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deo that is life and the video effects us this is endemic everyone does it and that s because you don t need to teach this cause and effect is the lens through which we see the world so the idea of this video we are watching that s having an effect on us just kind of arises the thing to realise and if you can see this that is you enlightened is that the video is the totality of all things you such as you are exist within the video there is no audience there is just the film and you are how to put this within the present moment an assumption exists that there is someone experiencing it that assumption is part of the present as all things are enlightenmnet is not an energy field it is much simpler than that it is just the recognition of the truth that the you that you and everyone else on the planet holds as the foundational assumption of their lives is in fact wholly fictional when you think about enlightenment it seems hidden and important so this makes sense buit it is a trap you do not need to concentrate at all in any way no effort of any kind except the most minimal effort of looking is required is that it is very easy to start seeing it as a conceptual puzzle and as i m sure you know it isn t what it is in its essence is a kind of pattern that s a very weird word to use because yes technically it s more like the absence of a pattern but let s no go down that road and confuse ourselves think of it like a pattern a pattern in a tapestry that you are looking for i can tell you that the pattern is squiggly and blue and shaped like a monkey but i cannot see it for you you have to find it you have to just open your eyes maybe unfocus them slightly and try to see the pattern i describe now we re lucky because this pattern is massively simpler and we re also lucky because pattern recognition as a human faculty is permanent once you see that monkey it doesn t matter if you walk off and live for another fifty years the next time you see that tapestry you will see that pattern this is like that the idea that there is no you living life but only life in a real and literal sense is actually true just as the pattern in the tapestry is actually there in real life you can pretend that you see the blue monkey here or there but that will always fade and isn t real anyway if you see it you re done and it takes well ten seconds spread this share posted by dan at 7 22 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday june 20 2011 just look is there anyone there you have a friend that s extremely paranoid and in constant fear and suffering they believe that they are being followed and watched that people are hiding behind trees in his closets putting cameras in his house and tapping his phone line you ask him have you ever looked to see if it s true checked to see if there are really people hiding behind trees in your closets are there cameras in your house is your phone being tapped he realizes that he hasn t that it s just been a belief a belief that has made his life miserable so he finally looks and see that there s no one there he s at peace realizing that his fears were based on a belief that was simply never examined it s that simple really seriously really seriously the you that s tormenting you by blasting you with negative and unwanted thoughts that has a body that gets sick and decays is it there hiding someplace have you looked spread this share posted by dan at 7 27 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday june 19 2011 are gurus preaching to an absent choir for a while i believed that non dualilty teachers and gurus were just stringing along their followers by offering them pretty words that didn t help them at all this is a difficult position to reconcile because they are all at least from my experience such wonderful and sincere people with a true desire to help others what i see the problem now is this spirituality teachers are describing the experience of no self and how the world is seen through awareness and presence but they re not giving any tools to reach the primary understanding of no self which is necessary to be able to appreciate these teachings so their true audience people no longer being held under the sway of the illusion of self is not the there the absent choir it s not that the majority of spirituality teachers are disingenuous or duplicitous but rather that they re not able to bridge the listener from the death grip on the self to the release that opens up the freedom to enjoy the flow of life it s like someone sitting in front of a group of people telling them just how beautiful the grand canyon is the vast expanse of openness and wonderful array of colors and how the sunset is so gorgeous but they re either unable or unwilling to give a map showing how to get there so satsangs end up being someone talking about how wonderful enlightenment is and the audience begging in their minds just tell me how to get there spread this share posted by dan at 5 12 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday june 18 2011 controlling thoughts i don t think so trying to control shape steer or manipulate thoughts is the most futile exercise you can engage in if it was possible then it s obvious isn t it just don t think negative thoughts don t let them come up in the first place if you are in control i love to kayak and go out whenever the weather s nice while i m paddling the thoughts are coming a mile a minute back and forth up and down left and right it used to bug the hell out of me but once you see that they re totally out of your control and that in certain situations in my case drinking too much coffee or doing anything athletic they seem to be on high volume then they re just noise no more no less important than the sound of the paddle hitting the water problem is that if there s a belief that they re my thoughts and about me then all attention and energy is going to go towards them if it s seen and it s pretty damn obvious that they re not mine i don t control or own them and they re not about me then they re just jibber jabber try this exercise what s the next thought you re going to think put that one in your pipe and smoke it spread this share posted by dan at 3 57 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest get real if you were trying to lose weight would you sign up for a program where 95 of the members were obese and had been involved for years and years every week go to a talk by the person running the program skinny and in shape talking about the joys of being thin then why keep going back to the same satsangs and watching the same videos and reading the same books of the same teachers and the same gurus year after year ever notice how the same people keep going back over and over see ya next year schmooji are the pretty words that the gurus use to make you feel good really working i used to watch videos on youtube over and over and over waiting anxiously for something new from my latest favorite teacher i knew for sure that the next one would do the trick i m close i m almost there the next word will do it or i d read i am that until it was dog eared and turning brown one more flip of the page i know i ve read this 5 times before but this time this time einstein said that the definition of insanity is trying the same thing again and again and expecting different results so what do i suggest read my posts over and over but seriously folks if you just look and see if this thing that you re trying to enlighten or bliss out or improve really exists if there is such a thing as a you a self then maybe just maybe you can get off of the rollercoaster rollercoasters are fun but after the 10th or 11th time around you start to get kind of nauseous don t you spread this share posted by dan at 6 53 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 16 2011 time space and self time space and self all have one thing in common none of them are real if there was no movement of objects then time would have no meaning time is only observable through movement and movement is only observable through time it s the measurement of time that defines movement and the recording of movement that defines time if there were no objects then space would have no meaning the space between two objects can only be measured because those objects define the space without objects and only unbounded space with no references measurements of distance have no meaning in the same way if there were no experiences then a self would have no meaning a self is only definable through experiences and experiences are only definable through a self me as opposed to you me as opposed to a tree me as opposed to life and me as opposed to death are only meaningful dichotomies when delineated by experience time movement space objects self experience all are inextricably bound to each other and therefore have no autonomous existence a self cannot be the instrument of experience because it has no independent existence outside of experience a self cannot be the witness of experience because it cannot stand apart from experience to do the witnessing all of these truths can be verified by observation if they remain simply as conceptions and are not investigated through observation the result is a life lived in a veil of illusion yet if these truths are verified what happens is not that they disappear but rather that in the midst of knowing that time space and self are not real it is also recognized that they are the very concepts through which life is lived with their disappearance life itself would cease to be because it is through these three necessary illusions that life itself is known spread this share posted by dan at 8 59 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest from the diamond sutra buddha then asked what do you think subhuti does one who has entered the stream which flows to enlightenment say i have entered the stream no buddha subhuti replied a true disciple entering the stream would not think of themselves as a separate person that could be entering anything only that disciple who does not differentiate themselves from others who has no regard for name shape sound odor taste touch or for any quality can truly be called a disciple who has entered the stream buddha continued does a disciple who is subject to only one more rebirth say to himself i am entitled to the honors and rewards of a once to be reborn no lord once to be reborn is only a name there is no passing away or coming into existence only one who realizes this can really be called a disciple subhuti does a venerable one who will never more be reborn as a mortal say to himself i am entitled to the honor and rewards of a non returner no perfectly enlightened one a non returner is merely a name there is actually no one returning and no one not returning tell me subhuti does a buddha say to himself i have obtained perfect enlightenment no lord there is no such thing as perfect enlightenment to obtain if a perfectly enlightened buddha were to say to himself i am enlightened he would be admitting there is an individual person a separate self and personality and would therefore not be a perfectly enlightened buddha subhuti then said most honored one you have said that i subhuti excel amongst thy disciples in knowing the bliss of enlightenment in being perfectly content in seclusion and in being free from all passions yet i do not say to myself that i am so for if i ever thought of myself as such then it would not be true that i escaped ego delusion i know that in truth there is no subhuti and therefore subhuti abides nowhere that he neither knows nor does he not know bliss and that he is neither free from nor enslaved by his passions spread this share posted by dan at 5 47 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom my blog list you are dreaming collection of audio blogs 4 months ago ruthlesstruth com outside the camp 11 months ago zen bitch slap toronto and vicinity september 14th 20th 10 years ago liberation from the lie the open doorway popular posts the video is the totality of all things excerpts from ruthlesstruth com from first pure liberation from a dialogue with ciaran healy it s from a chat he had with someone h swapping out i am this for i am that because the sense of a self is so strong there is the need to attach this sense to some object normally this sense of self is assigned to are gurus preaching to an absent choir for a while i believed that non dualilty teachers and gurus were just stringing along their followers by offering them pretty words that did from the diamond sutra buddha then asked what do you think subhuti does one who has entered the stream which flows to enlightenment say i have ente what direct seeing means when someone says just look what do they mean it means seeing what s in direct experience rather than assuming what s in direct experien try imagining yourself without a self while it s possible to imagine ourselves without an arm or without a leg or imagine ourselves to be tall instead of short or black in nothing to stick to why is it that the peace gained through meditation leaves and has to be gained all over again why is it that self esteem and confidence just look is there anyone there you have a friend that s extremely paranoid and in constant fear and suffering they believe that they are being followed and watched t controlling thoughts i don t think so trying to control shape steer or manipulate thoughts is the most futile exercise you can engage in if it was possible then it s obvi get real if you were trying to lose weight would you sign up for a program where 95 of the members were obese and had been involved for years and y followers blog archive 2011 12 june 12 the video is the totality of all things just look is there anyone there are gurus preaching to an absent choir controlling thoughts i don t think so get real time space and self from the diamond sutra swapping out i am this for i am that free form spirituality rant nothing to stick to what direct seeing means try imagining yourself without a self about me dan i was on the spiritual search for 25 years jumping from one religion and philosophy to another following one guru and teaching after another then one day i realized that i had the whole spiritual search backwards i was trying to improve myself by making a bigger better and brighter i when the truth of the matter is that there is no i in the first place i saw that our idea of self is simply a belief in a notion a complete fiction with no basis in reality and this has freed me from spending so much time and effort in improving this self that does not exist view my complete 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