Enlightenment 3

Reading Adyashanti again…  (esp Chapter 19)

https://www.amazon.com/Emptiness-Dancing-Adyashanti/dp/1591794595

I keep this on my phone to read every once in a while…

I often need reminders

Of

What is True… 

And I’ve written about this before…

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2015/10/bliss-and-enlightenmen.html

Enlightenment is a destructive process.
It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing
through the facade of pretense. It’s the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true.

– Adyashanti

http://www.awaken.com/2017/06/awakening-is-a-destructive-process/

and

But we are too attached to the lies. We want to hold on to the illusions and to become enlightened at the same time. That is not possible. But there are hundreds of phony gurus and “spiritual teachers” that will tell you it is. They offer you processes to become happy, fulfilled, calm, find your soulmate, be positive, get the right job, make lots of money, balance the chakras, become healthy and whatever else you may be desiring. This has nothing to do with awakening. This is only polishing the ego. They all lead you right back into the matrix. You may even be lucky enough to get a golden cage, but it is still a cage, and you remain imprisoned in slavery. This is the road that most people choose to follow. This road is well traveled by the herd.

Grasping for lovely experiences… 

 

Perhaps thinking that Enlightenment is one lifelong orgasm… 

Thinking only gets in the way… 

Ask the Awakened: The Negative Way Paperback – April 1, 2002

by Wei Wu Wei 

“The Negative Way” says it all… 

Now Wei Wu Wei is difficult reading,

by design… 

Others prefer the writings of Alan Watts, Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharshi or  Nisargadatta Maharajj… etc…

Read whomever you resonate with… 

Then throw it all away… 

They are all fingers pointing at the moon… 

As painful as the process may be… 

Alas, you have to die in the process… 

At least the small “s” self has to die… 

But, the small “s” self

 

Always comes back… 

Just a little less strong… 

You can take it off

again

Like a comfortable overcoat… 

And it is also not so unpleasant… 

As Adyashanti says,

“…there is no way you can see the truth and not be giggling in some way for the rest of your life.” 

Namaste

How to Deal…?

Perusing the Internet I’ve been running across a lot of sites giving advice about how to deal with this current administration, which seems to have thrown many people into a tizzy... 

I Googled “how to deal with trump.” 

Often, there is some good advice about how to take care of your self.  

Get rest, exercise, spend time with loved ones. 

Lots of advice out there on the Internet.

As I see this, there is One No Right Answer.

Depends on who you are.

Therefore, you have to find out who you are.

I am INTP on Meyer’s Briggs.

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2013/02/just-stranger-in-strange-land-part-3.html

I am a 7 on the Enneagram.

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2013/02/just-stranger-in-strange-land-part-4.html

I've spent most of my life as an inquiring scientist.  Studying the external world and the internal worlds.  

My own response is to watch and wait.

Keep my friends and family safe.

Donate to good causes.

I protested the Vietnam War as a teenager with my mom.  Marched in Washington, D.C.  

Not this time.  I don't like crowds.   I am an introvert and a perceiver.

As a 7, I like to have fun.

I work helping poor people in my clinic everyday.  

I like to find where I feel comfortable living and breathing every day.

And, yet push my boundaries… 

My growing edge… 

Where I am not so comfortable… 

I meditate on the improvement of the Cosmos.  

I get regular exercise… 

Trump will be gone sooner or later.  

I hope the average of the people in US will learn from its mistake.

I know we will evolve as a nation… 

Perhaps sooner. 

Perhaps later.    

If you are up for getting out there and protesting, good for you… 

Stay safe… 

https://www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/SafeyDuringProtest_F.pdf

Careful with Hate…

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2015/02/

I advocate continuing to work on your own development… 

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2013/04/enlightenment-part-5-final-secret.html

Look to your Inner Wisdom

Everything you need to know is already present within you… 

Namaste

A Link of Interest

This was sent to me by my son (somehow you have to copy and paste this link).  

http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html

Very much relates to this question of Free Will vs Determinism.  

Also, published as part of a compilation by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, called "The Minds Eye."  

Highly recommended!

Namaste

Shamanic Journeying

For me, this arose spontaneously many years ago.

I would travel down a tunnel. 

Arriving at a forest path.

Finding a thick old wooden door.

Walking down 5 steps.

Opening the door to a beach. 

The beach was next to a forest.  

I could become all sorts of animals. 

Moving as a snake, swimming as a dolphin, flying as an eagle... 

Enjoyment was the main event. 

I could speak to all sorts of creatures.

The wisest creature was a whale. 

I could rest on the beach, and the whale would come up and we would touch foreheads.

Both a greeting, and an exchange of questions and answers.  

The whale could morph and create a space for me to sit inside its body for travel. 

Being shown what is true… 

This was the teaching and learning… 

Then there was a sacred space, near the edge of the forest.

With a pool of sacred water to enter naked. 

That would cleanse the body and mind. 

I could then don a white robe.

In order to enter the healing cave. 

I could invite in anyone who needed healing. 

Patients, friends, family, even myself. 

They would drift inside. 

Laying on a stone table. 

Sometimes I would invite others to do healing work with me. 

I would use “quantum” healing.

Sweeping away dark energy, no longer needed. 

The darkness was thrown into a container of salt water. 

Then the neutralized darkness could be tossed into the sun. 

When healing was over, we would bath again. 

We could again play. 

My wife, I, and a dear friend took a shamanic journeying course together a few years ago. 

We also read 2 of Michael Harner’s texts on shamanic journeying. 

The Way of the Shaman

Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality

The first book teaches about journeying to the lower world. 

The second book teaches about journeying to the upper world. 

I had been going to the lower world. 

After the course, I began journeying to the upper world. 

The lower world contains power animals. 

The upper world contains wise teachers. 

An interesting part of the upper world is being torn to pieces, often by various creatures. 

Not painful. 

My interpretation is the ego is destroyed. 

Just as with entheogens… 

When the body and mind reconstructs, snaps back together, there is an opportunity to leave out parts of the ego-mind that no longer serves. 

Not a pushing away… 

A recognition, of those parts that may have served in the past. 

Parts of the self, which are no longer are needed for survival. 

Thanking that part… 

For the gifts it gave, in the past, but, no longer needed… 

My current journeying has changed. 

I am pulled into the outdoor fireplace, into the sand underneath though a tunnel.

Dropped into the lower world. 

Usually to sit with my whale guide… 

There I am also torn to pieces… 

I am scattered through the entire Earth… 

I am the Earth, the Earth is… 

Then at the same time I travel up through the outdoor fireplace sand… 

I ride the flames to the upper world… 

I pass through many levels… 

At the highest level I am torn to pieces…   

These pieces are scattered through the entire Cosmos… 

The Solar System, our galaxy, through every black hole in every galaxy, to the furthest reaches… 

 

The I, the small “s” self, dissolves…

There is only the big “S” Self… 

Resting as the lower world, the middle world, and the upper world… 

All-That-Is… 

All-That-Is-Not… 

In the span of some unknown time… 

The self reconstructs… 

Interesting… 

We spoke previously about the illusion of conscious will… 

We think we have control… 

Source surfs us… 

The best we can do

                             is

                                    let

                                                go… 

And surf Source back… 

Be Source… 

And be the small “s” self... 

Embrace who you are fully… 

Walk in the world… 

Follow The Three Commandments… 

Remember that there is a strict order to The Three Commandments.  

          1-There is only one Source.

                    2-Love everything.

                              3-Enjoy yourself.

Avoid the Errors: 

http://enlightenedmdphd.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-second-commandment-love-everything_24.html

And then Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy… 

Namaste