A new age

A New Age is being born.     An aspect of ourselves that we have been unable to see until now is coming into focus as a new consciousness.  Our bodies and our minds are being refitted to house this new higher frequency of being.  We can prepare our minds for this birth,  just as we would prepare our body for a beautiful labour.  Some guidelines are to:

1.       Resign as your own teacher.  Let go of all things you have ever learned,

2.      Relax into a state of openness,  let yourself  become comfortable with not knowing,

3.      Realize that you are Awareness and not any of the objects, sensations, experiences or thoughts that awareness brings to light. You are the light in which everything occurs, you are not the objects seen in that light.

4.      Practice seeing the perfection in all things.    Everything that occurs has the potential to remind us of our true nature.

5.      Practice forgiveness of everything and everyone, especially yourself.  Give up the belief in guilt.
6.    Let go of attachments to things, people, and ideas.  You are whole and complete right now.

the ego habit

Ego is just a habit of thought with no real identity.  Since habits recur, vigilance is required to recognize when they are repeating. The symptoms of the ego habit can be of any content, but they are related in how they feel.  When ego is present a person feels up (proud, superior, special, etc.) or down (guilty, afraid, inadequate, etc).  Both extremes are temptations to return to the old ego habits of mind, the “wish to make illusions real,” the wish to be “me.”

Freedom

Fear not.  The journey is no longer in your hands.  The wisdom of the universe guides you now.  You are remembering that you are free, that you are in fact freedom itself, having no limitations of any kind.  Your job now is simply to enjoy the gift of awareness/consciousness and teach others by your example that they are free too.

Nobody

I see through these eyes
but they are not mine.
I seem contained in this form,
Yet I am formless.
People speak to the form and think
they speak to me,
But they are speaking to noone.
These thoughts and feelings arise and end,
yet they are not mine.
I seem to live and die,
but I am beyond space and time.

there is no "Jerry"

There is no “Jerry”
There is just this moment
The eternal moment.
It is called now.
Jerry is just a story
Made up so as best to fit the “facts.”
There is no separate person.
There is just a succession of mental/verbal/
emotional/spiritual events/responses/behaviors/etc.,
Joined together by memory.
There is no Jerry.
There is merely absolute universal consciousness
expressing itself as the object called “Jerry.”

There is no Jerry.
These insights and wisdom come from
A universal knowing that is not personal or private.
They belong to everyone.
There is no Jerry.
He is just a habit of mind,
A habit that when adopted by everyone,
is responsible for all the world’s apparent suffering and death.
Let us celebrate this habit’s end,
Let us celebrate the end of all Jerrys.
Without ego the world can finally be seen clearly,
As a place to learn that we are not separate and alone.
A place to happily discover that we have been mistaken about our true Identity.

are we ready to know who we are?

Are you ready to learn that you have been mistaken about your true identity?  That you are not really a human being?  That you cannot change yourself?  That quite literally everything you think about yourself is false?  That after all is said and done, you (your separate ego self) don’t even exist.  You therefore can’t do anything.  You have no choice since there is noone there who can choose.

Relationship and Awakening

If we choose, we can use our relationships  to reach a goal far beyond just getting by.  If deeply understood, the learnings available to us in our intimate partnerships can open an inner doorway to peace, safety and love; not just with our partner but with all of our human family.  The conflicts that hurt so badly, truly understood, are seen to be merely mistaken thoughts and ancient feelings seeming real. And as we recognize where our feelings of emptiness, anger and disconnection come from, we can end our suffering by letting go of the cause.  The cause is a belief in the existence of someone who does not exist but who seems real nontheless.  That someone is the you who you think you are. That false self  has a name.  It is called ego.  The ultimate goal of marriage and spirituality are the same, to let go of the past, experience our oneness, and share the joy of love's expression in every moment.