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You are viewing the most recent 10 entries October 6th, 2008: That Light In Your Eye Originally published at We Are All One. Please leave any comments there. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to updates via RSS or email! Tags: awareness, eyes, light, presence October 5th, 2008: Ariel Interviewed by Myrko of AwakeBlogger Originally published at We Are All One. Please leave any comments there.
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and more! I encourage you to check out the interview and share with us what you think, either on his blog or on mine. http://www.awakeblogger.com/2008/10/inte Enjoy! If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to updates via RSS or email! Tags: enlightenment, interview, personal experiences October 4th, 2008: Does Surrendering Control Mean I Don’t Do Anything? Originally published at We Are All One. Please leave any comments there. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to updates via RSS or email! Tags: control, surrender October 3rd, 2008: Does the Ego Play a Role In Ego Transcendence? Originally published at We Are All One. Please leave any comments there. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to updates via RSS or email! Tags: ego, enlightenment, silence, surrender : I Can Make My Mind Be Quiet For A Little While Originally published at We Are All One. Please leave any comments there. In a recent comment here on this site, Anthony brought up an excellent point. It is so important that it’s worth dedicating a post to. Let’s see what Anthony has to say:
It is helpful, Anthony, if you truly want to awaken, to let go of any identification with the mind.  photo by SantiMB You have probably discovered that trying to replace negative mental noise with positive mental noise is still just noise. Instead of enjoying life as it is in this moment, a delicious meal, a deep massage, or whatever else, the mind is thinking about how great it is, how wonderful life is, how appreciative it is, all the wonderful things it’s going to manifest, and so on. Just be quiet and enjoy the moment! As you said, it is possible to tell the mind to be quiet for a moment and experience that. The thing is, however, and this is very subtle: you are not the one telling your brain what to do! You are not in control of the brain. It is thought directing thought, but thought is not you! There’s this trick where the mind can tell itself to be quiet for a moment, and it will. Then it gives “you” credit for this action. By giving you credit, it gives you the impression that you are in control of the mind and if you engage in this game more and more, you can (theoretically, with enough practice) get to the point where you can overcome the mind. You can dominate and win, given enough practice. However, any time you try to go to battle with the mind, you lose. It’s a game you can not win. Why? Because there is no “you” to win the game! The “you” who thinks it’s in control of the mind is still only a thought in the first place! There’s a “you” who doesn’t exist competing against a mind who also is not you. There is no “you” involved in the game at all! So if you’re not even playing the game, how on earth do you ever expect to win? If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to updates via RSS or email! Tags: control, ego, enlightenment, mind, quieting the mind, thought October 2nd, 2008: Transcending The Mind’s Automatic Programming Originally published at We Are All One. Please leave any comments there. Question:
My Response:Hey B, Great question. You’re absolutely right. No matter how enlightened “you” are, “you” are still just as human. All awakening boils down to is realizing your true nature. Sure, Jesus still ate food. The Buddha’s heart still beat. Ramana Maharshi still talked with people. Nisargadatta Maharaj still breathed naturally. Adyashanti still has the capacity to think. David Hawkins still has the ability to hold an intention in mind and see it come into manifestation. You see, it’s not about overriding your body’s natural evolutionary patterns, but recognizing that they are not you. It’s not about trying to force the mind to go quiet, but recognizing the mind is not you. It’s not about perceiving an alternate reality beyond the mind, but recognizing that the mind’s perception of what is is not actually reality. What is is just what is, not what you think it is. It is possible to look, to simply look at something without mentally creating a whole story about what’s being witnessed. Witness what is without engaging the mind. Upon awakening it is still possible to discern the difference between a snake and a bed, for example. One is safe for the body to lie down on. The other is not. What changes is the idea that “external” objects are in any way separate from that which I am. We are all recognized to be an expression of Divinity. The mind is not capable of truly coming to this realization. It can only adopt this, or something else, as a belief system. You’re right that the mind is designed to ensure our own physical survival, for the most part. However, the mind can only discern appearance. Is this food healthy or not? Does this situation look dangerous or not? It uses logic, reasoning, and past experiences as its reference, but very often what’s happening now is very different from what happened in the past. The mind is only designed to perceive what happened. It’s not designed to understand what will happen. This is an inherent limitation of the mind. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to updates via RSS or email! Tags: altered states, brain, enlightenment, evolution, light in your eyes, thought September 25th, 2008: The Secret To Manifestation Originally published at We Are All One. Please leave any comments there. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to updates via RSS or email! Tags: expectation, intention, law of attraction, manifestation, surrender, trusting the universe September 16th, 2008: What Is Abundance? Originally published at We Are All One. Please leave any comments there. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to updates via RSS or email! Tags: abundance, bashar, law of attraction, manifestation, surrender, synchronicity, trusting the universe, video October 26th, 2006: egg toss Earlier today, I was thinking about which shot I'd want to toss up on el photoblogo, but it seems more fitting to post a series of shots. So here we go... We had an egg tossing competition this morning. It was a lot of fun. One person runs 25 yards with an egg.  Then they throw their egg to their fellow fraternity brothers or sorority sisters.  Who will hopefully catch the egg.  ...or not  The rest of the people have made a sort of human pyramid. The top person has to break the egg into a cup on the forehead of another person. Sounds simple enough, right?  Sure, until you realize that egg yolk goes everywhere.  So people learned to hold the eggs closer to the cups.  Especially after getting yolk in each other's hair.  We're going to run this shot in this week's paper.  Some guys actually filled up their cups so much that it started to overflow.  Whoever gets the most number of yolks in the cup in the given time wins.  Eggs everywhere...  Good times... :) October 5th, 2006: so true... How To Shower Like a Woman: Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks. Walk to bathroom wearing long dressing gown. If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas. Look at your womanly physique in the mirror - make mental note to do more sit-ups/leg-lifts, etc. Get in the shower. Use face cloth, arm cloth, leg cloth, long loofah, wide loofah and pumice stone. Wash your hair once with cucumber and sage shampoo with 43 added vitamins. Wash your hair again to make sure it's clean. Condition your hair with grapefruit mint conditioner enhanced with real passion fruit. Wash your face with crushed apricot facial scrub for 10 minutes until red. Wash entire rest of body with ginger nut and jaffa cake body wash. Rinse conditioner off hair. Shave armpits and legs. Turn off shower. Squeegee off all wet surfaces in shower. Spray mold spots with Tilex. Get out of shower and stand on bathmat. Dry with towel the size of a small country. Wrap hair in super absorbent towel. Return to bedroom wearing long dressing gown and towel on head. If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas. How To Shower Like a Man: Take off clothes while sitting on the edge of the bed and leave them in a pile. Walk naked to the bathroom. If you see wife along the way, shake wiener at her making the 'woo-woo' sound. Look at your manly physique in the mirror. Admire the size of your wiener and scratch your ass. Get in the shower Wash your face. Wash your armpits. Blow your nose in your hands and let the water rinse them off. Fart and laugh at how loud it sounds in the shower. Spend majority of time washing privates and surrounding area. Wash your butt, leaving those coarse butt hairs stuck on the soap. Wash your hair. Make a Shampoo Mohawk. Pee. Rinse off and get out of shower. Avoid bathmat. Dry off forearms and butt only. Fail to notice water on floor because curtain was hanging out of tub the whole time. Admire wiener size in mirror again. Shake it to watch water fly off. Leave shower curtain open, wet mat on floor, light and fan on. Return to bedroom with towel around waist. If you pass wife, pull off towel, shake wiener at her and make the 'woo-woo' sound again. Throw wet towel on bed. |
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