the source of this “who” concept.\u00a0 Is it not that these questions stem from the me-thought of a mind that has misidentified itSelf with the body organism?\u00a0 When does this “me” exist that feels small and helpless?\u00a0 Does it exist in the state of deep sleep?\u00a0 Does this helpless “me” exist in your dreams?<\/p>\n

If the “me” does not exist in the deep sleep state and if you pay no mind to the illusions that take form in the dream state than why do you care at all what exists from the mental noise in the waking hours?<\/p>\n

Thoughts are distractions.\u00a0 You can no more “fix” them than you can fix the wind blowing through the leaves of an autumn tree.\u00a0 Let the thoughts fall to the ground as naturally as they rose in the mind.\u00a0 Fix your attention not on making better thoughts inside your head, but on what is happening right now in front of your eyes.\u00a0 Is this not the most perfect moment?\u00a0 In fact the ONLY moment that could be happening right now?\u00a0 It is indeed the ONLY moment that IS happening so why not BE here with it, instead of wishing for a different moment in illusory time?<\/p>\n

Egoic Mind:<\/em> Easy for an Gnani to be Presence itSelf.\u00a0 But unless I can clear this monkey-mind that takes me away to places of deep suffering, I have no hope in seeing what is before my eyes.\u00a0 Even knowing intellectually that there is no “me” that is suffering, that it is only a mental concept, which I do believe, when faced with the illusion which is so familiar to me I seem to fall prey to the beast and accept as true all of the fear forming concepts.<\/p>\n

Gnani: <\/strong> Years of conditioning and constant reinforcing of the me-concept naturally leads to this imaginary battle of duality between the “me” as a separate self and the “obstacles” that stand in its way of liberation.\u00a0 Even your belief that you must somehow clear the mind before you can embrace this moment, keeps you locked in a cycle of suffering.<\/p>\n

Let the mind be the mind.\u00a0 Let the thoughts come unabated.\u00a0 They do so anyway, do they not?\u00a0 Instead of spending any more energy trying to change what is so … why not allow all that is to be as it is.<\/p>\n

Ok, there are thoughts of not healing.\u00a0 So be it.\u00a0 There are thoughts of failure and helplessness.\u00a0 This is true.\u00a0 Not that there IS failure and helplessness but that there are THOUGHTS of these emotions and conditions is an undeniable fact.\u00a0 So be it.\u00a0 Accept that your DNA and habituation are the causes for these thoughts to manifest at this moment.\u00a0 That because of the way you were created and the events you have experienced that there could be no other thought possible to entertain in this moment.\u00a0 These are the ONLY things that could be happening right now.<\/p>\n

It would follow then, that if these were the only possible things that could be happening right now, there would be no need, no desire, no intention to change them.\u00a0 Is this not so?<\/p>\n

It is only the illusion that you CAN change anything at any particular time that keeps you looking for alternatives.\u00a0 From where I stand, there is only perfection.\u00a0 You ARE already perfect.\u00a0 You ARE exactly how you were designed to be, undergoing the ideal experiences to allow you to grow and evolve to the deeper understandings of your true nature.<\/p>\n

Is this not what you are seeking?<\/p>\n

So then, be at peace.\u00a0 It is SO, already in this moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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