People are scared to empty their minds
\nFearing that they will be engulfed by the void
\nWhat they don’t realize is that their own mind is the void<\/p>\n
–Huang Po<\/p>\n
Rather than feelings of deep insight, lately I am more prone to impressions of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.\u00a0 Everything seems to come full circle back to the Teaching — The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world<\/em> (Ramana Maharshi).\u00a0 While it seems like a linear path, the Truth for me occurs more like an orbit.\u00a0 Sometimes I feel close to Source and at other times I am on the far side of the Moon and the darkness paves way for amnesic attitudes that the world is real.\u00a0 When I am actively pushing away a body sensation or mental story, there is the strong dualistic sense that THIS is not GOOD.\u00a0 What is NOT GOOD is NOT SOURCE.\u00a0 And so goes the saga of suffering.\u00a0 When I read Huang Po’s quote about unity consciousness, I realized that the mental stories that I was so fiercely trying to push away, were in fact movements in the One Mind.<\/p>\n As I said, no epiphany but yet a wider feeling of freedom around the story of failure once I stopped seeing it as something separate from Source.\u00a0 We are funny human beings<\/em>, my friend is fond of saying.\u00a0 Because she has a deep knowing of the illusory nature of this world and the reality we superimpose upon it.\u00a0 She reminds me in moments of chemical charge, to LAUGH, and in doing so the remembrance that nothing is real once again comes into focus.<\/p>\n Only Brahman is real.\u00a0 That seems to be the second place that I get caught on my samsaric seeing of The Way.\u00a0 It is what, for me, sets up the dualistic battle of Source and the mental story that defines my world.\u00a0 I forget in my moments of witnessing presence that while it is perfectly true that I am not this body.\u00a0 It is ALSO true that I AM.<\/p>\n So there is a struggle to recall that the world is an illusion.\u00a0 Upon remembering there is a desire to remain in this place of witness, apart from this body\/mind organism.\u00a0 And eventually, the light shines brighter to reclaim this embodiment<\/em><\/strong> as not separate from Source.\u00a0 And once again it becomes clear to my remembered Self … the Seeker and that which is sought are One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People are scared to empty their minds Fearing that they will be engulfed by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}