Monday, June 25, 2018

Know the Truth

"The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth." - Robert Adams

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Secret

I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are no problems today, and there will never be any problems. Problems just mean that the world isn't turning the way you want it to. But in truth, there are no problems. Everything is unfolding as it should. Everything is right. You have to forget about yourself and expand your consciousness until you become the whole universe. The Reality in back of the universe is Pure Awareness. It has no problems. And you are That.

silence

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

my master is there

it's only a dream

It’s only a dream, and it’s actually possible for you to have the kind of peace of mind and lack of fear that would accompany the conviction of that truth. As J asks you so pointedly in the Course, "What if you recognized this world is an hallucination? What if you really understood you made it up?"

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

any value

If today was your last day in this body, would the chatter of your mind hold any value for you? Then, why not live like this now? ~ Mooji

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Friday, June 1, 2018

acceptance



Acceptance is Not a Practice 
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Rupert: You describe very accurately that situation where there is nothing to do; you're sitting in the car and there's nothing for you to do, and you become aware of this subtle resistance to the current situation where there's no practical need for any resistance. So you become aware of the resistance, and then you then judge that resistance, and you become aware of what is a resistance to your resistance, which is another layer of resistance.
What is important Not to do is to then try to change the second resistance into acceptance. Because that is just 'changing'. It's a very subtle trick of the ego.
Ego is made out of the first resistance: "I don't like what is happening." It then reinforces itself by saying "I don't like the fact that that I don't like what is happening." Yes?
So, the ego (what I mean by ego is the separate self), is made out of these two resistances.
Then when it begins to feel that it is being found out it thinks: "Ok, I better change the second resistance into an activity called acceptance. It's a little bit more virtuous, a little bit more spiritual." And the separate self thereby subtly, (and in fact not-so-subtly once we've seen it), perpetuates itself.
So, the resistance and acceptance are two ways in which the separate self perpetuates itself.
What we're talking about is the openness that is the essential nature of Awareness/our Self. Its nature is to be open and empty.
In that sense, Awareness (we could say) is like the space of this room; it's nature is to be empty. 'Acceptance' is not something it practices.
The Space of this room…, when we all start filing in here after dinner, it doesn't have to practice allowing each of us. It doesn't say, "Oh, I like the look of him, I accept him, but I don't like the look of her." In other words, the space is not negotiating experience. Accepting is its nature. It is what it IS, not what it does.
That's the important thing to see: that what we essentially Are is already inherently, perfectly without resistance.
Then, once we see that, we stand as That; we know ourselves as That.
Then, the mind is just left to do whatever it is doing; whether it's resisting, whether it's accepting…, whatever it's doing. But it is no longer supported by our investment in it. And therefore, in time, without that support, it comes naturally to an end. 
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Rupert Spira
Excerpt from "Acceptance is Not a Practice"
(From Beginning to approx 3:40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RwLosd2Ds