Samadhi #2~~~Chamisal, NM~~~Last 2 Weeks of June~~~2014

 

 

 

In terms of our extended conversation, here is what Yogananda has to say about it all:
"“Just as most people on earth have not learned through meditation-acquired vision to appreciate the superior joys and advantages of astral life and thus, after death, desire to return to the limited, imperfect pleasures of earth, so many astral beings, during the normal disintegration of their astral bodies, fa...il to picture the advanced state of spiritual joy in the causal world and, dwelling on thoughts of the more gross and gaudy astral happiness, yearn to revisit the astral paradise. Heavy astral karma must be redeemed by such beings before they can achieve after astral death a permanent stay in the causal thought-world, so thinly partitioned from the Creator.

“Only when a being has no further desires for experiences in the pleasing-to-the-eye astral cosmos, and cannot be tempted to go back there, does he remain in the causal world. Completing there the work of redeeming all causal karma or seeds of past desires, the confined soul thrusts out the last of the three corks of ignorance and, emerging from the final jar of the causal body, commingles with the Eternal."

 

To surmount maya was the task assigned to the human race by the millennial prophets. To rise above the duality of creation and perceive the unity of the Creator was conceived of as man’s highest goal. Those who cling to the cosmic illusion must accept its essential law of polarity: flow and ebb, rise and fall, day and night, pleasure and pain, good and evil, birth and death. This cyclic pattern assumes a certain anguishing monotony, after man has gone through a few thousand human births; he begins to cast a hopeful eye beyond the compulsions of maya.

 

Osho's 10 Commandments:

 

 1. Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you.
2. There is no God other than life itself.
3. Truth is within you, do not search for it elsewhere.
4. Love is prayer.
5.To become a nothingness is the door to truth. Nothingness itself is the means, the goal and attainment.
6. Life is now and here.
7. Live wakefully.
8. Do not swim—float.
9. Die each moment so that you can be new each moment.
10 .Do not search. That which is, is. Stop and see.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi

 

Samadhi #1~~~Monterey, CA~~~!st 2 Weeks of March 2014

"If there is no continuity what is there? There is nothing. One is afraid to be nothing. Nothing means not a thing - nothing put together by thought, nothing put together by memory, remembrances, nothing that you can put into words and then measure. There is most certainly, definitely, an area where the past doesn't cast a shadow, where time, the past or the future or the present, has no meaning. ...We have always tried to measure with words something that we don't know. What we do not know we try to understand and give it words and make it into a continuous noise. And so we clog our brain which is already clogged with past vents, experiences, knowledge. We think knowledge is psychologically of great importance, but it is not. You can't ascend through knowledge; there must be an end to knowledge for the new to be. New is a word for something which has never been before. And that area cannot be understood or grasped by words or symbols: it is there beyond all remembrances."
Jiddu Krishnamurti

"I see the cruelties - the big fish eating the little fish, one animal living on the flesh of another, life fighting life, the horrors of poverty and disease. I say, "Lord, this is YOUR show. So be it. But I do not care to be a part of it, except to do Your will. As quickly as I can, I shall do your work and get out of this play of Yours; but I want to take others also away from this delusive drama of comedies and nightmares."
Paramhansa Yogananda

~~~All of the Personal Dramas of Our Impermanence~~~

 

 

So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-...down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama. ~ Alan Watts ...from "The Nature of Consiousness"; also published as "What Is Reality?" (1989)

~~~~~~~~~~~~Camping Out~~~~~~~~~~~~

   My brother & I had psychic experiences, he the participant & I the observer, at the tail-end of the '60s, particularly during the year 1971; therefore, since the age of 21, I intuited that this world was only a derivitive one, and all of my personnas since, the psychological clothes we wear, were woven of my past spiritual experiences. The essence of all these was an adaptation of Hunter S Thompson's gonzo journalism & acid visions of society. My identity was seperate from my culture, and I tried on many sets of psychic clothing to wear, many lifetimes in one. Middle class suburbean TV Generation: High School to College. LSD Hippie Dropout. Fundamental Christianity reborn on a college campus and exorcised upon being kicked out of a cult. Healthcare Corporate Management Type. Taxi driver. Ski bum. Golf bum. Now? Old guy. you know, someone who has been many things.

   These days I just try to see things as they actually are, but thought is thought, and image only illusion. I guess it doesn't depress me, too much, the seemingly inate violence of this world, because all the clothed that I have worn are now in tatters. Isn't it sad when your favorites wear out? But this world is not all that there is it is, there are other ones, and I trust in the spirit like a little child to clothe me while I am still here. We're all just camping out here you know? One fine day we all will strike tent and head home.

 

 No grand plan here anymore. No flow charts. No Theory of Everything. Not even a 'teaching' like Jiddu Krishnamurti and Ekhart Tolle have each come up with, although, I enjoy meditating upon both of their 'teachings' I deal with all  of the evils and negativity this life dishes out by accepting it, as  duality is necessary to what's going on here. I used to try and blot it out with ideals & meaning & stuff like that, angry at the evils within this world, the darkness of our selves, reflected in society, as most of what I have written were words spit out in anger at the seeming injustice of  it all.
 

   Plato's Cave Metaphor is the great grand-daddy of all spiritual metaphors. DNA and sociological/racial conditioning trap each of us into the roles we play in this Shakespearean Drama we call being human Some get it good. Most not so good. Every twist & turn of  human lifes plots covered as mankind as a whole gets it everyway it can be gotten. Many mirrors in the prism. Many observers to the double-slit experiment, as we're all a bit skewed in our perceptions, to some degree or another.

 

   The Life Within Us All, that supports us and all of this, is Truth, not skewed in any way, and that is why I look at the evils within this world and don't hide from them anymore, or get angry. I just look in wonder. That could be me. What's that guy up to? I'm glad that death is an integral part of this life, not a bad thing, for death is like Life's Alarm Clock. When death comes it lets you know that you were always just camping out here anyway, and now it's time to head home.

 

   But now? While I'm here? I want to see things as they are, and that requires a death of sorts, while still living. No self. No observer. All of  the synchronicity you see in nature when you are not there, timeless, in the moment, clothed in an ever-expanding and ever-new wineskin. The choiceless awareness of the spiritual winds that are ever-moving through our lives. Having the eyes to see is not a constant reality in my life, for it comes, then it goes, always of it's own volition. very personal, but I have no control over it. Sometimes I'm out of the cave basking in the timeless sunlight. Sometimes I'm sitting in the darkness trying to figure out what those dancing and flickering shadows on the electronic cave wall are doing. Sometimes there. Sometimes not. Camping out, being human, doesn't seem to allow for all the comforts of home.

 

   Who knows? Is this personal relationship with our creator real? Or is all this personal stuff just an illusion of mine born of my christian days? It's one thing for sure that the timeless has a hard time establishing itself in time, that is, in human consciousness. The Life is everywhere, but mankind can't seem to bottle it. Abstract it? Yes. But grasp it? Hold onto it? Control it? Organize it so that it is always available through belief and religion? No. Thought, like all the psychological clothing that we wear, can not touch upon Life's reality, for thought is only a substitute, an abstraction, something that is not The Life. The Life? That is only there when we are not. Old wineskins can't hold new wine. What a strange and paradoxical world we live in where we must cease to be for The Life to flow.

 

   The Life touches and sustains all that there is, but where is it's source?

   Are we all just camping out here?

   Is this all just a dream?

 

   Why all the confusion?

   Why all the misery?

   Why all the old wineskins?

  "The ending is the beginning,
    and the begining is the first step,
    and the first step is the only step."
        Jiddu Krishnamurti

   It's a funny world when all the enlightened ones leave it,
   and the beginning,
   The Life,
    walks hand in hand,
   with death.

  

~~~The Game of Hide & Seek~~~

For those whose minds are constantly expanding, clinging to external objects, factors will always arise causing increasing bondage. If the outward-wandering mind is turned inwards to stay in its natural state, know that one will not undergo any suffering in the world.

Unite with that one totality, which is all-pervasive, which has no inside or outside, which is bereft of all (concept of) directions such as above, below and in between, which assumes all the forms in creation and yet is itself formless, which can be known only by itself, and which is self-luminous.

~ Devikalottara

~~~~~~~~A Sower Went Out To Sow~~~~~~~~

   There are only two disappointments in this life: the first is when you don't get what you want, and the second is when you do.

   How can I live a life of fulfillment, when the most important thing that exists in all of creation, the creator.....seems....abscent? Looking for life in the things of this world, in their pleasures, always trapped in the realm of beginnings and endings? Sex? Power? Position? Knowledge? Always seeking the timeless in the dreamworld of time? Lost in illusions? Wandering through impermanence? I explored what society, mankind, had to offer. Limited by my conditioning, I had not the eyes to see.

   When you try, and fail, it's like Dylan's lyrics in Love Minus Zero/No Limit: "There's no success like failure and failure's no success at all." Negation, it's the way I navigated through the illusions of this life, on my spiritual pilgrimage, and every path that I took in the end reached a dead end. Failure? Negation? Dead Ends?  What good could spring from such a meandering life?

   Questions. I started asking God questions. Not with my head, full of images, but with my broken heart, and these questions were the seeds that a sower went out to sow. Honest questions born within personal brokeness. Genuine questions, holding out no hope of becoming anything at all. Questions that abandoned all paths, even myself, and most of these questions were a simple one.....why?

   Seeds in fertile ground, watered by the spiritual rains, nurtured by timeless love, the answers to my questions were born in their due season. Never as I expected, always new, of their own accord, and nature. And what fruit was born of all this? Only, trust in the life that sustains me, like a little child, and thankfulness, for all that I have been given.

  It's an impermanent, and violent, dreamworld we live in. All stocked up with maya. Born into it, the darkness of the abstract image. the sterility of thought, we are blind to the timeless. Born into Plato's Cave, we enter a realm where God seems to play Hide and Seek, and we have not the ability to find our way out, or our way home.

  Cosmic Consciousness? Enlightenment? Spiritual Ambition? How can you say you've become somebody when in the end you're not there?  When you see that everything's alive? That you are That? That the knower, the seeker, was always an illusion, and that God was hiding in the place we never expected God to be....inside us all....inside of everything?

  A sower went out to sow, we all ask the same questions and the difference in our answers springs from their source, as the life that asks them, also answers them.

   Thou Art That. 

~~~~~~What Happened To The Knower?~~~~~~

 

 

Advaita (Nonduality, Oneness, One Love)

In Advaita Vedanta, the knower is the last to go. What comes after the knower? Silence! There is nothing else.

Just think how much knowledge you've gathered all these years. Reading so many books. Meditating for years. Seeing so many teachers. Having so many discussions, debates, arguments. Can't you see now this is what's been holding you back? This is what has been holding you back. For you have believed that you're the knower. For you have to become a knower to become free. Yet no one has to know anything for there is absolutely nothing to know. Why is there nothing to know? Because there is only omnipresence, infinity, absolute reality and there is no name for this.

In other words, you cannot know absolute reality. You cannot know pure awareness. As long as there is someone who knows about it, it doesn't exist. It's only when you put an end to knowing that you become the Self. The Self has no shape, no form, no identity. It is no thing. Yet you are that. What are you going to do about it?

~ Robert Adams

...from "The Knower Is The Last To Go!" - January 9th, 1992

~~~~~Sideways Glances~~~~~

sometimes

 when you're on the move

from one place

 to another

traveling through unknown parts

you see things

 that remind you

 of things

you have not known

in this life

 

things

that seem

timeless

 

like when

 you were young

and

thought you'd find

 what you were looking for

over

 the next horizon

something

fulfilling

something

permanent

 

but death

swallows the moment

and time

separates us from

our loved ones

why

 should we expect

 more

than this?

 

is it that we're in a dream?

and those moments

remind us

that we are dreaming?

 

between rock and sunlight

matter dances

in all manner

of intricate forms

such design

so?

where did all that

 come from?

 

love, death, and beauty

are one

 

only in a dream

does love seem to die

then

become lost

 

in my dreams

i'm always going somewhere

figuring some thing out

with other people

trying

to resolve it

be free

 

get to where i'm going

 

kinda what i do

when i wake up

every morning

 

inbetween times

sideways glances

 

dreams

within

dreams

 

until

the sun

rises

 



Shakespeare and Religion by Aldous Huxley

Shakespeare and Religion by Aldous Huxley

Bob Dylan - Gates Of Eden - YouTube

                                               Bob Dylan - Gates Of Eden

~~~~~You Are The World~~~~~

Kinfonet Quote of the Day: If you perceive and live completely in the very thing that you are experiencing, then this idea of change from the unessential to the essential disappears

~~~There Is No Use In Trying~~~Bob Dylan

Dylan

Kinfonet Quote of the Day: When you understand the full significance of not desiring to gain, to accumulate, then there is no longer the struggle to get rid of something.

Krishnamurti

~~~~~~~Living In The Spirit~~~~~~~

   "It is accumulation that is the cause of sorrow. We do not die to everything from day to day; we do not die to the innumerable traditions, to the family, to our own experiences, to our own desire to hurt another. One has to die to all that from moment to moment, to that vast accumulative memory, and only then the mind is free from the self, which is the entity of accumulation."  Jiddu Krishnamurti, As One Is, page 62

   This is kinda funny~~~because~~~I would be one of the last ones to lay out a delineated spiritual path or program~~~as~~~Bill Gothard's spiritual erector set of how to do everything christian~~~or~~~Bill Bright's four spiritual laws~~~hell~~~I used so much yellow magic marker on Francis Schaeffer's books that the pages warped from the wetness~~~and there was hardly any white left on them! Thought's detailed lists~~~and~~~convoluted gymnastic techniques~~~never worked for me~~~they all ran their course~~~and~~~ran out of steam~~~but~~~The Living Moment~~~is filled with a most sacred and timeless consciousness that self's abilities are unable to capture~~~or~~~as Jesus put it~~~old wine skins can't hold new wine~~~their lack of flexibility doesn't allow for the expansion of the new. Krishnamurti put it this way~~~Truth Is A Pathless Land~~~and~~~when you are there the other is not.

   So here goes~~~Living In The Spirit 101~~~or~~~how one thing leads to another. It's like Van Gough's The Sower pictured above~~~it all starts with a seed~~~and~~~as it is with all seeds~~~even the ending is contained in the beginning~~~so just open your heart once~~~to God~~~and~~~that seed is planted.

   Lesson #1   You can't take anything with you. Not even your self. The birth of the spiritual life occurs when the seed cracks~~~and living roots dig into timeless soil. Such life only arises from death~~~and even flourishes within the violent impermanence of  this universe of which we are a part. It's like The Parable of The Pearl of Great Price~~~you give up all that is in time~~~for~~~the timeless~~~and then~~~you give it all up~~~again~~~and again.

   Lesson #2   Living In The Spirit is a constant emptying of what you have come to think you are~~~every moment is new~~~and you have to be empty of the time bound~~~to be filled with the timeless.

   Lesson #3  This Is It~~~it's all here~~right now.

   Lesson #4   You have to do the meditative and spiritual work~~~yourself~~~only you can live your life~~~no one can do that for you~~~and that means that there is no spiritual authority~~~no one~~~nothing~~~that stands between you~~~and~~~the spirit~~~the creator of everything.

   Lesson #4   Acceptance Of Things as They Are~~~brings about~~~a sacred thankfulness~~~for all that has been given~~~to you. When all measurement and comparison cease and you no longer see and strive to be better and have more than all the others~~~when all ambition and accumulation~~~stop~~~you see that you are just like all the other people on this Earth~~~and that empathy~~~that spirit~~~timelessly explodes~~~throughout your heart. Freedom from the grind of having to become somebody~~~freedom from psychological becoming~~~freedom all striving~~~unleashes the shackles of self.  You are The World.

   Lesson #5   You simply trust in the spirit as a little child trusts his parents~~~there is no question that what life has in store for you~~~moment by moment~~~is what you need.

The Good~~~The Bad~~~and~~~The Ugly.

   Lesson #6   We're all just camping out here~~~this world is impermanent~~~and not~~~our timeless home. It's a big change from seeing things materialistically~~~to seeing that we're all trapped in a spiritual Plato's Cave~~~and this world is no longer all that is.

   Lesson #7   Living and Seeing are always moment to moment~~~and when you live in the now~~~and not in thought~~~timeless synchronicities happen~~~all the time.

   Lesson #8   When you see Life from this timeless consciousness~~~and what you once thought important reveals itself to be not that important at all~~~there is a Divine Humor that pervades your conscious life~~~and even the tragedies that once befell you~~~are like branches that had to be pruned~~~to let the light shine in. Sometimes everything seems to be funny~~~when once it was all so serious~~~as your perspective completely shifts when you see this world is not your home~~~and not so important~~~one day it will cease to exist.

   Lesson #9   There is No Perfection of Consciousness in this world~~~except That~~~of the spirit~~~of the creator~~~of the timeless~~~of God~~~or whatever you wish to name That Which Is Sacred.

   Lesson #10  There are No Spiritual Lessons :) only the spirit can teach you :)

  

  

Will You Pass Through The Sun?

   When I was 21 my bother David told me something his friend Ron McClinton said to him: "If you don't make the same mistake that I made you might pass through the sun.". Years later~~~David realized what Ron's mistake was~~~he attempted to take his self along with him. Pass Through The Sun?  What a spiritual statement! Does this have to do with ending the cycle of reincarnation? Does it have to do with returning to the source of our consciousness~~~the source of all that is? Isn't the sun a one way street~~~with timeless light emitted from it's nuclear fires? Why can't you take your self with you~~~and where does one go if they pass through the sun? THIS IS ONE of the most captivating spiritual statements that I ever heard~~~between two of the most spiritually awake individuals~~~that I've ever known.

The AntiGuru & The Theoretical Physicist

Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (1 of 3)

~~~~~~~Like A Rolling Stone~~~~~~~

Our Earth is just another Emergency Spiritual Rehabilitation Clinic

I hope that you are aware of the fact that we physically live within a very low~~and  impermanent plane~~~of existence~~~where there is always need and a stomach to feed~~~and tremendous violence~~~of all sorts. I'm not sure if we did something bad to be here~~~or~~~through the brokenness that this life leads us to~~~we then spiritually learn empathy and compassion~~~for all living things. It's for sure that management has it set up that we can't take anything with us~~~when we leave~~~and the most important thing of all~~~The Creator~~~is not obvious and seems completely hidden~~~or~~~not to exist at all. One thing about rehab~~~only those that know they're sick have a chance to get well~~~just as~~~ the ones that know they're crazy~~~are the only sane ones. And so we are born here on Earth~~~unconscious and conditioned~~~ever seeking to become somebody~~~and so we all become stars~~~in the monkey show. And then? When we reach our mid-thirties~~~there seems to be a chance for a breakthrough~~~when psychologically becoming somebody~~~loses it's luster. Do we all get cleaned up? Do we all let go of our crutches of competition and individuality~~~and personal fame? No. Not in one lifetime~~~for most of us~~~so we keep on coming back~~~and checking into rehab~~~until we kick all the habits~~~of thought~~~and of  self. And how many times to we have to go to rehab~~~it's my guess we keep on coming back~~~until~~~we see the timeless light~~~leaving the individualistic self behind~~~and embrace~~~The One :)

~~~~~~The Spiritual Pilgrimage~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~Back From The Dead~~~~~~

Political Wackjobs: ~~~~~~~~~Just Desert~~~~~~~~~: " 'Why are you going there? It's just desert.' This is what the convenience store clerk told my brother~~~when he said~~~we wer..."

Paramahansa Yogananda

Turn your attention from this world to the kingdom of God which is within.